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1.5 weeks ago, I bought a car. Mechanic friend checked it prior to buying, did a test drive - it seemed fine. Five days later, on a motorway, I started hearing knocking noise, stopped, and after could...
Buying a small used car for an 18year old boy - looking for something that is low insurance group and low tax and a diesel engine?
I have a 2005 registered Skoda Fabia Estate 1.9 Tdi Elegance with just under 30,000 miles on the clock. I've had it from new and it has been dealer serviced throughout. We (my wife and I) like the car...
A friend buys used cars and sells them on - he as just got a Mercedes-Benz A-Class W reg and has offered it cheap. Now to look at it's a nice car and the drive was good but I keep hearing mixed reviews...
I've just done a test drive on a brand new Hyundai i30 1.4 petrol and it was extremely good. However, considering my budget is about £10,000 (with finance) I'd have to wait a while to get one in the new...
I drive 20k miles per year, mostly motorway and am looking for an estate car that is suitable for conversion to LPG (most of the service stations along my usual routes stock LPG). Can you recommend a good...
I was looking at a Mercedes-Benz C180 Kompressor Estate 2009 model year (09 Reg) On the ad it says that the engine capacity is 1596 cc whereas I thought it would be a 1.8 litre supercharged engine .......
I'm looking to buy a bigger family car. Ideally we would like to have 5 proper seats with the pop-up style rear seats which turn it into a 7 seater (it's fine that these are small as they will mostly...
I am going to be looking at a 2004 Volvo S40 1.9D manual with 22,000 miles on the clock, backed-up with a Full Volvo Service History and all the paperwork. It is a 1-owner car from new and has been owned...
Due to budget restrctions I am looking for a cheap to buy (say £4000) cheap to run automatic, which will be driven about 800 miles a week, possibly more, mostly on motorways. Because of high mileage it...
 

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