Underbonnet spies

Speed limit signs should be safety advisory indicators. It is sensible to have speed limits to protect road workers and/or children, but not sensible to enforce them when no road workers are present or...

Holesome girl

Please can I have some advice. My husband was forced to keep to the edge of the road as an on coming vehicle came in the opposite direction, there was a big hole in the road and he could not avoid it...

Sid Slot

When we were visiting my son in the USA recently, he drove us to a local place of interest. He parked by a meter and put in a dollar. The meter rejected his dollar and proceeded to spew out a further...

Going out in slippers

Have you received reports of BMW 3 Series coupes lacking traction? Last week in Scotland my 335d completely failed to hold the road on a hill covered in compacted snow with fresh snow on top and had to...

Organ grinding

What do you make of the information film currently on TV to promote the wearing of seat belts? In the scenario: a head-on collision between identical cars travelling at the same speed, so that each stops...

Short, black and sides

Many people are currently using sidelights, dipped beams and front fog lights all on together. I rarely see anyone with front fog lights on, but dipped beams off. Today's dull weather has been a good...

Early learning centres

My brother and my wife are learning to drive and we have been looking around London for places/tracks, etc that are preferably free of traffic so they can go and pay for 2 or 3 hours to develop some skills...but...

Steady reddy go

Can you please try to publicise the Portuguese system whereby the speed cameras are linked to a pedestrian crossing 100 yards down the road, that turns to red for 30 seconds if you exceed the limit. The...

On the level

A friend recently had a minor accident in a multi-storey car park. His vehicle failed to respond when he tried to steer up one of the ramps to the next floor and, instead of turning, continued to go forward...

Holed in one

I want to tell you about my mother-in-law's Peugeot 206, which she bought in March 2004 and in which she has driven just 13,800 miles. In September this year, she drove from Liverpool up to the Lake District....