Dam mist the deadline for the Sunday lunch as we would only have been able to attend the Sunday. That's if there would have been two spare places at the last minute. The problem we have booking anything up in advance for us is awkward especially from the beginning to the middle of December as we are heavily printing calendars, cards etc etc at the moment which has to include some weekends to make sure we meet our deadlines for customers for Christmas. Around the middle of December things tend to calm down till January. We know this has been advertised for some time but in our situation we would not want to put our names down and not show up.
So if there are any cancellations at the last minute please let me know and if we can attend we will be there
if we do get lucky and are able to attend please excuse my car. Since it's been in my possession I have not been able to do the work this year I intended to accept for waxing the car. Basically get the wheels refurbished and bits and bobs. But the Mrs keeps scraping the wheels and makes me wonder whether to get them done as she is the main driver who uses the car on a daily basis at the moment till we get a second car again as the car has had to be used as I work horse and up till now has been reliable with no problems touch wood and yes I'm touching wood while saying this he he.
The plan was to take it off the road for a few weeks and get the wheels refurbished and bits and bobs sorted out but with having to use the car daily it has been impossible. So I am hoping perhaps next year things might get done.
It went for its MOT few weeks back and it failed on one wiper blade would you believe it and they put a advisory saying that the two front bearings have got slight play and want £188 for the privilege of putting it right. This used to be a Chrysler main dealer but now deal with other makes and have Chrysler mechanics and diagnostics tools etc. that's why the car went there in the first place plus it's a stones throw away from home. An old musician – friend of mine who works for the main Mercedes Benz dealership in Birmingham told me even Mercedes would not have charged that much to do the bearings .
I see there has been comments on here about people having rust. Yes this car has the usual tailgate rust. while looking at crossfires last year I never saw one without it on the 7 cars I saw. So whether they were bad examples at the time who knows and did not know about this forum to get some help at the time as normally forums aren't the place people first look at getting cars. But when the startech 3.8 S came up for sale there was not much choice in finding another one with the same spec as this is the only one in the UK as some of you are aware of and I didn't intend to be put off by the tailgate as the standard crossfires that I'd seen had all looked the same on the tailgate .
I caught the MOT guy parking my car after the MOT in there customer parking bay. I asked if everything was all right he said it's one of the best examples he's seen underneath the car . Me knowing nothing about cars too much. I said what do you mean? He said a lot of crossfires his seen normally always have rust underneath and this garage tend to only sell the later cars. I never thought people had rust problems underneath and assured me he'd seen and worked on crossfires for years .
Anyway if there are any last minute cancellations please let us know as this would have been ideal as we only live in Worcestershire and most of the meets seem to be down south and London way. Which are impossible for us to get to due to various commitments
Anyway folks that's the info of what's being happening around here lately
Mark