Sorry to hear about the car mate, there are too many c**ts around these days. If you can afford it, leave it alone. I see soo many nice cars that I would like but I don't go around damaging them!
Think your right mate rich said in a post one time someting like that if i remember correctly! I used to have a group B rally fuel pump on my old car, used to be louder than the engine on tick over lol