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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

33227

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

33228

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

33229

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

33230

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

33231

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

33232

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

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General Discussion Area / Re: ANOTHER Road Traffic accident

« on: 17 January 2008, 21:39:02 »

Really sorry to hear that, James

At least you are OK, as everyone has said.

As everyone has also said, get to the docs. Emma had a whiplash accident 5 years ago and still gets pain occasionally. Whilst I don't condone ambulance chasing, they wouldn't offer her anywhere near what her car was worth (to her) so she decided to claim for her injuries where normally she wouldn't and it made up for it.

  again.

Kevin

33236

General Discussion Area / Re: Party

« on: 18 January 2008, 18:54:23 »

Guess I'd better develop a taste for Whisky so I can help with tidying the drinks cabinet  

Kevin

33237

General Discussion Area / Re: Sounds like Heathrow to me.

« on: 18 January 2008, 18:45:15 »

I'd say that was a pretty major air crash! OK, nobody was killed, but they came within a gnat's whisker of turning into a fireball or crashing into a busy dual carriageway. Had the engines been producing power at the time of impact there may well have been a nasty fire.

I can understand it's unavoidable that they be detained for a little while, but to be denied food, drink and counselling and then expected to find their way home without money is a disgrace.

Kevin

33238

General Discussion Area / Re: Sounds like Heathrow to me.

« on: 18 January 2008, 16:29:47 »

It's a bit much having to pay for your own Taxi home when they've come damn close to killing you

Kevin

33239

General Discussion Area / Re: Project Tractor

« on: 18 January 2008, 15:36:19 »

Wahay! Another year's trouble-free ploughing ahead of you

Could the disks be pitted because the engine's been broken for such a percentage of time that they rusted?

BTW, one of my neighbours has got a mate who keeps visiting him in a tractor you'd be jealous of. rather great John Deere job with seat about 12 feet off the ground. Really suitable for negotiating a modern housing estate, Not!

Think he tried to rag it pulling out onto the main road last night. Made an almighty roar but it didn't seem to pull away any quicker, and the 8 gear changes to reach 20 MPH cramped his style a bit

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Told you them Avon ZZ3s were rubbish

« on: 17 January 2008, 17:19:50 »

Ahh, THAT boot....