A friend has been rear-ended recently and has had an engineer out from her insurance company, who has basically told her the car will be written off.
He also asked how much she paid for it, and was told £700. She has been sent an engineers report letter, which states that he's advising the insurer that she should be paid £700.
Is it fair enough that they reimburse her the cost of the car to her, or should they be paying whatever it would cost to properly replace it? (Their is only one similar car within 40 miles on Autotrader, and it's £895) Read more

I have a tow bar fitted to my golf mk 3 and i want it gone. It has two plugs on it. I think it is bolted on to the chassis not welded.The only thing i am unsure about is the electrical side of removing it.
Can i just cut the wire? or will this play havoc with cars electrics? Can i put them in some sort of cable connector and tape them off after? Or can i trace them back to there original point and disconnect them there(not that i know where it is)

or is it a cheap job at the garage? Read more

Two incidents today..

1. Near Knutsford (home of northern version of Footballers Wives) and attempting to exit a field onto a minor road with very restricted view. I see a large car coming from my right. Footballer's Wifey thing in the drivers seat. She stops, but only to let people coming past in the opposite direction, as I am slightly out in the road to get any sort of view. As the other cars go past, she wellies it. She could have let me go?

2. M60 North Manchester going down and up Death Valley from west to east in a four lane section. LHD HGV in Lane 2 is unable to get into Lane 1 because middle aged woman in Megane Estate is sitting in Lane 1 at 56mph and the HGV driver cannot overtake to get past her nor slow down to get behind her as there is no gap behind her. (I'm behind him). She pulls off at J17 and he immediately pulls into Lane 1, showing that he was a caring sort. Woman must have been blind. I would not want to sit in the motorway about two feet from an HGV in the next lane.


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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive? Read more

Last week I left my home in Kent and had a week's holiday over in North Devon. I used the A303 as the main route, rather than the M4. Remember it was a Bank Holiday on Monday and it was also school half term.

What struck me noticably was there were plenty of caravans on the roads, but none were being driven slowly and holding up traffic. On main A roads they were being driven quickly, about 50 mph on two way roads and close to 60 mph on dual carriageway sections.

We all moan at being held up by caravans, but last week I was pleasantly surprised - so I have to ask are there 2 types of caravan drivers? Those with young children who have places to go, rather than the older ones with time on their hands who are oblivious to other road users needs.

What do you think?


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Roger
I read frequently, but only post when I have something useful to say.
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Question for you chaps.

I'm the paranoid type, and I never trust garages to change things when they say they have. I can't find the oil filter on my CDTi Accord, which just had it's first service at a main dealer. So, first question, could anyone tell me which panel it's under?? (I never thought I would struggle to find an oil filter!)

Second question - how clean should I expect the oil to be after 10 miles driving? It's not filthy, but it's definitely already started to blacken a bit. Do I assume that this is residual oil in the engine after the drain, or is the cynic in me right that the filter change might have been skipped?

I'll stop being paranoid now.

Cheers,

Gord. Read more