It had to be done, even driving it a couple of miles to put some petrol in it was hurting my knee
Hopefully it's been done as I type, it was meant to be done yesterday but they're still getting grief from the VR6 - it's back together, runs, drives but it sounds to me like it's running on 5 with an optional 6. Blipping the throttle leaves it struggling to tick over for 30 seconds, it sounds like the timing's all over the shop and the engine leaps around, then it settles down to rrrrr rrrrr rrrrrrrrrrr rrrrr again. The question now is: is it something they've done or not done right, or has something else broken like the clutch slave. I've given up asking Goran about it because all I get is a load of swearing. So far this rebuild has cost about 10,000€ in just parts, because the idiot in charge decided having it rebuilt would be cheaper than buying a reconditioned engine from VW. And my mate's garage won't be getting paid until it's finished, so they're up financial sh*t creek until it is.
Meanwhile... Yesterday the guy finally came up with the rest of the documents for the Toytractor, so we had forms to fill out and then he had to pay something like a fiver for the notary to put his little stamp on it to make it official. That done I then handed over the rest of the cash and off he went.
We then had to take all this to the tax office to find out how much purchase tax to pay. This is meant to be 5% of THEIR book price, so understandably I was a little nervous. It was better than I thought, they only have the values of two versions of this car - basic and all the goodies, so I got the price of the basic which was about 2,600Kn (305 quid). Took the bill to the bill paying place, receipt back to the tax office, job done.
This morning it was off to the cop shop to change the ownership documents (two off). Yes, back to see everyone's favourite jobsworth arsehole Jack Schitt Bauer. Two more bills to pay (I have no idea what for) both 36Kn (about 8 1/2 quid total) so I went off to pay them while the wife filled out the form (basically everything it says on the ownership documents plus some more bollocks they've dreamed up). Back to the tit head to hand over the completed form and receipts. We also had to buy more of these stupid stamps to make everything official (!) but this time I didn't have to go to a newsagent to buy them, amazingly he had some there so I had to pay him for them. He then stuck them to the form my wife had filled out and immediately franked them (honestly, you couldn't make this sh*t up but somebody obviously did!). 20 minutes of "oh, how important I am" fiddling about on the computer and we got brand spanking new documents with only my wife's name on them (how many owner's has this car had? Just the one....). Finito, it's all mine. Or rather, the wife's.
No, I don't have to go through all this bollocks when I buy a fridge here
Oh, and if you think 5% is bad, apparently it's 120% in Denmark, where they all drive around in 25 year old hatchbacks
I'll have to translate it for them...
