Rob Hawkins

Special Contributor

Lockdown adoption

My niece telephoned me one evening to say that the 2009 Ford Ka her grandfather had bought brand-new in 2009 – which she now owned – wasn’t being used and asked what she should do with it. She’d had to call-out the recovery services a few times because the battery had gone flat. The MOT was due in a few weeks and she feared it would fail because there were several advisories (corrosion and worn bushes mainly) on the last one. Judging by the age and the low mileage (56k), I knew these MkII Kas sell for up to £2000 on a forecourt, so they