put the flags up and blow the whistles

bugsy · Feb 13, 2012

Today we finally got Bessie back, Bessie is our 6 year old Vivaro , she broke down with a blown turbo last year , so a new turbo and cam belt was fitted £ 1,360.00 , two weeks later christmas tree on the dashboard and a b-----r to start back to Vinnies for air flow meter and more spondoolies, back week and oil leak developed 1 pint a week , then two weeks later a litre a week arraged for it to go back in but the PAS pump beat me to it any to cut a long story short its back - took the hire van today to be informed that we had spent £ 7,560.00 with them , the van repairs in total ( from turbo to now ) £ 2,575.00 -
Is'nt hindsight a wonderful thing!

alarm man · Feb 13, 2012

bugsy said:
Today we finally got Bessie back, Bessie is our 6 year old Vivaro , she broke down with a blown turbo last year , so a new turbo and cam belt was fitted £ 1,360.00 , two weeks later christmas tree on the dashboard and a b-----r to start back to Vinnies for air flow meter and more spondoolies, back week and oil leak developed 1 pint a week , then two weeks later a litre a week arraged for it to go back in but the PAS pump beat me to it any to cut a long story short its back - took the hire van today to be informed that we had spent £ 7,560.00 with them , the van repairs in total ( from turbo to now ) £ 2,575.00 -
Is'nt hindsight a wonderful thing!

your accountant needs sacked...:tounge_smile:

Plonker 3 · Feb 13, 2012

Oh good, mine is in the garage tomorrow as it is a pain to start up at the minute, was hoping for a bit more luck after finally getting rid of my bloody old Rover 45 which had a habit of going in for repair every few weeks