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yes im 100% sure its £3000. direct line qouted me £5600 fully comp. unless as iv found insurance companies dont seem to like vauxhalls. going of the replies here sounds like £1200 is a rip off.

yeah its a rip off, my insurance for a 1.3 astra is £2500 per year and £3000 exess, if i wanted a normal exess like £500 comp and say £250 voluntary then id be looking at about £6/7000 and some firms "more than" being one even qouted £15,000 my reply was "if i could afford that a year for...

would have to sort it cash anyway as iv not been drivng that long and my insurance comes with a £3000 exess so id still have to pay, so unless he pays through his insurance then its cash. just shocked when he came with the £1200 price for a cheap car with cheap parts.

from the look at the damage iv seen its just the wing, side of my car scraped side of the skoda, a relative who used to work in bodywork (number of years back now though) did say that up to him finishing, skodas were never that expnsive anyway to fix and body pannels were some of the cheapest...

Hi guys, could do with bit of advise, had a scrap with another car other day, anyway no damage to mine but other car (skoda, but forgot what model) needs new front wing, anyway were sorting this privatly rarther than going through insurance and he called today and said the cost of the repair...

thank guys, il have a look tomorow and double check, as mentioned it may just be capacitor start but deffinatly has SRS ballast, and yeah if it needs rewiring then thats no problem, and yeah know about the tubes only working if there that fat t12, got another 2 of them spare and think in its 30...

Wonder if anyone can help with this issue, we curently have a 35+ year old 6ft t12 Thorn flourecent light with high frequency srs ballast, lately when switching it on it wont work, then if we turn off and on again it comes on right away no problems, Could this be the capacitor on its way out...

thanks fore the help guys, there is a pannel running up the side of the chimney so pipes should be in there then, not good since that pannel has been decorated with the room about 6 months back. At the momen shes had to do like what was said in pervious post, turn all upstirs rads off, then on...

thanks for replys, Thats what she keeps having to do, turn all upstairs off each time she just wants hot water, wich is annoying when realy just flicking the switch should do that job. Cant say i noticed anything like the valve in the pic, when i changed the pump couple of years back, would...

Hi, wondering if anyone can help with this annoying problem, have a relative who was asking me about her heating, i know some about it but couldnt think whats causeing her problem, that is, its a 80s system, with back boiler replaced for another back boiler in 1994, with a Danfoss Randall time...

yeah, the "builders bag" is more like what im after, something that will hold something. Realy id like another like my old one, but cant find them and dont know who makes them. so may have to go for the "builders bag".

not really, the BT ones are more just a sort of cross between large pouch/ small bag. with 1 large pocket, 1 3/4 pocket and 2 small 1/4 pockets. The one i had lasted years befor the material got perforated with the screwdrivers. They look small and bit useless, but when you use them they hold...

Hi, Used to use one of the green/black tool pouches that the BT/ openreach guys use, for keeping my screwdrivrs and things like that in, however since its now in bits does anyone know where i can get hold of one? or who makes them? one i got came from a Ex bt guy who since moved away so cant...

Lamp holders are in good shape, from what i can see, nothing obviously wrong with them. Lamp makes vary we have tried, so far.. Osram, B&Q own, Asda, and i think phillips (cant be certain on that one) this problem happend with the old light fitting, now and again but normally it was just a pop...

Hi, Wonderd if somone can help me out, we have a 2 year old ceiling light, with 5 lamps in, 60W small Screw-in lamps. however when the light gets switched on a lamp blows,but instead of just going dark on the tip or making a pop sound its "blowing" with a loud band and after unscrewing the lamp...

Hi, Wonderd if somone can help me out, we have a 2 year old ceiling light, with 5 lamps in, 60W small Screw-in lamps. however when the light gets switched on a lamp blows,but instead of just going dark on the tip or making a pop sound its "blowing" with a loud band and after unscrewing the lamp...

hi, could do with some help, Have a Baxi back boiler that fires when set on "heating and water" but goes of within 5-10mins,making clicking, creeking, banging noises. When heating is on, only 1 rad is 2 inches warm and the flow end of the rad not all the way along. When controller is set to...

Hi, i need to change a 600x 600mm rad radiator and valves.but dont fance draining the system as its a primatic cylinder and dont want to risk problems with blockages, air locks .. would it be possible, to either cut pipes live (15mm ground floor so water goes on concrete house base) and put...

Dont think lights have earths in them, cant be certain though. but i know there wired in "singles" mainly all reds in switches with blacks in ceiling rose. looked into the cable 7/029 and it looks the same as what we have. however the cable is still flexable, no visable damage or cracks...

think circuit is ring final, only cause of type of fuse, which i think (withought going looking) is 30A rewirable, would age be any help, our house was wired in 1965, so were RFC or radials more common? Dont really know the size of cable, as its imperial stranded but has 7 strands which iv been...