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[AlabamaShrimp]

Is it not your insurance company's problem to sort this?

This is the answer. After you've told your insurer what's happened it then there job to do everything else. Don't even answer any direct mail/emails from the other insurance just direct them to yours. It's what you pay for.

[meggersdog]

NorfolkNWeigh  is correct it is an accident management company. I have only correspondence with this company and my insurance broker.The solicitor is from the accident management company.In June last year the other ins. company had found a hire car for £5.00 less per day and asked, through the management company, was I able to pay that.I refused and it's now got to the court stage.

If the other ins company hadn't insured a twat who can't use his mirrors or employed a lazy incompetent fool as a claims handler then I wouldn't be in this situation.

I am getting more and more depressed over it.With dark thoughts yesterday and breaking down in tears today I have made an appointment to see the Dr but that's not until next week.

 

Sorry for clogging up the wrong thread on the wrong board but ,heay, I'n not thinking straight at the moment.

[sierraman]

If your having dark thoughts, your mental health should take priority, get yourself seen to.

 

My father had this trouble with these 'accident management' companies, he ended up with a hire car for over a month!

[Kiltox]

Is the Chevrolet Matiz (2009ish) as woefully awful as the older Daewoo especially for rot?

 

Basically the same car is it?

[sierraman]

Yes, rots like fuck at the back. Bags of shit.

[Kiltox]

Arse. Saw one for sale locally cheap, £30 tax and cheap insurance appealed for a car to dump at the station every day

[sierraman]

£30 a year to tax. £150 a year in beer to cope with the depression of having driven in one. They say these days they don't make bad cars. They're wrong, this is one. Everything about it is foul. The interior is made of that naff shiny plastic stuff I can only compare with something out the Poundland, the engine has no power whatsoever, pressing the pedal just makes more noise, it handles like shit. There's nothing redeeming about one. The old Lada had a staunch proletariat feel about it. This doesn't.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^this sounds amazing, get it as fast as you can!

[sierraman]

I had a lift in one a fortnight ago. I really wish I'd walked. They are awful. I'm sure someone willl come on and say they've done 250,000 in one without fault. They are stupid and should have tried harder at school.

[Kiltox]

Don't care about any of that shit just whether I'll be able to hear it fizzing away as I drive it!

 

Station banger for people to smack doors into all day long, few miles a day in traffic

[Captain Furious]

Weaker I'd have said.

 

At some point last night someone's attempted to steal the number plate from our car. They must have got disturbed as they only got halfway through taking it off. Just say they got the plate and went through a series of speed cameras, how would I prove my innocence?

 

I'm currently going through a similar situation, although my number plates weren't physically stolen, they appear to have been cloned and I'm trying to defend a speeding charge that happened 100 miles away from where I live.  I can tell you it is NOT EASY!  Even with a pretty solid alibi and a stack of witnesses who can vouch for mine and the cars whereabouts, I'm still on the hook.  4 weeks in and just sat waiting around for the police to 'investigate'

 

They could still quite conceivably decide they think its me and then i'll have to take my chances in court.  Even if they drop it i'll have had a month plus in my own mental prison with the possibility of being convicted for something I couldn't possibly have done hanging over me.

[drum]

Is there here any other explanation for my dad's old V70 D5 deciding to stop charging after a month of sitting other than a shagged alternator? I don't want to replace it only to discover it's still not charging.

Is there a way to test it while it's on the car?

 

The non-charging is accompanied by an electrical systems fault message.

TIA

[tooSavvy]

I'm in the York Retail Park ATM. I see a shop 'Animal' with the strange logo...

 

Why do Toyota trucks seem to be 'showroom' with this logo??

 

Outdoor/ tough clothing link... mebbies ??

 

 

TS

[FakeConcern]

A friend of mine (has a Ford Explorer and Mazda RX8 and previously had many interesting cars) asked me to name a 4X4 that has a petrol engine. I instantly reponded "Subaru Impeza" but he said that was cheating and he meant workhorse off road type thing. So what is there?

[dave21478]

L200s are available with a V6 pez. Triton, I think they call them.

 

Pajero comes with a V6 pez too.

 

You can get a 2 litre pez Discovery 2

 

Loads of "soft" roaders....freelander, sportrak, vitara, jimny.

 

In fact, there are loads of them.

[AMC Rebel]

Disco 3 can be had with 4.6 V8 Pez.

 

A few Disco 4 5.0 pez V8s were allegedly sold even though not officially listed.

 

Various flavours of V8 pez Land Rovers over the years.

[AMC Rebel]

Disco 1 and 2 V8 pez too.

[warren t claim]

Can you still buy a Transit or Land Rover Defender with a petrol engine?

 

Are there any cars available new with vinyl seats, keep fit windows or power steering?

 

Is it still possible to buy a new diesel car without a turbo?

 

All this talk about a petrol powered off roader reminds me of this post which started the whole thread off.

[DodgeRover]

A friend of mine (has a Ford Explorer and Mazda RX8 and previously had many interesting cars) asked me to name a 4X4 that has a petrol engine. I instantly reponded "Subaru Impeza" but he said that was cheating and he meant workhorse off road type thing. So what is there?

Ford Maverick

[AMC Rebel]

Ford Maverick

Mazda Tribute

[bub2006]

Didn't old hilux used to have a petrol engine model?

[Lacquer Peel]

Ssangyong Musso, 3.2 litre Merc straight six available.

[warren t claim]

Why do we still have clutches in cars? Surely the automatic transmission has evolved into a better and more reliable solution and for those who want to change gears themselves then why not have a fluid coupling? Surely topping up with oil is easier than replacing worn clutches and dual mass flywheels?

[castros_bro]

Why do we still have clutches in cars? Surely the automatic transmission has evolved into a better and more reliable solution and for those who want to change gears themselves then why not have a fluid coupling? Surely topping up with oil is easier than replacing worn clutches and dual mass flywheels?

 

You mean the Ford/Mazda Durashift the wonderfully modern automatic pox fitted to smaller cars Festa, Fucus  errrrrrrr Transits controlled by a box of electric elfs ??  Yes the automatic gearbox is so advanced and suitable for modens that Ford/Mazda got a manual gearbox and clutch and fitted a few old Bosch wiper motors (I kid ye not) in place of the gearstick then the electric elfs decide when to start the hydraulic clutch pump and run the Bosch wipers motors to select a gear.  WCPGW ?  Here's one I repaired earlier.

 

[cobblers]

Jesus, Those really are wiper motors, that's amazing! it's like something they put together on scrapheap challenge to allow them to make a sierra remote controlled in order to drive it off the side of a quarry but they couldn't get hold on an automatic one.

[dave21478]

Aye, my C2 VTR shat its clutch actuator. I took it apart and the actual motor looked about the right size for an electric toothbrush, with a massive set of plastic gears to generate enough force to pull the clutch lever. Obviously the gears had stripped and that was it buggered.

[mercrocker]

Is making a car smoke unnecessarily now a thing?  

 

I ask in all innocence of what Modern Yoof do with their "rides" I believe they call them.   

 

Is it another form of OMGRATLUK?  

 

Only asking because I was buzzed by two fakely rusted sticker-bombed, rubber-band tyred, comically lowered Civics yesterday coming back from Bournemouth.   They both had fart cannons of the type you hear before they come past, are vaguely silent as they go alongside and then reverberate several moments later after they pass.   Both of them were smoking fairly heavily but it didn't look or smell like oil or fuel.  

[dave21478]

"rolling coal" is very much a thing. 

 

https://youtu.be/6wfzUAF2X5s?t=68

 

And it seems to be catching on over here now. As if we didnt need more reasons to hate the septics.

[mercrocker]

Oh dear. 

 

And here was me malevolently assuming that their engines were a McDonalds burnout or two from grenading.....

[Dippy]

Is there here any other explanation for my dad's old V70 D5 deciding to stop charging after a month of sitting other than a shagged alternator? I don't want to replace it only to discover it's still not charging.

Is there a way to test it while it's on the car?

The non-charging is accompanied by an electrical systems fault message.

TIA

I would swap the battery first as it may not be able to take a charge, dont buy a new one just use one off something else you have as it doesnt have to fit properly to test it on the drive.

Could be easier and cheaper than the alternator.