Car, the saga continues

So, having taken my car in to be fixed, I get a phone call. Apparently there's yet more wrong with it. Except it's hard to communicate exactly what. I ask a collague to talk to him. Turns out that the part that the connects the brakes to the chassis is also rusted and needs to be replaced. I find out if it will be fixable by Saturday since I've already booked tickets and if there's anything else wrong with it. The answers are no, and yes respectively. I decide it's not worth fixing it. He does say he'll buy it from me.

So I head over to Dusseldorf. Accept whatever he'll offer me. Actually €400 isn't too bad, but then we hit the stumbling block of non-German paperwork. He asks me to come back when his boss is there so we can deal with it. I grudgingly agree. So I need to get to Dusseldorf again in a couple of weeks. And the only reason I agree to is because I don't want the car to be stuck in limbo.

Rather stupidly I booked a 13:00 train back. this meant a long wait.

13:00 comes. Train is cancelled! Another hour wait, as well as anxiety because I'm not 100% sure that that was the problem, and the person in front of me had one of those extremely long queries.

Really I just want this car saga to be over. I can't keep pissing about going to and from Dusseldorf.

Maybe I should hire a car next time. There is a SixT office right outside my office...