Great day out at Castle Coombe then ... oops

2dogs said:
Do you think he will sell me his wheels.
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Skip back to page 1 of this post and I already got my bid in for the wheels and merntioned the useful other components likley to be on Ebay.

Joking aside Mikedav - I edged to a lower repair figure since given the car hit a tyre wall/conveyor belting I'd guess it would be mainly cosmetic panels and skins rather than structural. It this happened on a road against a tree or a wall then it would be a scraper for sure.
 
mikedav said:
...That picture has just entirely ruined any ideas I had of driving a track day without cover...
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Yep I wouldn't do it either, even if your own driving is OK, what about some tool ploughing into you :thumbsdown:

Shame, but who has £25-35k lying around to buy a replacement if the insurance doesn't pay out :cry:
 
good call re the number plate, from my experiences chatting with the bloke down the pub, you would not believe the number of accidents that happen the day after a track day!!!
 
Ok, without being to controversial here, are you suggesting we hide the number plate to allow the guy to make a claim on his insurance for this accident if he didn't have track day insurance?

Views on publishing number plates on forums aside, surely this is not good. People know the risks on track days and should either accept the risk or take insurance. Fake claims just hike up insurance costs for the rest of us.

Discuss :D
 
:D Its a tricky one, I don't know him, he might help children with cancer, feed the starving in Africa and discovered the cure for HIV.. as such I wouldn't begrudge him a few grand.. on the other hand its in googles cache now and he shouldn't have been so silly :)
 
sp3ctre said:
Fake claims just hike up insurance costs for the rest of us.

Discuss :D
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100% correct IMHO, and I can't believe that insurance companies are that naive that they don't realise this anyway. 10 years ago my car got nicked and I had to endure hours of interrogation and 5 months before I got paid out (there were slightly unusual circumstances), so I can't believe it's as easy as towing your car onto the road and claiming it happened there.
 
I suspect you may be correct and pulling the wool over the eyes of insurance companies is difficult these days, but never underestimate the power of marketing... I'm sure you've seen the "no TV licence? we know where everyone who hasn't paid lives" what a load of crap intended to scare you into buying a licence.

It may not be as difficult as we think it should be :) and I honestly don't say that from experience.
 
You'll have to help me on this one...

What is a TV license?
Is that like us americans that steal cable via connecting our cable modem to the TV? Or like when you cruise around the neighborhood waiting for you laptop to pick up an open wifi and then surf the net?


er not that I do that sorta thing.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom

Too long to explain properly, but it's just another tax (it is officially a tax). We still have pay TV in addition to this "licence".
 
yeah and you have to have a TV licence even if you have no aerial and have no way to pick up a signal... its a right giggle... its supposed to go towards the BBC but they only get a small bit of it.
 
neilisdead said:
yeah and you have to have a TV licence even if you have no aerial and have no way to pick up a signal... its a right giggle... its supposed to go towards the BBC but they only get a small bit of it.
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I had the best solution a few years back... a first floor apartment and a doorbell that didn't work... got plenty of letter but just put them in the bin... That was when I was young and wild though, I bend over and take the taxes like the rest the UK citizens now :rofl:
 
Well re: the car number plates.... i too disagree if he/she were to make false ins. claims but its just a courtesy thing that I dont publish other peoples number plates, it was in my porsche days anyhow, stops cloning plates etc, unless the owners were okay with it.
 
poor fella.. bad as it sounds tho.. id rather break my leg than end up with my M like that.. at least one repairs for free..

i did Bedford Aerodrome without insurance.. very different track though. all you need is a bit of red mist and its easy to hit something.. fast..
 
neilisdead said:
yeah and you have to have a TV licence even if you have no aerial and have no way to pick up a signal... its a right giggle... its supposed to go towards the BBC but they only get a small bit of it.
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Also, did you know if you buy a new TV from somewhere like Curry's, the TV Licence lot get told about it! I recently bought a new TV and I have just moved house. I had a licence but they hadn't changed over addresses on their records! I got a letter telling me they had noticed I had just bought a new TV and they didn't have a TV license registered with me at that house!! Talk about Big Brother watching!! :o
 
If you're watching 'Big Brother' then you'll definately need a licence!!! :D ... or did I get that wrong?
 
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