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[dtnorth]

At the mo. I work in Wales however my other half lives in Scotland,
where I come from.

Last week, my girlfriend forthrightly explained that she was unhappy
at money being thrown at the car and said I should ditch it.

I fixed the exhaust with dog food tins, gungum
and welding to cut down costs.

I used the usual explanatories.

1- "How can we move house with zero transport".
2-  I cant sell it as its still under HP... which it is
     and nobody would want to anyway given its issues.
3- Fill in the blanks,

[DaveL]

Have you tried getting a job nearer to Scotland? :-?

Have done some long distance relationships in my time and it is always difficult.
 8-)
DaveL

[dtnorth]

I work as a Systems Analyst..    You dont get that in Scotland.
Only the bigot.

[dtnorth]

That was incorrect..   Im living a purgatory  with 2 women who dont speak english.......

[dtnorth]

If someone said.    Get rid of you car for me...............   What would you say.

[jonny2112]

   

[ClarCE]

You need the car for work right?

Maintenance free cars don't exist - whats her weekly expenditure on clothes / makeup / shoes / hair and all that other womens crap?

[Hillper]

You need transport.  You have to keep the car, so you'll have to bite the bullet and get the issues sorted or you'll be going nowhere.

You may have to consider very carefully, the depth and strength of your relationship and work out your priorities.  

Long distance relationships are very hard to maintain in my experience.

[JamesV6CDX]

Dump the bird and keep the car

Or sell it for a 4.6 litre Range Rover HSE running on Optimax!

My girlfriend has been giving me crap about cars recently, especially my project cars, and she's just been banging on because she's looking for soemething to moan about. Is yours the same?

Women

[JamesV6CDX]

Also, what issues do yuo have with the car?

[Craig_R]

I Am lucky with my Girl Friend and the Omega she loves driving it and takes an intrest in the work i do to it ill find something wrong with her one day lol

Craig

[TheBoy]

Mrs TheBoy cannot moan, seeing as JamesV6CDX and I fixed her Rover HG

[TheBoy]

Mrs TheBoy cannot moan, seeing as JamesV6CDX and I fixed her Rover HG

Not that that would stop her from having a moan if she wanted to

[Kevin Wood]

I suppose my wife is reasonably into cars but not really interested in what's going on under the bonnet.

One day she decided she was coming with me to the local breakers yard.  

I resigned myself to the fact that it was going to quicly turn into a handbag shopping spree and that I'd have to rummage for the bits I needed some other time. Not so! I described what I needed (all sorts of bizarre bits. Fuel injectors, ignition modules, etc. etc.) and what cars she was likely to find them in and she put me to shame! She scoured the place in record time, clambering over all the wrecks. She found everything I needed and loved it. She even found a nice jack which the owner grudgingly sold to us, mumbling that he normally removes them from all the cars as they come in.

As to long distance relationships we did that for a while (Alton to Wellingborough - not exactly intergalactic). The problem is just seeing each other eats into all the time and money you once had available for hobbies like playing with cars. I stuck it for 9 months but at the end of the day you need to decide if you're happy to stay as you are, maybe losing the car, if one of you is prepared to relocate, or neither of the above.

(c) 2007 OmegaOwners Agony Aunts

 

Kevin

[tunnie]

what was that about James Mrs banging about?  :-?  

With the miles you do a big car is a must, as pointed out no cars are maintenance free!!