It is coming up to insurance renewal time, so have started phoning around.
I am currently with Chris Knott who do a good job for modified cars and give me competitive quotes. I imaging I will renew with them since their letter turned up yesterday and it looks ok. I will also phone around and see if anybody can beat the quote then I can sue that for leverage.
Also need to tax the car at the end of the month, and it just went through its MOT – with no problems ;o)
The car managed ok in some of the big puddles that formed around here on Friday in the recent flooding but I wasn’t going to push ti and take any risks. Luckily I managed to find a safe route home but the underside must have had a good wash.
On Saturday I had to drive to Manchester for a friends wedding. This caused concern on 2 fronts.
1) Traffic.
I got out of Malvern through Upton and the M50, and at the time I think that was the only way out and there was no way in. Coming back the other side of the M50 had reopened but Upton had flooded. I therefore had o use Ledbury and Eastnor. Long way round, but it was fine. Plenty of cars littered the road.
2) Manchester.
I have been worried since I saw a “Police Camera Action” type program about car thieves/ram raider in Manchester. The Police chap listed their favourite few cars which included Saab 9000 Turbo, and then cut to a police chase of a 9000. I therefore borrowed a Disklok off a friend at work. This is a solid bit of kit, and not too hard to fit.
I parked up in a private car park on University of Manchester land and my car was only 50m from the reception. My car was fine. Not so the car parked 2 spaces away which had the window broken. Probably because they saw the mark on the windscreen where a TomTom goes decided to take a look. They found it under the seat…
It affirms my beliefs about Manchester if this happened in ~4 hours on a Saturday afternoon.
I think I will get myself one of these Diskloks and use it wherever I don’t feel comfortable about leaving the car. Seems like a small investment to keep it safe.