I must say this thread has become hilarious. I started with a serious post about an insurance claim and for those who understood the original post, it has gone slightly off piste. A broad discussion has ensued, covering such diverse subjects as my toilet seats routine , Russian substance abuse, shopping retrieval safety, gate shaming etc. I think I should visit this forum more often as it’s made me chuckle despite my anger at AXA 
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I’d like some extra help looking after the blindspot. Is this a bolt on from your car’s manufacturer?
@Aldy_77 you have no idea 
. Has anyone got a link for the Critair thread ? @ChrisMann? @Corona?
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Bastards!
I’ve forgotten where the sticker goes…
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Welcome to SF. Where everyday is just hilarious 
No its a bolt on from Ali express most likely, other purchasing sites are available 
This is the kind of thing.
Modesty would normally forbid, but… 
https://www.survivefrance.com/t/uk-cars-where-to-put-your-critair-sticker
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@Aldy_77 you have no idea
Explain please?
Well you did just very sportingly comment that you had enjoyed a bit of thread drift…
So we thought you might also enjoy the attempts on the Critair thread to advise on positioning the French “Critair” antipollutiion sticker correctly on one’s windscreen. It was a very longrunning thread as it turned out, and there may have been some thread drift involved .
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When I had a problem with MMA a couple of posts on their Facebook page changed matters very quickly. The brick wall disappeared and I was suddenly getting official support not local opposition.
Well the saga continues. I received a reply from AXA in response to my lengthy letter of complaint and the case was escalated to a human. Excellent I thought,
How wrong could I be. They agreed that as I’m such a valued customer they would apportion only 50% of the blame on me and of course the other half to my wife. They would also only charge me half of the excess. Great I thought until I popped into the local AXA office. Not quite so generous they agreed. My wife would pay the other half excess she would also lose forfeit no claim bonus.
Don’t you just love French logic???
I hate to say it but I saw that coming. Its a massive ego thing where they just dont give in ever. So they trouser more money and you lose more.
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Ask for the contact details of their mediateur and make a complaint. Obvs get their refusal and its grounds put into writing by them to forward to the mediator as that will force them to choose and define their grounds and so they’ll define what you’re fighting.
This assumes you have checked the fine print of your pollicy document and had a look round for any governing rules that say you are not covered on private ltand or say there’s something that automatically makès it your fault.
Interesting that the swine-i-ness of the insurance industry doesn’t change across countries.
Nope - they are mostly all grade one swinery. First up against the wall when the Revolution comes
Exactly. They are hiding behind the code de la route which does not apply to a private driveway unless it’s also a passage to another property so yes the mediator is the next step.