Though think I may hire a car for family hol next year rather than car jengaing this..though would be nice to add to the list of things it's done for me.
Well next year is now last week...and I didn't hire anything just as well as Center Parcs was eye watering costs wise, anywho..
Went full Jenga/Tetris for the way down.
Had to leave the parcel shelf at home but it all fitted, had a cool box on the floor in the behind my seat..very glad we didn't need his pram. At least I still had use of the back window.
Weirdly regardless of size it seems everyone turns up with a similarly rammed car, so the bigger the car the more crap you bring.
Wasn't that far between 2 and 3 hours on the motorway, though being a weekday the users of the motorway fell into 2 categories, people who do 50-60 and people who do 85-90. So my usual "set the cruise at 70 and use the throttle to adjust if someone gets stuck up your chuff while you're overtaking a lorry..or a lorry overtaking someone in a Zoe who is determined to stick at 50mph for range when traffic conditions render this dangerous" was a bit more fraught than usual.
I do have the speed alarm set at 80 mph as an "are you sure?" as you'd probably get away with anything below that taking into account speedo over read etc if plod saw you anything over is going to be more than 10% over the limit..and getting points and a fine on a family holiday is not a good start. It cruises nice at 70, 80 is also fine but anything more than that fuel economy tanks and it feels a bit abusive. Obviously this being a public forum this is all theoretical I've never exceeded 69.5 miles an hour in it.
Most stress was probably getting on to the damn site, which took a good 45 mins to travel 600 yds. Could we worse though I had what I can only only assume an automated manual Citroën C4 Picasso behind us and the smell of clutch has horrendous until we finally left them behind. Either that or they'd sat on the bite point for 15 minutes..certainly wasn't me as the engine was off for most of it.
Anyway got there and dumped stuff
Then dumped the car for a week as they aren't allowed on site..
Fun was had by all...and she fired back up and did it all again on the way home, ditched everything in the house then loaded back up for my wife's birthday meal and away we went again.
That's the thing I like about it's not necessarily thrilling etc, but it asks so little in general and is so useful that it's always in the background at fun stuff and has been for 7 years now.
Speaking of asking very little...hmm next service is due and is a doozy. So as well as the usual, Brake Fluid, gearbox oil, coolant. Also do have a random cluck front left when you go on and off the power in second. Might be a worn CV given the mileage..but not convinced its not in the cabin either we'll see. Will mention it, also tyres are getting rotated as well. So probably about to take my eyes out...
