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Will they move back the fender in place amd take the dent out? Also, will they paint just the dent area or whe whole piece upto front? How will they blend it in? Smart repairs are horrible.

Noticed the dent below brake light. And notice the gap how the body has shifted.

No, it was not me driving. Do my lexus got rear ended. Damage to bumpet, exhaust, break light and fender. I personally hate... hate... botched up jobs and I run away from repaired cars. Wanted to clear this as the follwing question is important for me. Will insurance fix all this to high quality? The fender damage means the whole section has to be repaired... how will they achive this without a mark? Will they fix the exhaust that went in? The tip cover broke off as well and tip bent. Will they replace the bumper or repair? I hate smart repair. This car never seen any accident. What a mess... lesson do not give car to anyone who has been in recent accident. They should not be allowed to drive!!!!!

Lady driver here, thought I would clear some things up as it seems I need more help now what happened was : I was heading straight on, roundabout has good visibility so I had checked my right(no cars), front(no cars). To my left, I had seen a white car, about 50m back from the roundabout, approaching, but not at or near the roundabout yet. I went in the roundabout, then the white car came in front of me, from my left, I hit the brakes and swerved right to avoid him, but it didn't work. So I had hit him, with my nearside, on his rear wing ( small hatchback car, jackcramerr confused my witness with my driver, the witness had a van, not the driver ). He did not hit the breaks at all and did not steer at all, no attempts to avoid the 'collision'. First mistake I made, I moved my car out of the way, out of the roundabout, without taking pictures first( second mistake was not voice-recording everyone the whole time we were there). Anyway, a witness stopped to help out, he called the emergency services. Next thing, ambulance comes, both me and the driver say we are fine, don't need medical help, they leave. While we wait for the police, I asked this witness : did you see what happened? he goes : "I was behind him, he didn't stop, he went straight through, but you were coming on too fast". Second thing, police comes, 2 PCs ( one PCs recognises the witness), I get spoken to separately, driver and witness get spoken to separately ( the PC that knows the witness talks to the pair of them). PCs compare stories, tell me that the pair of them are saying the driver was already in the roundabout when I came on, I strongly deny, because it's not true, but this gets brushed off. By this point they'd already decided what's what, and to not get involved or do anything, so the second PC, or the witness or driver didn't even hear me denying. In any case, I was completely shaken and I was acting as if it was my fault, because of no experience, and because you are told that the driver that hits is always held at fault. I'd add that I had just dropped my xmas cards and presents at the post office down the road, you can actually see the roundabout and junction from the post office, so I could have not picked up any considerable speed in such a short distance having just set off. Police record it as an incident, but leave it to the insurance companies. Just before we all left, I hear the driver say 'I saw her coming, but I though she has enough time to stop'. I call the police the next day, and after some insisting he tells me that both the witness and driver said the driver stopped, checked, he didn't see any car, proceeded in the roundabout and I came out of nowhere. ( notice Mr witness changed his statement from what he told us before the police came, I wonder if the other driver asked for his help). It's now with the insurance, whom are still working on the liability, but I got a letter today from a solicitors ( passed to my insurers now), should I assume that they are claiming for an injury? Seems to me that this is now about who shouts the loudest, so I am looking for advice to try and prove that I was not at fault. Really quite sad over the witness clearly changing his statement ( you cannot say he 'reviewed the circumstances' and later realised that he did in fact stop ) and the driver lying about already being in the roundabout, he told my insurers that he was already halfway on the roundabout. Now the interesting thing is that, when I told the person in the liability team dealing with my case that I was already in the roundabout when this other car came, he said that in a mini roundabout you cannot 'be established' because as soon as you are in, you are out. So surely then the other driver can't use this as an argument either. Wondering what arguments do they think they have to hold me fully accountable when they failed to give me right of way? If you made it this far with the lecture, thanks for any advice that you plan on giving

I will share details here. Got a letter from lawyer of van driver blaming the lady for accident.

I can hear hiss sound. It is much more audible when cold. Reduces when car warms up. Sounds like belt. Is this common for a belt or could there be something else? I will post a video if I can capute the sound on video. Thanks.

Ah Subway! They used to be good weren't they?

I have a JBL 12inch sub and a Mono block amp 750 watt RMS. My car already has ML audio but since I have this sub and amp, I am thinking of installing it. Does anyone have the wiring diagram for ML audio and amp? I need to figure out how I can feed high input to this JBL amp. JBL amp accepts high and low input. Also, how can I run 0 AWG power cable (it is very thick, note I said 0 AWG) and what should be my grouning point? I am thinking of keep the amp and sub in the boot. Thanks.

She did not have the indicater on as she had to go straight on. She uses this road quiet often and she is used to it. She says she saw the van when she was on round about. The Van cut infront, she tried to avoid the accident buy turning right but the van driver instead of braking, accelerated. The car thus hit the rear of the van. Van ended on the pavement accross the road with 180 degree spin. Very clear from location of van that it was speeding and did not bother to stop seeing the car. Van driver had admitted to lady she did not see her car. But when cops came he changed statement saying she came too fast.

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What a shame.... The witness also knew the guy and in fact the van owner is popular in area as he drives for council. Can she say all this now to her insurance to atleast start an investigation? I hate when in justice is done due to corruption.

Car clearly will be a write off. Through out the history of this lady, she has never had a single accident or over speeding ticket. I personally trust her but as always with ladies... it takes days for them to get out of a shock and speak up. Let me know if any details are required and I will make her type it here. Thanks.

Need advise. Someone I know has been in an accident. It happened at a round about where she was taking the second exit straight. A van came in front of her from right (first exist). It was a mini roundabout. She says she was not overspeedng. Cops came and knew the van owner. The lady was in a shock to tell the whole incident. Cops bullied the lady into saying it is her fault. Witness was there who initially said van was at fault but then changed the statement. Van owner says car came too fast and when he approached roundabout there was no car on his left. Now this lady told me the story today after 2 days.... What a shame, I know... how to fix this?

What do you guys think of website Tayna betteries ? I am getting Excide 030 75A 630CA for 77 pounds.

Need advise. This is the first time in my life I have come accross a parking fine. Got a courtesy car from lexus. CT200h (horrible car btw). The place I parked it, last year it was free parking. This year some areas were free not all for reasons I do not know. There was no sings to indicate that. There were double yellow lines where I parked but they were 100% covered by leaves. I left the car there and walked away as I did nkt see the yellow lines. Came back to find parking ticket. It was abvious someone moved the leaves and under the Ct200 wheels. I was getting late but I took picture. I tried to argue with council but they rejected my argument. Seems unfair to me. What do you guys say? Seems nasty to be honest.

YBX3030 has very low CCA.

107 pounds...

I smoked a Ford ST. Looked fairly new. A few times. Gave me a salute afterwards. Boy racer don't know how to shift. Granny shiftin not double clutching like you should.

Exide is on eurocarparts. Optima on Amazon

Paid service?

I will check mine once I get a chance. One thing I remember for sure is that it is not SLA battery. One can top it off if required. Pretty sure it came with it, strangely.

Thanks John. Bosch seems to be 70Ah and 630CCA. Slightly lower spec than Exide which is 75Ah and 650CCA. So might not consider it. Will check what is the spec of exisiting Exide Battery that came with Lexus from Factory.

And what do you guys think of Optima battery? 50Ah but impressive 850CCA? Or the battery is better than the car?

What about Excide 030 or 031 (post reversed). 4 year. 75Ah and 650 CCA... Does that work for is250?