Comments | bunn: Spring is sproinging.

bunn

Spring is sproinging.

Feb 05, 2020 21:16

Sunday evening, my car, who is elderly and sometimes likes to come up with intersting surprises, decided to drop a window into the door and leave it there, so I'd taken it down into Gunnislake to at least get the window jammed in the 'up' position while the garage searched for a second-hand spare part on Ebay (I love that they do this automatically ( Read more... )

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pixel39 February 7 2020, 20:05:07 UTC

The motor on the passenger window of my elderly VW Cabrio decided a couple of years ago that it was Completely Done, on a day when rain was forecast for later in the afternoon. Luckily it decided this while the window was still partially up and we were able to coax it into getting all the way up by dint of a lot of swearing and the Consort physically pulling up on the window - being a convertible, there is no doorframe around the top of the window the way there is on cars that have real roofs - and I spent the next several weeks driving around with the passenger window closed until I could get it fixed.

Aren't elderly cars fun?!