Back again with an update from the Land of Tui beer. Much has changed again in the last week or so.
We heard from the mechanic early last week that the motor in our van was fried. It was too bad that after Lucy had blown up that everyone said not to buy a diesel engine. This would have been valuable information beforehand. Basically fixing it would cost more than the value of the Lucy, so we decided that her short venture with us was over. It wasn't quite what we had in mind when we bought her but thems the breaks.
Roberta finished up her locum at Massey last week while I got back into the vehicle shopping once again. We decided this time to have a mechanic check things out on whatever we were going to buy since neither of us are metal heads. Since we had the bed frame and camping stuff in our old van, we could now buy any van and just take the seats out. I looked at a few and then picked one out that seemed to be the best for a mechanic to look at. The mechanic said only a few small things needed to be done so we decided that we would take it......... but I called the guy back and someone had walked in there waved money in his face and he sold it. @#$%. Back to the drawing board. Had the mechanic look at another prospect and he said not to buy it. It had looked alright to us so good thing we had it checked over. We then started looking at dealerships. We heard our fair share of lines from the used car dealers let me tell you. After a few more days of messing around we found ourselves a van at the right price and we got warranty and a service included.
Meet Esther, the 95 Toyota Estima. She's on the left, Lucy on the right. As you can see they look very similar but she WILL treat us a lot nicer. She is a couple years younger but still has some character and battle scars. We took this picture when we were ripping out anything salvageable from Lucy before the wrecker came to crush her into a cube.
Until next time!
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