Car Has Returned

The car is back safe and sound. It seems a lot happier. Apparently the water pump was completely fucked. I've also noticed that the car seems to idle a little bit better and doesn't shake violently like it used to when I cut the engine, which is presumably to do with the new timing belt.

Sadly Graham, the mechanic, had not been able to find anything wrong with the front-right wheel as such. His recommendation was "keep an eye on it, and if it starts going down again take it to Kwik-Fit". Hmm. Okay then. I have to drive carefully for the first 50-60 miles to allow the brakes to bed in. No sudden or hard braking.

I am thoroughly looking forward to being able to get in the car tomorrow and not have to worry about all the water in the expansion tank being on the floor.

The whole let came to just under £200. All well, you only live once. I'll probably go back there if I need any more work doing on the car, Graham seemed like a nice bloke. Doesn't half talk though, the guy never shuts up in fact!

He showed me the brake disks he took off the car. The one that was scraping was completely wrecked. As he pointed out though, they were both on their way out anyway so it'd have not passed an MOT with them like that anyway, so it's not like I wrote off a perfectly good pair of brake disks.

So the car has been serviced, now I personally need to go for an MOT for Humans. Well, not an MOT, but I still can't hear out of my left ear. The only relief I get is when I put my music on my headphones and adjust the balance to 33% to the left. Then the music sounds balanced and I can even pretend that there is nothing wrong with my ear at all ... until I take the headphones off again and all sounds seem to be coming from my right again.

It's been an eye-opener having no hearing in my left ear though. Until you lose a sense you don't realise how central they are to your entire life. I've been without hearing in one ear and I know that it can be fixed by a doctor or nurse. What about the people who have no hearing in either ear and know it can't be fixed? What about blind people? Imagine losing your sense of taste or smell or touch... these things are all so central to us, how do we go about our lives if we lose them? We all take so much for granted when we're all very lucky. </Jerry Springer Moment>