Sunday 22nd December
Yesterday we hired
a car from the legendary Mr Din, on “mainland” Langkawi. Mr Din is legendary for the state of his cars
– cheap (30 ringgits = $10 per day…) and very VERY nasty!
Frederica, one of
our neighbours on A Dock in the marina, told me that last time she hired a
DinCar one of the back tyres blew out as she was driving sedately up the highway. She got out to change it but – no jack, no
spare. She rang Mr Din who sent a minion
to change it. Next time she rang to book
a car, he shouted at her and said, NO! I will not hire you any more cars! You exploded one of my tyres!
So we had been
warned…
Our little Daihatsu
Charade looked OK, red and shiny. But inside
the poor little thing was sadly neglected.
For starters, it didn’t have so much as a drop of oil in it. Pete checked with the dipstick, because after
the first few minutes we were wondering why it was making such ghastly
noises. Dry as a chip, said Pete. On the flat it was just OK, chugging along
with only a few faint sounds of despair.
But idling at traffic lights was agony, as was going up even the mildest
of hills.
We did, however,
manage to get a few things done. First a
cup of coffee at a café on Cenang Beach, then Back to Multequip, where Pete
took possession of his new big Honda generator, and a few spare bottles of oil
for the car.
We then braved the
traffic (RedCar, as I said, hates idling and it was touch and go where it would
survive having to stop at a few sets of lights) and went to the Yacht Club to
get some new fenders, and a Thai flag. They had run out of everything – people buying
up big, at Christmas? – so we had lunch on the cool, breezy deck.
We wanted to go on
the cable car but there were very long queues and we would have had to wait till
5.00 to get up, and 6.00 to comeback down, so we gave up for now and went to the
Seven Wells waterfall nearby. This was
just beautiful, once we survived the walk (634 steps…yes, I counted!)
 |
| Pete LOVED his! |
No comments:
Post a Comment