Ekona

Everyone is autistic, it just depends where on the scale you are. My other half did psychology as her degree, and I've been reliably informed on many an occasion that I sit a bit further along it than others

I have every right. Have you not been on the internet before?!

No wait, there's one my Mum's FB account!

Trying to find some pics of it, but apparently they're all on the PC at home. I'll try an upload one later.

Oh I'd say it, I would just pick an appropriate time Like I wouldn't walk into a small pub and shout out "WOW IT'S AN UTTER DIVE IN HERE!!" just as I walked through the door. However, if the owner asked me what I thought I'd tell him. Time and a place my friend, time and a place.

No, I do have some tact. But I would say it if they asked. I've told friends before that their track accident was their fault, after they'd written their car off.

My Mum's got the V6 tintop Camero, gutless thing with a slow gearbox, but I do have to admit that in yellow it's a very pretty thing indeed

Some people are just generally arseholes when you put them behind a keyboard, but are actually nice people when you meet them. I count myself firmly in that camp. I'll happily repeat in person anything I say on here though, but I'll also admit if I'm wrong and something looks better in the flesh. StevoD's car, for example, I totally 'get' when you see it in person.

My photographical skills are legendary, I'll have you know! Just for the wrong reasons

I saw a black one yesterday in the flesh, looked a billion times better than the orange one I saw last month.

If you don't want someone to give an opinion, don't invite the opinion in the first place. Trouble is, everyone thinks their car and mods are the best thing ever (to them, they probably are), and so crave the adoration of their peers. Mostly it works as we generally here know what works, but sometimes it doesn't. As I've said before, Silly Hat Rule. If you want to wear a silly hat then that's fine, but don't expect me not to tell you it's a silly hat if you post a pic. I didn't say I didn't like the bumper, I said I didn't like the headlights :p

I guess not. I just prefer my comedy to be funny, but each to their own.

Pretty sure that Jo Brand weighs more. And is generally more useless.

By trip counter, do you actually mean the DTE display? I assume you do. If so, I really wouldn't worry about it. Just to prove there's nothing wrong though, just fill your car to full, reset BOTH the DTE and the trip, then see how many miles you get until the fuel light comes on. Then report back. Pete's got it right though, the DTE is just an electronic guess, nothing more.

I had an odd one once, many many years back. Guy clipped my rear 3/4 coming off a roundabout, long story short it went 50/50 however I didn't pay any excess and I didn't lose any NCB. To this day, I've no idea what happened there. I was only 21 at the time so not that well versed in car insurancey things, so it never occurred to me that it was a little strange.

Except nobody wants to date Jo Brand.

Yellow headlights? Christ, now I've seen it all. What kind of soppy wet lettuce decides they want to make their car look like it's from a time when the Austin Montego ruled all, or from France? I'm with the PH massive on this one. That car is ruined.

I very much doubt any excess + premium rise would be anywhere close to a couple of grand, but I concede your point and that it would depend on the individual's situation regarding their current insurance costs. Still not something I would personally recommend doing. The insurers themselves spend every day working how just how to pass liability to someone else, so if they're not keen then I would imagine there's a good reason why. Also, all this does is just drag everything on for longer, and sometimes you just need to accept the inevitable and get on with life as the stress of the process can be worse than anything.

It would, but only if there is a realistic prospect of winning I would imagine.

And if you lose, you lose big time. Unless it's 100% obvious, and I really mean obvious to a blind man at two miles when you take BOTH statements into account, I really wouldn't recommend doing that. It's not a terrible idea at all, I just don't think it's suitable for this case.

You can push, but they don't have to listen. Ultimately you've given them permission to do as they see fit, so they'll likely only go so far until they expect to get large costs.

*handbags locked and loaded*

HELLO NEW PERSON

Well, no. Not regardless of cost. That would be silly. Imagine if you owned a 1985 Rover worth £500, and someone drives into it. The parts needed are no longer made so they need to re-tool which costs £2M. Do they HAVE to do that? Yes, that's a deliberately silly one, but the point is true. You could try suing the TP for damages like I said, but you'd have to prove negligence or that they owed you a duty of care, and then you'd still have to convince the judge that paying £7K to fix a car worth £6K is worth it. Never, ever going to happen.

*grabs handbag*