From the 1st of October three new motoring laws has been passed. The one about a 30 day guarantee when you buy a new or used car looks good.

 

https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-three-new-motoring-laws-that-you-need-to-know-about?cpc=CXK-FB-Content-20151013-Motoring+Laws&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=ad2&utm_campaign=CXK-FB-Content-20151013-Motoring+Laws

I like the parking one and the smoking with kids in the car. I think they should just ban kids completely! :lol:

I like the parking one and the smoking with kids in the car. I think they should just ban kids completely! :lol:

 

We were all kids once even you mate :) but when I think of the amount of smoke I have inhaled from other people its dreadful. You still get people smoking in restaurants on the continent :sneaky2:

The 30 day refund one is, I think, a problem in the making.

 

You get some waster who buys a car and then finds out he can't insure it (after driving away, of course). All he has to do is knacker the car and he gets all his money back, through absolutely no fault of the seller's!

I was under the impression that the refund one was for dealers and not private sellers. It would be unfair if you could just refund a car after a genuine sale.

Some good news there Gaz - and nice to see a bit of common sense prevailing.....:cool:

 

I was under the impression that the refund one was for dealers and not private sellers. It would be unfair if you could just refund a car after a genuine sale.

 

You're right - it is just for car dealers; it's a good idea in principle but the consumer will no doubt have to prove the whole car was faulty. I reckon with used cars, that is a grey area. as a single component can be faulty; which if replaced renders the car usable once again. Still any extra protection for the consumer is usually a step in the right direction!

 

Richard

As a smoker i agree with not smoking in the car with kids on board, however i dont need the government telling me that i cant do it should i wish, it should be left to common sense, after all the police have admitted, they are highly unlikely to pursue it, lack of manpower and already our nanny state is treating us like fricking imbeciles and likely sat in the smoky bars of the commons trying to conjure up something else to make money or stitch us up with :biggrin:

 

Oh yes, tax on sugar will be next, the answer would be to make everything sugar free or sugar alternative, paying more will not stop obesity, another money maker :thumbdown:

The smoking one makes me laugh:

 

"Cars with open sunroofs will still leave drivers liable to fines if there are under-18s aboard, however a 17-year old travelling alone in a private vehicle will not be fined."

 

Surely said 17 year old should still be fined for smoking while underage and fined for illegally buying tobacco products?!

 

I see so many people texting and facebooking on their phones, i think the police should concentrate on that before arresting people for smoking...

The amount of people that text on there phone while driving is unbelievable and young girls seam to be the worst offenders.

I'm on the road for about 10 hoyrs aday, 6 days a week at the moment and I would say a good 40% are using their phones. I saw one lady going round a roundabout phone in one hand, e-cig in the other! How people can even think its a good idea I don't know...

No law about smoking in your own home with children :thumbdown: so its not really a law is it, just another way to sting the motorist for a fine, bit nonsensical in terms of a law :yes:

They should make parking on the pavement illegal also

They should make parking on the pavement illegal also

 

The highway code states that it is illegal to drive on the pavement. full stop. However its not yet illegal to park on the pavement. some cities/towns/councils will put up sign in certain areas to ban it and london has a law. However if its illegal to drive on the pavement, then to park on the pavement, you must have driven on it at some point!

The highway code states that it is illegal to drive on the pavement. full stop. However its not yet illegal to park on the pavement. some cities/towns/councils will put up sign in certain areas to ban it and london has a law. However if its illegal to drive on the pavement, then to park on the pavement, you must have driven on it at some point!

 

There are actually parts of London where they have parking spaces half on the pavement and half off. I can think of a few examples near Hounslow where that is in place.

 

Edited October 25, 201510 yr by Funkysi

If its a wide pavement like that in the pic, then i think its a good idea, pedestrians can still use the path and the traffic on the road can pass unhindered.

Yeah that looks fine, what isn't fine is people parking on a narrow pavement outside my house a nats tit away from where my lawn starts....

 

Thankfully for my blood pressure I have moved house since

*Gnat