Zippy
New Member
- Location
- Camborne, Cornwall
... fuming I am, but what can you do?
Service, MOT, oil change and swapping out the front brake discs and pads; a total of £352.22. I can buy a decent recon' bike for that!
If it were me I would ditch the car and use the released income to buy a really decent bike or bikes to suit every need and use taxis for carting big stuff around and getting to more remote places.
To make it worse I have been on car maintenance courses and could have swapped out the discs and pads and done the oil change myself, but I couldn't stamp the log book so any potential buyer would have no history to go on. I'm over a barrel!
Then of course if you have a smash up the insurance company want to know who did the service on the vehicle and when they find out it is the owner they potentially have a reason not to pay up.
Then if one of you don't drive you lose no claims bonus years and blah blah blah ...
My OH goes to projects that are off the beaten track and is scared of road cycling and not fit enough to do much mileage anyway and we rely on the car to head off with the dog to the coast and of course the weekly shop, but it is a high price to pay for such luxuries.
As I say - if it were me I would be car-free and find work-arounds for those trips I couldn't do on a cycle (not many). Sod it.
Service, MOT, oil change and swapping out the front brake discs and pads; a total of £352.22. I can buy a decent recon' bike for that!
If it were me I would ditch the car and use the released income to buy a really decent bike or bikes to suit every need and use taxis for carting big stuff around and getting to more remote places.
To make it worse I have been on car maintenance courses and could have swapped out the discs and pads and done the oil change myself, but I couldn't stamp the log book so any potential buyer would have no history to go on. I'm over a barrel!
Then of course if you have a smash up the insurance company want to know who did the service on the vehicle and when they find out it is the owner they potentially have a reason not to pay up.
Then if one of you don't drive you lose no claims bonus years and blah blah blah ...
My OH goes to projects that are off the beaten track and is scared of road cycling and not fit enough to do much mileage anyway and we rely on the car to head off with the dog to the coast and of course the weekly shop, but it is a high price to pay for such luxuries.
As I say - if it were me I would be car-free and find work-arounds for those trips I couldn't do on a cycle (not many). Sod it.