We didn't do much over the last days in means of traveling or trekking, but we had a break through; we have a car!!!
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You don't understand the excitement and the fear we feel right now at the same time.
Excitement, because we can finally start our trip, which is almost impossible without a vehicle.
Fear, well, it's a 91 Honda ascot (accord in israel), for the unnaked eye it's seems in a good condition, but the mechanic found a disturbing condition in the car's engine. The cam belt (timing belt) of the engine wasn't replaced when it should had, which was 100,000 kms ago.
For those who doesn't know much about cars, like me, a cam belt is a very important part of the engine, and if it's break down then the engine is quite ruined and should get an expensive treatment.
Finding this car wasn't so easy, mostly deciding that we will take the risk with the cam belt.
It all started with the weekend car sale newspaper. We got to New Zealand on Tuesday, first thing after settling down in our amazing home stay at Jonny & Ronit place, we bought the car's newspaper. we started calling to people, we had luck with only two cars that the owners were willing to come to us and show it to us.
The first one, was in great shape, but the owner didn't agree that we will take the car for a check. Retroactively, we found out that the guy was a car dealer (his being an Arabic should have hand him over).
The second car, was a Honda ascot (our currently car), its owner was a 17 years old girl (yes, the people here have a great life. I will try and tell you some more about it in my next posts).
The car had some crucial problem: the driver mirror and the breaks lamp were broken, the Wof (warranty of fitness - Test is Israel) was expired at the end of the month.
We got to an a agreement that she will fix all the car's problem and we will take the car to a mechanic check.
She a greed to all the conditions for the price of 1200$nz (~ 3600 NIS). This was agreed on Thursday.
The car went to the mechanic (Eran, an Israeli guy, a great guy that supported us all the way), but after the check we had a crisis . The mechanic told us about the condition of the cam belt, and we understood from him, that in case of a break down, due to the belt, it doesn't worth fixing the car.
Hearing this, on top of thinking about renting a car from the first day, since Jonny, our host, was siding on this, made us pretty confused.
At first, we gave up on this car and decided to wait to the Sunday backpackers car's sale. as you can get from my story it was a downfall.
After a week at the same place, we had to make a decision. Izick, on his part didn't want to make it, since, he was afraid I'll blame him if the car will break down, so I made the decision (It was the Honda, a Nissan Polsar for 2000$ nz or renting).
Today (Monday) the car went to the mechanic and came back with all of the problems, accept for the cam belt, fixed.
Now, we are glad to say we own a "new" car and happy to start our traveling in New Zealand.
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| From Car Photos |
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| From Car Photos |
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