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• Volkswagen Beetle "Old New shape" - Used Beetle's 28 Oct 2015 (Forum)
  cars ranging from 35-140K miles, which is quite a broad range for 12-14 year old cars.
• Main Dealer Servicing on Older Cars 14 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  % discount they give for 4 year old+ vehicles. This was quite a blow to the wallet but I convince myself it's best for the resale value and the continued reliability of the car. Am I wasting my money using BMW? Is the dealer stamp *that* valuable on a nearly 6 year old car? Should I just use a decent
• Windscreen Wiper Recommendations 12 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Hi, The car windscreen wipers are squealing, juddering and smearing across my windscreen. As the car is a year old and done 30k miles so they must be due for replacement. Has anybody any good recommendations for car windscreen wipers. I would rather pay extre for quality. Last time I replaced
• Can I register a car to my 16-year-old? 2 Sep 2024 (Forum)
  the DVLA, can I register it to my son as a 16-year-old? Or will I have to register it to me now, and then change it to him in November (once he is 17) thus adding another owner onto its history. Also, having leased my own cars for years now, I'm unsure about the difference between registered owner
• Ah, the true banger. 28 May 2021 (Forum)
  I remember fondly wandering through the old trade yard at my work sniffing round all the old rot buckets (or cars with character as I called them) which came and went daily. I loved taking in and selling cheap cars, I liked the sort of people who bought them. They were more often than not car
• Beware of old car parts scam 20 Feb 2007 (Forum)
  A poster on another forum warns of a second hand car part sscam where spmeone joins a forum then offers parts cheap which never get delivered. Warning is here. http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?topic=6665.msg37345#new The mods will keep an eye to prevent anything similar happening here
• Car phone aerial removal. 26 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  I am about to dump my old Sierra. Before that I want to de-install a Nokia car phone kit - the old hardwired type not a Bluetooth. It was installed for the company by Vodafone but it will be me to re-install it. Is it possible to remove the aerial glued on the rear window or is it a case of buying
• What is it about old diesels ? 30 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  -prestige car with 12 months MoT is worth about £500 to me as long as it has some sort of service history, hasn't been a taxi or had as many owners as I've had hot dinners. At this level, if it goes 'bang' then throw it away or sell it spares/repairs. Why do people like these old 306 diesels ? another
• honda service price variations. 28 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  Better half's CRV ready for 54k service.Rang round for pricing. Car is a W reg ( March 2000) ES auto with a full Honda history. They all started with - Ah - This is a big service Sir. Garage 1 - £330. Garage 2 - £313. Garage 3 - £264.( Level 4 service - 4 yrs old discount) Garage 4 - £325.. When I
• Old banger sailed through MOT! 2 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  I've not been on here for a while but I have to say that I am feeling extremely pleased with myself. So many people ridicule old cars calling them old bangers fit only for the scrap heap. I know there's a good mix of for and against on this site! Anyway my ancient 15 year old Corolla sailed
• 2035 20 Sep 2023 (Forum)
  So--now that petrol cars have a further 5 years of life--should i... 1) Start saving for an electric car 2) Trade in my 5 year old car  and buy a new or nearly new petrol car now and make it last 12 years. 3) Keep my five year old car and run it into the ground by 2035
• Gutted: 9.5 year old car which i've owned for 7mts 25 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  With my Focus now dead, its galling that i cant even trade it in for the £2000. Its half a year too young and i've only had it seven months... With the wife pregnant and no car the £2000 off a new car would of been a fantastic incentive to buy a new car. It looks like i'll have to stick
• Insurance question ? 19 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  We've just bought a new Scenic and my wife has transfered her insurance to it, this now leaves her old car in our garage with no insurance on it (we've sold it but the buyers paying in installments). At the time of insurance transfer her provider told her she could not drive her old car on her
• The Old Days 24 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  What were those straps that hung down under cars and touched the ground? I used to see these when I was a kid but you don't see them so much now. Was it something to do with static electricity?
• Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer - Selling advice when you only have 1 car! 8 Oct 2024 (Forum)
  to call the insurance on the day we pick up the new car to swap the car on the policy. Which will then leave the old car uninsured. I can't sell the old car before we get a new one, as it's our only vehicle. Is there anyone on here else that's been in the same situation that has any tips of how
• Skoda - Nobody wants to sell me a car 19 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  a while, could I insure both cars whilst I sell my old one? I need the money I'm getting for my old car to pay for the new one, so ideally I'd either need a bridging loan or pay the dealer when I've sold my old one. Just trying to get it all straight in my head, I could just keep my current jamjar, I
• Selling old SORNed car: should I tax & insure? 22 May 2016 (Forum)
  I've got an old car on my drive that's been declared SORN.  It's about 15 years old, but runs fine and has MOT until September.  I think it's worth around £500 (it's a 2000 reg 3 litre Jaguar S-Type auto if that makes any difference). I want to sell it to reclaim the space
• MG - EV brakes fail on 6 month old MG 4 Oct 2023 (Forum)
  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/04/man-forced-to-drive-electric-car-into-police-van-in-scotland-after-brakes-fail Do EV's have dual circuit brakes as all other modern ICE cars have?
• Audi A6 Avant - Dual fly mass wheel 11 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  Hi, Car is 4 years old and it started shuddering when accelerating. Garage replaced air filter £300. Only shudders at 3000 revs now, garage say it is dual mass fly wheel....can that be right as car is not that old.....will cost £1400 to replace!!!!!
• Car Spotting 2 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  Hi all, this is my first post - hope it's relevant, original, and of some interest. I had a bit of spare time last week, so went cruising the streets of New Orleans. (Google street view). Noticed quite a few old Volvo's, and a sad looking VW Beetle outside 1180 7th street. A new Mini outside