July 2016
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Hi all, before I go to our dealer to make myself look silly. My wife has changed her phone from samsung s5 to a samsung s7. She cannot pair the phone to the car, although both devices are showing bluetooth connection. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Read more
Today I got a parking fine in the post for Mcdonalds in Uxbridge from MET parking services.
Last week I was on my way to the vet and stopped there to use their toilets before continuing to the vet. I then went to the vet and was there for 1h10m before returning to Mcdonalds on the way back (1h20m later) for coffee.
They are claiming I was there from the first time I entered until the second time I left and have sent photos. What I want to know is, where are the photos of me leaving the first time and re entering later? Maybe I'm a cynic but, I feel they might just be trying it on. Luckily the vet has CCTV and computer records showing I was there but, If I was somewhere I couldn't prove I'd had been stuffed with paying a fine I don't deserve.
Being a bit miffed by this I feel like charging them an admin fee for wasting my time. Read more
From my own experience of two "tickets"
one of which was wickes in colchester last year and the other one in carmarthen the year before, when swmbo did not "register" the vehicle on arrival at the hotel she went to have a drink in with some colleagurs and did bot see the signs in a poorly lit dark rainswept car park,
In both cases the business concerned was able to intervene BEFORE anything was paid.
I suggest asking Mcdonalds to get the Parking people to cancel it.
The experiences of this motorist are so different from the media hype concerning electric cars that I am surprised that electric car manufacturers are not being prosecuted regularly for their outrageous cost savings and distance to be driven claims. Read more
Gosh, isn't everyone angry!
The experience of the OP is the reason I'm not buying an electric car - yet.
The rants from GP! have the hallmark of someone who is in the industry or maybe just trying to justify a bad choice? They certainly don't make me any more likely to invest.
I do have an electric bike, which does make me very aware of the existence, or not, of charging points.
Finally, I do remember very similar slanging matches between owners of film cameras and digital cameras in the early days of digital. Owners of early digital cameras would insist that their low quality images were wonderful whilst those with Hasselblads and Nikons would assert that digital would never cut the mustard.
It is certainly the case that in all our PCP contracts - 3 to date - it has always been implied by the selling dealer that in the event of the final balloon payment not being made, and the car thus handed back as a 'trade-in' for a new model, then the remaining equity in the car should exceed the balloon payment required to settle, and thus becomes the deposit against any new vehicle agreement.
The differential has never been huge, just a few hundred, or up to a £1000, but that is how it always worked for us.
We've always been told that no one ever pays the balloon payment at the end of the contract, as that would be a very expensive way of buying a car outright, but for those who are happy to lease a car with no view to eventual ownership, then PCP contracts have enabled us arguably to have use of a better quality vehicle than we could otherwise have afforded using more usual forms of finance or savings.
We have always felt the monthly terms to be fair, and the 'wear & tear' conditions at trade in to have been fairly used and without penalty, providing that the car has been kept in the condition that any private owner would consider appropriate.
Interesting to note that the wording 'Minimum Guaranteed Future Value' is hardly ever used nowadays, as I suspect the market is simply to volatile in second hand cars to make that term sustainable.
We have never felt mis-sold on a PCP contract, and none of our selling dealers that I recall have ever used the word 'profit' at any point - simply a convenient way to finance a depreciating asset over time where ownership is not an issue. Read more
i was not told my pcp was limited to 5000 miles a year although it was buried in the small print. i handed the car back in imaculate condition and under milage for a three year old car and now audi are trying to claim 750 pounds excess mileage i would never have agreed to this mileage as i travel from yorkshire to devon twice a year
Was always a stupid idea, doing away with the tax disc, and altering how vehicles are able to carry tax forward. The old system made buying a car much easier.... Read more
For everyone annoyed by untaxed (and probably uninsured) vehicles on the country's roads there is an app that will help them take action personally. 'Reg Check Free' (Playstore) is an app that compares the vehicle registration with the DVLA database. If you find the vehicle is not taxed then the app includes a very useful facility for you to report the offending vehicle directly to the DVLA website.
In 2017 DVLA appears to have taken some action on VED (car tax) evasion by contracting NSL as their enforcement arm. This has resulted in a blitz approach to some areas of the country where untaxed vehicles are clamped or taken away. NSL have made some mistakes such as in Northampton where they removed ten untaxed cars from private parking areas and then had to return them to the owners.
'Reg Check Free' could make a lot of difference by the public dobbing in those untaxed vehicles to DVLA so that NSL knows where to go a clamping.
I really wish this top 25 list was presented as a simple list with links for fast access. Scrolling through 25 pictures, without any clue as to what is in the list is incredibly slow and tedious! Read more
Five seconds on ebay or autotrader throws up loads of Monaros
You may have seen the pictures on the news of a woman sunbathing on the carriage way of the M3 after it was blocked due to an accident on Tuesday.
I was stuck in the same queue and was surprised how quickly people jumped out of their cars and started wandering around. One group of young women immediately started taking selfies both with the tailback in the background and then standing close to the central barrier to get the fast flowing traffic in the other carriageway as the backdrop. They then put some blankets on the road and even set up a small tent!
Other people, several with young children moved to the side of the road to be in the shade of the trees, which forced the emergency vehicles trying to use the hard shoulder to get to the scene of the accident to slow down. I saw one guy bouncing a football and two small boys throwing a frisbee.
Quite a few people walked up the motorway to get a look at the accident.
However, the worst example was the guy who actually ran across the opposite carriage way where vehicles were still traveling at 70+ mph. He then took two or three attempts to get up the steep bank from the hard shoulder, before disappearing into the trees.
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The British police have never had the resources to enforce all criminal law absolutely so each force have always had to prioritize and apply a level of discretion - ACPO introduces a level of consistency that in itself isn't absolute.
The police no longer prosecute, they investigate and hand their findings to CPS who determine whether to prosecute or not....
Hi All
first post, I currently have a 307 with the 1.6HDI unit and I'm considering changing it in November for a similar vehicle. As I cover around 20,000 miles per annum, I am looking at a diesel, preferably a hatchback without the dreaded Dual Mass Flywheel. So an automatic or a one with a new flywheel
I'm aware these engine have a poor reputation for injector seals and Turbo failures, I've recently done the seals on mine and still have plumes of white smoke in the morning on a cold start.
Do the 2ltr HDI units suffer the same problem? I was considering a Peugeot 3008, however all the ones ive seen have the 1.6 unit.
Should I be looking for a Focus/ Astra? if so what are the common problems.
Thanks
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The 2L engine was much more reliable than the 1.6 for some reason. I don't know if its because it was just a better engine or there are more 1.6 engines out there skewing the data.
There's a good active group of 3008 owners on peugeotforums.com they can give you honest advice about what the car has been like to own rather than tired old stereotypes of avoiding French cars and plumping for a Japanese one.
This link from May is from a prospective buyer in the same boat as you:
www.peugeotforums.com/forums/3008-45/looking-purch.../
A report from the BBC regarding a Supreme Court ruling states that incorrect information supplied to an insurer does not invalidate a claim if the incorrect information has no bearing on the cause of the loss. This will affect every type of insurance, including household and motoring.
Some quotations from the report:
'A collateral lie is one which is untrue, but does not affect the overall validity of the claim.
The judges voted by four to one to change one of the important principles behind current insurance law.
One of the judges, Lord Mance, said: "The critical point is that, in the case of a collateral lie….the insured is trying to obtain no more than the law regards as his entitlement, and the lie is irrelevant to the existence of that entitlement. Such a lie is immaterial to the claim."
The Association of British Insurers said that it was looking at the judgement carefully, to work out the implications of the ruling. But it is thought that the principle will apply to millions of household, travel and motor policies.
Kevin Pratt, consumer affairs expert at MoneySuperMarket, said the change would not amount to a blank cheque for fraudsters. "It will still be a fraud if you fabricate a claim, and it will still be a fraud if you exaggerate a claim," he said. "But insurers can no longer use so-called 'collateral lies' to reject a valid claim. The one worry is that, if insurers are paying more claims as a result of this ruling, then they will increase premiums."'
I'm wondering if failure to declare cosmetic modifications to a car (e.g. blinged-up wheels and exhaust) will not therefore invalidate most claims, as it is unlikely such modifications would directly or indirectly cause an accident.
I can certainly envisage legal arguments about whether other types of false information supplied to an insurer are, or are not, a "collateral lie". (For example, was the performance chip you fitted, and didn't declare, the cause of the accident you had?)
The full report: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36845617 Read more
Link to the Supreme Court's official summary is here:
www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2014-0252-pres...f
The claim was for damage to a ship's engine(s) due to flooding of the engine room. Lies were told concerning events preceding the inundation so as to make ship's operator appear to have tried to comply with good practice when in fact they had not.
The court held the lies irrelevant as the damage was insured in any event.
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