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There’s something dangerously soothing about Facebook Marketplace. One minute you’re sipping tea, the next you’re elbows-deep in listings for cars that would bankrupt you, gadgets you couldn’t explain to your accountant, and absolute weaponised nonsense like some gimp selling a mirror reflecting an image of legs that wouldn’t look out of place hanging out of a birds nest
It’s been a wee while since I gave an update on Sadie. Now, you might assume her horror-show of an MOT test knocked the wind out of my sails. But no! Spirits remained mostly uncrushed—I’ve just been busy in the background hoarding parts like a magpie with a Halfords gift card, chipping away at fixes bit by bit.
MOT Day… It didn’t go as planned.
Another day, another pushed back MOT date… The lights were back on the dash with the new TMAP sensor… But cheap buy twice.
The work has begun on Sadie. Some fault finding is being done using the ODB scanner. I was hoping it would be capable of clearing the airbag and traction control lights, which are illuminated on the dash.
Idle funds and the want of a small peppy petrol hatchback back in my life has brought me to the somewhat questionable decision to buy this…
When I was starting to see my now wife, then girlfriend, her mother had a 2002 Skoda Fabia SDI Saloon. Although it was a very slow old beast, (I think 50bhp) it had a handsome ruggedness to it that I always liked despite its Classic trim level and saloon body shape.
This car was supposed to be a 2005 Honda Civic Type R Premier edition, but that deal went arseways, so off I went (in a huff) to Charles Hurst in Belfast to look at what used cars they had in stock.
Car number 3 came along around on March 7th 2009, when we took a drive to Warringstown to view and buy a beautiful Renaultsport Clio 182 with an interesting back story…
The 26th of Janurary 2007 seen the purchase of my second car from Lisburn, NI.
It was quite the step up from the Ibiza, and nice and comfortable too.
