Matt H

PM'd replied to. Yours if you want it

The last time I played COD I tried to get the 'kill the pentagon thief before it steals your loadout' throphy but it's sooo hard

I've read the article and I can't understand how he was 'caught' for this. If he just drove past and flashed a few drivers coming the other way then I can't see it - how would the police in the van know? Is there more to this story Like Marbleapple has said? Either way, there are some 'real' criminals out there that get fined less.

Check the fine print. I'm with Swift Cover on my daily and even though I don't loose my NCB claiming for a windscreen repair, I don't get another year's No Claims added on at the end of the policy. Which I think sucks. I wonder if this is the same for other insurers?

Just brilliant. I wrote a review of it here: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?235020-Donkey-Kong-Country-Returns-Wii&highlight=donkey+kong £22 posted Ta Matt

When I lived with my mum, I had freeview with a boosted aerial l in my bedroom. She lives in the middle of nowhere and reception was fine as long as it was in the right position.

I've never checked MPG in my supra.

Just buy an aerial from Tesco? Why are you overcomplicating the simple? Or am I missing something? http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-6107.aspx

Electric daily anyone?

1.30 barrier has been breached for diesel in my area. 1.27 for petrol.

Don't worry, I don't do 'religiously'

Another glitch I've had with BO is the lack of blue arrows to identify 'friends'. It usually starts off with everyone being blue, but then as someone dies they often revert back to green. Very frustrating if you want to keep with your pack.

Cheers guys. That looks like it will be the ticket. I give it a go tonight. Ta

I was under the impression that no company can refurb chrome due to the cost. They have to do something different?

Hi Jord, I've already done that, but it doesn't seem to change the system name. Even though my account says 'Matt' and the start menu also says 'Matt', the computer's identinty is still 'Chris' PC' etc. For example, when my PS3 picks up the Laptop, it still says 'Chris' PC'.

I bought Chris Burford's HP HDX18 laptop from the thread linked below. It's an absolute peach; however, there is one thing that bugs me: the computer is still identified as ‘Chris’ PC’. I think this is a windows thing and something that gets setup the first time you turn a new computer or copy of windows on? Does anyone know how to change this? The laptop is running Windows 7. Ta Matt http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?235109-18.4-quot-Massive-spec-multi-media-laptop&highlight=laptop

still interesting

I've not played BO in ages as I'm sick of the online crashes and the time it takes to get into a game with my friends. I don't play MW2 either no as it's boring to me, but certainly offered more entertainment, but that may be because I was already bored on BO before it came out.

I know you shouldn't really look a gift horse in the mouth, but I quess there's exceptions that can be made.

So Spectic sent them to Gaz and then he sent them to you?

I think there's a significant difference in the principle used between those two scenarios. In the first instance, the cost is as you say, 'unlimited' for repair. We all know that some damage is beyond repair, or even beyond want of repair. If someone significantly damages my car, i.e chassis damage etc, as much as I don't want to see it happen, I would think twice about whether or not I'd want it back as a repair. In that case, it's a write off, but your second post then insinuates that if you're in the write off bracket, you're at the mercy of the other parties insurance company and therefore you could 'not be in the same position as before the crash'. There's two scenarios I'd imagine would come about in the write off event. The first would be a payout for the purchase of another car as similar as possible that you would be happy to accept as a replacement. The second and more likely choice for the victim would be a pay out to have a car built back to the same spec. Whether this is payment to the company undertaking the work or payment up front I don't know. Obviously, if fraud was to be avoided, payments should go directly to the car builders?

What you need to understand is I'm refering to collisions that are not the first parties fault. In such situations the limitations or 'small print' of your own policy don't take precedence. That's what I was refering to in para.5 of post 19. It's a shame that was misunderstood from my first post

That's exactly what I'm saying, Col.

I don't know why everyone is thinking I'd expect to get everyone penny back I've spent on my car, nor do I understand why people are assuming I modify my car to increase it's value I think everyone needs to take a step back and actually read what I've been saying, rather than some of the tangeted replies. I'm saying, that in the event of incident that is not my fault, I am legally entitled to be compensated for my loss so I am in the same position as I was before hand i.e I have the same or similar car as before the event of the collision. If things cannot be righted by rectifying the problem physcially, then people usually recieve momentary compensation for their loss i.e, whip lash - it can't be righted physcially per se, so they recieve a momentary sum to compensate for it. The actual value of what it would cost to put me back in that situation is not what I'm refering to, it could be little. If I could go out the day after an incident that resulted in a write off and buy my exact same car for £10K then that's what I would get paid out, because I could buy that car and be in the exact same position as I was before the accident - fine. But that is unlikely to be the case with such a bespoke car, which is why it would get complicated, but at no point along the line should the innocent party be in a 'worse' position than before the incident - please note that I am refering to being the victim of a collision, not the person that that causes the crash and is claiming of his / her own policy which might be a decent agreed value one of soemthing basic perhaps? Let’s just consider why vehicles get written off in the first place. It’s simply because it is cheaper to put someone back into the exact same position they were in before the collision (by funding a replacement car) than it is to provide repairs to reach the same objective (putting them back in the same position as they were before the collision). One of the reasons I pay (as with many others) an ample premium on my daily driver slow diesel, is not to provide me with more than ample cover, it's to cover other people, because who know's.. one day you may fall asleep at the wheel and end up driving onto a raileway line is Selby.