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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone know a good LPG installer?

« on: 18 January 2008, 15:01:21 »

Jeremy said he'd be happy to certify - not ideally located though.

In addition, I was reading the regs the other day and current requirements are that you have an electrically operated gas valve on the LPG tank - so that may mean a new valve in that tank of yours. :-/

Kevin

33212

General Discussion Area / Re: Inactive Members.

« on: 19 January 2008, 00:23:13 »

I would not like my details here to be used for any comercial purposes AT ALL

Hear Hear! I'd be more than happy to pay for membership of sites like this if required. After all, someone has to pay the bills, but there's enough advertising on TV, falling through my letter box, pestering me on the phone, etc...

Kevin

33213

General Discussion Area / Re: Parcel 2 go Sucks

« on: 19 January 2008, 09:03:22 »

They tried to deliver one day, nobody in so they left a card...

It's about time these couriers had a "don't bother to deliver it cos I won't be in" box to tick. I buy quite a lot of stuff on line. It all comes by courier, I'm rarely at home during the working day so it's a complete waste of diesel them trying to deliver it but they all seem to try for a couple of days before giving up whereby I collect it from the depot.  

Kevin

33214

General Discussion Area / Re: Cheezy stuff....  but here it is anyway

« on: 19 January 2008, 12:18:53 »

I've got a dremel if that helps :-/

Kevin

33215

General Discussion Area / Re: Cheezy stuff....  but here it is anyway

« on: 19 January 2008, 12:04:04 »

Ahh, the mythical NHS dentist..

Kevin

33216

General Discussion Area / Re: Job advice please!

« on: 18 January 2008, 15:52:57 »

I don't think you're under any obligation. Follow up both, but don't blow anyone out until you've got a firm offer from NHS in the bag and have given it some thought.

Plenty of people accept a job at a time when they've got a lot of irons in the fire only for somethign better to turn up, and no-one can blame you for taking the best offer.

Likewise, many people take a job and leave in the first few weeks for the same reason, (or because they don't like it).

It works both ways too. In the hypothetical situation that you'd taken the job you've been offered and turned out to be no good, they'd want the flexibility to lose you fairly quickly too.

Kevin

33217

General Discussion Area / Re: Insurance company called

« on: 19 January 2008, 16:18:01 »

Remember the third party are at fault and it's down to them to leave you in the same position you were in before the accident. So, the filler needs to be mounted in the new bumper and hunky-dory. It may be that the repairer will want an LPG specialist to do that, maybe not, but whatever it takes it's down to the third party to pay for it.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Insurance company called

« on: 19 January 2008, 16:10:46 »

Ask them when you take it for repair. With a bit of luck you'll walk out with a colour coded filler in the new bumper and the system (re-)certified...

Kevin

33219

General Discussion Area / Moderators?

« on: 19 January 2008, 12:16:33 »

Read Rachel's review - and then the comments...

http://www.london-eating.co.uk/1626.htm

http://www.london-eating.co.uk/review-comments/123446.htm

Kevin

33220

General Discussion Area / Re: translation

« on: 18 January 2008, 23:46:11 »

and I have not bought anything, hardly even looked. Family happy though!

A cure for Ebay addiction? I wish...

Kevin

33221

General Discussion Area / Re: Tyre age

« on: 18 January 2008, 18:52:16 »

Guess I should change the tyres on my trailer before I use it again really. It was given to my Dad by my Grandad when I was a nipper and my Dad can't remember ever changing the tyres. That makes them 35+ years old.  

They still appear in remarkably good condition. No cracking visible. I can't imagine a modern tyre even being recognisable as such at that age. Do "The India rubber company" still make tyres?  

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tyre age

« on: 18 January 2008, 15:16:31 »

Just ask my mate who bought a part built Dax Rush with circa 6 year old Yokohama AVSs on it. First outing he swapped ends on a roundabout. I got a great view of it because at the time I was following him in a Rover with a trailer and another car (my car!) on the back of that.  

That was an interesting experience.

They were actually OK after the hardened surface had scrubbed off which didn't take too long given that we set the suspension up with spirit levels and steel rulers, and that it had 270 BHP.

Kevin

33223

General Discussion Area / Re: ANOTHER Road Traffic accident

« on: 18 January 2008, 15:08:42 »

If the LPG install had an LPGA certificate, then I would be calling the insurance.

I'm concerned I may open a can of worms getting insurance assessors looking at the car, given that the car has not been for certification yet!!

Hmm.

My feeling is, if you get two local body shops to give you a quote, send them to the insurer and tell them you want them to do the work they probably aren't going to ask any further questions if it is just a case of fitting a new bumper.

There's always the possibility that they will dig, though.

They're aware it has LPG? Repairer may alert the insurer to its' presence but nothing more, IMHO. In which case it's a real shame you lost the certificate when your house in Gloucestershire got flooded  



Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: ANOTHER Road Traffic accident

« on: 18 January 2008, 10:46:19 »

I REALLY don't want an accident against my record, even if it is a non fault one.

No fault accidents are not a problem with insurance - fault ones are!

My insurance went up by 100 quid when I notified them of a no-fault accident. Would have told them where to shove it if they weren't still the cheapest quote.

However, in this case there is no doubt about fault so it's worth going through the insurance. Your car will be sorted straight away, you won't have the hassle of trying to extract at least 400 quid from someone who may have second thoughts about it, you won't have to fiddle about fixing it yourself and there is no risk of your insurers discovering the incident and getting arsey.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: ANOTHER Road Traffic accident

« on: 17 January 2008, 21:44:50 »

On to the practical aspects:

Is your car driveable?

If possible, take posession of it so you're holding the cards with respect to what they do with it - in case it's something they'd write off but you could repair. Depends on the damage, of course.

If it's written off, remember that your insurance probably won't cover the LPG kit, so inform the 3rd party insurers that you either remove it from your car or you claim from them for it as an uninsured loss. If the worst comes to the worst we can drop it into another car in a weekend.

Kevin