My brother http://no1broadstreet.blogspot.com/ told us about his battery going dead on him in his Blog and that reminded me of an incident years ago. I was on a round trip visiting customers in south Germany; I was finished for the day and had only one new customer to visit on my return journey home. I booked in late at a hotel just outside Stuttgart for the night. Because it was that late there were no more vacant parking lots direct on the hotel so I had to park my car on a spare piece of open ground. In the night the temperature fell to 6 below freezing. On trying to start my car the next morning there was absolutely nothing, dead as a doornail. My car in those days was a BMW six cylinder turbo diesel. I asked the guy who was parked next to me if he could help me out with a jumper start (poor bugger). I can’t remember now what he had for a car I only know his battery acid were blubbering, sputtering and steaming in no time, also his battery was red hot from trying to start my car, luckily his engine was running because I had the feeling we had knackered his battery. To cut a long story short I phoned the German ADAC and was put on a waiting list, apparently half of Stuttgart had dead batteries. Eventually the ADAC man came at half past eleven, my appointment with the new customer was at nine, I arrived there at half past two in the afternoon. As you can imagine arriving so late didn’t go down very well with the customer. Naturally we never heard from the guy again. That’s what a dead battery can do for you!
Talking about cars I have to go for my TÜV inspection on the 7th of April The TÜV is equivalent to the New Zealand WOF. The TÜV inspection takes place after three years for a new car and then in two years intervals. I also need new summer tyres, that will cost me around 350 to 400 Euros. At the moment I have winter tyres on the car.
Setting up a Blog for my friend I will have to postpone for a while, his mother died yesterday and he is driving over to England (per tunnel) for the funeral. It was no shock for him, his mother was 92 years old and had been ill for some time.
The weather seems to be picking up, let’s hope it stay that way?
The photo is something on wheels (fitting for this post) It was taken years ago with my Canon A1
Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.
2 Kommentare:
Once again a good story. You don't realise how much you rely on something until you don't have it. In my case I was lucky to have my son do the running around and drop me at work. If it wasn't for him I would have had to take a day off work. I like the photo.
Loved the photo and it's just the sort of subject I could spend hours snapping. The story was excellent and welcomed reading first thing this morning. Once again
"WELL DONE,"
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