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• Peugeot Partner Teepee - Advice on buying a small van/car second hand 11 Jun 2013 (Forum)
  We're a tv production company with 4 young drivers and we're ready to buy our first company van, second hand
• Insurance for "chav" mods 19 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  A question for all you young lads or for the insurance experts My nearly 19 year old son is changing his car from the ancient VW Golf he had to practise in. He is looking at a 7 or 8 year old VW Polo - likely a 1.4 (please no comments about the car - that's his choice). He is already planning
• Oops is the word needed. 20 Sep 2001 (Forum)
  Hi all, On a lighter note this one. As i work in an aircraft apprentice school with lots of young drivers, male and female, i posted up a list of speed camera locations in our local area. I hope it will slow them down a little. Some hope ! One lad was reading the lists and mentioned that he'd
• Car accident 7 Nov 2010 (Forum)
  3 years ago my mum and I were traveling on M25 to Southampton when the traffic started to slow and then came to a holt.  We were then hit in the rear by a corsa being driven by a young lad and a lady
• Vauxhall Zafira Tourer - Serious injury by angerous driving charge?? 13 Aug 2019 (Forum)
  an email from the police officer stating they have injury claims for 2 passengers and the driver, claiming to be minor and 1 major injury to the young girl mentioned (apparently several facial lacerations, one down to the bone) he has stated he needs to get a statement from the girl now she is out
• Advice on stopping boy racers please 22 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  would say how sorry they were and that they have been offering driver training for young people etc. etc. to which I would say "Three times I reported someone who is an accident waiting to happen, and you lot did nothing". I work in a customer-facing, performance-based role. If I transferred
• Minor Bump 9 Oct 2015 (Forum)
  . Not much damage to either car, but more annoying was the abuse I got from the young lady driver- it was my fault, I was going to slowly in a 40 zone etc. When I pointed out it was 30, I was called a liar and various other things!. I have been called many things when I am out and about in my clerical
• Drunk driver - Hip Flask defense 25 Jun 2019 (Forum)
  to update us. He has pleaded NOT GUILTY saying he drank when he got home. I understand this is called the Hip Flask Defense. Another witness saw the rtc and phoned it in as he drove off (hit a hedge so no other vehicle damaged), they have also identified the person we saw as the driver. He's not a young
• Insurance, remarkable value for money 24 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  We've just re-insured our three cars at an average cost of just over £200 each, fully comp, protected on two policies, legal protection on all three, all including yet more tax taken by any increasingly indebted state. Considering just how incompetent so many drivers
• 09 plate winners and losers 14 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  of choice where I work Losers: Anything with a big petrol engine. Obviously it's hard to tell with vanity plates, but I haven't seen any 09 plate Range Rovers, 7 series Beemers, very few MPVs and ever fewer hot hatches (although the latter may be due to young male drivers not being able to get finance
• The Hi-Vis tunics should have been a clue!.... 26 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  , the silver BMW. By the next layby, the BMW was shepherding him in. Point is, I saw the tunics - and it didn't bother me because I wasn't speeding. Why didn't young C2 driver see them?Maybe he should have got a 'driving without due care and attention' charge to go with the inevitable speeding ticket I'm
• Water Ingress-VW Passat 1.8T Estate 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  Seen postings on this topic before and wondered what the current state of play was regarding the all to familiar problem of water ingress in VW Passats? Vehicle is a V reg 1.8T Passat Estate, 100k miles. Problem is water is comming in from somewhere and saturating carpets on drivers side front
• Intimidation, what do i do? 15 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  . A young lad in a white van quite literally feet from my bumper trying to intimidate me to go faster even though i'm at 40mph which is the temporary camera enforced limit on this piece of road. I tire of his pathetic and unessecary driving i gesture for him to back off with my hand. as polite as i can
• Boy racers 3 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Just had to share this one with other backroomers. Parked outside Halfords waiting for eldest son to drag himself away from bicycle dept. when a fancy looking small Pug covered in chrome and alloy bits and pieces pulled up at the side of me and out gets young driver with a bit of a stunner girl
• Mechanical sympathy 3 Aug 2018 (Forum)
  Forty years ago I jacked up and placed enough bricks under my Mk1 Escort to be able to wriggle underneath to remove the propshaft and the gearbox then renew the clutch plate and the very noisy release bearing.  This and many other practical tasks were typical amongst the young motoring
• Land Rover Freelander 2 (2006 - ) - Stationary but the Insurance want 50/50 21 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  driving down a single track road with passing spaces I had just passed a blind bend & in the narrowist part of the road met a Saxo coming the other way. As I had just passed a passing space I was quite happy to reverse back but as I selected reverse I realised that the young girl hadn't even eased
• Ford Focus 07 - Headlight electrical fault 23 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  Hi we have a bit of a problem with the driver side headlight. We have now gone through 4bulbs in 12months on one side. The last time it went the bulb actually came back on for a day before ceasing to work altogether. I'm wondering whether this is maybe a regular electrical fault
• Begging - On The Motorway!! 14 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  Approaching the M40 slip road today, around lunchtime, reasonably fast moving traffic. Car parked 20 or so metres along, young guy waving his arms around, in the road, female doing similar, in distress, apparently, both of Eastern European appearance & another person in the vehicle. We stopped
• Rover 214 Advice Please! 14 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  , but is that the only thing that makes them worse? I have also taken into account thats its an old persons car... But then isn't every car (ok, maybe not the american muscles... But they aint exactly common cars over in the UK). As I am a young driver, this is to be my first car. As I look at it, I like the look
• Zig Zag Zones 6 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  ) their offspring realise they are not only causing congestion, breaking rules/laws, demontsrating a bad example to their children, but also endangering the lives of other children with their selfish behaviour? The young mother I pointed this out to this morning looked at me as if I was talking Outer Mongolian