Oh, I wish we could do that.
Robs been out of work since before Christmas, & we're totally skint now. Not even got a pot to pee in.
We'll just have to wait & hope they'll fix her. We should hear tomorrow.
Jacqui.
What a great start to a Saturday....
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Oh, I wish we could do that.
Robs been out of work since before Christmas, & we're totally skint now. Not even got a pot to pee in.
We'll just have to wait & hope they'll fix her. We should hear tomorrow.
Jacqui.
Ah.
Minor problem that.
If the dents (annoying as they may be) are not much more than cosmetic, p'raps you can get away with the insurance sorting the glass problem out, & attending to the rest at a later, more fiscaly sound, date?
Minor problem that.
If the dents (annoying as they may be) are not much more than cosmetic, p'raps you can get away with the insurance sorting the glass problem out, & attending to the rest at a later, more fiscaly sound, date?
Just make sure they understand that you are willing to buy it back, and dont sign anything until you get it back!!!
Cat update;
Rob's been having panics about not getting Cat back, so this morning he went & got her from the place she's been stored. Before he could do that, he had to 'phone Chris Knott and tell then what he was doing, and surprise, they had no knowledge yet again!! Has anyone else had dealings with this company?
Anyway, we paid the storage costs and he started to drive home, then discovered the wheels were only held on by the locking nuts. So, now we know what they were up to - trying to steel the wheels and smashed the window looking for the key.
I thought the days of nicking wheels had well & truley gone, so be warned people, keep an eye out!
We've been told an assessor will be out Thursday to look at Cat, but I think we might just tell them to forget the claim, it will probably work out cheeper for us to fix it than them. Rob's putting a new window in now from our old Cougar, so at least that'll be done.
Jacqui.
Rob's been having panics about not getting Cat back, so this morning he went & got her from the place she's been stored. Before he could do that, he had to 'phone Chris Knott and tell then what he was doing, and surprise, they had no knowledge yet again!! Has anyone else had dealings with this company?
Anyway, we paid the storage costs and he started to drive home, then discovered the wheels were only held on by the locking nuts. So, now we know what they were up to - trying to steel the wheels and smashed the window looking for the key.
I thought the days of nicking wheels had well & truley gone, so be warned people, keep an eye out!
We've been told an assessor will be out Thursday to look at Cat, but I think we might just tell them to forget the claim, it will probably work out cheeper for us to fix it than them. Rob's putting a new window in now from our old Cougar, so at least that'll be done.
Jacqui.
I guess with the credit crunch the pikeys will want to steal anything they can get their hands on, hopefully a 40 ton articulated lorry will run over them next time they are at the side of someones car trying to thieve from it :mad5:
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I hope they rot in hell. The amount of time and effort needed to fix something like this, especially in the long run, caused by what- a couple of pondscum kids in 30 seconds.
Sorry to hear about your pride and joy, lets hope they get run over and save everyone else the bother.
Sorry to hear about your pride and joy, lets hope they get run over and save everyone else the bother.
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Sorry to hear about your situation.
It seems like Chris nott are total sh**e
I have not seen one good comment on the forum about them.
try these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-COUGAR-D...14&_trkparms=72:1683|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-COUGAR-D...14&_trkparms=72:1683|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
With a respray?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-COUGAR-D...14&_trkparms=72:1683|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
It seems like Chris nott are total sh**e
I have not seen one good comment on the forum about them.
try these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-COUGAR-D...14&_trkparms=72:1683|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-COUGAR-D...14&_trkparms=72:1683|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
With a respray?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-COUGAR-D...14&_trkparms=72:1683|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
Many thanks for taking the time to find those for us, but Robs just spent a day putting in a new window, and another window mechanism as they'd buggered it when they broke in. :mad5:
We've now told Chris Knott to forget the claim, as we'd have ended up out of pocket. At least Cat now has a window in, & the other pieces that need doing will have to get done when we have the money.
Jacqui (still pee'd off & wanting to kill someone).
The chips can be made to disappear, but the dent in the pillar is a bit more tricky, it is possible to panel beat most of it out, as its on a corner it can be done, with patience and a good eye.
Hope you guys get sorted ok
Hope you guys get sorted ok
Welcome to the farse that is car insurance. 3rd party minimum requirements I can understand but comprehensive is a waste of time unless your car has a market value of around the ?ú10,000 mark.
Insurance approved bodyshops always want to replace everything with new, and I suspect they get a percentage markup because they quote prices for parts which are undamaged on the assumption that their apes will break it off rather than remove it to do the repairs and paintwork.
As stated on the Off Topic thread of mine - an insurance approved bodyshop quoted ?ú3,500 to repair the scrape and small dent on my father's MX-5, and so it was declared a Total Loss. Strangely enough ?ú1800 bought a load of welding to repair rusty wheelarches, repair of the dent to an exceptional standard and a full, doors open respray.
Dejavu strikes again as I've been there before with my Rover. The people who do Vehicle Identity Checks at the VOSA office are starting to recognise me.
I'm sorry to hear about your employment and financial troubles, but in terms of pure finances, you've made the right choice IMO. You could have had market value for the car, but your premiums would go up for the next 3 years and you lose your excess. Insurance companies never lose out... You'd be able to buy the car back, sure, and I've done that once for my own car and now another time for my father's - but the car is then unsellable and thus worthless. That's something we're happy with but once you've sorted your Cougar (and it wont cost a great deal) you'll still be able to sell it on, HPI clear, if you really need the money further down the line.
You have my commisserations. I despise thieves.
What kind of wheelnuts are you missing? Is that why you're looking for Biff?
Insurance approved bodyshops always want to replace everything with new, and I suspect they get a percentage markup because they quote prices for parts which are undamaged on the assumption that their apes will break it off rather than remove it to do the repairs and paintwork.
As stated on the Off Topic thread of mine - an insurance approved bodyshop quoted ?ú3,500 to repair the scrape and small dent on my father's MX-5, and so it was declared a Total Loss. Strangely enough ?ú1800 bought a load of welding to repair rusty wheelarches, repair of the dent to an exceptional standard and a full, doors open respray.
Dejavu strikes again as I've been there before with my Rover. The people who do Vehicle Identity Checks at the VOSA office are starting to recognise me.
I'm sorry to hear about your employment and financial troubles, but in terms of pure finances, you've made the right choice IMO. You could have had market value for the car, but your premiums would go up for the next 3 years and you lose your excess. Insurance companies never lose out... You'd be able to buy the car back, sure, and I've done that once for my own car and now another time for my father's - but the car is then unsellable and thus worthless. That's something we're happy with but once you've sorted your Cougar (and it wont cost a great deal) you'll still be able to sell it on, HPI clear, if you really need the money further down the line.
You have my commisserations. I despise thieves.
What kind of wheelnuts are you missing? Is that why you're looking for Biff?
We've always insured fully comp with the Cougars, I guess it was fine with our first (was only 1 year old when we purchased it) but as they lose value it's not worth it.
It's funny how the insurance companies don't bother to tell you that & keep pushing fully comp, knowing we'll lose it we try to make a claim.
I want to have 4 locking nuts on each wheel now (might slow them down a bit?), & Rob's fixed our CCTV so we're back to watching anyone who dares to walk near our cars. I hate living like this, but our cars aren't there for any little jumped up chav to take what they want from, & this seems the only way to take care of whats ours.
Jacqui.
It's funny how the insurance companies don't bother to tell you that & keep pushing fully comp, knowing we'll lose it we try to make a claim.
I want to have 4 locking nuts on each wheel now (might slow them down a bit?), & Rob's fixed our CCTV so we're back to watching anyone who dares to walk near our cars. I hate living like this, but our cars aren't there for any little jumped up chav to take what they want from, & this seems the only way to take care of whats ours.
No, it's for another thing we've just found out about Cat, and needs sorting ASAP.
Jacqui.