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Question for you Spooks also to Neil or anyone else...... When Taking landscape pictures how do you get the sun to appear in that fashion, star burst / sun burst effect? I do a lot of hillwalking and would love that sort of effects in my pic's. If it helps I'm using a Canon 400D. Cheers, Alan.

Wow..... That's some big bucks been put into that....

Since I got the car mapped a few years ago by Mr. F, it's been V-Power for me ever since.

Welsho; Do you have Motor Legal protection on your insurance policy per chance? If so and you go through your insurance then your motor legal protection can be used to re-claim any uninsured losses i.e. your excess. But in this case it is as clear as night and day this would go down as a non fault claim for you, main factors on your side; your car was stationary (unattended?) and you have CCTV footage, and you have the third parties details. The only one thing I would say about using ACS or your own solicitor, is that if you’re not happy about what they are doing or the length of time it is taking and then call your insurance company to try and help out, they will not help at all they will just log the claim from the date you call them and then start the claim fresh they will not get involved with anything else you taken upon yourself to do on your own behalf. Alan.

I'm sure the car had a Mcrae gathering sticker on the rear window, I was in the wifes Honda civic when you buzz passed me on the round about leaving the Fort, the car sounds really nice. Alan.

Welsho- IMHO mate, from working in car insurance on the claims side of things (work for Esure), I would advise you to go through your insurance (that's just what I would do though). First of all do you know any details about the person who hit you, like name, address.... if not that's not to major thing. Fingers crossed you have her Reg if you do then your insurance company will be able to check on MID (Motor Insurance Database) and that would pull up the name of who she is insured with along with her policy number and there contact number. Now from what you have told in your very first post with the pic's, you said there is "video footage of her parking next to me and later checking the damage" any CCTV etc.. is like gold dust to a insurance company. With that sort of evidence and because you car was stationary at the time there is now way your insurance company should be looking to put this down as a Partly Responsible claim. Depending who are insured with they may even offer to pass the claim onto another company to deal with the whole claim, the reason the company I work for do this is because we know we will get our money back from the other party, As a result the other company are happy to take it on and because it would be classed as a non fault claim they would waive you excess right away and they would also provide you with a hire car (not to be confused with a courtesy car), which would be a car the same size as your doors, engine etc.. etc, and not a little ford KA or such like. If you go through your insurance and they don’t waive your excess, then as long as your insurance makes a full recovery from the other insurance company then you would get your excess that credit back to you. As this would be classed as a non fault claim it should not be rated upon at all at your next renewal. Or on the other hand mate you could contact her insurance company direct, stating you’re the third party who their client has hit and you would like them to deal with the claim, therefore your insurance company would not have to get involved at all. Also contacting her insurance company would let you find out if she has notified her company.... I know myself included if we have a bump or what not we don’t always tell the insurance company but we are meant to and this would be logged as a notification claim only, where the customer is only notifying the company but not claiming for the bump. If you don’t know who she is insured with and you know her Reg and want to find out more send me a PM.......... Sorry for going on and on... whatever happens hope the car gets sorts for you mate. Alan.

Blue new age fully stickered up in the Shell garage on Edinburgh Rd at Baillieston this afternoon. I was on my way out when you came in, your car is looking great, thanks for the wave. Alan.

Myself and the better half Lynda went yp to the cobbler for some walking / climbing on Saturday, what a day it was...

I have the game for the PS3 and finished it Monday night, when you finish the main game you can then unlock the zombie level. Alan

I have used them many times in the past and have to say they are a great bunch of guys who know Subaru's inside out, good fast service at a good price. But I would agree with Andy, stop by have a chat to Bill see what you think and take it from there. Alan.

Saw you at about 5.30ish this evening (10/11) parked on West Campbell St, car was looking nice and clean. I would have stopped and introduced myself but the weather of awful. Alan.

Yep, I seen the EVO 10 this morning over near Hamilton - and I have to say it looked very mean. Alan.

Gus, if you don't mind me asking where did you get the side decals? I really like them. Alan

Looking for some advice / help, I have a V3 sti with a Clifford concept 650 alarm, in the last couple of months I have noticed when I click the unlock button on the key fob it will not always unlock the doors… meaning I will have to use the key on the drivers door to unlock the central locking. When using the key fob the car always locks no probs, it’s just when trying to unlock through the key fob it won’t always unlock….. Any thought on what could be causing this??? Thanks in advance, Alan.

I thought it was great to watch, well done again to the 3 who made this happen. I thought the gearbox of white Group N sounded fab when VBH was driving but Mcrae's car sounded out of this world - just great.

Yep sky + at the ready as well. Here's hoping it's on tonight, hope there's some good footage. Alan.

brill.....

That time of year again, does anyone know or work for or own a friendly MOT station that would be able to help me out. Feel free to PM me. Thanks in advance, Alan.

with all of the above. A big thank you from myself and Lynda, the event was so well done. Alan.

Since there are pic's just finished cleaning mine.

yep, I'm another one who can't wait not long now.

I love it, looking good - that will get a few heads turned Alan

As has been said above, you def don’t have anything to worry about. I’m sure when next Saturday comes round it will be a mixed day of emotions for all, on one half we will be feeling so proud of what you three have organised and achieved, and on the other half there will be the emotions of the day and why we are there and I’m sure at some point everyone will shed a tear or have a lump in there throat. My self and Lynda will be there that’s for sure. Alan.

Cheers mate, I'm no carpenter, It was quite straight forward and I’m more than happy with the end result, plus the wife has given it her seal or approval....lol Alan.

Craig, I've also been looking for someone to build double wooden gates, I was quoted around the £300 / £350 mark...!!! I found this site (gates), I ended up just buying all the wood hinges locks etc and making it myself. In total it cost me about £120 / £130 and I'm happy with the end look see below.