It passed (nearly)

Well it was crunch time this morning with the little Pug going in for the dreaded MOT.

152000 miles on the clock and looking distinctly very much like a shed.

I could think off the top of my head, around 5 or 6 things it could possibly fail for. Not looking good.

Well the inevitable happened. It failed.

Got a call from the garage telling me the bad news. So now the painful part. What did it fail on and what is it going to cost me?

It failed on a bulb not working for a start. Bloody annoying as I checked all the bulbs were working not 5 minutes before I drove it to the garage. Still, and easy and cheap fix.

It also failed on the horn not working. Not sure how that came about. But then I haven't actually used the horn EVER on the car so have no idea when that might have stopped working.

What else then? Nothing. That was it.

RESULT!

I had the option of taking the car away and rectifying the faults or letting them do it. I've decided to let them do it. At the end of the day I was looking at hundreds of pounds to get it through. So paying £30 for labour I can live with. Besides, it's p**sing it down out there and I can't be bothered to do it.

So the Pug continues to live. Can I get it over the 200k mark? I'll see what I can do.

£30 to change a bulb and get the horn working? wow
result on pass tho

[Richie]

Yey a Pug of Love Lives on... :0)

[dizzyblonde]

Damn, and I just had one of these made so you could throw it into next week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

[Treacle]

Originally Posted by irons

£30 to change a bulb and get the horn working?

Yer that sound perfectly reasonable. I would say about half hours labour to find the problem and to fix it.

Nice one Si the Pug lives on.

Both My dads pugs have gone over 220k...

one failed at 230k and was scraped as the axel was fooked

the other is still going strong

first was a 1.4 petrol and the other is a 1.9tdi,

neither have had the head of...

Good news Si

Originally Posted by Treacle

Yer that sound perfectly reasonable. I would say about half hours labour to find the problem and to fix it.

Nice one Si the Pug lives on.

That's exactly what it was. It was the fuse that had blown and I knew it had blown too.

Still, very happy as I seriously thought it was either going to be very expensive to pass MOT or just too expensive full stop. To have only paid £50.55 I am more than happy.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Damn, and I just had one of these made so you could throw it into next week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

Now that would have been a very fitting end.

Lady luck was sitting on your face today then

Gives me hope for my pug.