The Understudy

I book the ZS in for a service last November. The road tax expires at the end of October so that's another 190 notes to the Chancellor. And I have to MoT the car first in order to qualify for the privilege of paying this charge. Then I realise my road tax will expire before the combined service/MoT at the (former) MG dealership. I manage to get an MoT at the weekend and cancel the MoT at the dealer's.

Come Wednesday they MoT the car again. I only find out when they call up to say the brake discs need replacing. So a £280 service turns into £700 (even after having the MoT charge removed).

Roll forward to April. I get an email from Dr Zephead. His £240 service will require new front discs plus road tax plus MoT. That'll be £670 thankyouverymuch. I'm starting to believe that Dr Zephead is becoming Alf with a 6 month lag.

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I notice that our ING on-line accounts still have our old address so I update it. We get letters for each account noting the update. They also tell me they have sent this same notification to our old address for security purposes. A house we moved from nearly 3 years ago. FFS.