Thanks for your careful and caring considerations oh wise ones.
I've hatched a plan.
Told him I've taken it in to have to slightly scuffed alloys to be looked and priced up for repair when the alloy wheel repair man comes in tomorrow or Friday.
He seems to have believed me, but also added that he WAS checking up to see where the car has been and is right now, and how fast it's been driven.
Christ Almighty. Feel like I'm being watched by a untrusting suspicious parent here!!
