My first post here and I must get this off my chest. When my Ford Focus (56 reg) windscreen wipers started misbehaving the other day, I didn't think too much of it, that it would be a relatively easy and not too expensive fix.
Hah!
How wrong I was in this age of all simple mechanical car gizmos being controlled by fancy electronics. First garage said (for no charge) that they couldn't do anything and it would be a "Very Expensive" job at a Ford garage. Second garage, after £60, informed me that they could do it and the price, fitted, for the piece of computer wizardry would be £629.
My heart sank and my stomach disappeared into a dark pit.
This afternoon I dropped the car off at a local Ford/TVR/Subaru garage where I had negotiated yesterday for the job to be done for £475. Still a sickening amount for failed front windscreen wipers, but better? So far very pleased with the service as I have been given a (free) Fiesta to use tonight and tomorrow till I pick my car up.
Thanks for listening.
Hopefully that will be the last piece of car talk here.
