November 2009

1400ted

Not seen this posted before...apologies if it has been.
Pretty scary...one of the women later sent down for murder.
There's a much longer version on' Stressed Out Cop.com'

tinyurl.com/ycskuyw

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Ben 10

"flooring the policewoman"

Having seen the whole incident on a special Traffic Cops edition and viewing the footage above, the policewoman was not floored by the woman in red. The police woman slips on the foil blanket that was put over the woman in red after she was knocked down and temporarily unconsious. She then came round and jumped up as if she was on some kind of substance. But in my view she did not hit the police woman to the ground. Though both the actions of these two women was shocking and deserving of punishment.

Fullchat

Took delivery of new Focus Estate on Tuesday. V5 on doormat this morning (Friday)! Cant grumble with that.

Think I may wait somewhat longer for refund on VEL from old car.

Another thing I also discovered was that some dealers can issue VELs for new cars rather than having to go off to the nearest LVLO. Now I know why I have seen some VELs with 'Dealer' stamped on them. Learn something every day.
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old crocks

it came in the post 9:00am on the Tuesday. Was very very impressed.


So would I be. Used to have post like that but now lucky to see it before 3pm!
fredthefifth

Hi All,

Some of you will be familiar with this so I will be brief in reviewing the reason for this post.

Some months ago a car drove into the left hand side of my daughters car on a roundabout and despite the driver being contrite and apologetic at the scene subsequently took a different line and denied any liability.

My daughter shopped around and lacking the admission from the other party that her insurance company required, decided to get her car fixed at her own cost rather make a claim and lose her NCD etc. As she had advised her insurance company of the accident, today she phoned them up to advise that she would not be pursuing a claim. During the conversation with the insurance company she was told that the other party had never responded to their correspondence.

So the situation, familiar to many back roomers I'm sure, is that the other party causes an accident but then refuses to admit liability and does not respond to correspondence. Who wins? The other party and the insurance company, the latter seeming to allow this to happen, presumably because it would be too costly to pursue and it also allows them to avoid paying out.

So my conclusion is that insurance is merely a legal requirement and a safely blanket should we really have the biggy for which the increased premiums that follow a claim are worth while.

Any expectation that they will stand by the innocent and pursue the guilty is badly mistaken. Cynical even naive of me maybe to expect any different, but my views and any loyalty towards insurance companies have been severely dented!!

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Rattle

They are not at all bad. My dad in 2002 went through a red light (he didn't see it, and after an investigation police decided the shanty town condition road was at fault, so no charges for my dad) but it was a major junction and wrote to cars off causing injuries to another driver (who police said was excederated (spelling?) we suspect he got into some trouble as police suspected him to speeding.

We got out the Punto without a single injury but the car was a complete write off, every single panal dented, suspension fallen in etc. Amazingly the insurance co write it off as a Cat C. They gave us £1500 or the car after a lot of arguing and didn't loose his no claims because of his protection scheme.

He admitted liability to.

Since this we have always stuck with the same company because they have delivered a level of trust. If insurance companies start refusing to pay out on petty things then they will loose business and will gain a poor reputation.

My insurance policy is not the cheapest, I could have saved £150 a year, but I trust direct line and though the premium was worth paying over the other none name insurance company based in Jersey for tax reasons!

Lygonos

This is an epic level of technical know-how...

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J500ANT

I worked in a garage that did this to one of the original Sapphire Cosworths, they bought it cheap as a repo job, no locking bolt key, the local tyre place had no idea how to assist, so we hacked the wheel off and then Ford managed to match the key. I've still got a bit of that wheel around here somewhere.

trottyveck

can anyone tell me if you can fit a renault laguna2 1.9dci 2005 engine (F9Q.674) into a renault grand scenic2 1.9dci 2005 (F9Q.812) without modifications. Does clutch / dual mass flywheel have to be replaced or anything else. Or should you attempt not to do this?
, for legal or safety reasons

Many thanks

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mattr1983

Hey can anyone help
i brought a ford focus 1.8 zetec today sounded and looked great
i have driven it for appox 30 miles and the is now a tapping sound coming from the timing belt area.
according to the garage i brought it off it had the cam belt changed approx 2000 -5000 miles ago ( i need to dig out the paperwork to confirm)i did see someone with the same problem on here but had no answers

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mattr1983

thanks i'm going there tomorrow to see what they say

{Proper words edited in to replace txt talk}

spanface

Any advice please my car started fine until the other day, i turned on the ignition glow plug light went out tried to start it nothing at all there so i switched the ignition off then tried again but now i have no oil light, battery light, and no glow plug light, theres nothing there at all but my head lights and hazards lights work ok (very bright so not the battery) we have had alot of rain recently so wondering if water got in some were any help would be apreciated thanks Read more

spanface

The ignition switch was second hand, and there was nothing else working everything just the same! i will check the fuses in the engine bay box when i get some day light its getting worse my demisters have stopped working and my interier clock is going hay wire. but thought this could be with me wireing it all the time to start it anyway thanks for your suggestions guys!!!

henry k

"The 33-year-old world number one pulled out of his driveway, struck a fire hydrant, then drove into a tree at his neighbour's property, said the Florida Highway Patrol.

Woods was treated in hospital for facial lacerations and later discharged, said Gary Bruhn, Mayor of Windermere, Florida.
"Airbags typically do not deploy if a vehicle is travelling at less than 33mph,

A spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said the golfing superstar was driving a 2009 Cadillac sport utility vehicle and the crash was not alcohol-related."

Latest reports from his agent " TW is fine"

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henry k

Veery interesting!

So it was not two dings but four.

A sod got involved too. $200 for it and the tree.

How does that paperwork compare with the UK paperwork?

ifithelps

Any pics, reflections, rants or stories about roadside art?

I'll kick the thread off with a roadside statue which, despite a shaky start, has come to be well-liked by many people in my part of the world.

tinyurl.com/2cjucq



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mike hannon

Sorry for the wind-up Lud, couldn't resist it. They are very different animals - the carnivals that is, not the camels.
The Bridgwater pong came from the huge manufacturing plant of British Cellophane, on the eastern side of the town, close to the M5. Both the plant and the pong are now history.
The firm was set up in the early 1930s with government backing, to provide jobs for a suitable area where an existing industry was in decline. Bridgwater presented the best case for the plant, to replace, in part, its fast-fading brick and tile industry.
The pong was a fact of life for decades and resisted all attempts to eradicate it. The 'plume' normally spread eastwards on the prevailing wind but if the breeze was from the east the whole town smelled it. It didn't stop me considering once buying a house close to the factory and I worked in the town for some years without any apparent ill-effects. The MD of what by then had become British Celanese, or something like that, once told me the smelly element of the cellophane-making process, involving boiling down eucalyptus trees, is so potent that something like one part in ten million parts of air is enough to be offensive.
He was - rightly - highly defensive of cellophane, it is bio-degradable while modern plastic substitutes often aren't, and very suitable for food packaging because it doesn't try to regain its original shape when used for things like sweet wrappings - Werther's Original was a big customer - not to mention for making the original 'Sellotape'. Oh, and (motoring link) he had a very nice early E-type!
There you are, all you need to know. I should be writing for wackypedia.

Altea Ego

According to Brittania Rescue

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8382506.stm

Gravelly Hill (Spaghetti Junction), Birmingham
M8 junctions through central Glasgow
Marble Arch, London
Magic Roundabout, Swindon, Wiltshire
Hanger Lane Gyratory, west London
M5/M6 intersection, Birmingham
Piccadilly Circus, London
Five Ways junction, Birmingham
Magic Roundabout, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Kingston Bridge, Glasgow
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Altea Ego

Marble arch is easy. Just aim for a black cab - he will avoid you.