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No, I was talking to you. I was there about 8.20, first car on the ramp.

Still okay for tomorrow morning Tony. I'll be on the road at 4.00am and down with you at about 8.00ish.

Just confirm before I make too many plans please.

8.30 will be fine then. See you there.

Well, if we're going for Saturday 4th July then I'll be there at opening time. I'll be on the road early to miss all the traffic and get there first thing. So what time are you open?

Yep, that'll be fine. What time you open?

Could you possibly book this Saturday morning for me?

I'm happy with whatever it costs I guess. It's my most important tool insofar as I do no work if I don't have the car. As regards the travel, I'd rather it went on a 450 mile round trip and was sorted than bugger about with people and equipment which could well end up as still a problem. So when can you get me booked in please. It's a 4 hour drive but I can be away anytime to get there for 8.00 morning if needs be.

Any news Tony? Also, just a thought, it might've buckled an alloy perhaps. Do you straighten wheels?

Okay. Catch up then.

Skoda Yeti 4x4 2015.

Nothing I've looked for. I'm out on the mobile at the moment. It's bleak up here for people who know what they're doing. I'm considering having a day trip to WIM to be honest. How much you want for sorting this?

Well, there's a few near me, but mainly VAG main dealers, accident repair centres etc... Most promising looks to be this lot who are not too far away. https://s-cars.co.uk/

Heading back down one of the Yorkshire Dales yesterday I rounded a corner to find a car in the middle of the road and a big cobble fallen off a wall on my side. Nowhere to go, not enough time to take avoiding action so the only option was hit the stone. Front & rear nearside wheels went over it and luckily I didn't suffer any punctures. But the car pulls to the right now and the steering wheel is slightly off centre. So need a 4 wheel alignment in North Yorkshire, is there anywhere trustworthy that I can use? Plenty of local places offer "tracking" but I need a more comprehensive service.

Then take back as many staff as you need for skeleton staffing, and furlough the rest. Honestly Tony, the government are paying people to stay at home, why the f**k are you not taking advantage of it?

It's merely a copy & paste of the same few satellite dish images. I've highlighted some, they're all the same image just in different places.

Admittedly the welding solution is abysmal, but cutting down coil springs is just as poor a solution.

Tony, I'm surprised at you suggesting such a thing.

That looks like a handy fire. I can just picture all the staff running about with car keys desperately trying to get as many cars as possible into the flames.

There's not a lot of leg room in the rear for a large car, but I don't sit in the back, do I? On the test drive the guy sat in the front passenger seat and my mate sat in the back. He grumbled a bit, but the guy in the front was 6' tall. As far as mpg, it's not really as bad as I was expecting. I filled up 15 miles from home, went shopping, cruised back down the motorway at legal limits, and checked when I got home, it'd done 51mpg. I'm happy with that on a run. But overall it was doing 31mpg for the last 1300 miles when I picked it up, but that wasn't me driving or my driving style.

It's parked tight on the drive at the moment but will be coming out to play at the weekend. I'll get some photos then when I go to fill it up with diesel (again... thirsty slut).

Well fixed the headlight washers. A loose pipe refitted and a cable tie to hold it. The bonnet strut has been replaced so now the bonnet stays open. I've received a genuine Audi MMI USB cable today for a whole £5. Load a rake of music on an SSD hard drive and that's the lack of DAB radio sorted. My navigation update pack has arrived so I'll get on to updating the sat nav and MMI system as soon as it's dry enough to.put the battery charger on while I do it (takes three hours).

And this evening I tackled a rather annoying fault. The fuel filler flap was sitting proud of the bodywork, and looked as though it'd been bodged with glue after someone snapped off the painted flap part. So, I spent all day tracking down breakers and trying to get a new flap assembly in the correct colour, but they were either sold or damaged worse than the one I had. Eventually I checked Etka (electronic parts cataloge) and found that the painted surface part simply clips into place. So I prised it off, loosening the glue which was hardly holding it, and took it inside to investigate. Upshot of it is, someone had clearly pulled the part off before somehow (caught it with the fuel filler hose or a handbag strap or something) and had tried double sided sticky tape and copious amouts of glue to stick it back on. Well it was stuck on, but the tape pushed it so far out of place that it was nowhere near flush. I cleaned off all the tape and glue and simply clipped it correctly back into the correct position, then ran a small bead of silicone along the top and bottom edges to hold it securely in place. Job sorted.

A couple of months ago my world turned upside down. The wife left me and took the Tiguan with her. I was absolutely devastated, I thought I'd never get over it, and I didn't know what to do next or how I was going to survive. I loved that car. But it's gone, so it dawned on me that I could now buy myself a car, rather than buy her one. Don't fret too much, I'm keeping the Yeti as the works car and I've been looking for my ideal weekend / personal enjoyment car. This weekend I found it... It was a little more expensive than I wanted to pay, but it was the best colour I'd seen (Quartz Grey) and the spec list was immense. Front & rear parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, B & O Sound System, Multimedia package (DVD drive and 2 sd card slots, ipod/usb connection), full cream leather, electric adjustable seats with drivers memory function, paddle shift on the steering wheel, rear window electric blind, front AND rear heated seats, folding and auto-dimming door mirrors and auto-dimming interior mirror, and probably some other stuff I've forgotten... It's the 3.0ltr TDI Quattro but it's not the S Line. Someone has thoughtfully added S Line badges to the wings and installed an S Line steering wheel though, just for a nice touch. Happy motoring.