I’ve had the car back for about two weeks now and it’s so good to have wheels once again (even if petrol has sky-rocketed up to AU$1.30 a litre). Fortunately the RX-7 only needs regular unleaded petrol, not super-high-octane stuff – that’s saving me about $0.10 per litre :)
Repairs wound up costing $2.5k, not the $3k+ I was expecting, so that’s even more of a bonus. Plus they replaced the water pump which died during testing – good timing, eh? :)
I’m still taking public transport about one or two days per week, despite living on the worst train line in Melbourne (most delays, cancellations and late-running trains of all the lines – joy!) I’m also still cycling into the balloons in the morning (good for exercise, not just saving the car for “real” runs, etc :)
Lots of entries to catch up on here – been slack, yes I know. Photos to load, stories to tell and major overhaul on the Fly Me Friendly section but no idea when I’ll get around to all this.