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I'm glad it wasn't more serious. I bought two Blackvue 380G cams from Advanced In-car Technologies and fitted them to my wife's car the day BEFORE it was involved in a car park prang. I bought two more for my car and another for my granddaughter's! No connection with the firm, other than a very satisfied repeat customer. Good price and nice to deal with.

I'm with More>Than for one of my cars. Have contacted their Customer Services on a few occasions and have been dealt with very well. No problems for me, I'm pleased to say.

Obviously the word hasn't reached Norfolk yet! I asked Robinsons' Service Reception for a quote on 8 winter tyres, got that, then was told they wouldn't be able to store the summer tyres for me. Just as well, at that price!

Norwich is in England.

That is for the whole year, though. KwikFit charges £60 per season (six months). It doesn't seem as much when you cut it in half...until you double it for the annual charge!

When did this start and where is it advertised, please? Wanting both my cars fitted with winter tyres (on existing wheels), I asked about tyre storage at Robinsons Skoda in Norwich last Friday and was told they didn't have enough room to store customers' tyres. Also, to change the tyres back to the summer ones in the Spring would cost £90 + vat per car. I went to my local independent tyre firm, got both cars shod with winters, free storage for all 8 summer tyres, and re-fitting in the Spring will be £50 per car (incl. new valves and balancing).

Do spiders bleep? :think:

It may well have been renamed to avoid confusion. There is Skoda Roadside Assistance, a vehicle recovery service (provided by the RAC) and then there is Skoda Ensurance, which is an accident management service (administered by LawShield UK Ltd). They are not mutually exclusive, you can sign up to either or both (or none).

I recently bought a year-old Octavia Elegance from a Skoda dealer and commented that the material floor mats were missing (standard equipment from new). The salesman's comment was that, when a car was PXed, one of the first things to be done was to remove any mats, as the next purchaser would pay out for new ones! (The sales manager's policy, not his.) My view is that if something is standard equipment it should be there. I got him to include a full set of rubber mats in the deal (easier to clean than the material ones).

I'm currently going through a claims process using Ensurance. My insurance company hasn't shown any signs of hostility yet.

So, having printed off the confirmation, you apply for a refund and put your car on the market. You show prospective purchasers your 'confirmation'. How would the marks be able to check whether the car is taxed or not? I suppose that depends on how often the DVLA site is updated. Not exactly a panacea for all the DVLA ills.

...as was your obvious intention. "Old people often complain of loneliness, the internet can fix that too. They can come on forums and meet like minded people and communicate with one another without leaving the safety and warmth of their dwelling." ...to be abused by anonymous key-board warriors? I prefer to choose my real life friends, thank you. "It's getting that way so adapt and learn would be my advice or wait for headlines like 'Silly old bu99er crashes car into bus shelter full of children when attempting to sync his ration book with his Honda Jazz. 9 dead'" ... such headlines are, thankfully, much, much rarer than these. Some of these stupid young people need an operation to separate them from their technological wonder devices. Back to the topic. I don't have a problem with paying for my VED online, having my pension paid into my on-line bank account, setting up DDs for regular bills, paying one-offs by BACS or shopping with Amazon (other on-line retailers are available). But just because I, and many others, can and do doesn't mean that those who can't, or won't, should be forced into it. Given the problems with computerised systems (NHS, RBS, NATS all just recent examples), how will you be able to prove you've paid your VED if "The computer says 'NO'"? Will you be able to download and print a replica tax disc? There must be some method of confirming the payment to, for example, a prospective purchaser of your vehicle***. Oh, I've just realised...it's Sunday. Time for my weekly 40 mph run down that lovely empty centre lane. Nurse, would you bring my Bentley round, please. ***I suppose the DVLA could always send you a neat circular receipt!

"Four million homes in the UK are still not connected to the internet, the Office of National Statistics said. The ONS's data said the majority, 59%, of those unconnected said they simply did not need to be online. Twenty per cent said they lacked the computer skills needed to get online, while another 10% said they could not afford it." (source:BBC) Your pong turn...

At Q3 of 2013, 7.0 million adults (14%) in the UK had never used the Internet. (source:ONS) Ping-pong, backwards and forwards. No point really.

I would very politely like to point out that my rural village Post Office is 200 yards from my house. My nearest library, with Internet access, is 10 miles away, and computer use must be pre-booked. Not everyone lives in town and cities, with services on their doorsteps. So it is much, much quicker (and cheaper) for our local residents to pay their excise duty at the Post Office than at the library, if they do not possess an Internet-capable device. Or perhaps such devices will soon become standard equipment for all new cars.