Ministry Of Transport

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Fail.

Fail on the rear fog-lights, fail on a tiny pin-prick hole on the front brake hose.

Bugger.

An afternoons mucking about might have found the fault with the lights but the process of draining, taking apart and refilling the reasonably complicated set of valves and hoses that make up the internals of a (relatively) (not really) modern  ABS system is very scary indeed.

So, I'm now almost £150 lighter (that's including the initial MOT) and just a little bit mechanically paranoid.

Silver lining?

This is the garage that (by proxy) I'd bought the Audi from. Upon purchase several things that were promised in the transaction simply never turned up. 

A working sunroof for starters. 

Or how about a service history for mains?

Anyway;

The parcel shelf was missing but I'd been promised it was knocking about somewhere. A couple of weeks of fruitless phone calls produced a verbal shrugging of shoulders. Today it miraculously turned up.

The best part?

"Lucky you came in, otherwise it would've been chucked away"

Brilliant.

Cheers.

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