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[High Jetter]

I hear thunder....

[beko1987]

These modern hyundai fake 4x4's seem quite strong, was walking the boy to school and a tesco van (23 plate reversed into one at speed in the school car park... 

Big crunch but no visible damage, the tesco bloke phoned it straight in but the receptionist came running out too. Of course the owner could fire it up and the dash be lit up like an Xmas tree

[egg]

10 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

enormous bastard

Damn I hate those bastard types too,  Mrs Egg seems to delight in my torment with that sort  😅

[junkyarddog]

Just did a basic service on a 2014 Micra.

Car should have 3.5 litres of oil in it.

Hmmm,that's doesn't look like a lot!

Turns out it had 500ml,or half a fucking litre of oil in it.🙄🙄

I also had to investigate a noise it made while driving,seems to be gone now with the required amount of oil in the engine,funny that.

People are fucking morons.

 

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Is an article here in Norway that is circulating now. This summer someone got there their 2016 Outlander damaged, see photo. The car was completely drivable afterwards and no airbags went off etc. So it is only the bodywork damage that you se in the picture.

The insurance company has assessed it as uneconomical to repair and condemned it. And the owner was paid over 13,000 pounds for the car.

If this had been my car, I would have bought it back from the insurance company if this is still possible and easily fixed it myself in a weekend cheaply with used parts.

But if it is not possible to buy back cars in cases like this, it scares me because what will happen to for example my 60 year old Mercedes in such a case? 

The world really is going crazy.

Adding 

I had a quick search on a Norwegian site and I could buy both doors, front wing and bumper for just over 1400 pounds for this Otlander. Some of the parts were even the same color so not need to paint.

Edited September 18, 2023 by Dyslexic Viking

[timolloyd]

Apparently the increased cost of hire/loan cars is a crippling factor in repairing vehicles.

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 minute ago, timolloyd said:

Apparently the increased cost of hire/loan cars is a crippling factor in repairing vehicles.

I may have bored y'all last week in an insurance thread on this: renewal on our Bini was coming in at £££ more than last year via goCompare but then I found that the 'courtesy car' option was actually optional on Confused.com. Unticked it and the new quote is £6 less than last year's premium.
(1) we don't need a courtesy car as we are in the position of having more than one vehicle (so not so good for some)

(2) when did it automatically become a 'thing'? I think, back in the day, that you could only claim back the cost of the hire car if the claim was upheld so the other party paid - now both parties get a hire car and we all share the extra cost through our premiums?

[cort1977]

23 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Is an article here in Norway that is circulating now. This summer someone got there their 2016 Outlander damaged, see photo. The car was completely drivable afterwards and no airbags went off etc. So it is only the bodywork damage that you se in the picture.

The insurance company has assessed it as uneconomical to repair and condemned it. And the owner was paid over 13,000 pounds for the car.

 

If this had been my car, I would have bought it back from the insurance company if this is still possible and easily fixed it myself in a weekend cheaply with used parts.

But if it is not possible to buy back cars in cases like this, it scares me because what will happen to for example my 60 year old Mercedes in such a case? 

The world really is going crazy.

Don't know about Norge but here it's possible to keep the car and accept a settlement, in fact it's good advice to get a classic taken home rather than letting the insurance get hold of it.  

[danthecapriman]

41 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Is an article here in Norway that is circulating now. This summer someone got there their 2016 Outlander damaged, see photo. The car was completely drivable afterwards and no airbags went off etc. So it is only the bodywork damage that you se in the picture.

The insurance company has assessed it as uneconomical to repair and condemned it. And the owner was paid over 13,000 pounds for the car.

If this had been my car, I would have bought it back from the insurance company if this is still possible and easily fixed it myself in a weekend cheaply with used parts.

But if it is not possible to buy back cars in cases like this, it scares me because what will happen to for example my 60 year old Mercedes in such a case? 

The world really is going crazy.

Adding 

I had a quick search on a Norwegian site and I could buy both doors, front wing and bumper for just over 1400 pounds for this Otlander. Some of the parts were even the same color so not need to paint.

It’s our backwards wasteful throwaway society unfortunately.

Driving an old car into the capital city is a big no no because the nasty gas it farts out!

Yet, people are only too happy to create mountains of waste by destroying things (not just cars!) that could be repaired instead. Then create a load of nasty greenhouse gas manufacturing a new replacement car or whatever and shipping it halfway around the world to its new owner.

Crazy! 

[N19]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I may have bored y'all last week in an insurance thread on this: renewal on our Bini was coming in at £££ more than last year via goCompare but then I found that the 'courtesy car' option was actually optional on Confused.com. Unticked it and the new quote is £6 less than last year's premium.
(1) we don't need a courtesy car as we are in the position of having more than one vehicle (so not so good for some)

(2) when did it automatically become a 'thing'? I think, back in the day, that you could only claim back the cost of the hire car if the claim was upheld so the other party paid - now both parties get a hire car and we all share the extra cost through our premiums?

That's interesting and, yes, it's irrelevant to many of us! Unfortunately I've just done my renewal. 

I suppose it also links to using their "approved repair shop" who, rather like many other "approved" "framework" "preferred" arrangements... will mean £££

[RetroShite]

We took the Crown Vic out for a spin.

 

 

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

But if it is not possible to buy back cars in cases like this, it scares me because what will happen to for example my 60 year old Mercedes in such a case? 

As said, it's possible to buy back a car here in the UK. 

That car is worth a fair bit in parts. That'll likely be factored into insurance write off estimates. Cost to repair Vs value that it can be resold on. 

Certainly here that wouldn't be off to the crusher. In fact it'll be going around co-part and sell for a ridiculous figure where someone then repairs/fills it with filler to sell on. 

[Rust Collector]

2 hours ago, cort1977 said:

in fact it's good advice to get a classic taken home rather than letting the insurance get hold of it.

Hear! Hear!

Don’t let the insurers get their mits on your crashed car. I went straight and trailered mine home, fuck letting it go to a salvage yard whilst they work out* my options.

Didn’t someone on here have their car taken as salvage without their permission, whilst it was meant to be safe in a storage compound?

[stuboy]

Took the galaxy too work... and everyone says oh is the mondeo broken then...

NO FOR GODs SAKE !!

[cort1977]

13 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Hear! Hear!

Don’t let the insurers get their mits on your crashed car. I went straight and trailered mine home, fuck letting it go to a salvage yard whilst they work out* my options.

Exactly, it's your car.  If they get their paws on it then they may try to charge you for storage and on it goes. 

For most of my heaps that are only worth a few hundred I doubt I would even bother with a claim against my own policy.  On a £1000 Saab it hardly seems worth the hassle to argue with them for months on end to receive a paltry cheque for £233.47.

[aldo135]

About to start a driver awareness course online to save me getting three points. Not looking forward to it! Can’t they just send someone round to wrap me on the knuckles then I can have the rest of the day to myself 😂

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, aldo135 said:

About to start a driver awareness course online to save me getting three points. Not looking forward to it! Can’t they just send someone round to wrap me on the knuckles then I can have the rest of the day to myself 😂

I attended one in Carlisle when I got caught on the A66 in 2018. I found it very interesting.

[aldo135]

16 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I attended one in Carlisle when I got caught on the A66 in 2018. I found it very interesting.

Just came off it. Fair play you are right, it was interesting. I’ve had very little training in the 26ish years I’ve been driving so was probably overdue! I had it in my head it would be patronising and kind of like “getting a row” but it was informative and useful. Definitely better than 3 points too 😂

[Barry Cade]

A good mate just bought a Wolseley 15/50, turns out it's a manumatic... I've been doing a lot of reading and learning,  but looks like the engine and box have to come out..😕 I've told him just to make it a normal manual, but am intrigued.  I need to stop volunteering for shit..

[Hawkeyethenoo]

Yon 2010 Audi Allroad passed it's 10th MOT test today with flying colours and no advisories, first in my ownership and now officially run-in at 136k. Great service from Farmer Autocare in Fife where the test costs just £35. I love driving that motor, even though it's a diesel, being a V6 it sounds great on boost and is yet is whisper quiet otherwise, comfy, really well equipped and with excellent secure handling in any weather, thanks to Quattro AWD.

[stuboy]

Some moped work today... 

 

Just fed up its still in bits,  it's not 100% still but I felt positive

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

A good mate just bought a Wolseley 15/50, turns out it's a manumatic... I've been doing a lot of reading and learning,  but looks like the engine and box have to come out..😕 I've told him just to make it a normal manual, but am intrigued.  I need to stop volunteering for shit..

The Manumatic Clutch. Sounds mildly terrifying but if it can be preserved it probably should be.

[Noel Tidybeard]

11 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The Manumatic Clutch. Sounds mildly terrifying but if it can be preserved it probably should be.

sounds like C-Matic as found on green blooded things

[Pete-M]

On 9/18/2023 at 12:06 AM, High Jetter said:

I hear thunder....

Probably the moment my new pressure washer was delivered...

#RainGod

[Pete-M]

36 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

sounds like C-Matic as found on green blooded things

I drove a 911 with Sportomatic many years ago,  same kinda thing. 

[Barry Cade]

2 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

sounds like C-Matic as found on green blooded things

Or the RO 80.. 😯

[SiC]

16 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

A good mate just bought a Wolseley 15/50, turns out it's a manumatic... I've been doing a lot of reading and learning,  but looks like the engine and box have to come out..😕 I've told him just to make it a normal manual, but am intrigued.  I need to stop volunteering for shit..

Each to their own but for me the manumatic is the most interesting thing about the car. Very few are left and it's a fascinating system of a dead end technology that I'm sure some engineers spent a good part of their life refining but then having it dropped as a product once in the marketplace.

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, SiC said:

Each to their own but for me the manumatic is the most interesting thing about the car. Very few are left and it's a fascinating system of a dead end technology that I'm sure some engineers spent a good part of their life refining but then having it dropped as a product once in the marketplace.

Why is that, though? Did customers not take to it or was it problematic in use?

[TheOtherStu]

On 9/19/2023 at 2:04 PM, aldo135 said:

Just came off it. Fair play you are right, it was interesting. I’ve had very little training in the 26ish years I’ve been driving so was probably overdue! I had it in my head it would be patronising and kind of like “getting a row” but it was informative and useful. Definitely better than 3 points too 😂

I was one of the first to do it online in 2020 (they had to, because of Covid). Have to say, it wasn't the most dull thing I'd ever done. Some of the people on it were just fucking idiots though. People who genuinely don't know speed limits. One person even said that the national speed limit was 40. How she got a speeding ticket, I have no idea.

Another one thought that most speed cameras didn't work, so she just ignores them all. I do wonder though why it took so long for her to get caught so I asked. Turned out it was the second time she'd attended a course.

What I didn't know was that there are 2 courses. A Motorway one and a Non-motorway one. As I was caught on the A11, I have done the non-motorway one.
My son admitted that he's done both and still has no points 🤣

[Barry Cade]

6 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Why is that, though? Did customers not take to it or was it problematic in use?

On reading the factory manual, it required a lot of setting up to make it work properly, it has vacuum operated throttle controls to increase revs to match road speed, and shut the throttle off when changing gear, independent of the actual throttle cable, and controlled by 2 solenoids, along with  a centrifugal clutch for taking off, as well as a normal, but vacuum operated normal clutch once moving. Everything runs on vacuum using rubber bellows. Looks like quite a few special tools are needed too and I'd imagine parts are very difficult to find.  I reckon I could make it all work, but the car itself is pretty rough and has been off the road for about 10 years, so needs a lot of work.