Caporegime
What have you done to your car today?
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Bought a new (to me) one.
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fitted a rebuilt 02a gearbox with quaife lsd and 3.3 final drive to my Golf Gti this afternoon, going to finish it up on Saturday, looking forward to some extra grip!
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Removed the dash cam I fitted the other day. It was pretty poor quality so I've sent it back.
Caporegime
What was it?
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Congratulations, it's the right thing to do. Well done.
Soldato
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Haha, you BMW drivers are getting nervous. You might have to read the manual to find out how the indicators work 
I actually agree. Mine has served little purpose other than to cost me a new passenger window when someone broke it to steal the dashcam!
I don't, mines been worth it's weight in gold.
It caught a plonker who first punched my car, then drove off and hit a car in the car park.
I supplied the footage to the cars owner, they were able to claim off that persons insurance. They gave me £100 as an unwanted reward! (I think the damage to their car was very expensive).
The only reason I had it on video? The guy punched the car hard enough when walking past to wake up the dashcam lol
had to laugh, i hate the things
It's worth it's weight in gold because it's helped you once to reclaim less money than it cost? Sounds like a poor investment not worth having a weird spy camera hanging in your windscreen to me.
Just got back from France, saw hardly any there, seems the French are less bothered about recording everyone else going about their daily business.
Soldato
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Because France is hardly a glowing endorsement about anything 
I didn't pay for it lol.
I've caught lots of things on mine... And many people use them to help make a claim.
Why are you so against them?
I think he's against them because most people who have them are tools that create incidents just for the sake of getting footage to upload to YouTube. Or at least, that's what it seems most of the YouTube videos are all about anyway.
Obviously not everyone with a dashcam is like that though
I have one myself but I've only needed to take footage off it once in recent times. In fact that SD card probably only got taken out once in the last 2 years (and that was a month ago when an uninsured driver hit me).
Obviously not everyone with a dashcam is like that though
I have one myself but I've only needed to take footage off it once in recent times. In fact that SD card probably only got taken out once in the last 2 years (and that was a month ago when an uninsured driver hit me).I don't really understand your vehement opposition to dash cams, Fox. I mean, if they were horrendously expensive, or hard to install, I would. But they are relatively affordable and easy to set up and forget about until they are needed. Which seems to me a small price for the comfort of having evidence to back up motor claims, which can be notoriously hard to settle.
I don't use a dashcam in either car. But I have twice been involved in claims which were dragged out much longer than they should have been simply because the other party made false claims, making an already stressful process that much worse. Perhaps I'm over anxious, but in either case, a fifty quid dashcam would have settled the claims straight away.
I don't use a dashcam in either car. But I have twice been involved in claims which were dragged out much longer than they should have been simply because the other party made false claims, making an already stressful process that much worse. Perhaps I'm over anxious, but in either case, a fifty quid dashcam would have settled the claims straight away.
I don't think video surveillance of the general public is something that private citizens should be rushing to operate themselves. The constant stream of YouTube videos of people rushing at roundabouts to exploit other drivers honest mistakes for camera is a really not a great place for us to be, is it?
The reason that i am utterly against these things has been covered by Mr Fox, but to add to his comments i would also add that i just do not see or feel the need to operate a piece of equipment within your car, for eternity, which in all likelihood may never provide for any financial gain in your entire driving career.
Even in the event of a claim, i just dont understand peoples' need to go above and beyond to mitigate the resultant damages, your insurance covers your entire liability regardless. In reality claims require a little paperwork regardless of outcome, and will likely result in one way or another costing you a small amount, but we are talking an event which is likely at most a few times in your entire life.
I would certainly argue that installing a string of webcams over the years, to every vehicle you own, the cost of doing so, researching the latest model, the (slight) risk of theft of the camera itself, etc etc, is excessively laborious compared with simply not doing so, and accepting (primarily your insurers cost) the minute risk of a claim going against you.
Soldato
KwikFit will have used a machine which recovers any gas in the system as a first step, then pulls a vacuum and does a leak check. I'm assuming the machine found a leak at which point they stopped and went no further.
We have the same machine where I work, and they're great for finding leaks that don't exist! Only last weekend I regassed one of my own cars, it recovered 520g of gas (525g is the spec), did a vacuum and apparently found a leak! I manually charged the gas and it works perfectly.