This morning I took the car in for its 20,000 miles service.
This is a bigger service and thankfully everything was OK.
I like how they send a video of all the checking underneath the car and tyre pressures.
Tag: Kia
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Week 225 – July 5th – Not again
Trying to start the car again. Claire had a day off today, so we decided to go up to Ruxley garden centre for breakfast.
Had a good breakfast and went back to the car to go elsewhere and NO. The car wouldn’t go into gear, like what happened in January.
We checked in the manual after what the car mechanic had shown me and I pressed the button to reset the car, but nothing happened.
So I called the RAC to send someone.
After x amount of time, the car lost all power, thankfully this time we were parked on a flat surface, so no fear of rolling.
I tried the reset button again and the power came back, but the car wouldn’t respond.
Left it for some time waiting for the RAC to turn up, then I thought, why is the car camera working and Claire’s phone charging?
So I tried to start the car again and this time everything worked. Phew
The manual recommends that you drive for at least 30 minutes, so we took a drive, cancelled the RAC.
We stopped after about an hour to put petrol into car, and thankfully the car started again after it had been fuelled up.
Why has this happened again, especially after the long drive yesterday to Norwich?
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Week 151 – January 30th – New car
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Week 151 – January 30th – Last time
So I took the old car back to the dealership this morning.
This was the final mileage.
Final car mileage of the old car. Sort of completes a full circle on the blog, as a new car was the first posting.
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Week 150 – January 27th – Not expecting this
Today I received a phone call that I wasn’t expecting.
Last year I ordered a new car, as there was a delay in new cars because of COVID 19 and chips.
When I ordered it, was told between March and June of this year, which was fine as it would be a 23 registration.
The call today, said that the car was here and because it had come in January, it would be a 72 registration.
We even went to KIA to discuss this, but cutting the long story short, it was because it had arrived in January and couldn’t be kept over till March for the new registration number plate.
Normally you are happy if something comes in early, but in this instance you’re not.
We did get over £1,000 worth of stuff due to the inconvenience.
Picking the new car up on Monday.
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Week 1 – 2nd March 2020
So what do you do on your first working day off from redundancy?
You share it with your wife (Claire) and go and pick up your brand new 20 reg Kia Sportage car, little were we to know that the approx 500 miles we were to do that week, would be the most for a long time!
