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I'm so cross.

One day last week I had a flat tyre and I put it down to hitting a pot hole the night before. I pumped it back up and it went back down again (slowly) so today whilst I was out I called into the tyre place for them to reset it.

They took it off and found a nail in it. They were hopeful that they could repair it but when they looked there was too much rubber powder stuff in the actual tyre so I had to have a new one - £63. (Which is cheap compared to the last one). Then they found another nail in it too - two nails in the same tyre. No idea where they have come from as I am pretty careful about where I park!

This is the second new tyre in less than a year - both because of nails in them.

And to make matters worse I had to pay for it out of my food mixer fund. I had just under £300 paid into the account on Monday. I was very excited thinking that two more adoption panels at £100 each and I would have enough for the mixer and the mincer attachment. So it would be in situ by the middle of February.

Then a trip to the optician to pick up L's glasses took £35 out of it. Then today took a further £63 out of it.

So it looks like March at the earliest now.

sorry - It's so darn annoying when that happens, esp when you end up out of pocket for things that aren't your fault (if that makes sense).

Grrr

That's quite irritating. This is one of the things that Kwik Fit is good for. They will do repairs for free and if they can't repair it they'll do an inner tube repair for about £10 or so (well the last time I had it done).

Why you had to have a new tyre for two nails when you could have had an inner tube is a mystery to me...

The vanishing fund issue. I'm working on my "stop working" fund. Every time I get £10k into it someone wants something in the family, or some job has to be done and it winds up getting raided. Never going to get out of work early at this rate..... We've had about £15k of work done on the house this year that I didn't have time to do and that was without materials..... <sigh>. I know the feeling.

I read this as 'The Food Mixer Blade is Going the Wrong Way'

Should have gone to SpecSavers

Must be SOME food mixer Debih.... is it industrial scale?

Its one of these WM.

http://www.johnlewis.com/230172060/Prod ... &pup_ptid={adwords_producttargetid}&pup_kw={keyword}&pup_c={adtype}

Although I haven't decided on the colour yet.

Suff wrote:That's quite irritating. This is one of the things that Kwik Fit is good for. They will do repairs for free and if they can't repair it they'll do an inner tube repair for about £10 or so (well the last time I had it done).

Why you had to have a new tyre for two nails when you could have had an inner tube is a mystery to me...

The vanishing fund issue. I'm working on my "stop working" fund. Every time I get £10k into it someone wants something in the family, or some job has to be done and it winds up getting raided. Never going to get out of work early at this rate..... We've had about £15k of work done on the house this year that I didn't have time to do and that was without materials..... <sigh>. I know the feeling.

I didn't try Kwik Fit as I assumed that they would be more expensive than the local place, even though we do have a Kwik Fit just outside town.

I will try them next time.

debih wrote:Its one of these WM.

http://www.johnlewis.com/230172060/Prod ... &pup_ptid={adwords_producttargetid}&pup_kw={keyword}&pup_c={adtype}

Although I haven't decided on the colour yet.

What a handsome bit of equipment Debih. All the reviews say their bread and cakes are wonderful using it. One reviewer said she bought the red one but all the attachments are in white only which could influence your colour choice. Nice if things match on such a large but forever piece of kitchen kit?