January 2010
Is it unreasonable to ask for proof a vehicle has been repaired before handing over the cash?
The reason I ask is I damaged a hire vehicle, returned it and held my hand up straight away.
I am not trying to wriggle or squirm out of paying for damage which I have done.
Photographs were taken there and then in my presence while returning the vehicle however, two requests for proof of repair have been ignored. If they can take photos on return why can a quick video not be shot showing reg plate, vin number then a walk around showing the repair ? Not on a mobile phone I hasten to add.
How do I know the hire company have actually repaired the vehicle or more to the point
not dumped it at auction still with the damage?
Are all hire vehicles at the end of life sold in pristine condition?
This then makes me wonder how you would know if a car had been in an accident requiring a total body reshell if the hire company themselves underwrite the insurance policy?
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I've just carried out an HPi check on a car I was intending to buy at a big auction tomorrow. It's a finance repo and it's showing as owing finance still which I guess is understandable until the finance co receive the funds.
More worryingly though, it is also coming up as being recorded on the 'Security Register' - I hadn't even heard of this before but apparently car rental firms put their own cars on there to stop them being offered for sale illegally.
The car I am interested in is nearly 10 years old though so I have no idea why it would be on the HPi Security Register - do you think it could be an admin error?
I'd greatly appreciate any advice/whether anyone else has had a car on this register.
Do some finance companies put their cars on the Security Register and take them off once the finance is paid? I would have thought this unnecessary as the car will always show up as owing finance so there's no need to put it on the Security Register too.
I've got so fed up with buying cars at auction that show up on finance/mileage discrepancies that I HPi them before buying them now! Once you buy at the auction, there's never any comeback as they will just say it's an admin error on Hpi's part and it's up to me to sort it.
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Many thanks for the reply. I contacted HPi who said that the registering party should contact me within an hour but I didn't hear from them. I've decided against bidding for the car tomorrow, I've spent far too long in the past trying to get HPi to remove mileage discrepancies that were reported in error so I can do without the stress of buying something on the Security Watch register.
I even once tried to sell a car after owning it a year only to lose the sale as it was showing finance on HPi that was actually paid off in full 18mths before! Sometimes I wonder just how many cars are really offered for sale with finance owing, I'd bet that the vast majority have been paid off but are showing as owing finance incorrectly. 1 in 3 cars may well come up with a problem on the HPi register but I bet 9 out of 10 are only on it as HPi hasn't updated the register.
Hello kind people.
I recently purchased the above model but decided the headlights were next to no use as I live in the countryside.
As a result I have upgraded the lamps in my headlights to some higher wattage ones (yes they are illegal, but only if I get caught) My problem is that intermittently the nearside headlight will come on (the car has an auto light setting) then it immediatly fades out. If I play around a little turning lights on and off ETC the lights come on and funtion as normal. I have checked the lamp is secure in the fitting and due to the difficulty in accessing the lamps on this car Im averse to having to keep changing the lamps back (especially as the standard legal lamps are so poor) so would ask if anyone here can offer a solution? It may be a relay or similar and if it is can I (totally inept mechanically and electrically) change this?
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hindsight is a wonderful thing but why did you not specify the zenon's as standard , It will be the canbus system mucking the lights about or vice versa, we recently had a car in that had a light upgrade (HID's) vauxhall asked us to not touch the vehicle untill the original lights had been reinstated and thats what the owner had to do even though it was not the cause of the problem,s Regards TB
I had a communications pack supplied with my new Focus a couple of months ago. The car is great, but the satnav is not as good as a previously-owned Garmin Nuvi,
Today I tried entering a valid postcode, but was not offered a choice of letters/numbers beyond the third position by the satnav- it had the next number in the sequence greyed-out. I re-checked the postcode to find that I had not made a mistake in my entires, and the address I needed was in existence well before the Focus was even a twinkle in its designer's eye.
Has anyone experienced this type of problem, and have they overcome it?
How do I update the satnav data (using an SD card), - and is up-to-date data expensive??
By the way, the user manual supplied does not cover the communications pack. Luckily, most of its functions are intuitive.
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....Granted they are neater in the car but they usually cost an arm and a leg to upgrade......
Reckon you're right about "upgrades". Looks like the same kind of situation when buying a printer. Cost (new) of printer + ink cartidge= £30, new ink cartidge = £26.>>
Hi everyone,
I recently took my car in for a MOT and I was told all my pads needed replacing. I had recently had them done so I questioned them concerning this and they went on and passed the test but told me "they may need replacing soon" I knew this was a lie but became very suspicious when my brakes started screaming the moment I left the garage. I suspected they may have changed one of the pads on the rear side for a worn one.
I am not a mechanic so waited until I could afford to have them replaced elsewhere and sure enough, the rear left brake pad was completely worn while the other pad was fine.
The advice I need is - what anybody recommends I should do to get compensation 'before' taking legal action which is a pain. I have the old brake shoes and verbal confirmation from the recent garage of the fraud. I intend to phone them first but need some advice.
locality of garage makes no difference to the OP's request for advice - PU Mod.
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That said - I can remember Auntie Ethel and uncle Bill, looking with dismay at the battery in their pre war Austin.
It was not the SAME - you see. Memory precludes whether it was a dopple-ganger of the original with dead flies in different positions - or bold as brass, with a different name on the side..
But they considered they had been rolled over and that some grubby little mechanic was jumping up and down in glee - in that little garage on the way to Bridlington.
He was lucky really that old Uncle Bill didn`t blow his fuse because he was a trained killer from the war and still twitching in his sleep and feeling for an imaginary Commando knife.
Auntie Ethel knew when to slip out of the bedroom at night - and of course none of us kids went within 50 yards of him if he nodded off in his chair.
Hi
seem to be living on this forum at the moment! my micra has keyless entry and last night i got locked out of it and had to get RAC out as didnt know about emergency key option to open it.
annyways i managed to get in it and thought all was fine except the central locking is still hit and miss-sometimes it locks with the key, sometimes it doesnt. seems to work best when stood some distance away but only behind the car. if at the side or close up pressinng the key doesnt activate the central locking.
sometimes the keyless entry buttons work on the car sometimes not. is it a problem with the keyfob battery or do you think there is a problem with the nats itself?
can i just replace the key fob battery myself? does the fact the little rubber covering on the drivers door for the keyless entry button has come off have anything to do with it?
this is 3rd problem ive had now with this car-starting to regret ever buying it!!
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so it seems.
hi
having read the article a couple of times, intially i felt that the lorry driver was treated too harshly,
however, road rage is one thing and then not coming clean is another hence the 2 years which equates to a few weeks behind bars.
i wonder if the guy will be allowed to driv these massive lorries again?
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I'm no fan of the CPS but I think they do try to go for
the most serious count that they can ie if there was a chance of trying
him for attempted murder they would have gone for it.
The CPS are measured on their successes, not for giving the more serious offences 'a run'.
Does anybody know the recommended cambelt change interval (distance/time) for the current 2.2 TD4 (PSA/Ford) unit in the Freelander 2?
The owners manual is strangely silent on the matter...
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You won't find it in the Owner's Manual but it should be shown in the Service Manual.
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>> I find the constant BBC trailers (aka adverts) for their own programmes a lot
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>>>>>>>..and me, apparently radio 2 is still on air but its lost me as a listener
im a born again galaxy radio listener now
my zimmer frame bent this week as i boogied
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I can remember years ago dealing with a hire drive company who had their own in house repair shop and part of their terms and conditions were all repairs were carried out by them. On one occasion it would have been cheaper to get the repair done at the main dealers as I had obtained 2 quotes prior to informing them of the damage but they had to do the work and my insurance was happy to pay their fees as it was part of their t&c's.