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They're wrong. As a general rule, insurers who write off cars in A and B class do so because the car is pretty much a mess, and you simply wouldn't want to spend that much putting back on the road. Their own 'rules' state (as per your link) that the cars cannot be put back on the road, however as the owner of the car you can do what you want with it. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_check The wiki explains it pretty well. As long as it passes MOT and the VIC, then you're good to go. How am I so certain on this? Because I was proved wrong by a mate who bought a Cat B MX5 off Driftworks, and is driving it perfectly legally. It should never have been a Cat B in the first place, but the insurer classed it as that. When I'm wrong about something, I tend to make sure it never happens again! So yeah, you can put anything back on the road, if you can be bothered to do so.

You can put any Cat car back on the road, but only C, B and A require a VIC certificate

Yeah, you need to be sitting fairly close to appreciate the difference in the resolution, but no close you can see the individual pixels. Regardless, I still maintain there is no such thing as a TV that's too big for the room.

I actually bothered to do the maths on this one, and the TV is under the upper limit between 1080 and 4k for the distance we'll be sitting from it, so it should be perfect. In theory...

Only when it's excited!

I hadn't thought about that. Much.

More than I'm prepared to admit on a public forum the missus can read It was £2500, give or take a bit for delivery then cash back on the card. 4k looks ace, but the interweb infrastructure doesn't exist enough to support it, plus I'm not buying another AVR and another BD player and then another set of 4K BDs either. Plus, the Japs are going straight for 8K, and it's not like HD is even the definitive content everywhere yet.

SV? Already? Shame. 458 is due to be replaced this year, possibly at Geneva. Expect a turbo engine this time sadly

It's a Samsung 6400, to replace my old 55" 7 series. Technically a step down, but I figure that tech has come on a long way in that time so should be the equivalent. Standard HD as I don't believe that 4K will be worth it in the next five years, plus have you seen the cost of 75" 4K TVs?! Hopefully I'll get it up on the wall sometime this weekend.

We're men, we always round up

My tiny winky is legendary. Why else do you think I bought a Porsche?!

You can have the box to play in, if you like?

Don't think I'll need a bigger TV for a while now.

I'm going with a local firm, half the price but I've had recommendations so hopefully everything will be fine.

Thought I recognised it. Enter at 30, boot it to a ton, drop to 30 at the end. Sorted

Sound's good, but why film it in portrait??!! Sorry, pet hate. Where was that taken?

@Steve: At least a grand, more if you want insurance and waivers. @Craig: Mate, you've no idea how much it's been doing my head in!

He needs a pair of O2 sensor extenders. I think! Contact Clark Motorsport on here fella.

Well, you know when you get your knob caught in your zipper... ;) Love you really xxx

Definitely.

Every time I see someone else recommend the MPSS with the same fervent vigour I do, my heart swells with pride and I feel like an old man watching the newly trained youngsters tending to the flock

Blimey. Is he quite young, or driving a silly power car?

Most insurers aren't going to sting him too hard anyway for a non-fault accident on a company car. Hell, I barely got touched at all for my mishap in 2013 that was 100% my fault, as I didn't claim off my own insurance but someone else's. Very similar thing.

If there was no accident, there can be no claim. The accident here was a poorly tied load damaging the vehicle internally, for which the driver is responsible. My original post was a bit misleading. There was no accident whilst during the driving (like you say, maybe the load shifted whilst on the ferry), but there clearly was something damaged.

Full inspection, buy cheap, sell cheap. CatD cars can have been written off for some really silly reasons, so I'd never reject one out of hand.