Weggy down but not out

You have *no idea* how far my eyebrows liffted when I first scanned the
quoted text reproduced above....

 

wrote

Oh I dunno. I have known you a while and have seen your eyebrows in the
flesh so to speak.

 

If only he knew, eh .. ?

Anyway, belated 'congrats' on walking away unscathed.

 

Andy Wegg wrote

A question which has exercised the best brains on ukrm for years.

 

To which the answer is "I am - my body just hasn't noticed it yet"

Phil

 

Depends. Many ShiteOldTrucks (pre-1989, IIRC) don't have speed
limiters. And speed limiters are only fitted to trucks over 7.5 tonnes
(HGVs, as you say), and a 7.5-tonner is still a big vehicle. A decent
7.5 tonner will exceed 70, no problems.[/QUOTE]

OK lets clear this up now. Speed limiters became mandatory on LGVs
over 12 tonnes GVW that were registered after Jan 1 1994. There was no
retro fit requirement.
The limiters are generally set at a max of 90km/h. There is a
tolerance, some are taken to the max of that tolerance, most are not.

The limiter only limits the speed when the vehicle is under power, not
for instance going downhill with a bit of weight on, where you can
sometimes get up to *cough* 75 mph.

Vehicles registered before 1994 are not required to have a limiter
fitted, but must abide by the motorway maximum speed limit of 60mph.

http://www.cybertrucker.co.uk/menace.htm

This is getting more difficult to do on modern vehicles. Watch out for
Republic of Ireland reg'd trucks, who seem to have infinitely variable
limiters fitted.

Weggy says that this UK reg'd truck has an A plate number, but this is
likely to be a personalised plate. There are very few pre '94 artics
on the road these days. AS the truck comes from Spalding (veg growing
land) it is most likely a freelance international fridge hauling
perishables, who are notorious for speed limiter alterations as they
work on very tight deadlines with sometimes very high value loads.

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It was all very odd indeed. I was a paint sales rep and she was a coca cola
machine sales rep.
Seems that every where I had been that morning (colleges) she had been too.

Very odd.

The bastard thing was I didn't get rid of the car. The assessor was very
keen to scrap it until he discovered it was a lease car.
He then went from re-shelling it to having it jigged straight. It was
bloody awful after the repair, which was one of the most fucked up bits of
bodgery I have ever seen. The car was physically wider afterwards, the
bloody parcel shelf just fell through the hole where previously it had
snugly nestled. The car was a fucking nightmare afterwards, and I had to
keep it for another 2 and a half years.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Dan L says...

I'd have promptly done a proper job of writing the fucking thing off, in
an "Oh dear, the poor thing's had a slight bump and now burst into
flames" kind of way.

 

Dan L says...

And just in case my boss is reading this, I like my Golf and will not be
setting fire to it..............................yet

 

You are, of course, right, but like a good, consciensious company man I
didn't.
And the company eventually repaid me by fucking me over in the most
shittiest of ways.

Happy days

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

But who decides what's frivilous?

Compensation for damage to goods - and self! - and legitimate expenses is
fair enough. But a lot of these posts seem to be encouraging people to
look for more things to claim. How is that really different from all the
ambulance chasers' clients that we castigate?

 

=:-O Stalker!

_Nice_. By nightmare, you mean even less reliable than a normal Renault,
or more odd in the handling department?

 

To be fair, I've always regarded these "take the bastard for everything
and more" postings on ukrm as piss-takes. I don't know anyone here who's
ever regarded them as instruction manuals. I don't think anyone's that
daft.

 

For some reason this has me giggling like a loon.

 

I really liked that car, and I'd had to do the most skillful amount of
negotiation to get it in pearlescent black.
Following the repair it used to just cut out for no apparent reason, took
the garage almost a year to get it sorted. Then, about 18 months after the
repair I was washing it and notices a small brown stain on the wheelarch.
Poked it with my finger, which went straight through. The boot used to fill
with water and had 2 jagged welds across it where a new panel had been
thrown in.

Utter shite

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

My work here is done...

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

death and sex are quite closely linked, which is why so many people
**** after a funeral.

I guess what I'm asking, AAW, is: did you knob the wife on the hard
shoulder?

 

I repeat that I cannot think of one poster on this ng who would try to
commit that sort of fraud.

And whenever I hear someone saying: "Well, it might encourage people
to....(insert misdemeanour of your choice)", I tend to ask: "Well,
would it make you go out and do that?"

The reply is invariably: "Well, no of course, I wouldn't, but someone
else might...."

And the answer to that is: "Why do you therefore assume that you are
that much more intelligent, knowing, reponsible, (or whatever) than
everyone else?"

The day I hear someone say: "This shouldn't be done because *I* might
do X, Y or Z", is the day I'll take this kind of lament seriously.
Can't remember it ever happening, though.

On the basis of this thread, Verdigris, are going to go out and commit
an insurance fraud?

 

Colonel Tupperware wrote:


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Cheers, Tuppy.

 

Yeouch!! pass on gws etc if poss.