Exhaust-ed

When we moved Ffion's old car on the drive the other day Noel noticed that the exhaust was blowing a bit so this morning he asked me to take it to Haven Tyres for Steve to have a look at it. He was taking her new car back to Haverfordwest to have three tiny chips on the bonnet touched up so I decided to take Erin to school and Ffion to work in the Peugeot 106 (her old car).

Now it dosn't have power steering and is a bit like driving a tank anyway. Both girls were laughing at me all the way as I tried to haul it around corners etc. We managed to deliver Erin safely to school, so it was just a case of getting Ffion to work.

All was well until we got to the new speed bumps in Priory Road (the council's futile attempt at traffic calming!!). Poor Polly the Peugeot didn't like going over the bumps one little bit. As soon as we had gone over the last one the exhaust began blowing really loudly and we sounded like some manic boy racer revving our way along Priory Road with all heads turning to look at us as we passed!!

I managed to get Ffion to work ok and she stood laughing at me as I pulled away sounding like Lewis Hamilton on the grid at Silverstone. Then halfway along Hamilton Terrace disaster struck and the whole bloody exhaust dropped to the floor and began dragging along the road behind me. Should I stop and call someone? (no mobile phone with me so that idea was no good) so I soldiered on hoping to god that sparks weren't coming off the road as the exhaust scrapped along behind me like some terrible rusty tail.

I drove slowly (a rare occurrence for me) to the garage and pulled up outside while all the mechanics came out to point and laugh. They put poor Polly on the lift and had a good look at her underneath then ordered the new part. Steve ran me home and promised to drop Polly back when she was all better (excellent service or what!).

She was duly returned at about Noon and is now right as rain and ready to be put up for sale in the next few days.... anyone want a nice 2002 Peugeot 106, only 40,000 miles and a CD player?

p.s the new Mazda is called Milo (don't ask!!)