in here!
While i was driving it last week i thought it seems a while since its been for an MOT, so i checked and could only find last years MOT, which ran out in April this year, ooopps
The 6 wheeler was also due a test next week, so we took them both today, im pleased to say they both passed. Although the Xm got an advisory for two suspenion pipes, so that will be getting done very soon and anything else looking a bit iffy.
Since it was legal again i went out shopping in it, on the way home i was driving down a main road through the town when out from behind a wall leading from a very narrow back street shot out a black Vectra, young lad in it, wheels spinning etc, literally just infront of me. Luckily I saw it straight away and slammed on the anchors, the ABS kicked in and the Xm stopped about half a metre from this flying Vectras drivers side. The driver in the car behind me was also on the ball and stopped just a few inches from the back of my car. The Vectra then shot over the opposite side of the road, on full lock with its wheels spinning, straight up a massive curb, scraped a lamp post, bits of plastic flying off the car and narrowly missing a parked car and off down the road at full tilt.
Had i been driving a car with no ABS i can imagine i wouldnt have stopped so quickly, Xms do have fantastic brakes, so im sure that helped too. Its the first time ive had to stop so quickly in an Xm, i was very impressed at how quickly it pulled up.
Slightly in shock i drove on slowly to find a police S-Max flying out of the next sideroad after this black Vauxhall. So im very pleased me and the Xm are still in one piece, i do hope they caught the idiot in the Vectra.
Im please i wasnt a second earlier as the Xm would have been rammed and would now be scrap. I think ill stop using it
I was slightly shocked at the mileage the Xm has covered since its last MOT, ok, that might be 17 months
However its done over 5K miles, quite amasing as i can't actually remember using it all that much, its certainly not been used much since april (good job with no MOT!) since having the silver Xm. Chris.
