SWMBO tells me often that my driving around islands is not correct. It seems I am always in the wrong lane and / or indicating incorrectly.

However since my driving is of course perfect, I blame the lane markings around large islands.

Some of these take the form of an ?outward spiral? and should you follow them, deliver you correctly to your turn off.
There?s a lot that don?t though, one local island has three lanes around it. If you are taking the third exit off, you start on the inside, then pass the second exit, where the lane you should be in is suddenly on the outside of the island. What are you supposed to do, immediately cross over two lanes ?

As an example some may know, try following the markings around the Oldbury island, J2 M5.

Rant over, just wondered if other islands exit where the lane markings appear to have planned by a half-wit.
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Hi all, just pondering over a bit of an insurance claim happening to me at the mo and thought i would put it to the wise folk here for some advice.

About 6 months ago boy falls off bike, i stop to help, next day get call from police, want to discuss accident, appears boy claims i knocked him off.

No damage to car, police take photos, i give statement, advised to tell insurance company, tell them, boy puts a claim in.

Insurance offers boy 50/50, he claims bike wrecked and grazed his arm, bike was an old nacker, graze caused by him falling off bike.(which had carrier bag swinging off handlebar.

He denies that, then comes up with a witness to say the carrier bag was wound tightly round handlebar.

Insurance wants to pay out in full, im not happy with this, and think i should take to court, obviously insurance doesn't want this as costs involved.

I am resonable to ask insurance to pay me out to not take it to court as i am saving them money by no court costs? or should i let them pay him out and end of matter? What is the likely outcome if it goes to court? ( My Insurance company seems to be on his side )

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This is my brother-in-law's car so I hope I get this right. Twice his car has failed to start with the problem being the immobiliser (light staying on). On both occasions he left the car overnight and managed to start it the next day after about 20 minutes. Since then the engine malfunction light has been coming on and off for different lengths of time.

Yesterday he took it to a garage and got the following codes
u0001 high speed can communication bus u2510 invalid security data recieved from ecu.
Ford had the car for 2 days but could not find or fix the fault.
The car seems to be running okay once started.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Hi, i have just bought a 1996 405 executive TD estate and i am getting a booming noise and vibration coming from behind the dashboard, probably the engine bay. (Not had chance to investigate due to the weather).
It increases and decreases with engine speed.
There is no noticable drop in power the car starts fine and has plenty of power and isn't overheating.
It's definately engine related, i am thinking exhaust downpipe.
Also the rev counter isn't working, any ideas?
I am going to phone a mechanic tomorrow and get it looked at.
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Hullo everyone..
Thanks for any help/advise with this..

Just walked out to my car to realise that my car has a deep scratch running down the whole length of the drivers side, back license plate ripped off and a dent on the L back door , presumably caused by a kick to the back door..


I live in hospital accomodation and the cars are parked in the carpark and as such there is no CCTV in this area so no way of finding out who was the the offender..


However an obvious suspect is a person who stays in hospital accomodation with whom i have had a minor falling out in the last few weeks..


There were 6 other cars in the carpark and none of the others were damaged..

I am now in a quandary as to what to do??


Do I make a police complaint and mention this suspicion , even though there is no proof even though there appears to be a possible motive ie falling out (there are specific reasons! i declined to get involved in a relationship spat with his now expartner, too complicated however i can elaborate on this).

If so would it help to mention to the police to mention his name or would that not be the right thing to do!


Second problem is driving to the police station without a license plate on the back! Can the police then turn around and accuse me of using a car not fit to be driven on public roads, or would it be safe to drive legally without a license plate

Thirdly anything i can do to prevent a further possible attack on my car ?confronting the person in question or would that be a foolish move?!


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