Be Excellent To Each Other

Haha...you really don't know me yet My comments in themselves are mildly inflammatory and may warrant a bite from said gents...all glossed over with a veneer of eloqunce, of course! I just thought I'd goad the chap that kept saying "I'm not going to bite at this..." followed by the implied "You're a wanker" and a massive response.

I'm surprised Bamba didn't react to you calling him ineloquent

I DUNT NO HOW 2 WURDZ!

Its gone up a bit now, £317 for 2 weeks starting 21st July

That looks much more like a standard Hertz price.

I'm impressed you could glean so much from a screenshot of the Hertz website. I shall liken you to Miss Marple in my head from now on.

I prefer Poirot.

Although I don't have a moustache.

And I'm skinny.

And I'm not French.

I am an Actual Detective though. And a real man. So I've basically nailed it.

Meh, my toys are never IN the flaming pram, there are none of the fecking things left to chuck.

I thought it was pretty mild by our standards but have no problem with tampon jokes being thrown (er, metaphorically) in my direction by teh forum noobs ( ), as I've no doubt they're due.

Neither's Poirot

Malc

That Belgian bastard.

Mummy and Old Man Afterthought were involved in a smasheroo the other day. No injuries as it was farily low speed, and it's a Motability car anyway, so no real fiscal loss for them. Anyhow, within a couple of hours a person was on the phone trying to get them to claim for "inconvenience". I'm not sure what the deal is with the car, now, but I know they've ordered another Fiesta for August, or, in fact, how motability even works (I understand that Mummy Afterthought doesn't get a disability allowance, instead it goes towards leasing of a car, but if you pay £x you can get a better car than a Fiesta). It's proabbly what increases the costs, people wanting the extras and I guess we all pay for them, and choose the polciies that offer them, these hired cars and the like, I dunno, ask Curio.

I'm getting so sick of all the people involved

Its gone, Insurance Company--Some sort of car hire and repair coordinator company--Car Hire Company--Repair Shop-- Back to car hire and repair Company "engineers"--Some other company that is going to give me a figure for my car".

I was told by my insurers that I would get glass car valuation forecourt price, no idea why there needs to be a whole organisation to deal with this, I paid to get the price myself yesterday so will be interesting to see if they try to come in lower.

You shouldn't accept Glass's guide price if you don't think you could actually replace the car for that. When my wife's car got written off I didn't like the value they had given so I ended up on the phone with someone from the insurance company as we both went on the Autotrader website and searched for similar cars. Finally found an example at a dealer that we both agreed was representative and he just paid me that price. Ended up getting a pretty fair deal that way.

Claims experiences tend to be split according to what kind of handler you get. If you're unlucky you get idiots who think the company's money is their own (or who work for a company that incentivises that behaviour). If you're lucky, you get a smart one that understands that the claims experience is a selling point just as much as the cost, and deals with you to try to actually give you the service you have paid for.

Ultimately, if they're being assholes, mutter about 'Treating Customers Fairly', 'positive consumer outcomes' and demand to be passed on to someone who has a healthy fear of those phrases

The Glass price was £4500, so they offered me £3600. They said there was damage to the bumper (scrapes) and also a small dent in the bonnet that if I could have been arsed I could have got out with half a tennis ball or something.

There is no way that lot is worth £900 so I told the company no, called my insurers and asked them to take the claim back and deal with it. Aside from the company who have the car I'm not speaking to anyone else now aside from my insurer.

Also I've been looking at another car, so I called up a dealer around 70 miles away and asked them to deliver me this car as well as a bit of extra stuff on the deal. He is saying I have to go and see it for Distance Selling, my mate said this is rubbish as he bought an 11 month old car from his wife from a place 250 miles away and they just delivered it.

The dealer is in Bournemouth and I don't fancy going there on the hottest weekend of the year to date!

Nothing good ever came out of Bournemouth

That dealership as such dicks, its the bloke in charge who won't deliver unless I go and see it.

So can't be bothered now and have bought an pretty much identical car for £5 more which has Sat Nav included from a saner dealer