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Dec. 6th, 2004 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaYe saga continueth:
Venta v. the AA, part 2.
(Part 1)
I've just been to pick the car up from the Slade.
Whenever my car goes wrong, my first response tends to be to ring Andy - given a coherent description of the problem, he can usually tell me whether it's dangerous, a quick fix I can do myself, something that needs to go to a garage, etc. On Friday, my description of the problem was "The accelerator's lost most of its resistance. It still just about works. It feels as if there are usually two springs pulling it back, and one's broken."
The official result from the Slade: there are usually two springs on the carburettor pulling the accelerator back, and one's broken. I have a little slip of paper from them saying this. Hurrah.
I didn't notice this before because the big, obvious spring is fine. The other, broken one is hidden away and you can't see it unless you know where to look (which I didn't). It was in view of this that Andy and I came up with the idea that it was the cable that was at fault.
So, to repair the car I need a new wire spring. The sort of thing that would probably cost about 25p. Except, of course, Peugeot don't sell the springs. They sell kits containing an entire new carburettor, many other things, and the springs. The cheapest the Slade could find one was something like £46.
Having correctly deduced that I wouldn't like that idea, the Slade tried various ways of bodging it, but eventually couldn't manage it. They recommend I go to a scrap yard and get some springs myself. And for all this, they didn't even charge me.
You know, I'm going to enjoy writing to the AA about this one :)
Venta v. the AA, part 2.
(Part 1)
I've just been to pick the car up from the Slade.
Whenever my car goes wrong, my first response tends to be to ring Andy - given a coherent description of the problem, he can usually tell me whether it's dangerous, a quick fix I can do myself, something that needs to go to a garage, etc. On Friday, my description of the problem was "The accelerator's lost most of its resistance. It still just about works. It feels as if there are usually two springs pulling it back, and one's broken."
The official result from the Slade: there are usually two springs on the carburettor pulling the accelerator back, and one's broken. I have a little slip of paper from them saying this. Hurrah.
I didn't notice this before because the big, obvious spring is fine. The other, broken one is hidden away and you can't see it unless you know where to look (which I didn't). It was in view of this that Andy and I came up with the idea that it was the cable that was at fault.
So, to repair the car I need a new wire spring. The sort of thing that would probably cost about 25p. Except, of course, Peugeot don't sell the springs. They sell kits containing an entire new carburettor, many other things, and the springs. The cheapest the Slade could find one was something like £46.
Having correctly deduced that I wouldn't like that idea, the Slade tried various ways of bodging it, but eventually couldn't manage it. They recommend I go to a scrap yard and get some springs myself. And for all this, they didn't even charge me.
You know, I'm going to enjoy writing to the AA about this one :)
