Credit exchange
G’day Dave. As always enjoy reading your stuff… great fun. They say it’s nice to give credit where it’s due and I recently had a really nice thing happen that would reinforce this saying. I recently travelled to Frankston, Victoria to pick up a lovely clean original five-litre VR Calais with lovely low kays on it. It had actually been in the same family for the last 23 years and was much pampered.
Anyway my wife and I travelled home via the Newell Highway which I love driving. All was well until we got to West Wyalong where I started to get a flashing orange dash light to upset the day. We stopped there and spent the night after ringing the Holden dealer in Forbes as West Wyalong Holden had ceased to exist. The service manager said to bring the car in and he’d put the computer on it and see what the code/s meant.
We limped into Forbes and went to the Holden dealer and saw the service manager who took the car away and got it looked at in the service area. He came back and told me that their computers were too new and wouldn’t talk to the computer in my car. Damn. But he told me that the local NRMA-accredited mechanical service in Forbes would probably have the right gear and be able to sort me. Off we go and get there and sure enough they had the right gear and said it was the throttle position sensor that was the problem. After a couple of hours and a couple of false starts it was sorted.
The real nub of my story is this: The mechanic who got me on the road again was one of the most decent and helpful guys you could hope to meet. Not only did he fix the car but he had no morning-tea or lunch and didn’t stop till he’d got it right. The name of the business is Wayne Jones Automotive-Forbes and the bloke who looked after me is named
Beau. Not sure if that’s how it’s spelt but there you are. For the princely sum of $150 and a quick $50 which I insisted he take it was all done.
It makes you realise that in this current world of me first, second and, if there’s any left over, me third, that there are some genuine people who care about others and are willing to go the extra mile. I think these guys deserve praise and other readers may like to jot the name down. Incidentally the Calais cruised home without a hitch to Brisbane where she is now going to be our fun car. She’s much loved already! Simon, Bris-Vegas, QLD