GTI Accident Damage - advice needed

[Watts]

You'd have thought in these times of electronics manufacturers of trucks and to some extent cars, could have the controls interchangeable between lhd and rhd.

You mean like road sweeper or gully emptying lorries?

www.truckandtrackmagazine.com/news_item.php?wnID=6115

I was thinking more where one set of controls could be moved accordingly. I've seen it work on some concept cars.

[GTI_Ant]

Kind of ironic seeing the IAM sticker in the window.
UK spec trucks have mirrors all over the place nowadays, mostly to make sure moronic cyclists can be seen and as Turkey is part of the EU...

When did Turkey join the EU?  I hate being alongside trucks.  I tend to wait behind until a gap is there so I can get past it quickly.

[Exonian]

Kind of ironic seeing the IAM sticker in the window.
UK spec trucks have mirrors all over the place nowadays, mostly to make sure moronic cyclists can be seen and as Turkey is part of the EU...

When did Turkey join the EU?  I hate being alongside trucks.  I tend to wait behind until a gap is there so I can get past it quickly.

Aren't they an associate member or something? I don't think they're proper members but I'm sure they had some sort of member benefits? I'll have to google it later when I have more time. They were forever trying to gain proper membership but it's a long time since I had to deal with such things so maybe I'm 30 years out of date! I'd assumed if their trucks were trundling all over Europe they'd have to meet EU standards for safety etc.
Maybe it's just NATO they joined properly? Or did they not?

Moving swiftly on...

[GTI_Ant]

Kind of ironic seeing the IAM sticker in the window.
UK spec trucks have mirrors all over the place nowadays, mostly to make sure moronic cyclists can be seen and as Turkey is part of the EU...

When did Turkey join the EU?  I hate being alongside trucks.  I tend to wait behind until a gap is there so I can get past it quickly.

Aren't they an associate member or something? I don't think they're proper members but I'm sure they had some sort of member benefits? I'll have to google it later when I have more time. They were forever trying to gain proper membership but it's a long time since I had to deal with such things so maybe I'm 30 years out of date! I'd assumed if their trucks were trundling all over Europe they'd have to meet EU standards for safety etc.
Maybe it's just NATO they joined properly? Or did they not?

Moving swiftly on...

Definitely NATO.

[Gnasher]

Turkey are not members of the EU due to (amongst other things) still being seen as an occupying force in an EU country (namely Cyprus)

[Toon]

The car is in the repairers now and the work is going according to plan. Should have it back next week - will post "before and after" pics when ready.

[JBirchy]

Just a slight word of caution with UK Assistance. About 18 months ago, a lady decided the lane she was in wasn't wide enough for her Toyota Yaris and thought she'd use some of my lane, smashing my wing mirror off in the process. To be fair, she admitted liability and her insurance company, Direct Line, were absolutely excellent.

The car needed a new wing mirror, and the drivers door respraying. Unfortunately the work undertaken by UK Assistance was shocking. Not only that, the car returned with a gouge out of one of the alloys. Fortunately I'd been very meticulous and taken loads of pictures before it went on the lorry. Of course, they said it was there before hand but thanks to the date stamps on my pictures (taken the same day it was recovered), I could prove it wasn't.

Not only that, they needed 3 goes to get the paint finish spot on. They left loads of sanding marks, overspray (all over the alloys...), and weird marks all over the place. Ended up getting a claims manager from Direct Line out to view it, and as soon as he saw the car he was horrified and arranged to get it sorted until I was happy.

Hopefully they'll do better with yours!

[barrym381]

Just a slight word of caution with UK Assistance. About 18 months ago, a lady decided the lane she was in wasn't wide enough for her Toyota Yaris and thought she'd use some of my lane, smashing my wing mirror off in the process. To be fair, she admitted liability and her insurance company, Direct Line, were absolutely excellent.

The car needed a new wing mirror, and the drivers door respraying. Unfortunately the work undertaken by UK Assistance was shocking. Not only that, the car returned with a gouge out of one of the alloys. Fortunately I'd been very meticulous and taken loads of pictures before it went on the lorry. Of course, they said it was there before hand but thanks to the date stamps on my pictures (taken the same day it was recovered), I could prove it wasn't.

Not only that, they needed 3 goes to get the paint finish spot on. They left loads of sanding marks, overspray (all over the alloys...), and weird marks all over the place. Ended up getting a claims manager from Direct Line out to view it, and as soon as he saw the car he was horrified and arranged to get it sorted until I was happy.

Hopefully they'll do better with yours!

was it the car in your signature they fixed the red mk7 

[JBirchy]

Just a slight word of caution with UK Assistance. About 18 months ago, a lady decided the lane she was in wasn't wide enough for her Toyota Yaris and thought she'd use some of my lane, smashing my wing mirror off in the process. To be fair, she admitted liability and her insurance company, Direct Line, were absolutely excellent.

The car needed a new wing mirror, and the drivers door respraying. Unfortunately the work undertaken by UK Assistance was shocking. Not only that, the car returned with a gouge out of one of the alloys. Fortunately I'd been very meticulous and taken loads of pictures before it went on the lorry. Of course, they said it was there before hand but thanks to the date stamps on my pictures (taken the same day it was recovered), I could prove it wasn't.

Not only that, they needed 3 goes to get the paint finish spot on. They left loads of sanding marks, overspray (all over the alloys...), and weird marks all over the place. Ended up getting a claims manager from Direct Line out to view it, and as soon as he saw the car he was horrified and arranged to get it sorted until I was happy.

Hopefully they'll do better with yours!

was it the car in your signature they fixed the red mk7 

It was yes, I'm intrigued as to why you ask?!

[barrym381]

Just a slight word of caution with UK Assistance. About 18 months ago, a lady decided the lane she was in wasn't wide enough for her Toyota Yaris and thought she'd use some of my lane, smashing my wing mirror off in the process. To be fair, she admitted liability and her insurance company, Direct Line, were absolutely excellent.

The car needed a new wing mirror, and the drivers door respraying. Unfortunately the work undertaken by UK Assistance was shocking. Not only that, the car returned with a gouge out of one of the alloys. Fortunately I'd been very meticulous and taken loads of pictures before it went on the lorry. Of course, they said it was there before hand but thanks to the date stamps on my pictures (taken the same day it was recovered), I could prove it wasn't.

Not only that, they needed 3 goes to get the paint finish spot on. They left loads of sanding marks, overspray (all over the alloys...), and weird marks all over the place. Ended up getting a claims manager from Direct Line out to view it, and as soon as he saw the car he was horrified and arranged to get it sorted until I was happy.

Hopefully they'll do better with yours!

was it the car in your signature they fixed the red mk7 

It was yes, I'm intrigued as to why you ask?!

park it under a street light at night see if you can see a difference in shade  as red is terrible to get right