motoring

The Gnomads' Landrover Discovery is serving pretty well in this dust-bowl region of the Magic Kingdom. The steering got a bit heavy recently, a symptom that appeared at the same time as a small puddle of hydraulic fluid appeared in the Gnomad's habitual parking spot. "Ah! that would be a leak in the power steering then" quoth the Gnomad to himself. Never mind, a quick trip to Al Cheabo Garage Services will soon put that to rights, but the brakes were a bit slack too so could they look at that too please? Power steering fixed no problem. Braking a little better but not by much. Hmmm. A few days later the brake fluid warning light comes on. Back to Al Cheabo. Two days later the Gnomad cell phone rings "your car is ready Mr Gnomad" came the south Indian voice. "thankyou I'll come and collect it, what did you need to do?" "reblace the master cylinder sir, no broblem". The brakes were indeed rather better. For about a week. the Gnomad checks under the bonnet. Either they did nothing other than top up the brake fluid or Al Cheabo Garage managed to find a second hand master cylinder exactly the same as the one there previously, with the same stains and dirt on it and managed to change said master cylinder without disturbing any of the dirt on or around the master cylinder. They're so careful these guys at Al Cheabo. Gnomad is now a customer of "not-so-cheab-but-do-actually-do-the-work-garage-services"
Much better.