This morning I delivered my spare car, the 3.2 ex-plod Omega, to my daughter at Enfield, who needs it for her work.
I had hoped to return home in the Astra, and had begged Lavender Hill Garage to change the oil pressure warning light switch, change the oil filter and replace the 5W30 oil with 10W40 or thicker. They would hear none of it. Their cure for my problems was to flush the oil system, change the filter, replace the oil with new 5W30, and test it. When I arrived they believed they had cured the faults.
I set off for home nervously at 0940. I caught the M25 off guard and there was no congestion and no speed restrictions. Car was running well. I switched to the M4, kept going, in fact barely stopped all the way home. In spite of 20mph speed limits in Bath, Timsbury and Paulton, I arrived home at 1201, not bad for a 143 mile journey. The oil light never came on. After lunch I checked all fluid levels, all were OK.
What do you make of that?