Car Repairs

We were all up at 7:30am today. Pete was desperate to get Karins brakes fixed and have the grinding noise diagnosed and intended on having the car at Macgyvers place at 8am.
Obviously that didn’t happen because Pete can’t do anything without coffee and a joint followed by another coffee and a joint and just after 9am he left with Hilapè to go to Mbazwani, leaving me and Ellie at the house. Pete thought he would be gone for most of the day.
I went upto the roof terrace to do a workout while Ellie went and had a lay down because she had a headache. Then I showered off went into the house and watched stuff on my tablet for a couple of hours until Ellie came back, then I made us both tea.
Just after 1pm Pete came back and he wasn’t his usual carefree self, he looked and sounded very stressed.
I asked him what the matter was and he said he needed a joint and coffee first then a beer.
We knew then that the car wasn’t fixed.
Sitting down he told us that the last time the car was repaired, just before we arrived, they had replaced the suspension, CV joints and front diff, but when he had taken it back to the Mbazwani Macgyver to diagnose the grinding noise he realised that when the last lot of work was done they hadn’t put a drop of oil or grease on anything. The diff was bone dry, the bearings had no grease on them atall and had heated up and cracked damaging the wheel hubs in the process. To top it off the spares place that was supposed to be ordering the master cylinder hadn’t ordered it so now we still had no brakes and the front wheels were becoming seized.
Pete didn’t want to leave the car in Mbazwani even though Macgyver said he would sleep in it so he slowly returned home panicking about how he was going to pay for all the repairs.
He spoke to his mum several times and we could see how stressed he was getting and he told us his mum was trying to get the money together to lend him.
Petes mum managed to source the money from a friend we think, for which he was really grateful and that would pay for the front wheel parts, now all he had to do was get the money for the master cylinder and labour but we do think we can fit the parts ourselves if Pete can borrow a spanner to remove the hubs.
For the rest of the day we sat upstairs mainly drinking beer and chilling out before watching a beautiful sunset and then returning downstairs for Pete to cook dinner.
We knew he had stressed himself tired when he said he wanted to go to bed at 7:30pm so Ellie and I went to bed at 8pm. We are praying that the parts will actually be here tomorrow at 3pm which is what the spares place has promised. Otherwise we will be stuck with the chuckit bucket which costs a fortune to run and has no backseats. Czytaj więcej