INSURANCE:
I'd already paid for a year on my Beemer at just shy of £400 a few months before the Scooby arrived, so Elephant.co.uk agreed to change my policy over to the Subaru for the same amount again, making the premium total £804. When I received my renewal quote this year though they wanted £1145, nearly another 4 ton more again! I rang them saying I'd found a cheaper quote as I have done before and asked them to get the price down a bit, but they were having none of it this time and could only get it down to £999. I've been with Elephant for 5 years and I like the yellow envelopes you know, but they didn't even seem bothered about keeping my custom so I hit up CompareTheMarket.com again and got a very nice quote of £714 from a new upstart company called 1st Central, which, for fully-comp, with a 27 yr-old driver on a Group 17 car, is very, very good. The customer reviews for 1st Central are a mixed bag - they're not very nice if you crash and it's your fault apparently, especially if you were drunk [duhhh!] - but I thought for that saving it couldn't hurt to try them so lets see how we get on!
BOOT-LEAK:
During the incredible bout of wet-weather we had earlier in the month I noticed a damp patch of carpet in the boot-install. I took out the spare-wheel to find a small paddling-pool in the wheel-well. At first we thought it was coming through the boot-lid seal so I began taping sections up to track the leak with no success. After a couple of scans round the forums though I discovered its a common problem with after-market lights, like my Morette LED ones, where they haven't been bolted in tight enough. I'd only checked that the bolts were finger-tight before and when I got a spanner on them I found that they were all pitifully loose and took some turns to get them graunched. I should have clocked onto this much earlier as its becoming clear that the lad who bolted all these parts on before my time was a bit of an animal, with his roof-scoop held on with bathroom sealant and whatnot. Anyway, the wet weather has now returned, but I'm glad to say the leak hasn't and the spare-wheel well is now dry as a bone. Piece of cake!
LOOSE FRONT SIDE-LIGHT CLUSTER:
I replaced the n/s bulb and snapped the plastic-bracket that holds the top of the corner-cluster in place while screwing it in. Ever since then the cluster has wobbled about and often needs pushing back into place. There isn't much to stick tape on to so I've just left it for months, but with nothing better to do on the car I've painstakingly drilled a hole through the back of light-lens itself to provide somewhere to get a cable-tie through to hold it in and its now as sturdy as the other bolted side - you'd never know.
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