Car Drama Ends

What we wanted to write two days ago was:
"This afternoon, after 4 more calls to Renault/Eurodrive Assistance, we picked up our car, free of faults and gave back our rental car. Which, by the way, was a very similar model to our car and had several faults of its own. But we could still drive it, which was the main thing. And nothing was going to make me hand our replacement car back, short of a complete breakdown."

Silly us for writing a draft post before we actually got the car.

That was not what happened. Instead, a lot of drama ensued following promises of the car arriving in Lisbon at 5 pm, then 9 am the next day, then midday that day, then 4 or 6 or 7 pm (depending on who we spoke to) that day, then 10 pm that day, and then finally an inability to confirm when the car in fact would be arriving. However, we managed to stay cheerful (and sane) because of the wonderful company we had at Pedro's parents' house.

The upshot is that we got our car this morning without any further delays and our rage is dissipating already!