So you take your Monaro to have a leak fixed...
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I seem to recall that one of the insurance companies (Aviva?) tried to introduce such a system a while ago in the UK. It supposedly recorded details such as speed, mileage & location and offered you a huge discount for installing it in your car. I got an estimate at the time and the insurance was actually no cheaper.
edited: An even better automated driving recorder with built in GPS module, two cameras (forward and internal rear) and an audio channel called the T-Eye ADR-3000 at £299.95; google it, two detailed reviews, a video clip on YouTube are available. I believe that these are now used by some more imaginative driving instructors - COOL!
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Soldato
Kwik Fit did the same to me.
I made the massive mistake of leaving my Impreza with the local spanner monkeys for tyres and someone asked me why I was going so fast on the dual carriageway at lunchtime.
I complained as much and they denied it. No proof so nothing I could do. Made a complaint to head office and got threatened in town by a group of them for my trouble.
Lesson learned I guess.
I made the massive mistake of leaving my Impreza with the local spanner monkeys for tyres and someone asked me why I was going so fast on the dual carriageway at lunchtime.
I complained as much and they denied it. No proof so nothing I could do. Made a complaint to head office and got threatened in town by a group of them for my trouble.
Lesson learned I guess.
Caporegime
yea tbh^^ i wouldnt let the car out of my sight.. especially if it was just for tyres or something..id be sat there watching hawkishly.
Don
I'm sure the people down at Road Hawk are rubbing their hands
Would be a pretty good method of advertising if they simply modified the video to show that speed and posted it out on a few forums
was going to say this, imagine it's just a viral advert
That's disgusting. I hate to hear when people like that get away with it.
Soldato
Whilst they broke the law, which is not great, none of us would ever do that, other than excessive speed, they werent exactly hooning around smoking the tyres etc.
Looks to me like a test drive loop to see if the water leak was fixed. I guess if they had driven it at 60, handed it back, and the car had leaked again afterwards, it would have just been a return to the garage unsatisfied
Looks to me like a test drive loop to see if the water leak was fixed. I guess if they had driven it at 60, handed it back, and the car had leaked again afterwards, it would have just been a return to the garage unsatisfied
Hi, I'm the poor owner of the Monaro, just thought I'd answer a couple of remarks here. The Roadhawk is actually not visible from the drivers seat, it sits behind the mirror. You can see it from the passenger seat but behind the mirror there are a couple of things e.g. the automatic headlight detector and the GPS ariel for the satnav. So it's not obvious what it is even from there.
I do have it plugged into the cig lighter socket in the arm rest between the seats. Thats not visible unless you open the arm rest.
It really is a good piece of kit, records G-force x,y and z, speed, GPS and of course video. I records about 20-30 hours of video on the 16GB card I have in there. The reason I bought it was the Monaro is a magnet for 17 year olds in turbo charged saxos who think it's great fun screech away at traffic lights. It happens so often that I thought sooner or later there'd be an accident and I might as well have it on video, for insurance purposes if nothing else.
and no I don't join in, I track the car from time to time that's far more fun than public roads and far less dangerous and of course no worries about the old bill pulling you over.
I do have it plugged into the cig lighter socket in the arm rest between the seats. Thats not visible unless you open the arm rest.
It really is a good piece of kit, records G-force x,y and z, speed, GPS and of course video. I records about 20-30 hours of video on the 16GB card I have in there. The reason I bought it was the Monaro is a magnet for 17 year olds in turbo charged saxos who think it's great fun screech away at traffic lights. It happens so often that I thought sooner or later there'd be an accident and I might as well have it on video, for insurance purposes if nothing else.
and no I don't join in, I track the car from time to time that's far more fun than public roads and far less dangerous and of course no worries about the old bill pulling you over.
Soldato
Nice to see you sign up to here 
Are the rumours about the police contacting you true?
Are the rumours about the police contacting you true?
Associate
So any charges in relation to the garage that you know of?
Glad to see you signed up and are willing to discuss your experience, stick around
Glad to see you signed up and are willing to discuss your experience, stick around
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If you will forgive my asking
- for how long have you had the Roadhawk?
- how much did it cost?
- did you research it and any alternatives?
- I take it that it is very easy to fit?
Don
welcome to the forums
Cheers all thanks for the welcome.
I have found a new garage. The problem is, the Redditch guys handles the lpg side of things. The rest of the car I use Monkfish. So the next nearest LPG specialist is over in Coventry, about 45 mins away. It'll just have to do.
Bought the roadhawk from their website for £280 I think it was, I've had it since about March. No I'm not getting kick backs from them (I wasn't bright enough to ask!)
I have found a new garage. The problem is, the Redditch guys handles the lpg side of things. The rest of the car I use Monkfish. So the next nearest LPG specialist is over in Coventry, about 45 mins away. It'll just have to do.
Bought the roadhawk from their website for £280 I think it was, I've had it since about March. No I'm not getting kick backs from them (I wasn't bright enough to ask!)
Caporegime
Its always nice to see the owner sign-up, welcome, glad the police are involved a garage treating your car like this really isn't on
Associate
that looks far too much like an advertising video for roadhawk tbh.
Actually Roadhawk produced the high quality video themselves based on the orignal files. Roadhawk records all the data in a special file format. You can't produce a distributable file format directly from them. I used a screen scraper to create the youtube file.
They obviously have a better method of creating an AVI.
They obviously have a better method of creating an AVI.