I agree. One of the few phases or sayings that the great Bob Dylan has come up with that reverberates with me is “To live outside the law you must be honest.” I understand perfectly what he means by this apparent contradiction.
The reason I’ve asked Mark the supplementary Q “how long after reg must a CT be done?” is that my budget has take a couple of mighty, unscheduled, unforeseen hits in the past 30 days.
My decision to buy a car rather than use my camper van as wheels here was strategically sound.
Talk about last minute … I put ‘car/nearest to me’ into eBay and bought this. Not the first time I have done this: previously with great success.
24 hrs later I was heading for Portsmouth and the ferry. On comes the engine warning light. Two days later 833€ for a new soot filter.
Meanwhile, the very same day, back in Blighty, the van is in for MoT. Without warnings from previous MoT advisories - new steering rack and rear brake parts - £803. To be fair, in 370k kms it’s cost me nothing in major work. They say timing is everything in comedy. …
Car supplied with smart alloys but no anti-vol key to get the anti-vol nuts off. Smart bodge by Lemmonier Peugeot to remove them, replace anti-vol with standard nuts - 85€
Bonnet release handle - pathetic piece of wimp plastic - comes away in my hand - 55€.
Engine warning light back on! Tablets from the Peugeot tech mountain top - new turbo 1200€! They would say that, wouldn’t they? But I have a cunning plan to make this problem go away for 100€. It should work but it might not.
So, budget has a big hole where dosh for standard parts for registration to FR plates should be - rear light clusters, work to rewire same, headlamps - they say RHD Xenon is OK on dipped beam but then, maybe not.
So if I can get a breather before the CT … I need it.