Mixed weather today -- rain and sun. Went and got some walking done.
Toyota contacted me saying they have my spare key (the mechanic apparently lost it after programming it and they needed to order a new one - to the tune of £250 cost).
I'll need my take my car back to let them program the key, and hopefully get the dinks in the paintwork fixed.
The next appointment is next Monday, so I'll head up after my daily meeting.
During my walk, the hire car company finally called asking for their car back, they're coming to collect tomorrow, so I topped up the car to make sure they don't fine me for not having enough fuel.
Weather has turned to sunny today, so a nice longer walk today. Tried a different walk, but turned to be a bit longer distance wise, but not longer time wise.
No walk or workout today. Did the weekly shop this morning as mentioned in my previous post and the temperature has jumped into the twenties today surprisingly.
My V5C arrived this morning. So I can use that to check and apply for my CCharge discount eligibility. I already know the car is exempt from ULEZ and LEZ.
Though it does seem the CCharge will be chargeable for all cars from 2025 and exemption for EV only from 2021.
So remind me again, why should people buy a EV or hybrid if they don't get any benefits?
My Toyota Roadside Assistance confirmation form also arrived, it's Toyota branded, but the assistance is provided by the AA.
Barclaycard emailed me. Time to pay my credit card bill...
Another rainy day. Ended up working a bit longer than I expected due to stuff happening that I wanted to fix before the weekend. Overworking seems to be quite a common tendency now, due to the extended working from home situation, even though it's not advisable.
Eventually the rain did stop, so managed to go for my walk around 5pm.
Picked up my new Toyota Yaris Hybrid today. Had to spend about 30 minutes on hold while waiting for verify myself for the 3-day driveaway insurance.
I now need to finalise my own insurance to cover myself from Saturday.
My dad and I drove up to Toyota in the hire car so I could drive back in the new car.
We spotted some chips in the paintwork which we could not resolve while we were due to it raining (any painting we would do would be ruined by the rain). Toyota gave us some paint and lacquer to do it ourselves when the rain stops.
Drove back in the new car. First time I've properly driven an automatic. I previously drove an automatic for a colleague to help her park, so it wasn't a "proper" drive.
My dad also used to have an automatic (VW Touran), but again, didn't drive that "properly"
The brakes on the Yaris were REALLY sensitive. Just a tap brought the car to near stationary. On my old Skoda I had to push the brake pedal to about half way before it started braking.
Car has bluetooth so managed to pair it with my phone. Haven't tested the music playing over bluetooth yet.
Also, Toyota gave me a plushie as thank you for buying a car
Another cloudy and rainy day. I did get to do my walk in between the showers.
Car update -- I've finalised finance with Toyota and we've pencilled in Wednesday for pickup, but that depends on when I need to return my hire car.
Other news -- My neighbours moved out recently and now we've had some people come in to pick up left over stuff and another van dropped off this morning, seemingly to drop of some paints and stuff.
They parked up pretty close to my hire car.
At least they didn't scratch it.
Since different people are coming in and out of that premise, they've mounted a key locker on the front of the building holding the key to the flat, and locked it. Foolishly, they left the key combination visible as I went out to my walk. Then when I came back after my walk, they had reset the dials. Tried the combination I saw, and the lock opened. Cue Mr. Burns clip....
1 hour walk today, in 25degC heat, including some shopping at the Co-Op (which luckily had no queue outside).
Chased up Toyota as they hadn't called me, and they finally called me in the afternoon. They confirmed I had passed credit checks so the backup car was reserved for me.
However, the first choice car was still reserved for the other buyer and they were still waiting to find out if they passed checks on another finance company (Black Horse).
So it seems that the finance is primarily with Toyota Finance and the secondary finance company is Black Horse (which, ironically, is who I had my finance with when I had my Skoda.) According to my Toyota sales person, Black Horse is a higher interest finance company.
Spent the afternoon with Toyota going through different cars and options. Ended up reserving a Yaris Hybrid.
The car I was looking at had been sold by another salesperson two hours ago, but their credit check had failed, so they were running a check against another company. If that passes, they get first dibs on the car.
So I looked at another Yaris Hybrid. Slightly older, but less mileage, and £500 more -- BUT, it looked like it had been treated MUCH better than the other car. It had leather seats meaning it's likely to get extra hot in sunny weather.
Did my FitBit workout today, using my Chromecast Ultra. My Sky Broadband router seems very tetchy today and twice dropped my WiFi connection while my phone was casting to my TV, meaning I had to reconnect and recast both times.
Longer walk today, and somehow managed to trip 5km distance, but looking at the GPS, looks like it messed up and didn't track properly, showing me literally flying over houses....
Pollen count seems to be high today, got back and my eyes started itching.
Didn't do the workout -- my walk was later than expected due to us watching over a neighbour's son while they move their things into several van loads (they were moving out, but only a few minutes up the road)
