Monday 15th August - Car Hunting

This morning we took a trip to Westpac to activate our bank accounts. "Its simple you go in and show your ID and they activate it there and then for you. Simples." This is what we had been told...unless you called victoria lane and you like to complicate matters! My single account was activated with no problems but the trouble was, when i made the joint account, I also made a second ID...so for a while, victoria lane was 2 different people. It gave the bank assistant a challenge then to merge my two different identifications into one. We got there in the end!

After a bite to eat, we headed in a taxi to Gympie road to the 'cheap car company'. I guess it is what it says on the tin. There were some piles of junk...and others that looked ok. Gaz and I were drawn to a gold Daewoo Matiz. It was so ugly i liked it, but the sort of car you would imagine a little old lady in Britain driving 20 miles per hour in on a sunday. The car dealer approached us as he could see us eyeing it up. "Whats the history about this car then?" I asked. "Well i don't know, i can make one up for you if you like?". Oh dear. We test drove it but it didnt have much GO in it. Still, it was the nicest car on the for-court and for 3500AUD, we could have a car and have it registered for a year. The trouble was, there was no service history about the car and although the odometer showsed 104,000KM, this could easily have been changed. The dealer gave us a Vcheck on the car so at least we know the car hadnt been stollen. I was all for getting the car but then i think the world is rosey...its Gaz who has to keep me on a tight rein and point out all the 'issues' with things. He was very skeptical that the car has no service history, so we decided we would have a chance to think about things and check gumtree to see what else is on offer.

In the evening we were so tired, we grabbed a hungry jacks (which is Aussies equivalent to Burger King) and slogged away, ,looking at cars to go view. We chatted to Gaz's parents on skype and they wisely pointed out service history is important and we shouldn't rush into getting a car. Finding a car is proving very stressful at the moment!