Nothing to report with Kära​, she just does what she's supposed to do and without fuss.

Today I changed over from my 17" summer tyres onto the 16" winter tyres with a little assistance from Brodie

Mine has the GLT badge, but I had to buy it in Spain and fit it myself

GLT badge was dropped around 1994-1995 and from what I found it was only fitted to saloon cars

Correct Neil. Before I found this MOT garage it was always hit or a miss as to whether the car was going to get a fair and honest test. Too many cowboys trying to pull a fast one to get the work repairing the car. I once put a car in for an MOT and called in the afternoon to be told it had failed on ...

scot850 wrote: 01 Oct 2025, 08:31 Did the tester dare to fail your car??

Neil.

It wasn't my usual MOT tester today, he was going to a funeral so I had the garage owner do the test. I've been going to the same garage for MOTs for 39 years and this is the first time the owner has tested my car.

Kära is due the annual MOT test at the end of October so she was booked in this morning and happy to say she passed without and advisories

The 850 turned over 65,000 miles today and finished at 65215, a total of 255 miles through Glencoe. The weather started dry but it soon turned to a rather wet afternoon

Kära is 20 years old today so Brodie and I went out to Rouken Glen park this afternoon

This was Brodie 2 months ago This was Brodie today

Val, Brodie and myself went to the Classics for Cancer show at Bathgate today. He met up again with Roxy and had another 15 minutes of play
Another Volvo parked next to us
Brodie wasn't walking any further until he had a rest

It's been a quiet time for Val the Volvo, after the Moffat show the car has sat unused in the garage while I took care of the latest member of the family who arrived with us on 5th July. I don't remember my previous puppies being so much work but it's great fun and worth the effort.

Today I took ...