Well... :scratchchin:
...thanks for all your good wishes folks, and everyone who betted on a pass...
...
Take a :bow:
Oh yeah! :banana::banana::banana::banana:
:thumbu p: :hehe: :thumbup: :biglaugh:
:beer:
Sailed through! No advisories. I was quietly confident about handbrake because I'd replaced the rear calipers a couple of years ago. Would have liked to have seem the emissions printout but they couldn't find it. Need to give the wee girl on reception a slap next time I see her though! When I dropped it off, she promised she'd phone me and give me the news, but it got to 16.00 and she hadn't phoned, so I thought I'd give them a call in case they'd forgotten to do it. (As the old MOT ran out over a week ago, I didn't fancy driving it home without one)! When she answered, she said "Oh, I'm really sorry, I've been trying to work out how best to tell you..."
"What????!!!!" I said. "It failed???!!!" "What did it fail on"?
"Well", she said... then she started reeling off a list:
"front suspension arms, CV joint gaiters, brakes...."
(at this point I was making choking noises down the phone)
"...exhaust... sunroof..."
"Hang on a minute! SUNROOF???!" I said.
At this point she started giggling....
"No, I was just winding you up, it passed fine", she said. "I was just saying all the names of bits of car that I could think of"!
...so I owe that cheeky wee lassie one now! She had me going for a minute there. I don't mind admitting I fell for it, good and proper!
But the icing on the cake came when I stopped for a drink on the way in this morning and came out to find two chaps in a van admiring it. One of them told me it had made his day, he hadn't expected to see another 164 on the road ever again! He went on to tell me that he once had a twinspark 164 and loved it. Strangely, that never happens when I'm in my company Sharan! (I just get the odd filthy look as mothers pull their children closer to them and hold their noses as I go past...)
