Recently I was able to purchase a lovely, second-hand car for my family. We are still paying it off as it was a big purchase for us. The kids have been really proud of our new set of wheels.
In the last month, a trip to Whangarei saw great damage to our new car. Road works between Oakleigh and Whangarei forced us to ride over stones that had just been thrown on fresh tar. I was so disappointed! I have stone damage all over my car.
Besides the fact that these road works were done in the middle of Whangarei's tourist season, causing delays of two hours to get from Whangarei to Ruakaka, the stones sounded like heavy hail on the bottom of my vehicle. My heart sinks every time I hear a loud bang on my car, because I know it is another chip in my paint. Even my wiper blades are damaged.
Then a week ago, I had my windscreen cracked by a shooting stone. Thank goodness the glass repair people were inundated by windscreen repairs because of recent road works in the area, so I could only book in for repair in one month's time, because today I received my second stone chip on the same windscreen. My husband had to replace his windscreen three weeks ago.
Although our fantastic insurance company replaced his windscreen for us, we still had to take care of the rust before the glass company would replace the glass. This is such a needless expense for us, and for our economy.
