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IMO the only proper way to do a US roadtrip is in a Corvette/Mustang/somethingsimilar. Everything else is just no fun on those long and empty country roads.

CCTV footage is still useful during police investigations. If the police found someone who looks like the person on the video they can try to bullshit him into confessing ("all your mates have already confessed you will get a life if you dont and 2 months if you do") or search his house to look for stolen goods etc.

My local welder did it for £20 in less than 30 minutes. This was 2 years ago, no issues so far.

By far the best suggestion. Try to bluff the bastard. Police will do nothing due to the lack of evidence, unless the culprit is stupid enough to admit something. And, OP, forget about revenge etc. If you were tough enough to pull it off successfully you would not be asking for an advice on the internet forum.

Your mate has committed plain fraud. He got convicted for trying to make others believe that he paid his car tax, which was actually not the case. I have checked the forgery offences. Forging a document is not really an offence in itself. There also has to be some kind of a fraudulent intent present. You have to have the intention to actually deceive someone with that document. Therefore it would perfectly safe for OP to display his 'fake' disc.

Never understood why people like those fugly things. I much prefer how clean unobscured windshield looks.

Had this done myself, now making 450bhp. Smoked a Gallardo on the traffic light the other day. Believe me, I am a random dude on the Internet, I couldn't possibly tell a lie.

Why are people so obsessed with mileage? Vast majority of modern cars, including 350z last for 200k+ miles without any major issues. Your car is 11 years old. Whether it has 25k, 50k, or 100k miles on makes no difference to reliability whatsoever. It all depends on how was the car driven and maintained. If anything, at that age you should be concerned about mileage being low rather than high. Paying to change a car that has done 70k miles for exactly the same car that has done 40k miles is madness. There are much better ways to waste your £1k than that.

TC has exactly zero effect on normal everyday driving. Your brain is telling you porkies.

How can anyone possibly even consider that Malaysian aircraft thing might be anything more that a simple crash caused by the usual human screwup/mechanical failure? Aircraft falling down from the sky is not exactly a once in a century event is it?

Well, there is a big blob of land that is under their control so at his point it is basically a de-facto state. The point that I am trying to make is that this country does not have a choice but to allow them live amongst us. Imran Khawaja is a British citizen and a known troublemaker. No other country will let him in. You can only lawfully deport foreign citizens to their own countries. UK doesn't have Australia to sent criminals to anymore, remember? The fact that Khawaja has a British passport makes him a British problem.

1. What islamic country apart from ISIS do you think will be happy to accept those kinds of people? 2. Do you think it serves the interests of this country to have more hate-preachers on the loose?

People, stop talking nonsense. Imran Khawaja is a British citizen whether you like it or not. Where do you want to deport him to? Mars?

What a waste of money. This sign will activate every time: 1. A passenger uses a phone. 2. You talk using hands-free. 3. You use apps that require internet connection, like Google Maps or internet radio. Not to mention that people who are using handheld phones know very well what they are doing, unlike with speeding, which is often done inadvertently.

Taking a drug or being under an influence of a drug has never been an offence.

Pure guesswork. There was never any official research in this area. If they did then they would get results totally incompatible with the official government position.

Well, that is the problem. There is no such thing as an average pill. All pills and coke are have various proportions of actual drugs in them. There is no way of knowing how much actual coke is in 1g of the stuff that you just bought. Not to mention that street coke and especially pills can actually contain several different drugs in unknown proportions. The government position is 'drugs are bad so dont do them and thats it' so you will not be able to obtain reliable information on that because the research in this area is frowned upon and any suggestions that drugs can be anything than an absolute evil is laughed at.

She should have taken the money. The only thing that she is entitled to is a compensation of a financial loss that she incurred as a result of the mechanic screwing up. Contrary to what people are saying there is no right to a full refund. She can only get what it cost her to put it right. Legally 'potentially life threatening' and 'risk to life' mean nothing unless there was some kind of malice involved. No actual harm - no compensation beyond financial losses. VOSA won't care a bit about a single case of a mechanic forgetting to tighten up a bolt.

http://www.halfords.com/motoring/garage-equipment/car-tools-hand-tools/halfords-advanced-professional-breaker-bar-24-1-2-drive Always a handy tool to keep in your car.

Don't drive it like you stole it and you will be fine. Until you get used to the car, leave traction control on and only floor it on straights. My previous car was a 95 bhp fwd hatch and I had exactly zero trouble with the zed. Not once it tried to kill be. Traction control on the zed is good and will catch you even if you do misjudge the throttle.

Any insurance is poor value by definition. You should only ever take insurance that is either compulsory, like car insurance, or it relates to something that you can't live without and can't afford to replace, like a buildings insurance. Travel insurance to non-EU countries might be a good idea, but that is about it. All other insurance, mobile phones, appliances, gadgets, payment protection etc is just them screwing you over big time. It is a lot better to put the money you would spend on all those insurances in a separate fund and take it out when necessary.

ATTAK Z Do you have the evidence that you punctured the tyre on that carpark and not anywhere else? Did you get your car recovered from there? They could only successfully claim that if they actually tried to prevent cars from parking there, by notices, markings, barriers etc. And even then it would not automatically absolve them of liability. What you should or should not do is not relevant. This situation is all about the duty of a carpark owner. There is a 'it is your own fault' defence, but where lawful visitors are concerned it is pretty much limited to you intentionally jumping in a front of a train or something like that. Good point about the sign though. ATTAK Z you need to photo that and any other sign on that carpark. If it contains exclusion clauses it might be fatal to the claim.

By the way, did you actually puncture both tyres, or only one and decided to replace the other just to keep the wear even?

You can call them or visit them in person if you like. If they will not cooperate then you need to get a letter from them rejecting your claim, so called 'deadlock letter'. Then you can sue.

To win the claim here you need to prove 2 things: 1. That the landowner did not perform his duty to an acceptable standart. Basically, this boils down to whether the condition of the carpark was so bad that it was not safe to use. 2. That your puncture was caused by the condition of the carpark.