We had a taxi strike the passenger door (behind the driver's seat) while it was parked in a parking bay and the taxi was reversing without looking at my car, causing it damage so that it's difficult to open and close properly. We watched it happen and shouted out but he didn't hear us and struck it pretty bad. It is difficult to open and shut and all bent. He gave us $500 to repair it, but we are waiting closer to when we have to pass the car inspection to fix it, so if anything else happens, at least when we have it inspected, it's not damaged AGAIN.
After this, we had a car strike the driver's side door while it was open and Chris was taking things out of the car to be put in the Govt dumpster drop off. The car behind our car pulled around us, impatient, and struck the driver's door and damaged it - crumpled it fairly good. He blamed us but we were not in the wrong. We were off-loading in the space we are supposed to off-load and he didn't pull out far enough to not hit the door. He should have waited but in his haste, he struck it and banged it up a bit. He refused to pay for it and so we have to take him to court and find the cost of all that is not worth the cost of the damage, so we were unlucky this time to get compensation.
In addition to this, the car needs new shocks, a new clutch, has an oil leak, has a break fluid leak, has a water reservoir leak, needs a wheel alignment (we go through 2 tires each month) and we just got new breaks put in earlier this month because they failed and ended up being completely destroyed when they replaced them - this was another $500 bill. Then, all of a sudden, our auto control to put the front door passenger window up doesn't work so we have that issue as well. And, to top it off, when it rains, the car sputters, hiccups and stalls so we have some weird issue going on there, too. Good Grief.
On Saturday, while driving the car, something flew up (a rock?) and struck the front windscreen while I was driving the car. Another vehicle passing me by must have kicked up a rock with its tire and it struck my windscreen putting a deep gash and scrapes in it. By Sunday afternoon the windscreen was cracked 8" and heading toward the top - where it would eventually shatter. We booked the car in to fix the windscreen today and was estimated to pay approx $700 for the replacement and labour. When they took the windshield off they called and said there was a bit of rust and that it would cost $1,200 more to fix that and they'd have to keep the car for a few days. I need the car daily to move from client to client so Chris told them just to replace the windscreen and we'll sort out the rust another time when we can plan to live without the car for a few days. Plus, we aren't financially prepared to pay for this at this time.
This afternoon, Chris received a really nice phone call. We purchased a $100 raffle ticket from a charity business about 6 weeks ago for a draw in August of 2 cars. We did so because we really need a new car. Chris put the ticket in his name with his phone number. This is the 3rd year we've bought a ticket for this raffle for a car. Each year, the charity pulls a ticket out from all ticket purchasers, and gives away a "free" raffle ticket for the same draw. So Chris' ticket got pulled for a free raffle ticket for this draw. He went in and picked one from the bunch they had, and that ticket, along with his ticket, went back in the drum for the draw in August. This is great new! We truly hope that we win one of these 2 new cars. We really, really, really do need a new car.
So I end this note, that I wish to win a new car in August.
Cheers, B.
| Raffle ticket showing the 2 Mazda CX3 cars for the August raffle draw |
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