Having sorted out the mystery of the faulty central locking system on my car, I started noticing a KERCLUNKING sort of noise on closing the door.  I did the obvious – checked that there was nothing rattling around in the glove compartment or the side pockets and established it wasn’t anything silly like that

I decided to pretend it wasn’t happening until it got to the point where I couldn’t start the car one day.  This attitude is probably not the most sensible (it resulted in a cam belt disaster on my previous motor) but it is how I roll…..

So anyway, this afternoon I left a meeting, got into my car, and was greeted by the now strangely comforting KERCLUNK when I shut the door.  What I didn’t expect was the KNOCKITY KNOCK noise that went on for a couple of minutes after that

Oooo dear, I thought.  Something is about to FALL OFF

Always the risk taker though, I decided it wasn’t going to stop me going home

However, at some point during my journey, after remembering the horrific moment when my cam belt broke and I ‘fizzled’ to a stop on a motorway, I started to worry again 

I convinced myself the car was veering to the right (I did this by letting go of the steering wheel and observing the direction the car went in – it went to the right – the fact we were on a bend is neither here nor there)

By the time I was almost home I decided that something MUST have fallen off the steering mechanism – it was the only explanation!

So I phoned my garage, who know me well, and asked if I could swing by (in a veering rightward sort of way)

After a lot of door shutting and opening and a bit of a fiddle about, they decided that I probably have a ‘wobbly pollen filter’. Ok, they didn’t say that exactly but that’s my interpretation of it

I haven’t a clue what that means

But it isn’t life-threatening. Or, indeed, car threatening

I have to use the ‘recycle’ facility on my air vent system for the next few days and see if it stops.  If it does, we’re laughing.  New pollen filter and it’s sorted.  I now feel very eco-friendly, using my ‘recycle’ facility.  Even though I am now having to breathe in OLD air 

If it doesn’t stop, well, they’ll get to the bottom of it I suppose.  As long as nothing falls off in the meantime….

Stupid car