{"id":8578,"date":"2012-03-19T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:21:06","slug":"but-there-is-a-recession-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8578","title":{"rendered":"But There IS A Recession On\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of that last article,  this one quotes a breakdown recovery company (also an insurer), who say that drivers are delaying servicing and repairs to cut their expenditure. Apparently, this is the outcome of \u201cresearch\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p>No, really?<\/p>\n<p>It says that 25% of motorists have a fault which makes the car illegal, and 14% say it urgently needs repair. Common faults include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">faulty brakes <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">faulty wipers <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">broken or missing mirrors <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">defective brake lights <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Around 20% admit to driving without an MOT \u2013 which they point out is an offence. It seems there is no end to these statements of the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>The article says that drivers \u201cnow\u201d take over four months to fix faults, on average. It doesn\u2019t say what this figure was previously, although it does seem to consider that just because people \u201csay\u201d it is due to cost, then this must be a brand new <strong>reason<\/strong> \u2013 rather than a new <strong>excuse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hot on the heels of that last article, this one quotes a breakdown recovery company (also an insurer), who say that drivers are delaying servicing and repairs to cut their expenditure. Apparently, this is the outcome of \u201cresearch\u201d again. No, really? It says that 25% of motorists have a fault which makes the car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}