Day 75: LR problems
Soutpiel Safari
John & Jenny
Tue 18 Jan 2011 21:11
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Day 75: Tuesday 18 January 2010. Private house, Accra,
Ghana. Distance driven 10 km
I took the Land Rover in for a full service today and
was rather surprised to be told that one of the drive shaft splines, or the
drive flange, is worn. The local LR dealer does not have a spare
drive shaft and will take a month to get one from the UK! I went to the
workshop to verify this but they are absolutely correct, there is some
considerable wear. I am surprised that we haven't noticed it
before.
After talking with Kevin at Nene Overland it seems
that this is a very common problem with Defenders, but he is proposing to send
us a new pair of shafts and flanges by courier. Better still, the
replacements will be specially hardened ones of Australian origin so we should
never have the same problem again! What a wonderful service!
Other than that, Jenny worked all day and I went
browsing around the local markets. I wanted to buy a leather belt for
Jenny and saw some at a street stall. The vendor was very pushy, but
finally I asked "how much"?
"25 Cedis"
"What, 25 Cedis - rubbish, I
wouldn't pay more than 10"
"I'll make it 20"
"No, I'm not interested"
and began to walk away
"17 then"
"No, I'm really not interested"
and walked off. I then heard him say "take it at your price" but I walked
on
Next thing I knew he had pursued
me 150 metres down the street and was pleading "take it at your
price"
We did the deal at 10 Cedis
(about £4.50) , but I had obviously opened my bidding too
high!
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