Water in the Engine!

Sirbendy

Makes me glad I got away with nothing more than a blown headgasket when I plonked my Astra bonnet deep in a ford...it kept going, bless it.. Dash lit up like a christmas tree.

Hintza

Yes; engineer passed it for repairs yesterday evening. Expect it back on Friday. Out if interest how do they get the get the £500 excess? Do I have to pay the garage the £500?

ariba10

Probably, when you go to pick up the vehicle.

Hintza

This thread pushed me into acxtion to sort out the recovery invoice and just ask them the question of how to pay my £500 excess (to the garage as we thought) to be told no, you have a £850 excess..........argh.

Quick check of the paperwork and its a £350 compulsory excess and the £500 voluntary excess.........grrr.

How did I sign up to this agreement with the missus that I would take care of the cars. She breaks them and I pay.

Whilst she has been driving the cars this year we have had:-

2 x Tyres (Panda) separate incidents where she has ripped the sidewall and needless to say the first time round was the new tyre and second time round was the new replacement tyre. Not the old one that needed replaced anyway.

Reports to me one day that the car (Panda) is not breaking very well! Hardly surprising since we are now metal on metal and must have been like that or at least noticeable for a numvber of days before.

Engine falls out of the Panda requiring new drive shaft etc. (To be fair this was not her fault ) but I suspect had I been driving it I might have noticed something amiss before it hit the deck.

And now this a new Engine for the Jeep.

Not bad for a year's driving.

There is another one, which I will get slated for on here. Discovered the Panda's MOT ran out 11 gays ago whilst digging out all the paperwork for this incident. So it's booked in tomorrow.

Just call me Carlos!!

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vikingaero

Hintza wrote: »

Quick check of the paperwork and its a £350 compulsory excess and the £500 voluntary excess.........grrr.

F. me! That's a hefty excess. I'd expect that on a 17 year old noob, but £850 on someone with more years is a blinder. Did it reduce the premium substantially? I think you need to change insurers at renewal.

Hintza

vikingaero wrote: »

F. me! That's a hefty excess. I'd expect that on a 17 year old noob, but £850 on someone with more years is a blinder. Did it reduce the premium substantially? I think you need to change insurers at renewal.

Oops pressed thanks instead of quote

Think at the time I assumed it was just £500 and was working on the the principal that will make make it cheaper. But for the life of me I can't remember by how much. Will think twice the next time.

Just had a look at the V5 and no mention of engine number in it. Just states Diesel? Old Merc V5 has the engine number noted.

Wondering whether I will tell Jeep (guess I will have to )

Currently getting into an argument with them about the VED which I have covered in another thread but got no replies to.

The broker who I leased the car through was wound up last year so I don't even have someone I can fight with.

When I ordered the car I asked all the noraml questions. Such as:- "Is it taxed for the duration of the lease?" Of course the answer was yes. I have since discovered that in fact Mercedes Benz finance only tax it for the first 12 months. So that is another £400 I wasn't expecting to pay.

But I took delivery on my 24 month contract first week in February 2008 but the car was registered on 31 January 2008 so in fact I only get 11 months VED. All Mercedes Benz can say is just cash in your VED certificate when the car comes back to us! But of course that will cost me another month or thereabouts.

So i need to work on Mercedes Benz Finance to get this sorted out.

Compared to my first lease this one is a real pain in the backside.