please no men in black jokes, i'm talking about the Motor Insurance Bureau, , 1 or 2 of you may remember my little thread on the drunk driver wiping out 4 cars and not stopping...https://passionford.com/forum/genera...-gggrrrrr.html. anyway, as it turned out the van he was driving had a clone and it was the clone that was insured so the insurance company told me to swivel and as i didn't see why i should lose 7 years of hard earned NCB i didn't claim on my insurance. so i contacted the MIB and put a claim in, during that time the driver was convicted, banned for 46 months, 200 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £500 compensation for causing £18,000 worth of damage?? . £300 of that to me, so i thought "nice one, i can at least replace the car with a little banger with straight rear 1/4's" only to find out he's on the dole and is paying me £5 a month!! so ill be paid off in 5 years, nice. so finally the MIB get back to me, have confirmed that im not telling tales or making up stories, , and have paid me for my fiesta, £825, which i'm well happy with as i can now replace the battered bit of shit with something that doesn't make me look like a twat (well not as much of a twat, ) its taken 5 months but i got there in the end, so for anyone caught up in an uninsured driver crash, don't despair, you can win in the end. that is all.