Just about to hand in my car a VW Passat TDI 130 for its 60 k service to a garage recommended on these forums,have had no major niggles,only that the AC isnt as errm cool as it should be , it does work but lowers the temp ever so slightly .

Thing is would I be risking another couple of hundred quid atleast by mentioning it and by them finding that something major seems to be wrong or at best would it be a matter of not too much.

Any experts who could hazard a best case scenario and the worst.If its likely to be too bad(read costly) I wont mention it otherwise could possibly get away with not too much can tell them.
Considering that the warm months are few anyway on the other hand could well leave it!

Any advise welcome

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This is a bit of a general legal question, but I'll give it a car slant to justify it.

I seem to recall from my law lectures way back at University, that if a car were to crash into my garden I can claim it as my possession and thus make the removal of it, by the owner, an offence. Does anyone have any knowledge about this?

I've trawled the internet but cannot find any reference to it, but I think it's either trespass or nuisance.
If true, then I presume it dates from livestock wandering across boundaries. Read more

Sat waiting for Mrs. S6 1SW in our local town centre car park (Council owned, but attached to a Co-op) and being bored, started reading the rules and regulations notice board... was surprised to see that vehicles over '1580kg' were prohibited. The quoted weight for my own car is 1400+kg, so I'm guessing that many of today's larger cars (E-class Merc or above) would fall foul of this rule. My guess is that the bye-law comes from years ago when cars were a lot less substantial than today. Would have thought any observant traffic warden could have a field day?

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Is it a general rule of thumb - that all finance packages can be paid of in advace of the payment plan.

do all finace packages have a rule where the person taking out the deal can pay it off in advance with a lump sum?


i ask - because there is a deal on a ford focus for £9500 my friend wants, but i enquired for her and the dealer didnt want to know as i asked if i could pay it off in a lump sum a few days/weeks after?
apparently he incures a charge - and any talk of paying of a few days/weeks after doing the deal - makes him lose his commission.

when i worked at hyundai - we rarely did finance so its something new to me. Read more

I may be clutching at straws here, but does anyone remember (or even have a copy of the mag, that'd be great!) an article in CAR ealry 1970s referring to the stillborn replacement for the Beetle? It was going to be mid-engined in the sense that the engine was under the rear seat.

I used to have this magazine, but have lost it in various house moves.

On a related tangent, does anyone have and want to sell any old issues of "Car" from the early days to late 80s early 90s? I would be interested in buying.

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