In a typical example of the state of our luck, our car has had a major heart attack. The automatic transmission stuck in 4 the other day so I took it in to the Ford dealer. The Service Consultant (!) was a boy who probably had left school at 15 and got a job because his dad knew the owner of the business. I told him it was over-heating and might need some fluid. 'Oh, no,' he said with great authority. 'It will be more than that.' And it was.
LSS, it was a total collapse of the transmission and cheapest way to repair it would cost $5400. What! Time for a family conference. We fly out on Monday so one option was to wait until we got back but, in the end we bit the bullet and a new car will be ready for collection when we return.
We had already been thinking that we might get a new car at some time later this year. The caravan was to be sold so a much smaller vehicle was the go, so but I like to take months to research, check reviews, watch the sales, and so on. I spent most of a Thursday afternoon and evening on the Internet and we fronted up to Mitsubishi on Friday morning to look at the Outlander. However, at the front of the car yard was a very smart ASX with a panoramic sunroof and we couldn't go past that. A bit smaller than the Outlander but certainly cheaper to run than the Territory.
I'll have the Territory repaired at a local garage, much cheaper than Ford, and sell it privately.
In other news, the goats, Ted and Bill, have been moved on to a friend's property around the corner. A whole new world of blackberries awaits them.
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