Help!!Son is stuck 300 miles away from home with his new car .

shelovestobuystuff

isplumm wrote: »

Sorry, I may have misunderstood ... he is not going to drive up the M6? how else is he getting to Glasgow?

If he was at Blackpool an hour ago, then it is fairly easy to drive to the M6 & home from there.

That will be the quickest way home.

Mark

He was going to go through the lakes,an extra hours driving for the scenery,but will go direct to carlisle now using the main roads.Sorry,I dont drive so M whatever means nothing to me:o, so didnt realise he would have to end up on that route anyway.
Cant wait to see the car:D

No wait I just looked at a map on google,he was going to avoid the M6(not sure if all of it or just most of it) by travelling on A roads through the lakes,via wigton then onto Carlise meeting another A road.But that would have made his journey over an hour longer so they are braving the M6.I couldnt have told you yesterday what country the M6 was in so forgive me for sounding like an idiot.I was not made to drive,I was made to be driven;).

Mark_Hewitt

M6/A74(M)/M74 are quite nice scenery too!

isplumm

shelovestobuystuff wrote: »

He was going to go through the lakes,an extra hours driving for the scenery,but will go direct to carlisle now using the main roads.Sorry,I dont drive so M whatever means nothing to me:o, so didnt realise he would have to end up on that route anyway.
Cant wait to see the car:D

No wait I just looked at a map on google,he was going to avoid the M6(not sure if all of it or just most of it) by travelling on A roads through the lakes,via wigton then onto Carlise meeting another A road.But that would have made his journey over an hour longer so they are braving the M6.I couldnt have told you yesterday what country the M6 was in so forgive me for sounding like an idiot.I was not made to drive,I was made to be driven;).

Doing the Wigton route would not have added an hour!!!! I suspect it would have been closer to three .... its still the Easter hols, so the Lakes will be busy ... wow ... glad he decided to take the M6 ....

Funnily enough my sister lives in Wigton .... not much there ...

Mark

shelovestobuystuff

isplumm wrote: »

Doing the Wigton route would not have added an hour!!!! I suspect it would have been closer to three .... its still the Easter hols, so the Lakes will be busy ... wow ... glad he decided to take the M6 ....

Funnily enough my sister lives in Wigton .... not much there ...
apart from book shops.Have not been but apparantly its the book capital of the world.Thats why he wanted to go that way to stop off and look at books:rolleyes:

Mark

Didnt even consider holiday traffic!Yes thank goodness he took the motorway.

isplumm

Hi ..

Welll I must admit I didn't realise that Wigton was the book capital of the world .... I never seen that ... are we talking about the same place???

Wigton has 1 road of shops .... not much else really??

Mark

sillygoose

So he got insurance for £2000 third party? out of interest how much was the car? I would guess at no more than £400 ? A 9 year old Alfa, I hope he likes getting his hands oily!!!

Funny he got a car in Gloucester to take back to Scotland, regionally I often see cars I like cheaper in Scotland!

(there is some regional adjustment of pricing depending on local expectations and incomes)

My first thoughts reading this thread were what a daft muppet he was, but thinking back to when I was his age we were buying motorbikes upto 1000cc and 3.5 litre Rovers! - insurance was quite cheap then so who am I to judge haha!
Hope he makes it back OK.

shelovestobuystuff

sillygoose wrote: »

So he got insurance for £2000 third party? out of interest how much was the car? I would guess at no more than £400 ? A 9 year old Alfa, I hope he likes getting his hands oily!!!

cost £1100

Funny he got a car in Gloucester to take back to Scotland, regionally I often see cars I like cheaper in Scotland!

Thats what we told him but he wanted THIS car.He refused to even look at what was on offer locally.Maybe he just wanted the adventure?

(there is some regional adjustment of pricing depending on local expectations and incomes)

My first thoughts reading this thread were what a daft muppet he was,( I agree) but thinking back to when I was his age we were buying motorbikes upto 1000cc and 3.5 litre Rovers! - insurance was quite cheap then so who am I to judge haha!
Hope he makes it back OK.

Thanks,he should be back very soon now.I will call in a minute to check where he is.

shelovestobuystuff

isplumm wrote: »

Hi ..

Welll I must admit I didn't realise that Wigton was the book capital of the world .... I never seen that ... are we talking about the same place???

Wigton has 1 road of shops .... not much else really??

Mark

I am not having a good day so far:o.Its Wigtown that had loads of book shops not Wigton:rolleyes:,if he followed my directions he would have an extra 100 mile journey to visit the wrong place all for the sake of my ommitting a W.Well I am sure your sister would like Wigtown too.

isplumm

Wow ,...

Slightly different ... but you may have said Wigtown in the 1st response ... I may have just ignored that ... assuming it was a spelling mistake !!

But Wigtown is over 50 miles from Dumfries (which is the nearest major town he will pass!!) ... so yes it would have added over 100 miles to his journey & 3 hours to time ....

Mark

dacouch

Shame its with Quinn, the one goood thing about their policy though is it includes Breakdown Cover which could come in handy.