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Friday 24th 41-44F, grey overcast with early, fine rain. Walked to the lanes in light drizzle. Shopping for stove wood block fuel in the car pm. Or so I hope! The last door lock is giving up after 22 years of wear. The boot and passenger side locks stopped working ages ago. Having watched a couple of videos on cylinder replacement this just adds another high hurdle to continued ownership. The poor old car needs a permanent rest. The engine keeps missing despite a couple of tank fulls of 100 octane.
The exhaust has just started to get noisy. That cost £600 for a new system just a few years back. The car hasn't had much exercise for some years but has always been reliable until now. I'd hate to have to spend serious money to get it all working again. It isn't worth anything and has started to rust underneath the doors.
We live rurally but hardly isolated. Can we live without a car? The stove could have a full pallet of blocks delivered, I suppose. I would have to take up cycle shopping far more seriously again. What to do?
I know! Panic and rush around like a headless chicken! That should work. What if I get locked out on a shopping trip? Make a car thief's hook to trip the inside operating rod? It looks easy enough in the films...What was it called? Five hours of fiddling and away?
All went according to plan and I was not locked out of the car. Though it did refuse to lock once. Better that, than the converse and a long walk home with mountains of shopping. The price of secondhand cars seem to be several times that of the UK. I did a quick online scan after reading a UK best choice review.
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