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You don't. As DPD said, their contract is with the train company, they do not owe you a duty of care. You cannot claim against them. Really, one of two things went wrong here: 1. The train company didn't inform DPD that the contents were high-value, and needed extra insurance. 2. You didn't make it clear enough to the train company of the value of the item, and didn't check the postage covered the item for the value rather than the weight. What can you do? Practically, not a lot. You can have a go at the train company for not telling you that you needed extra cover and had to pay more, or that they should've realised and informed you, but ultimately unless you can prove you told them how valuable it was then you're out of luck. There's also no proof it was working before you got it, and as it's your own item they've sent you there's no recourse there. I'd write a strongly worded letter asking them how they intend to rectify the situation, but ultimately they don't have to do anything I'm afraid.

Make no mistake, if that had been a Merc and a Ferrari or a Merc and a Red Bull, then the stewards would've handed out penalties for sure. As it was just Merc that suffered, they basically let them deal with it internally.

No, now he gets to be paranoid over excess oil usage instead Don't feel too bad fella, as long as you didn't pay HR money for it then you've still got a cracking car there and in a stunning colour too.

By which point you'd better make sure that they're the guys you want doing the engine replacement, as otherwise you've got a car with no engine you need to get transported so +++ costs.

That is amazing, great stuff Pete

If he's not prepared to take a wheel off to change a battery, then I suspect he's hiding more than a dodgy alternator. I'd have walked too.

How hard can it be to pop to Halfords and buy a new one?! Sucks man

305/30/19 is a standard GT3 size, so should be plenty of those available. If it's only for track then I wouldn't worry about rolling radiuseses and TCS stuff, as you'll have all that off anyway.

:lol: No worse than people putting GT-R wheels on their Zeds.

BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT Just do what I do and buy the first car you see, raises the excitement level

I think he means Jack from Royal Steering Wheels, so just a recovered one. Tbh Lloyd it'll be cheaper and easier just to send yours off to Jack to get him to do it.

Get new engine fitted, chuck the cost on a 12mth 0% card, worry about it later? At least you'd get the car up and running. If it's your only car, it's going to cost you at least £2K in selling it on and then buying a new one, so you wouldn't actually be any better off.

^^^ Absolutely that. Leave the PCV in.

In the grand scheme of things I'd take a more pragmatic approach, especially considering the police don't exactly have a lot of spare time right now. Call 101 and report it. You have enough detail there, you can say that footage is available if they want it. Ask that someone pops round and has a chat with the guy instead. They may well put the fear of god into him, plus see the state of his car and then advise him not to drive until fixed. For some people, especially older ones, having a uniform tell you you're in the wrong can be enough to make them realise they need to sort themselves out.

Spoiler on, louvres off

Pics will come when everything is done, still got a bit more tidying up to do yet as I need to fab some supporting brackets next week, hopefully done by Weds

Didn't even realise TV was an option on these! Was it a manual one you drove Exec? How did you find it apart from pulling well and having a cool armrest? I've been busy this weekend on mine. Finally picked it up yesterday and spent the afternoon along with this morning cutting, drilling, grinding and bolting things in, on and to it... Feels good to have a successful day spannering, doesn't happen very often

Were there actually any cars there, or just three slightly try-hard scrubbers?

It will be, when we know what the question is. Jeez, this is really hard work!

who should be the judge of that ? Teachers, obviously. They already set the levels for the kids, makes sense for them to carry that through.

So only fine the parents if the kid is a waster? Yeah, basically. Put the effort in and thou shalt be rewarded, and all that. Seems the fairest way.

But why?

If your kid is thick then you don't have the right to take them out in term time, they need all the help they can get. If they're doing well and are capable of catching up then I say go for it.

So where's the proof that leaving will be better? I've seen precisely zero facts from that side, other than ifs, coulds and maybes.

You mean the one that men stand there and gaze carefully at for at least two mins, nod and murmur agreement under their breath, then make a comment about how they know see why it drove like it did and how they can see why it'll drive so much better now, despite not having a clue what 90% of the numbers actually mean?