Good news! My battery died!

[cossie916]

As above, couldn't even get in the car yesterday as the battery was so flat, so after I watched (cringing!) as the AA bloke broke in to the car (delocked doors and the tail gate wouldn't open with the key! ) and then told me he didn't have the right size replacement on the van, I flew over to my local tyre/battery/exhaust/magic tree dispenser expecting to get robbed of £100+

Why is this good news, you ask!

Whilst the geezer was fitted a new battery his foreman took me to one side and said he was rebuilding a Saph cossie and the bloke that was fitting my battery had helped him out no end but had never been in a cossie on the road. He said I could have the battery for £30 + VAT if I took him out for a quick spin!

Happy days!

After they put a floor and seat cover on without me even prompting them, off we went.

Result:

One happy battery fitter (grinning from ear to ear but looked like he needed to change his keks afterwards) one happy foreman and a very chuffed me!

[Ben Purnell]

glad your happy Andrew and nice to see a happy ending, cracking price for a battery as well

[Craig H]

brillaint he sounds like a nice guy thinking of the guy who has helped him that was a bargain for a batterybet he loved it

[darksoul]

Good story! Allways nice meting ppl who do something like this!

[mboon]

happy endings.

Did you proper give it some and make him shit his pants lol

[cossie916]

Yep!

[blacky]

Lol

Atleast they had a battery
A lot of the places round here dont stock the square terminal battery's any more

[kjc300]

Lol

Atleast they had a battery
A lot of the places round here dont stock the square terminal battery's any more

Mines a halfords one, every time it goes really flat - I take it back and get a new one!! Even faster than charging it back up!!

if they are REALLY flat, the tester halfords have don't give a reading and presume it's fooked!!

[cossie916]

Mines a halfords one, every time it goes really flat - I take it back and get a new one!! Even faster than charging it back up!!

if they are REALLY flat, the tester halfords have don't give a reading and presume it's fooked!!

I'll try that next time! I thought I had got a good deal!

[cos im worth it]

cracking deal matey . you probably used more than the cost of the battery in petrol like but cool to give you and the lad such a grin and have a good blast, soooooo missing not driving mine now!

[cossie916]

you probably used more than the cost of the battery in petrol

soooooo missing not driving mine now!

I hope not we only went a few miles! (probably didn't get much more than 7mpg in that few miles though! )

I really missed driving mine too! I should be getting it stripped down and repainted at the end of the year but it feels like I've only just got it back! (I may have to wait until next winter! )

[cos im worth it]

7mpg love it lol

[bullett]

nice to hear that andy.its good to put a smile on someones face in a car thats so old just goes to show why we think they are special cos they are

[malcs-escort-cos]

nice story mate

[cosmagedon]

Was that the reason it always went down then? Mine goes down after 3 days now, 4 and it wont open the doors