New car disaster!

[BoldonLad]

They (webuyanycar) may be poor value but they are very efficient. The £350 they were offering was very simple and zero hassle so worth it to me. Just drove less than a mile there, gave them the keys, walked home, and the money was in my account within a couple of hours. ULEZ was about to come into force which would have meant paying each time I drove it.

exactly, it is hassle free, and simple. There is a cost implication to that service of course, but, personal choice.

 

[CXRAndy]

I'll shortly be advertising my car - I looked at marketplace and ebay for identical cars to mineand they were listed for between £3k - £4.5k. WBAC offered be £1850. I wouldn't use them unless I was desperate.

When it comes to service history, if someone has taken the time to document a load of service items then I assume they've done it. The sort of person to skip servicing I imagine is also the sort not to bother with made up paperwork

I've used Car-wow to sell a high performance Audi. Got a good price, equal to what mainline dealers were selling the same vehicle for at the time.

A database of dealers, independent and official bid on your car, the winner then sends a driver company to verify the car is as advertised- which it is, you have to send loads of photos of vehicle and documents to Car-Wow before hand.

Maybe because it was a rare vehicle it got a good price, but the process was easy with Car-Wow

 

[Dadam]

They (webuyanycar) may be poor value but they are very efficient. The £350 they were offering was very simple and zero hassle so worth it to me. Just drove less than a mile there, gave them the keys, walked home, and the money was in my account within a couple of hours. ULEZ was about to come into force which would have meant paying each time I drove it.

The auction place I used was pretty good (apart from the issue with not finding the service history!) and of course you're not guaranteed a sale or a good price. In my case webuyanycar offered £950 which was a good 300 below market value. I dropped the car off at Manheim auctions in Leeds and they put it into the Wednesday auction and it didn't meet the reserve. Then they put it into the Saturday auction and it sold for £1350 so I was happy. I'd taken some time to wash and polish it so it looked decent.

 

[Fastpedaller]

It's a bit of a lottery I think. When we bought our new car in 2016 we reluctantly traded in the 7 -year old Fiat Grande Punto. Because we live in rural Norfolk it's (even more) difficult to sell privately. We negotiated £400 off the ticket price of the new car but thought the offer for the Fiat was poor until we looked on Autotrader and saw similar advertised by dealers for a similar price. The main dealer said "They just go to auction", and I was curious to see what it realised but couldn't find it online. This was in October, and each month I looked online on the the .gov site to see if it was back on the road. It was re-taxed in March, so (although it was the first car we had ever traded in) I consider we made the right choice.

 

[Cavalol]

In the USA folk wall about with signs printed on their T shirts to confound Tesla drivers in just this manner.

My EV occasionally speeds up for what seemed no reason at all when on cruise control. Turns out they 'read' speed signs like the ones on the back of some European HGV trailers, so it accelerates to 90mph as it doesn't twig it's supposed to be km/h, nor that it's not actually a road sign.

 

[grldtnr]

My EV occasionally speeds up for what seemed no reason at all when on cruise control. Turns out they 'read' speed signs like the ones on the back of some European HGV trailers, so it accelerates to 90mph as it doesn't twig it's supposed to be km/h, nor that it's not actually a road sign.

That is rather alarming , if you write it recognises the unit value i.e. 90 , and not unit metric , I e. M/pH or km / h , , for instance say it reads 110 km / HR as the speed limit , whichever equates to 75 mph here.

A prime example NOT to have these systems fitted.

 

[Psamathe]

My EV occasionally speeds up for what seemed no reason at all when on cruise control. Turns out they 'read' speed signs like the ones on the back of some European HGV trailers, so it accelerates to 90mph as it doesn't twig it's supposed to be km/h, nor that it's not actually a road sign.

(I don't have an EV)
Do these cars also reduce speed when they pass those non-mandatory School Speed "limit" signs, the ones with the flashing lights that communities put-up where there is no such speed limit?

Most I've seen have the large "20" but not within a circle.

Ian

 

[Psamathe]

Another thought

My EV occasionally speeds up for what seemed no reason at all when on cruise control. Turns out they 'read' speed signs like the ones on the back of some European HGV trailers, so it accelerates to 90mph as it doesn't twig it's supposed to be km/h, nor that it's not actually a road sign.

Some villages seem to try and "encourage" vehicles to slow down using stickers on wheely bins left by the road.

I've never investigated what legally constitutes a "speed limit sign" but eg a "20" on a white background inside a red circle but stuck on the side of a wheely bin - is that a legal speed limit sign and would a householder be breaking the law if they stuck one on their wheely bin and left it roadside?

Seems a way that villages suffering speed problems could in effect apply their own limits to EVs and thus increasingly over time resolve the problem.

Ian

 

[Marchrider]

Another thought

Some villages seem to try and "encourage" vehicles to slow down using stickers on wheely bins left by the road.

I've never investigated what legally constitutes a "speed limit sign" but eg a "20" on a white background inside a red circle but stuck on the side of a wheely bin - is that a legal speed limit sign and would a householder be breaking the law if they stuck one on their wheely bin and left it roadside?

Seems a way that villages suffering speed problems could in effect apply their own limits to EVs and thus increasingly over time resolve the problem.

Ian

Impersonating a speed sign - lol


in a village near me a resident made a bird box in the style of a speed camera and placed it in his garden but next to the road - the police or the highways authority made him take it down as it could cause a distraction. I don't know if he was forced legally or just persuaded

 

[Drago]

Impersonating a speed sign - lol


in a village near me a resident made a bird box in the style of a speed camera and placed it in his garden but next to the road - the police or the highways authority made him take it down as it could cause a distraction. I don't know if he was forced legally or just persuaded

I think the dibble asked nicely as they have no powers to do otherwise, but the planning authorities told him it was unauthorised and they can get quite heavy with court and fines,etc, for planning breaches.

 

[Tenkaykev]

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Impersonating a speed sign - lol


in a village near me a resident made a bird box in the style of a speed camera and placed it in his garden but next to the road - the police or the highways authority made him take it down as it could cause a distraction. I don't know if he was forced legally or just persuaded

Which begs the question as to why regular speed camera's aren't considered a distraction?

 

[grldtnr]

No , it has to be a legal speed limit set by the local authority, a Village putting these signs up have no right to do so, it is only advisory, and wouldn't be enforceable unless it was a statutory legal limit and sign.
As for speed cameras, they may be a distraction, but if the 'Lilly' or local authority have erected them ,then they are to enforce speeding , so not in the sense a distraction

 

[CXRAndy]

I've never investigated what legally constitutes a "speed limit sign"

There is a whole raft of legislation regarding signage, size, layout, position. TSRGD Regs

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/contents/made


I've used said legislation to cancel an illegal parking zone. I got my wife, her colleagues out of parking tickets. But the best bit was, the council had to refund tickets going back two years, literally hundreds of £60 fines

 

[Psamathe]

No , it has to be a legal speed limit set by the local authority, a Village putting these signs up have no right to do so, it is only advisory, and wouldn't be enforceable unless it was a statutory legal limit and sign.

Thinking more about these EVs that apparently recognise "speed signs" to whilst it might not be enforceable it might automatically cause those EVs exceeding the unauthorised sign to slow down anyway (as they don't know it's unauthorised and can't recognise it's stuck to a wheely bin rather than on a Highways installed post.

I suppose my thoughts are that if EVs are recognising eg speed limited stickers on othere vehicles as speed signs and acting on them, can a village exploit that shortcoming to reduce speeds through their village?

Ian

 

[grldtnr]

Thinking more about these EVs that apparently recognise "speed signs" to whilst it might not be enforceable it might automatically cause those EVs exceeding the unauthorised sign to slow down anyway (as they don't know it's unauthorised and can't recognise it's stuck to a wheely bin rather than on a Highways installed post.

I suppose my thoughts are that if EVs are recognising eg speed limited stickers on othere vehicles as speed signs and acting on them, can a village exploit that shortcoming to reduce speeds through their village?

Ian

Let's hope they can & do, but there's no way they are enforceable