A few months back I blogged about my car’s waterpump deciding to fail on me and getting royally shafted by Ford SA and Porters Auto who decided to void my warranty. Two things, the conditions of the warranty were upheld by me, and my car only has 36k km on …

Just a quick addition to yesterday’s post. There is giant pothole in my road where it appears that a water pipe has burst. This is now the third time it’s happened since I moved in. It’s been there for about 2 weeks now, which is great. At night It’s also …

Last week I managed to slice open the sidewall of one of my tyres. Never a good idea, an even worse idea when your tyres cost almost R1400 each. Yep, that’s right, I have a scarily rare and expensive tyre it seems, which is still cheaper than buy 2 of …

Well now that I’ve lived in JHB for a bit longer I think I can comment a bit more on daily JHB driving. Since this is a topic I get asked all the time I shall endevour to make my thoughts clear.
First off, traffic density. I’ve never really had to …

As I had planned (plans which almost got ruined by my previous employer), I moved to JHB last weekend without any problems. Driving through the night I arrived here early Sunday morning only to spend the whole day unpacking and repacking and unpacking again, surviving on the 20 minutes sleep …

I almost sent a really large dog to its grave last night (no this post doesn’t have anything with my old domain). Coming home along Belvedere road at around 23h30 last night, I narrowly avoided turning a dog into a permanent hood ornament. This was not your average large dog, …

So my lawyerfied uncle tells me that the council doesn’t pay out for normal potholes. Only for potholes caused by roadworks that they’ve done and not filled in (provided there’s no signage either). We’ve still sent them a letter, but I’m not holding out hope. Guess that means I’m short …

I did get my wheel sorted out beginning of last week.
Fortunately it only cost me about R2k. As I’m going to be claiming this from the council it is my obligation to minimise the cost for them, otherwise they won’t pay out. As a result I had to get the …

Imagine this: it’s a dark, rainy Friday night and I’m calmly driving home enjoying my music when suddenly my car lurches and there’s a sickening crunch as metal comes into contact with tar, separated only by a thin strip of rubber. Accompanied by this of course is having everything that …

Just a quick update.

You can just edit the URL if you feel like viewing the rest of the pictures (car01.jpg -> car06.jpg).
I will eventually get a gallery running so I can embed pictures into posts; but that’s a mission for another day.
 
New:
Yes, I edited this post to embed a thumbnail. …