The joys of motoring.

Ahhh the infernal combustion engine and it's demon spawn the motor car.

Now, the plugeot saga has rolled on over the weeks but lets recap.

bought the car for not a lot because it had an engine management fault.

approached the fault sideways - removed all electronic management and replaced it with old style mechanical diesel pump.

cutting a long story short the problem is on going. current thinking is that the replacement pump fitted is itself defective so of course I got another which turned out to be the wrong one.

So I got another two and drove over to greasy garage this morning.

Naturally these were just as wrong.

So of course off we headed to the scrap yard.

Lets fill in some detail and say that the management and I had gone to the greasy garage to drop off the plugeot, t shirts the order of the day.

The decision to try another scrap yard should have been linked to a decision to take the plugeot not the citroen.

The Xantia lacking drivers side glass is a bracing place, a heater that works would be a nice addition .

So of course off we went a mere 50 mile round trip.

It might be a bit breezy, unless it rained.

Fortunately, it didn't rain: no, we copped for an inundation of biblical proportions.

This might not be an issue if the breeze helped.

It didn't.

It threw liquid across the front of the car and it positively poured in through the drivers window.

It was not that bad.

On the passengers side not a huge amount got to me.

Things were less dry for the driver of course...

wet t shirt competition got a mention once or twice.

But then we arrived and someone had to get out of the car.

Out is OK in sunshine, in rain it is less fun.

Add a lot more out, wandering round looking for a car that has the right bits, you could end up seriously soaked.

Luckily, the right car turned out to be a Xantia, one having a lovely drivers door, one full of glass.

should have asked them to pull the heater too.

then again how much excitement can one have.

More fun all stored up for tomorrow....

R