uh@xx!gughuhgugh .. 3 points!

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Paza3

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Sooo annoyed :headbang:

After having a clean licence for 10 years , i pick up 3 points and a 100 quid fine!... In the Mini as well!

The officer had great pleasure telling me that they are exactly 150 yards from the brow of the hill (there at the bottom behind a wall) so the drivers have no time to respond :( , they also give you a riot act description about how the gun is calibrate etc etc

Gutted , pretty much have to take it on the chin .... does it affect your insurance much having 3 points?

Thinking about getting these laser things ... do they actually work in the UK :? I know Stu was thinking of getting one
 
Oh no your premiums will double next year :thumbsdown:

:evil: :rofl:

Only kidding 3 points will make little or no difference

They will be valid for 3 years
You can't apply to have them removed for 4 years
You have to declare them for 5 years.
 
In almost 8 years of having it, it has "saved" me once from a reading. I guess once is enough but from a commercial point I guess that the cost of the unit was higher than a single catch.
 
3 points? pretty much no insurance company cares about three points any more.

laser detectors are fine to use and own and a reputable one will work reasonable well.. still requires line of sight, so this guy would have still nailed you.

Laser jammers however are technically illegal.

It is legal to buy one. It is legal to fit one. It is legal to run one.
However, if you block a speed camera's / gun's laser with one and you would have otherwise been caught for speeding, you are breaking the law (the laws are "Perverting the Course of Justice" or "Obstructing a Police Officer").

The first one is a trip to crown court and you could be dished out a 7 year sentence.
The other is a magistrates court with either fine or a small amount of jail time.

Basically.. don't bother with a jammer unless you're willing to accept going to the birdhouse for seven years, just to avoid 3 points and a £100 fine..... :thumbsup:
 
Do the insurance companies not charge an "admin fee" for adding the 3 points to your policy?
 
PCoJ has been done twice or so I think by people who were rather misbehaving and taking the p.

Adaptive cruise on 904 Nm has the same effect ...
 
pogo alert plus tells you locations of speed cameras and also has a laser detector.

Little point in having just a detector, by the time you're hit, you don't have enough time to slow down anyway.
 
:( , so basically be more careful then I was wondering if they were worth the effort seems not.

Uggghhh 100 quid I thought was a bit punchy! I was thinking why can't you put me one one of those crappy driver awareness courses instead!
 
Well as far as i can tell they do impact your premium! i have 3 point myself from 2012 and 2 quote exactly the same details with point added and without point are £831.04 and £738.82 without
 
I've moved from Admiral as they wanted 20% extra for my 3 points :thumbsdown:

Wouldn't have got any had the tosser in the 6-series decided to accelerate when I pulled out to overtake :headbang:

Still, thought 3 points & £60 fine (changed to £100 about a week later) was a lenient for almost 90 in a 60 :oops:

Glad I moved, as I've got a policy which is only £20 more than last year and includes the mods I've got planned for early next year (Market Study policy through Keith Michaels). Had about 6 who were within £50, but either their service levels were rated as poor, their excesses higher, or they had clauses I didn't like the sound of.
 
Online bumphh :cry:

"New research from the AA shows that a motorist's first speeding offence can cost four times the typical £60 fine because his or her car insurance premium will rise over three years.
Anyone caught using a hand-held device to phone, text or email while driving can expect to be treated severely by their insurer and may even find their cover withdrawn, the AA said.
In the past many insurers ignored a first speeding offence few now do so. The AA said that is because insurance companies are becoming smarter at identifying risk and charge premiums accordingly.
Such premium increases remain but will reduce over three years, meaning that with the cost of the fine and premium increase taken into account, offenders could fork out more than £200 for just one speeding offence.
Simon Douglas, director of AA Insurance, said: "Those who flout the law are more likely to make a claim and their premium reflects that risk. Why should the majority of motorists who stay within the law, subsidise those who don't? "
 
Paza3 said:
Sooo annoyed :headbang:

Thinking about getting these laser things ... do they actually work in the UK :? I know Stu was thinking of getting one
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I've had a radar detector for years, Escort Passport 8500, really quite good, saved me lots of times but never on a laser. When the laser alert goes off it's basically telling you "You're Busted". If you're lucky you may pickup an errant laser detection from some poor sod in front of you.....or if you have the reaction time of an F1 driver ...
 
A laser detector is useless and only serves to tell you that you've been pinged.

A device that transmits on 904nm will interfere with another device operating on the same frequency. As an example this might be an active cruise control, parking sensor, gate opener or remote external light activation device that interferes with a device that might be used to measure your speed. This has come about due to a wide range of devices such as the above using an unregulated frequency. Most responsible devices are pre programmed to detect that they are interfering with another device, sound an audible alert and then shut down for a period of time.

If you're dumb enough to fit a device that is marketed primarily as a jammer, you'll most likely get prosecuted. If your device is marketed as a parking sensor or similar and can be proved to work as one then it would be a difficult to prove its primary use was for something else.

Paza, where did you get dinged?
 
That's rubbish, but its a good deterent. It's just too much hassle to caught speeding these days :thumbsdown:
 
I was with Livingstones Insurance and picked up 3 points in August at a sneaky speed trap on a dual carriageway nowhere near any junctions/crossings lights/hazards of any kind, anyway when I got my renewal in November I told them about the points and they said it made no difference. Went over to Forum Insurer Chris Knott anyway as they knocked 10% off my best quote. :thumbsup:
 
Hi Stu

This sounds interesting.... Got done in Malmesbury of all place as you come down the hill from the top enterance :( , got done in the 30 zone
 
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