Tuesday, 24 July 2007

A long way for a five dollar part

I managed to track down a supplier for a small bit of plastic for a broken wing mirror. It was up in Vineyard, which is 54km from here.

It was a good excuse to test out the new GPS, so I went for a drive this morning to pick up the part.

I had to go through two tolls ($2.20 each) and the round trip of 110km would have used about 13 litres of diesel, which currently costs about $1.30 a litre.

The part cost $5.17. The transport cost was around 4 times that.

At least I can now seen down the side of the car. It's rather disconcerting driving around with a wonky mirror.

The GPS is fine by the way.

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