Hello,
Drving along in nose to tail traffic earlier today in my home city with the Mrs and daughter - a car ran into the rear bumper on our newish AudiS2. The fool had parked at a rightangle to the road in front of some close gates and as we passed, it started revesing slowly, we had to stop as it was stop start traffic - the guy crashed into our car and make it wobble and loud bang - the damage appeared hefty as its our car and cost us a lot, well a lot to us any way.

Cur a long story short, it was buy a bus stop as well - i got out, the guy apologised and said not much lets leave it at that - i sais let me have a proper look and need to exhange details but i was dubious about the guy as the car had the drivers corner already smashed and was a P reg Fiat Bravo - then his mate got out and started mouthing off saying 'the driver did not even hit your car mate' (he claimed to be a passer by) and proceeded to spit on its filth hand and take of its mates paint - I told him to leave my car alone and what's it got to do with him - then got involved with driver and our daughter told the guy not to use his spit to clean our car. Both then claimed there was no accident - luckily a police car came along in the other direction - the cop in the bmw asked with windo down any injuries, the g
Fiat driver said no, within a split second and cop said we are going. Luckily I used my brain for once ans shouted, I don't belive the guys details, but had not even took them - the police turned around the car, all traffic in the narrow high street held up.

We then all moved alonf 50 feet to a wider part of the road - a lady at the bus stop ranting i want to catch my bus and i blutered 'not until i've sorted out the damage to my 40k car, that shut her up :)

The police started seriously talking to the driver and the so-called passer by who was giving me dirty looks and rady to kill me i felt.

The cop came up and told me the guy was uninsured and would be reported but allowed to continue and we had to exchange details. I refused, as i offered my car reg, name and land line number, the copper offered to taake me to the nick - so i gave in as i remembered that i needed my policy number to avosid the full details - but before they gave the details to the criminal - i told the other cop to at least look at the car as the car was smashed already and the guy looked as though he was on drugs and his mate or passer by as he claimed.

The cops then noted that he hand no licence, no tax/mot and car was not registered.

The so-called passer by muttered and pointed at my my daughter a called her "something not very nice" when she was in the car - as i was talking to the oter cop with this new info our daughter go out and behaved very badly and asked the passenger/passer by, 'who you calling a ???? You pink fluffy headrest - the cop stepped in and moved the passenger away and then said something tome and I told them to arrest him - he laughed and then was told by the cops to go away or be arrested there and then - he left to my little surprise as he looked like a 6 foot junkie that was ready to kill.

The driver and his car was taken away by the police driver and they left me with details of the court it will be going to next week - I'm going to check - but making no claim as all their apint has been romoved from my black car, and just a 9 inch scuff mark and light scratch - not worth the effort - good job the cops were passing by.

Finally, my question - as this idiot has already no licence - driving with no insurance, no tax, no mot and it claimed the car belonged to a friend - what fine will he get?

Hw said to me that he'd said sorry as he left shaking his head and i said to him that if they has not lied and let me get my head round the situation he may have got away with it.

Intially i felt sorry for him - but on reflection, it is people like that that nearly cost my wifes life as we had a hit and rn about 15 years ago, the audi that was nearly new then sustained 2500 danamge - my wife had just got in the car.

So all n all, did me and my family do well at the very least to get one unroad owrth car of the road and a criminal driver in the dock - i just feel sad that i should have lied about the the pasenger and got him searched as we are all certain he was carrying a weapon

:(

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Afternoon all,

The Barchetta has blotted its copybook by failing its ´TüV´ here in Germany, the biennial equivalent of the MoT test. Amongst other things - all pretty repairable, thank goodness - the tester reported an uneven braking performance from the rear brakes (newish discs and pads all round BTW).

It´s been booked in to get this sorted prior to the retest, but I was wondering if anyone could give me a pointer as to what could have caused the problem just in case the garage try to pull a fast one, or something.

Thanks in advance,
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Got back off hols late last night. Picked up car from car park, left wife and v tired kids with bags at arivals. Pulled into a layby outside where they were waiting, jobsworth arrives and says 'you've just been fined £100, it will arrive within 7 days we'll get your details off DVLA'. Lay-by had double yellows and was partially coned off.

A) watch out for this - I would n't want anyone else to have the feelings of anger I expereicned last night
b) Legal?
c) Can DVLA divulge this info to enforce what I assume would be a civil action?

No obvious signs or I wouldn't have done it. Presumably private land. Read more

Can you settle a pub argument. iirc In the good old days, driving without an MOT was a fairly irrelevant offence. Fine only.

Now it seems to invalidate your insurance and they might do you for that instead?

True, or false? Read more

I was thinking of putting my car through the MOT early, just to get it checked over. (I could do with new shocks but it's pointless replacing them if I'm getting rid of it).

Anyway, if my car fails the test will it invalidate the remainder of my current MOT, which is about 6 months? Read more