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Mr F (my car)
"Joy" wrote in message ... On 9/27/2014 11:55 PM, Matt Ferrari wrote: "Joy" wrote in message news On 9/27/2014 1:20 PM, Christina Websell wrote: "dgk" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:33:01 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: It's always a worry about having an elderly car if you can't get to the vet or supermarket without one and every year he has his test. Today. He had to have two indicator lights replaced because the amber bits had fallen off and showing white lights. One brake had to be freed off because I couldn't drive him for months, but otherwise Mr F sailed through. I have him for another year :-)) So happy Always a joy when an elderly car passes inspection. My 1991 Honda continues to roll and is very reliable. I don't drive it too much because I prefer to take my bike if I can. I have an electric assist bike which is a wonderful invention because I can still get lots of exercise but when I get to the big hills I just turn up the little engine. Lately New York State has dropped most of the testing requirements for elderly cars because the inspection stations don't have the equipment to test old cars. Hmm, that sounds a bit risky. Surely elderly cars are the most likely to have faults and dangerous defects? Seems like a good idea to get the testing stations to get the equipment to test *all* cars. Here they have to past a roadworthy test when they are 3 years old and every year thereafter. Mr F is kept well serviced by my mechanic, who has been looking after him for 11 years and kinda loves him as much as I do. He would have been gutted if he had failed terminally but this would be very unlikely. I am immune to people I know saying "isn't it time you got a new car?" Why? I'm not bothered about being "posh" for the neighbours. Mr F suits me fine. He starts every time and gets me to where I want to go. I don't have to worry too much if he got injured by the dreadful hailstorm we had a year or two ago (he did.) to make an insurance claim and I don't have to worry if the bag of layers pellets I was taking home from the farm bursts open in the boot (trunk?) He uses very little petrol (which is a horrible price here) In short, Mr F is perfect for what I need. I'm with you. Why get rid of a car if it's doing its job? I drove my last car for 14 years and 170,000 miles. I got rid of it when it developed an oil leak that would have cost big bucks to fix. I've had my current car for 14 years. It has less than 70,000 miles on it, because I'm driving a lot less than I used to. My vision isn't as good as it used to be, and my reflexes have slowed down, so I drive mostly just here in town. I fully expect that I'll be unfit to drive before this car is. Joy One thing I love about my old car is it doenst have to pass emission tests here. not sure how many miles it has on it the odometer stopped at 165k It's really nice to have a reliable car, isn't it? What kind is yours? Mine's a Toyota Corolla. So was the last one Joy -- Joy Unlimited this one is a 1994 nissan sentra |
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:20:38 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote: "dgk" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:33:01 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: It's always a worry about having an elderly car if you can't get to the vet or supermarket without one and every year he has his test. Today. He had to have two indicator lights replaced because the amber bits had fallen off and showing white lights. One brake had to be freed off because I couldn't drive him for months, but otherwise Mr F sailed through. I have him for another year :-)) So happy Always a joy when an elderly car passes inspection. My 1991 Honda continues to roll and is very reliable. I don't drive it too much because I prefer to take my bike if I can. I have an electric assist bike which is a wonderful invention because I can still get lots of exercise but when I get to the big hills I just turn up the little engine. Lately New York State has dropped most of the testing requirements for elderly cars because the inspection stations don't have the equipment to test old cars. Hmm, that sounds a bit risky. Surely elderly cars are the most likely to have faults and dangerous defects? Seems like a good idea to get the testing stations to get the equipment to test *all* cars. Here they have to past a roadworthy test when they are 3 years old and every year thereafter. Mr F is kept well serviced by my mechanic, who has been looking after him for 11 years and kinda loves him as much as I do. He would have been gutted if he had failed terminally but this would be very unlikely. I am immune to people I know saying "isn't it time you got a new car?" Why? I'm not bothered about being "posh" for the neighbours. Mr F suits me fine. He starts every time and gets me to where I want to go. I don't have to worry too much if he got injured by the dreadful hailstorm we had a year or two ago (he did.) to make an insurance claim and I don't have to worry if the bag of layers pellets I was taking home from the farm bursts open in the boot (trunk?) He uses very little petrol (which is a horrible price here) In short, Mr F is perfect for what I need. Oh, they check the brakes and lights and such. They just can't do exhaust checks because the new(er) cars have all kinds of computers that they can check, mine they had do actually test the exhaust and those are the machines that they don't have anymore. They were always breaking down. It was the exhaust check that took so much time and made the cost high. My car was always good on that stuff anyway. |
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Mr F (my car)
"Matt Ferrari" wrote in message ... "Joy" wrote in message news On 9/27/2014 1:20 PM, Christina Websell wrote: "dgk" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:33:01 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: It's always a worry about having an elderly car if you can't get to the vet or supermarket without one and every year he has his test. Today. He had to have two indicator lights replaced because the amber bits had fallen off and showing white lights. One brake had to be freed off because I couldn't drive him for months, but otherwise Mr F sailed through. I have him for another year :-)) So happy Always a joy when an elderly car passes inspection. My 1991 Honda continues to roll and is very reliable. I don't drive it too much because I prefer to take my bike if I can. I have an electric assist bike which is a wonderful invention because I can still get lots of exercise but when I get to the big hills I just turn up the little engine. Lately New York State has dropped most of the testing requirements for elderly cars because the inspection stations don't have the equipment to test old cars. Hmm, that sounds a bit risky. Surely elderly cars are the most likely to have faults and dangerous defects? Seems like a good idea to get the testing stations to get the equipment to test *all* cars. Here they have to past a roadworthy test when they are 3 years old and every year thereafter. Mr F is kept well serviced by my mechanic, who has been looking after him for 11 years and kinda loves him as much as I do. He would have been gutted if he had failed terminally but this would be very unlikely. I am immune to people I know saying "isn't it time you got a new car?" Why? I'm not bothered about being "posh" for the neighbours. Mr F suits me fine. He starts every time and gets me to where I want to go. I don't have to worry too much if he got injured by the dreadful hailstorm we had a year or two ago (he did.) to make an insurance claim and I don't have to worry if the bag of layers pellets I was taking home from the farm bursts open in the boot (trunk?) He uses very little petrol (which is a horrible price here) In short, Mr F is perfect for what I need. I'm with you. Why get rid of a car if it's doing its job? I drove my last car for 14 years and 170,000 miles. I got rid of it when it developed an oil leak that would have cost big bucks to fix. I've had my current car for 14 years. It has less than 70,000 miles on it, because I'm driving a lot less than I used to. My vision isn't as good as it used to be, and my reflexes have slowed down, so I drive mostly just here in town. I fully expect that I'll be unfit to drive before this car is. Joy One thing I love about my old car is it doenst have to pass emission tests here. not sure how many miles it has on it the odometer stopped at 165k Mr F will always have to pass an emission test and he would fail on the odometer - if the speedometer wasn't working too (which is likely as they are connected, I think.) He could fail his MoT on a broken wing mirror. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOT_test I'm glad we have this test. Of course some people will drive around with no MoT on their cars but they risk prosecution and now the police have this crafty thing (ANPR) every police car who might be driving behind you is able to check your numberplate against a database to see if you have a) insurance b) MoT c)if you you look like the age/gender of the person the car is registered to. Although the MoT worries people here every year (will my car pass and if not how much will it it cost OMG?) it's a good thing. Imagine a place where people can drive cars around with no brakes, useless steering and it might be that car next to you on the road. Doesn't bear thinking about. Anyway, Mr F lives for another year. Starting first time and taking me where I need to go and using very little petrol. No rust anywhere. Perfect ;-) |
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"dgk" wrote in message ... On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:20:38 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: "dgk" wrote in message . .. On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:33:01 +0100, "Christina Websell" wrote: It's always a worry about having an elderly car if you can't get to the vet or supermarket without one and every year he has his test. Today. He had to have two indicator lights replaced because the amber bits had fallen off and showing white lights. One brake had to be freed off because I couldn't drive him for months, but otherwise Mr F sailed through. I have him for another year :-)) So happy Always a joy when an elderly car passes inspection. My 1991 Honda continues to roll and is very reliable. I don't drive it too much because I prefer to take my bike if I can. I have an electric assist bike which is a wonderful invention because I can still get lots of exercise but when I get to the big hills I just turn up the little engine. Lately New York State has dropped most of the testing requirements for elderly cars because the inspection stations don't have the equipment to test old cars. Hmm, that sounds a bit risky. Surely elderly cars are the most likely to have faults and dangerous defects? Seems like a good idea to get the testing stations to get the equipment to test *all* cars. Here they have to past a roadworthy test when they are 3 years old and every year thereafter. Mr F is kept well serviced by my mechanic, who has been looking after him for 11 years and kinda loves him as much as I do. He would have been gutted if he had failed terminally but this would be very unlikely. I am immune to people I know saying "isn't it time you got a new car?" Why? I'm not bothered about being "posh" for the neighbours. Mr F suits me fine. He starts every time and gets me to where I want to go. I don't have to worry too much if he got injured by the dreadful hailstorm we had a year or two ago (he did.) to make an insurance claim and I don't have to worry if the bag of layers pellets I was taking home from the farm bursts open in the boot (trunk?) He uses very little petrol (which is a horrible price here) In short, Mr F is perfect for what I need. Oh, they check the brakes and lights and such. They just can't do exhaust checks because the new(er) cars have all kinds of computers that they can check, mine they had do actually test the exhaust and those are the machines that they don't have anymore. They were always breaking down. It was the exhaust check that took so much time and made the cost high. My car was always good on that stuff anyway. So, what does your car have to pass on? |
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