tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post4380742184484923898..comments2024-03-07T12:27:37.632+02:00Comments on Food & Family: Paying by NumbersKithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11594062064082350697noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post-67173145390302888582009-03-12T14:31:00.000+02:002009-03-12T14:31:00.000+02:00I have several friends who have unkind things to s...I have several friends who have unkind things to say about Opel Zafiras...we now have our Toyota Prius...our first non French car in almost 20 years...I'll eventually be posting about what we think about it. For now, I'm still too scared to drive it...I prefer dented, scratched- up models, less stress for me :)deedeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10278468497564430383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post-44658713084953292972009-03-11T18:34:00.000+02:002009-03-11T18:34:00.000+02:00Rant away! Nothing more infuriating than a car tha...Rant away! Nothing more infuriating than a car that lays down on you and new and ot covered ina warranty. I'll give you my GMC suburban suv...lol. It too is a piece of crap. I wouldn't give it to my worst enemy. Maybe that's why General motors had to take 20 billion in bailout money and will still go tits up. ( bankrupt) I'm familiar with Opels, however I haven't seen one for a long time. They were a very popular car in the last energy crisis and then America got lazy and went back to the gas guzzlers. go figure...<BR/><BR/>Not sure the exchange rate of your currency to the dollar but it sounds like R15,000 would send me into cardiac arrest. Hope it all pans out for you, but I hear ya on the money going out quickly. I don't even want to know what my numerology number is Kit...it would be too horrible. In this damned recession it would be nice to have money coming IN. lol.kansasrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964652839648825340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post-60224722364998297082009-03-11T09:12:00.000+02:002009-03-11T09:12:00.000+02:00I've heard that about Landrovers, Hen - friends pe...I've heard that about Landrovers, Hen - friends persevered with one over here through a couple of new engines and then finally moved to something else.<BR/><BR/>The dealers were shaking their heads over the 'abnormal conditions' that we've exposed the poor car to ... dirt roads in South Africa...!!! Most of the rural popularion experiences dirt roads every day!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for listening sympathetically to my rant all of you!Kithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11594062064082350697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post-5786396977216760672009-03-11T01:27:00.000+02:002009-03-11T01:27:00.000+02:00My feet are stomping on your behalf!We were briefl...My feet are stomping on your behalf!<BR/><BR/>We were briefly Landrover owners...NEVER again!<BR/>Bought from new it broke down 13 times in two years..it's final hissy fit was the engine blowing up when it reached 20'000 miles!<BR/><BR/>Funniest was the husband taking it 'off road' two weeks after we bought it....the byway gave way and he ended up at 45 degrees in a ditch filled with pigs swill.<BR/><BR/>This wouldn't have been so bad...had it not been for the fact the sunroof was open...so back came the car covered in smelly mud....inside and out.<BR/>The children were pealed from their seats leaving clean patches from underneath their little bodies.<BR/><BR/>Months later when we took the car back to London for it's first service we were surprised to get a call from the garage...."Why hadn't we told them that we had taken the car off road"???? because the mechanic had removed the sump guard, and a big hard lump of dried mud had landed on his head and knocked him out!!!!!<BR/>Erm....tell them? For goodness sake it's a Landrover...and we live in the country!!???!!<BR/><BR/>Surely that is precisely why people buy them?<BR/><BR/>....well no....apparently not if you live in London!<BR/><BR/>When the engine blew up they lent us a BMW....we realised our folly and decided to go back to driving German cars, and haven't looked back since!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post-44551652538955049522009-03-10T22:59:00.000+02:002009-03-10T22:59:00.000+02:00I am not familiar with Opels, mud very much and no...I am not familiar with Opels, mud very much and no sissy cars for us either. I do hope it all gets resolved quickly.Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02010027331702396503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059881.post-36873422479098304152009-03-10T19:18:00.000+02:002009-03-10T19:18:00.000+02:00Oh how I HATE this sort of thing! I will stay away...Oh how I HATE this sort of thing! I will stay away from Opels and I hope things work out to your good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com