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[Pillock]

 

Did Peugeot Talbot have anything to do with importing Protons in the early 90s or did someone just forget to change the credits? The one we watched before had a 106 as the star prize...

[tinribs]

I'd say the latter. Nobody reads them anyway so I'd imagine they'd hope nobody'd notice. I was a bit of a fan of PCBH before my balls dropped and the amount of mistakes in the credits were unreal.

[Cavcraft]

Why does eBay randomly sort of slow my computer down? It doesn't do it all the time, usually just a few times a year at most. Now it's doing that incredibly annoying thing of playing adverts with sound when you click on listings. Is there a way to avoid this (besides just not using eBay for a while) or something?

[Guest Hooli]

I've never seen it do that, but then I do have ad-blocker installed on firefox.

[gordonbennet]

I've never seen it do that, but then I do have ad-blocker installed on firefox.

same here, plus ghostery to zap the trackers, of which there would be three watching this very page if it wasn't for the ghost, all google shit as usual.

[TDB_Inc]

uBlock origin FTW

[LC Torana]

Does anyone know what ATF can be used in my daimler V8 250 1968(G)?

 

Castrol TQF or "Type F" - or equivalent.

[BorniteIdentity]

When you weld in a new piece to a car's floor pan, is it

 

A) Weaker than new

Stronger than new

C) About the same.

 

Just interested like.

[tooSavvy]

When you weld in a new piece to a car's floor pan, is it

A] Weaker than new

B] Stronger than new

C] About the same.

Just interested like.

C. >> unless = poor weld/prep or thinner. Also it can be structural/deforming = too thick/poor copy of form.

 

Seem to recall if a car is 'well bent' & jigged straight again it has the 'memory' in the shell.

 

 

TS

[sierraman]

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?

[andy18s]

You'd have reported the theft to the police,and unless they have an identical car and facial features then it "should" be easy enough to stay out of the nick...

[dave21478]

When you weld in a new piece to a car's floor pan, is it

 

A) Weaker than new

Stronger than new

C) About the same.

 

Just interested like.

 

Weaker, IMO, but it all depends.....if its just a flat plate, then less important but if there are stiffening shapes pressed into the original, then your replacement is likely to be weaker because you will (assuming you are like me) have had to beat the fuck out of the patch with a hammer and a bit of old railway line as an anvil and random bits of pipe and shit like that as formers, rather than a single punch in a press as the original would have been done.

 

Also, the heat cycle of welding fundamentally alters the granular structure of the metal; In reality though, its not really enough to make a real-world difference unless you are doing real bird-shit welding.

 

However in my endless punishment job, I have noticed that welded repairs to mower decks and stuff that gets a lot of vibration tend to crack and tear next to the weld after a few years.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

What's a traction engine worth?

That Co-op ad. with the steam engine driving giffer was just on and one of my kids said ; " Don't know why the family are unhappy, they can just sell it, how much is it worth?"

They were shocked that I didn't have a clue, or at least make something up.

£10,000, £100,000 ? I've no idea.

[bub2006]

My ex Mrs dad and grandad had one a piece and apparently worth between 1-200 thousand. Don't know how true it was though. Depends on model I suppose.

[DodgeRover]

Depends on what it is really, 50-200k sounds the aprox range unless it's a showmans

[AMC Rebel]

Arrghh Number plates (again) I can get a pair of pre-2001 plates, but they won't have the BS number (or anything else) on 'em.  Did pre-2001 plates have to have the BS number - and will a picky MOT tester fail mine if they aren't there?

 

Considering all the shitarse illegal plates I see every day I am not really worried, but I don't want to waste time and cash, and I certainly can't be arsed changing before/after MOT - ideally I'd just like what was fitted originally.

[The Moog]

Will a 1.8 mk1 Ford focus ECU be a plug and play to 1.6? 

[scaryoldcortina]

Arrghh Number plates (again) I can get a pair of pre-2001 plates, but they won't have the BS number (or anything else) on 'em.  Did pre-2001 plates have to have the BS number - and will a picky MOT tester fail mine if they aren't there?

 

Considering all the shitarse illegal plates I see every day I am not really worried, but I don't want to waste time and cash, and I certainly can't be arsed changing before/after MOT - ideally I'd just like what was fitted originally.

 

BS number not checked - Plates must be correctly sized and situated, not have a printed background, have the correct spacing and border and be in the correct font. The dealer name bit on the bottom of modern plates isn't checked either.

[sierraman]

Will a 1.8 mk1 Ford focus ECU be a plug and play to 1.6?

No. I've a 1.6 ECU, key and central locking module if you need one though.

[AMC Rebel]

Thanks soc

[meggersdog]

On 01/02/2016 at around 6.30 pm some cretin rammed my parked car with such force he wrote it off.The next day I contacted my insurance broker who sent a form for me to fill in and asked for photos to be sent to their assessors.In the meantime they sorted a hire car.They said like for like so another 4x4 I wasn't fussed as long as it had a towbar.Two days after the hire car arrived the assessors confirmed my car was a write off.I asked for salvage then heard nothing.Two weeks later the other insurance assessor asked for more detailed photos to which I obliged then heard nothing.Almost two months later I was paid out. The hire charge at £148.00 per day was almost up to £10k and the other insurers are refusing to pay.

It is going to court but the other insurance company want to know if I was able to pay the hire charges even though they were the ones dragging their heels.I told the solicitors I drive a twenty year old Land Rover, what do you think ? The solicitor said they would want to see bank statements to proove I couldn't pay the hire charges.Surely this isn't right ? I am the innocent party in all this yet just because I have been frugal and have saved up to cover a shortfall on my endowment mortgage and have money in the bank I am being penalised.

I have told the solicitor all these different letters I have received over a non fault claim are really stressing me out.

Can an insurance company demand to see bank statements ?

[sierraman]

That's why it's rarely worth claiming on anything over 10 years old.

[meggersdog]

helpful.

 

1800 quid a year on business insurance but don't bother claiming.Yeah thank's

[sierraman]

I'm just saying. I empathise with your situation, it's crap, but it's due to the potential aggro like you've had that puts me off claiming.

[Lacquer Peel]

What's a reasonable price for transporting a small van 50 miles?

[DodgeRover]

On 01/02/2016 at around 6.30 pm some cretin rammed my parked car with such force he wrote it off.The next day I contacted my insurance broker who sent a form for me to fill in and asked for photos to be sent to their assessors.In the meantime they sorted a hire car.They said like for like so another 4x4 I wasn't fussed as long as it had a towbar.Two days after the hire car arrived the assessors confirmed my car was a write off.I asked for salvage then heard nothing.Two weeks later the other insurance assessor asked for more detailed photos to which I obliged then heard nothing.Almost two months later I was paid out. The hire charge at £148.00 per day was almost up to £10k and the other insurers are refusing to pay.

It is going to court but the other insurance company want to know if I was able to pay the hire charges even though they were the ones dragging their heels.I told the solicitors I drive a twenty year old Land Rover, what do you think ? The solicitor said they would want to see bank statements to proove I couldn't pay the hire charges.Surely this isn't right ? I am the innocent party in all this yet just because I have been frugal and have saved up to cover a shortfall on my endowment mortgage and have money in the bank I am being penalised.

I have told the solicitor all these different letters I have received over a non fault claim are really stressing me out.

Can an insurance company demand to see bank statements ?

Maybe try over on the legal thread in the open forum?

[Sir Snipes]

Don't enter into any correspondence with the other party's insurer. Send anything you receive to your insurer. If they call you politely hang-up and tell your insurer.

 

Your case has nothing to do with the other company. You claim off your insurance, who then chase the costs from the other insurer.

 

Check your small print though - a courtesy car may be excluded if the car is a write-off.

[steveo3002]

Will a 1.8 mk1 Ford focus ECU be a plug and play to 1.6? 

if youre needing a 1.6 i have one for sell....bought in an attempt to fix my focus

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 01/02/2016 at around 6.30 pm some cretin rammed my parked car with such force he wrote it off.The next day I contacted my insurance broker who sent a form for me to fill in and asked for photos to be sent to their assessors.In the meantime they sorted a hire car.They said like for like so another 4x4 I wasn't fussed as long as it had a towbar.Two days after the hire car arrived the assessors confirmed my car was a write off.I asked for salvage then heard nothing.Two weeks later the other insurance assessor asked for more detailed photos to which I obliged then heard nothing.Almost two months later I was paid out. The hire charge at £148.00 per day was almost up to £10k and the other insurers are refusing to pay.

It is going to court but the other insurance company want to know if I was able to pay the hire charges even though they were the ones dragging their heels.I told the solicitors I drive a twenty year old Land Rover, what do you think ? The solicitor said they would want to see bank statements to proove I couldn't pay the hire charges.Surely this isn't right ? I am the innocent party in all this yet just because I have been frugal and have saved up to cover a shortfall on my endowment mortgage and have money in the bank I am being penalised.

I have told the solicitor all these different letters I have received over a non fault claim are really stressing me out.

Can an insurance company demand to see bank statements ?

I'm guessing this is nothing to do with your insurance company , rather an'accident management' company , engaged by you via your broker.

I was in this situation in 2012, but for considerably more money ( £148,000) after a foreign registered lorry wrote off my work car on the M1.

I think that when you signed for the car, you would have agreed to do anything that the credit hire company reasonably request in order for them to claim their reasonable* charges. I had a couple of quid in my savings account that coincidentally had to be paid to my brother, before the court date. It was queried by both my* ( credit hire ambulance chasers self interest) and the 3rd party's lawyers, neither was happy, but apart from bluster and threats, it was soon forgotten.

In my case it got as far as the chauffeur driven car arriving at my house to take me to court in Oxford( all laid on by the ambulance chasers and everything including my days loss of earnings to be charged to the 3rd party, these people are nothing if not cocky) before a deal was struck. The driver came in ,had a coffee and then went back to Liverpool.

[Tickman]

....yet just because I have been frugal and have saved up to cover a shortfall on my endowment mortgage....

There is the reason for your 'savings' as you have a short fall.

The money is allocated already. Can you actually pay off some of your mortgage at present? then the money has been paid to offset your debt regarding the mortgage?