Car Strategy

[laura_seabrook]

The Rauni's performance on the way back from Fassifern Station was pretty disappointing, but it matched up with problems I had before, when she wasn't firing properly on all cylinders (gee, maybe that's a description of me, too ).

Anyway, I worked out a workaround strategy for getting about, though it's a little extreme or silly. She runs OK on the flats, but dies on hills that are too steep or hills with corners. Urk! Anyway, I could just drive to Teralba, and catch a train from there. Teralba's about 6-8 km from home, Cardiff (where I'd drive to go to TAFE) was 6 km.

Bottom line is though, something needs to be done, but at least I have some slack, and I don't have to catch the local buses.

Comments

[faffinoodle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fair idea. I used to catch the train from Morisset to Newcastle ((Hunter St. TAFE)), 5 days a week for 4 years!
Teralba is a good choice - I would rather it than Booragul or Cockle Creek :S
And yea, at least you don't have to catch a bus - Those things are the worst :/

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

I spent a few months driving round Newcastle trying to avoid hills. Only problem was I was regularly going from my parents place in Edgeworth to ours in Maryvile so I had to either contend with Lake Rd or Minmi Rd, both of which I'd stall at least once. And then again on Newcastle road in Lambton.
It really sicks but sometimes it's all you can do.

Oddly enough...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

...I've been able to drive via est Wallsend and the link road into Wallsend and the Uni, more or less OK. It's when I don't have enough speed built up and we go up a hill that there's problems.