So, after some unsuccessful car hunting last weekend, myself and pooch set out this weekend to buy a car. Along with our respective fathers we descended upon Rochdale to check out a little Nissan Micra we'd had our eye on on autotrader.
After some difficulty finding the garage, we got directions and arrived at our destination. Last weekends car hunting had consisted of Rich and I looking at God knows what on the car and pretending we knew what we were doing. Hence the reason we had our Dad's with us. They gave the car the once over and did not look particularly impressed. Rich and I again were none the wiser to the soundness of the cars mechanics and instead elected to give the tyre's a good kick.
It was difficult to make a decision on the car so we went along to see the car's paperwork and see if a deal could be done. We were offered a best price of £1050 with the car being put through a full mot. Having spotted another Micra on the way to Rochdale we chose to postpone our decision to give us chance to have a look elsewhere.
The other Micra we'd spotted in Glossop turned out to be a 1.3 litre Micra, not meeting the conditions of the rally. So upon our return to Sheffield, we decided to get in touch to arrange buying the initial Micra we had seen. We shall now be collecting our new car later on in the week, at which point we'll upload photos to show all our followers, currently zero, just how much of a beauty she is! I forgot to take pictures when we were there today unfortunately.
Let's hope she really is up to the job and makes it all the way to Mongolia (without breaking down ideally). We won't know until we try though!
Finally, please come down to Notre Dame High School tomorrow for their car boot sale. We shall be taking a collection of our old junk (it may be your treasure) in order to sell to raise funds for our trip.
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