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interesting tale, glad you got a fishing holiday in the end,,,,,,
now i have had a wolsely 1500,
a singer vogue,
a austin 1100
another singer vogue,
a renault 14,
a renault 19,
a Honda civic,
and now a Citroen Picasso,

remind me NOT to invest in a Mitsubishi,

they made bloody good flying machines, but i'll leave their cars alone........LOL

Bob

I sure did thank you, caught the most fish out of all of us 100. came back well and truly rested. Car part now at garage, hubby taking it in on Tuesday, hopefully will have it back on Wednesday.

Hi Helen,
Did you have a good holiday?

nudging up so peeps can read the orignal story.

What a lovely generous BiL you have.....so sorry you have had this runaround it sounds horrific........so glad that you are able to get away.....

Helen,
If anyone needs that holiday now, it's you and hubby!!
What a wonderful brother in law :o)

maggie xx

Thanks Ann, I need to, otherwise I think I will crack up if I don't go.

I hope that you have a lovely holiday and come back refreshed.

Ann
Glos

WELL I'M ALMOST READY TO PUSH THE BL***Y CAR OFF A CLIFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the part that we got for the car is not compatable. The Mitsubshi garage gave us the part number for the car and it was the correct one. But when hubby took the car to the garage today and they took the old part off the car, well the new part has 2 outlet pipes on it and guess what, ours has 3 pipes. Apparently when the made the Space wagon in 1994 they did them with 4 different throttle bodies, and we didn't know that. nobody would of known that until the old part was taken off. The mecanic said that it was ridiculous that they did that.
I was at work when eldest rang me to say that hubby had gone to get the car and I burst in to tears, thinking that the holiday was gone as we wouldn't get anything fixed before Saturday. They have said that the car can be driven on local journeys, but not on long ones.
I got home tonight and hubby said that his sister had rung to find out how we had got on. When hubby told her, she said that we will still be going on holiday and that her hubby was going to book a day off work and drive us there, and come and pick us up next week. We won't be able to take as much fishing equipment as we would normally but I don't care as long as we get away. We are meeting up with hubby's Mum and Dad who have booked the holiday and payed for the lodge as well, and I felt that we couldn't let them down.

Thank you all for listening to my woes and I'll bring you all a stick of rock back.

love
Helen.

Aww hun just going to read the whole thread,


We have a 1994 car, cant afford another, even though we both work, my Dad had to spend weeks before christmas getting it ready for MOT


We had no car and Dad is 75 so very stressful,


Caz xxx

really pleased for you helen
hope you have a lovely holida xxxx

all's well that ends well then Helen!!!!

Ann X

Hi folks, just to let you know we now have the part. hubby went on web and ordered it from a spares dealer, who had only stripped it off the original car 10 mins before hubby had posted his request. It arrived this morning. Local mitsubshi garage will fit it now, but can't do it till next wednesday, Got my workmates hubby coming round at weekend to see if he can do it any quicker.
So it should all be fitted by this time next week. Thank God, As we go away on the Saturday.

Thanks for listening.

Helen

Oh I do hope you feel better soon xxxx I had an older car a renault and spent a small fortune on the garage not being able to tell me why it juddered in first gear - I changed loads of parts and still the same problem then my breaking point came when they told me the price to replace one part of the carb X hundred quid plus labour and couldnt say that would solve it!

In the end I bought a whole carb of the same model and year from Ebay and got change out of 50 quid including postage and OH fitted it for me.

Car drove like a dream thereafter ....I then had an oppertunity to buy a modern car off my sister with power steering abs and all the doings and ive known the car since new so was too good to turn down and I sold my renault in perfect working order!

Liz, we've already enquired about courtesy car but that's a no go. have been thinking tonight about going to trading standards about the length of time they have said, will see what happens tomorrow.
And have thought about Watchdog as well.

Have you been to Trading Standards and talked to them? They might be able to persuade Mitsubishi to loan you a vehicle or something, or threaten to go to Watchdog on tv.
Good luck
Lizx

Well the latest news is that Mitsubshi are saying that because of the age of the car, they have got to get the part made and that it could be July before it gets here. Hubby has been looking on the Web and can get a second hand part for anything between £40 and £90 pounds but it is getting it fitted, so he told the garage this but they won't have anything to do with a second hand part, because they can't guarentee it. So am waiting for a phone call from workmate who's hubby is a mecanic to see if he knows of another garage in the area that deals with Space Wagons that will put in a second hand part. Another problem that the Mitsubshi garage said was that if we got a 2nd hand one it would have to be callibrated to the engine management chip in our car, so this is what we have got to find out if any other garage will do it. If we can't get it fixed then we shall have to get rid of the car, can't afford another new one so will have to look at 2nd hand ones.

Sorry to have another moan but at the moment all I want to do is cry.

Helen

Well we've still not heard anything about the part being here yet. One of the girls at hubby's work has offered us her car so that we can go on holiday. So hopefully I will get my holiday yet.

Hi Helen,
So sorry to hear about the car.
If you can afford it, why not hire a car to go on your fishing holiday to North Wales?
Hope things work out for you.

Jan

Kirsty, I'm sorry.
You were the 1st to reply, sending me lots of hugs and I forgot to say Thank you. Please forgive me.

love
Helen
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