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• Megan/Clio - 3 month insurance cover 4 Dec 2011 (Forum)
  Hi all - piece of advice being requested: My car insurance on both family cars (Scenic and Megan) is due for renewal on a  multi-car policy, me and wife on both cars, with the addition of 18 year old daughter on the Megan. However 1st March 2012 the family Megan will be replaced
• dealer wants his car back?! 29 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  hi i bought a car from a dealer and part exed my old bmw 735 towards the cost. a day later he rings me and says there is a gearbox fault with yours so i would like my car back and you can have yours
• ??? - Advice Needed - Car Purchasing 15 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  Hi, I have a monthly company car allowance of £320 pre tax. Having never purchased a car before or being clued up on taxation, I need advice on the types of used car I could buy for that kind of budget, and figure in all costs such as tax, insurance (24yr old male, 7 years
• car for 6k at auction? 4 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  Hopefully people here don't object to this "what car should I buy...." thread. I've visited a couple of car auctions over the last couple of weeks, and I think I'm ready to take the plunge with about £6k. I thinking of a 3 yr old Golf or an Audi A3 (I think I can get one of these for about £6500
• long term storage? 25 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  cars can take it in their stride. What sort of preparation would you do to a car if you were leaving it for such time? are certain cars better suited than others (quite fancy the idea of leaving an old MX5 out there...) Thanks for your help.
• Laid-up car insurance 25 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  insurers. Does anyone know where I can get say 6 month fire and theft only cover. Something like the kind of thing that seems to be available for classic cars, but for a 3 year old car. Thanks Ed
• Ford Ka, Fiat Bravo - Two car family - trade-offs 3 Jun 2011 (Forum)
  all I'm after a little bit of advice on some new cars we're thinking of buying - these are as replacements for an ageing Audi A3 T-sport (200K
• Seat Leon FR TDI - To replace or not? A diesel dilema 28 Apr 2011 (Forum)
  specialist and only found as high exhaust temp. I have been scared by stories of injector failure, here and elsewhere, in the 2.0 PD 170 engine which is in this car. My intention was to keep the car to 6 yrs old and replace in Sep 2012. As a family we run two cars, and pay for them over 3 yrs
• Pug 306 door panel repair options 15 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  , and as mint as a 10 year old budget car ever will be: Always clean and polished inside out - including engine bay I will admit, where the engine, including alloy and plated parts, looks like it isn't even 10 months old, let alone 10 years - it gleams like a good'un. You would be correct that we wish to keep
• Who has either given or received a car as a gift? 13 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  happened a few years ago but I learned a sober lesson in that free cars can be very exensive, unless you're quick to recognise their real worth. This car was only 7 years old! Suddenly the piles 7 to 10 year old cars in the local scrappy made perfect sense. I realised that I should have simply sold
• Was I wrong 12 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  My renault clio (3days old) has an annoying clicking sound (it isn't very noisy but still)I want someone to look at it incase it is something important when I phoned Renault to get someone to look at it they said the technicians only work till 4.30. E explaining that I need the car for work which
• Audi A3 - Audi A3 - Buying a high mileage A3 - advice needed 19 Sep 2020 (Forum)
  Hi guys,  I'm looking to buy my first car here in the UK. I'm 29 years old and had my driving licence since I was 18 (issued in my home country, Romania) and although I've been living in the UK since 2013, I haven't driven here at all yet.  I've been looking on autotrader
• Volkswagen Touran - PDI on new car 24 Aug 2019 (Forum)
  Not sure if I've been had by my dealer buying a 1 month old Touran 1.6 SE Family? I collected it today from a Volvo dealer one month old with 800 miles on the clock, one previous owner.  While checking through the documentation I noticed that the vehicle data sticker loose
• Should I take out a new insurance policy? 26 Sep 2018 (Forum)
  Morning folks So im off to pick up my new car today...yay!  I informed insurers that is got rid of old one and they gave me 14 days to replace it or they would cancel policy. Im still within my 14 days so thought a change of vehicle would be more cost effective
• Buying advice needed: Family car - thinking ahead 14 Jul 2014 (Forum)
  Afternoon all.   I drive a 2002 Nissan Almera Tino, 1.8 petrol. Bought for £6k in 2006 from a car supermarket.   The vehicle has now got 86,000 miles on it. I do about 6,000 miles a year. I'm hoping the Tino will survive another 2-4 years
• Volvo V 60 - Flat Battery 29 May 2013 (Forum)
  I have a two year old V60. It was parked late afternoon, engine switched off, electric park brake applied. All the doors/windows were closed.  I did not lock the car....but did remove the key! TWO mornings later (i.e 36 hours) I came to start
• Honda CRV (02) Engine Failure 23 Oct 2011 (Forum)
  I have owned a Honda CRV i-VTEC from new which is now just under 5 years old, it is on a 02 plate. The car has been perfect until last Thursday (8th March 2007) whan I was travelling North bound on the M11 near Stansted Airport around 7pm in the evening, so there were quite a few cars on the road
• Ford Escort (1993 - 2000) - 93-00 - TD poor mpg - not rise in fuel prices! 13 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  Good evening to all, I hope someone can help me, or at least confirm what I'm thinking. My recently aquired escort estate TD is awful on fuel, my previous car was another escort estate but without the turbo. In the old car I used to get at least 110 miles from £10, in my new motor I'm getting
• Knackerd steering due to humps 26 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  cost about £600.00 Another stealth tax job creation scheme. My Nissan in Thailand is an excellent car but lacks the dynamics of a SAAB or Audi, the Isuzu pickup has now reached 250,000 miles on original engine and gearbox, superb machine tough as old boots on or off road. My dads SAAB 900 V6 is 10
• Comfortable Ride? 30 Mar 2006 (Forum)
  This has been nagging me for ages, but especially since I bought my old Volvo S80 (recently sold) and James May wrote about it in last weeks DTelegraph motoring section. For years car have been improving is all areas except one - ride quality. Cars now have much wider and lower profile tyres