Right, well, time for the car's first service in my charge. I've chickened out of doing the oil and filter as I'm averse to getting under jacked up cars, and this one needs jacking to get at the oil filter.
So it's booked in a local indie for that (the highly recommended MOT CITY, Winnersh, for the benefit of Focusless).
However, I've done the air filter (piece of cake, as they usually are) and the cabin filter. the latter required the removal of the glovebox and a couple of other bits of trim too. Had to get a torch out to spot the filter cover way up against the bulkhead. I took the old filter out - it felt odd, very loose, almost like it was the wrong size. Then I opened up the new one's box, and what do I find in there but two filters. They go in the same slot, one on top of the other, so you have to somehow keep one of them up in the air whilst you slide the second one underneath it - the opening is only the size of one filter. So the garage who last serviced the car couldn't be bothered with those acrobatics obviously, and just left one in there and saved the other for another mug punter. Lazy harrised cheapskates.
It had struck me on ordering the filters that the cabin filter was twice the price I usually pay for such things, now I know why!
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