skomaz

Personally, given you'd have an excess to pay, I'd avoid the insurance route as that would be more expensive in the long run. My guess is s decent small bodyshop doing the work privately will be pretty cheap (my mum had a bump recently that staved in the nearside front corner and the non-insurance repair quote was almost the same as her excess... around £400.... When I had the Swift bumped and no one owned up it had significant damage to the front wing and bumper - the local bodyshop repaired it for £270... the insurers excess would have been more than that and thier repairer quoted nearly £2k...

Why not get the other driver to pay and not go through insurance...

You're braver than me getting in that pit with the just perched like that!! Otherwise that looks like a good solid pass.

Ah - good on them - I thought your post meant it had been spotted by someone else. Useful to know though for future reference!

You'd think the garage that had the car up on the ramps might have spotted that...

Have you checked that you don't have a brake dragging? Are any of the wheels hot to the touch after a drive (probably on the left hand side if you are having to steer to the right)?

Our first Fabia 1.9tdi did over 80k miles on its first cambelt so they tend to be strong. As for smoke I used to use a bottle of forte diesel system cleaner once a year before a MOT, it never failed and was pretty much smoke free. https://www.forteuk.co.uk/product/advanced-formula-diesel-treatment/

I think it might be this but this says for a mk2 https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/038103638p-grommet-genuine-part-14932.html

Should be a good car if it's been looked after. Those older 1.9Tdi were pretty bomb proof provided they had the right oil. My BIL had one and liked it but I could never get on with the interior lighting that was red so for some reason I found it really difficult to focus on.

Ah... I misread and thought they were worn on both inner and outer edges. As you say wear on the outer edges suggests too much toe in but you'd have thought that would also manifest itself in a degree of instability and wandering at speed too

Given the uneven wear were they inflated correctly as that wear pattern points to under inflation

He he... Snap!!

Royal Mail are doing similar albeit they are still electrifying their red fleet. I've been involved in a new a delivery office for them and it needs it's own 1megawatt substation to charge the red delivery vans.

We were talking about use of alternative transport to the car.. . Not speed limits??? Selfishness... Possibly yes... Or simply more suited to the individual concerned - as you said... The right tool for the job.?

Because the saving lives bit has been thoroughly debunked as over egged and, whilst not false, largely incorrect in terms of scale. And because people value convenience and their time more highly than they value the issues that are 'solved' by the alternatives. I'm not saying either is correct but that's the way it is.

We have an older smart Panasonic TV that is maybe 8 years old and the software is definitely now out of date and cannot be updated further.. To the extent that iplayer is about to stop functioning on it and Netflix likewise. We're therefore making more use of our rokus but even they are now going out of date and won't work with some Netflix subscriptions any more so we need a new one.

Actually I don't think freedom is the full issue. It's actually more to do with convenience.

Sounds more like a slightly loose alternator belt to me...

Which probably reflects the quality (or lack) of the alternatives

Snap... Almost... I also use the Evostik stuff

I think how good IKEA units are is down to how well they are assembled. We've got various wardrobes and bookshelves and they are solid, but then I've assembled them properly and added glue in various places to strengthen and stiffen them.

On the first point - Probably better given that most of the time the buses had minimal usage due to the unreliability they created in the first place... free flow traffic would be the result with the potential capacity to flow 1860 cars or more an hour through the same point. Allow for the two minutes or so the buses caused an issue and that equates to 62 cars roughly... so probably a balance if the bus was totally full. As for the second - yes it might speed up the said buses but, as has been pointed out - the network outside of London isn't suitable for a large part of the population and even if it was providing a regular (10 minute) service throughout the day on routes that have minimal usage (eg rural ones) would require massive subsidies. I do agree with your point re a change in mindset though - but it needs to encompass all modes and be reflective of need - unfortunately most people are too blinkered one way or the other

Oh yes - I can name a number of locations both local and further afield where traffic lights have been deliberately set to hold back traffic and meter the flow. A prime example being a particular local authority where one of the local Councillors lived on a side road that fed into a major road on the strategic road network. The Council and Councillor had been campaigning for a bypass for years but analysis of the traffic signal specification and timings clearly showed they had been set to give priority to the side road even when no traffic was waiting on it - thus artificially holding back traffic on the SRN, thus creating congestion to back up the request for a bypass. Sorry but that is just wrong on all counts and not uncommon. I've managed the installation of traffic lights that have special 'MOVA' control systems (effectively they self-manage and optimise the signal timings to maximise operational capacity) that have been designed, set and refined on-site whilst live by our staff but, on revisiting to check their operation at a later date as part of the set-up regime we've found that the MOVA control system has been turned off by the Local Authority...

As someone who has a degree of involvement in the scheme I disagree - the economics are flawed and, for the money, a large number of other schemes could be progressed that would provide more benefits to the population on both a local, reginal and national scale - be that Public Transport related or not. As you yourself pointed out - pick the right tool for the job...

Not wishing to cause offence but in my neck of the woods it's invariably the buses that slow all other traffic down with their antics at stops (not wanting to pull in / rivals blocking each other in at the stop etc.). At work we have the analysis from the bus GPS trackers and video and it's quite clear...