phil d
Well-known member
Woke up yesterday morning and it all started to go wrong, I should have been on a course but was also getting pressure from a customer to finish a job,, as it happened I did neither. I put my tools in the car and took the wife to work, partway there there was a rattling sound like someone kicking a can, I pulled over and peered under the car, the cat had snapped and the pipe was dragging on the floor. I growled and snarled and moved up the road to a safer place,got under the car and ripped the exhaust off! I threw it into the car with much cursing and swearing, I'd fitted a new exhaust a few months back and the cat looked fine.
I drove back home with it sounding like a dragster and rang the local exhaust centre, £350 for a new cat, fitted! I rang Europarts and with my discount got one for £80, rang my son who was at his house and he ran me to get it, got back and refitted the whole exhaust in a little under an hour.
Now last week some scroat tried breaking in and stuffed up the drivers door lock, then the window mech packed in (another £90) and now this, I found a breakers yard locally and got a lock and window mech for £20 so went and got them, then decided to go to the pub. I was sat in there and my mate walked in, and asked how I was doing, I told him I needed a pee and was hoping an attractive young lady would come in, he asked who this attractive young lady was that I was waiting for, "oh anyone will do" I replied "with the way things are going lately I don't fancy going for a pee on my own in case it falls off when I touch it", unfortunately my luck is never good, so I had to chance it and fortunately it didn't break or fall off. We then went back home and did battle with the lock and window mech, note to self, in future don't wait 'till it's dark and you've had a few beers before tackling a job.
I drove back home with it sounding like a dragster and rang the local exhaust centre, £350 for a new cat, fitted! I rang Europarts and with my discount got one for £80, rang my son who was at his house and he ran me to get it, got back and refitted the whole exhaust in a little under an hour.
Now last week some scroat tried breaking in and stuffed up the drivers door lock, then the window mech packed in (another £90) and now this, I found a breakers yard locally and got a lock and window mech for £20 so went and got them, then decided to go to the pub. I was sat in there and my mate walked in, and asked how I was doing, I told him I needed a pee and was hoping an attractive young lady would come in, he asked who this attractive young lady was that I was waiting for, "oh anyone will do" I replied "with the way things are going lately I don't fancy going for a pee on my own in case it falls off when I touch it", unfortunately my luck is never good, so I had to chance it and fortunately it didn't break or fall off. We then went back home and did battle with the lock and window mech, note to self, in future don't wait 'till it's dark and you've had a few beers before tackling a job.
