New Lude - Mega Hassle - MOT

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:36 am

Merlin wrote: I'll come and see you tomorrow night.

thanks man - will speak to you then

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 11:15 am

Sounds like a right farce. Sorry to hear of the aggro and trust my jokey comment earlier didn't cause offense, was just trying to lighten the mood

I can't imagine the insurance company will be interested, I expect in their T&C's there will be something about how long they have to update MID etc. and it won't be instant and that's quite reasonable.

I agree that the seven day producer would have been how things like this were dealt with in the past, IME (had several of them when I was young) but I guess these days they want it all done one the spot to save the time and bother of admin and probably people are less likely to challenge (speeding up the entire process, saving the police time doing things properly). Computers don't 'act reasonably' or 'use discretion', which is what the copper should have done.

Sounds in general like the guy was just bored/an arsehole on the day tbh. It's certainly pretty full on to also charge you for someone else driving your car without (in their view apparently) proper insurance. I always thought it was quite clear that the responsibility is on the driver of the vehicle to have proper insurance - hire companies don't check each person's insurance when they hire them a car for example, only their driving license, so by that means, each hire company should be prosecuted for allowing their cars to potentially be knowingly driven uninsured?!
(Owners liability is for having the car insured/taxed/mot'd etc. if left parked on a public road.)

The only way to change all that though, is to complain, otherwise nothing will happen. They won't be interested in loss of wages and travel costs etc. (doubtless they cant be held liable for reasonable time spent in the course of conducting legitimate enquiries, because they can't manage your time - otherwise the police investigation system would crumble overnight) but I can imagine cost of their pound etc should be reimbursable, if you had done nothing wrong (that's a cost they can manage, because they chose to out it there in the first place and could have chosen not to).

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 11:24 am

See. Nothing good comes from buying a 4th Gen.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 11:29 am

But also

have to give you some kudos for that

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:27 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:See. Nothing good comes from buying a 4th Gen.

And i definately dont take any offence to anyone lighting the mood a little with some banter

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:31 pm

cleaned it up a little today with help from @newkid started to body lemonade down so thats it for today.
will do the interior tomorrow and then its getting its MOT
Interior has the rare green/turquoise seats and they are the electric ones fully working so thats good news - back squabs are very faded but ive got some black leather ones to replace them with

will post up interior pics once it has been cleaned up...car was totally filthy when i went to view it so i haggled hard

and it was listed as a 2 litre

and look non rusty wheel arches on a 4th Gen

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:42 pm

vanzep wrote:started to body lemonade down so thats it for today.

Of course it did, you were trying to work on your car

The car looks better that it did in the ad pics!

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:49 pm

Yep exactly - i just opened the boot to mop up the water in the wheel well and the heavens opened up

@newkid says its the blue interior it has and not green as i mentioned earlier

Post by **4thgenphil** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:39 pm

What's the plans then?

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:53 pm

Bought it for myself Phil but i havent had a chance to drive it yet so will have to wait and see. Newkid says it drives spot on and he did 330 miles in it. Responsive on the throttle, good clutch and good handling were his exact words.