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I have just bought a used Volkswagen Golf 1.6 FSI sport (with around 48000 miles) and its 15 days since I have bought it. When the car was sold the dealer said it comes with a standard warranty of 30...
My car recently failed it's MoT and the main failure was the thickness off the pads being below 1.5mm. I arranged for the garage to fix all failure points so I would have a free partial re-test. So 2...
I have just bought a 10 year old 100,000 mile Audi TT 225 manual petrol quattro for which I paid £5350 cash from a dealer. Having taken delivery I now find that there are two split CV gaiters (one inner...
A friend (middle-aged female) hired a car from Enterprise Car Rental, Nottingham, and returned it on Monday last (11th Feb) at 1230 hrs. The car was examined by an Enterprise employee ('Employee A') who...
My car, Ford Fusion 2006 1.4 diesel, was purchased from a dealer in September 2012. I was told at the time there was a 6 months warranty for parts and labour but I was not given a copy of the warranty....
In your experience, what action is likely to be taken by the DVLA and/or Police against an owner who keeps their vehicle off the public road for almost a year without valid VED or SORN but continuously...
On 16th January 2013 my car hit a large pothole on the outskirts of Tring. The hole was so large it pulled the vehicle to the verge hitting the concrete edge, smashing the front wheel and buckling the...
My new car has mot till 19/11/2013 on our validation certificate it say 12 month mot cover the says inception date 19/11/2013 expiry date 18/11/2014 does this mean it still has a mot till 2014 please explain...
Have you had any reports on the catastrophic failure of rear stub axles on the mark two Ford Focus? Mine went last Friday, causing me to roll the car and leading to it being written off. Conveniently...
My wife's car got hit earlier in the week. It was parked, not on the highway and an elderly gentleman reversed out of his garage and hit the car. It was witnessed by my wife and the gentleman asked us...