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• Window Sticker removal 9 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  I've just bought a secondhand car and it has a tatty old plastic sticker on the outside of the rear window. It's turned brittle and cannot be peeled off. I've tried hot water to soften it but no luck (presume the hair dryer trick wouldn't work here either) and I don't want to use a blade for fear
• £16K WHAT VALUE IS THERE OUT THERE ? 6 Sep 2001 (Forum)
  O.K. £16 to spend. Not a great deal for a car these days ? So what do i buy ? New or old ? Needs ... to last at least five years hopefully trouble free. Decent mileage, low deprection (ha ha ).... mileage will be around 8-10 k a year Diesel or petrol ? For starters... golf/ bora/ astra
• Insurance valuation 12 Feb 2001 (Forum)
  What happens in the event of a total loss claim when the car you are claiming for was bought at a knock-down price. I have just ordered a new honda civic aerodeck in a deal that was too good to refuse!,does the price i paid affect the settlement or is it always based on market value?.it realy
• Advice on second hand car purchase 17 May 2024 (Forum)
  Morning All, After some advice from you helpful people as I'm on a dreadful run of buying cars that let me down within a couple of years despite my best efforts into researching them! My Skoda Octavia just died after melting it's inlet manifold, it's been at the garage for a week
• The Reality of Low Cost/Desperate Motoring 2 Sep 2018 (Forum)
  concern is that from MOT advisories tyres have plenty of tread but are old and cracked/perished.  Looking at Asda tyres dot com thing a new set all incl would cost £160. A Megane would not have been my recommended car but at this end of the market, I believe, condition and service
• Maintain no claims bonus 23 Aug 2016 (Forum)
  . Take a policy out on my wife's car. As her policy is 4 months old, there would be some cost to cancelling it. Although the annual premium is ~£50 cheaper for me insuring it. 2. Buy an old cheap (low insurance group) car, park it up and insure it. It seems the cheapest insurance quote I
• Vauxhall Vectra C (2002 - 2008) - 1.9CDTI Engine Build Quality 30 May 2014 (Forum)
  Has anyone else encountered the same problems as myself with this engine? The car was purchased in Oct.2007,as an ex-company car with a good service history,it being only just three years old,with a mileage of 91K. Within a couple of weeks the intercooler had to be replaced ( under the sellers
• Buying advice for a newbie (& an old one at that!) 19 Dec 2013 (Forum)
  Hi, I'm looking to pick the collected hive mind of the Honest John forum about what car I should purchase! I've never owned a car in my life (I'm getting close to 40), so I feel waaaay out of my depth. However, I am an avid reader and have been consuming
• Anyone been successful in the small claims court? 7 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  that would help my claim. The dealer is going to claim that 2500 miles was "satisfactory quality" for a car that age - even though we paid over £3k for it. Has anyone successfully got a refund from a dealer in a similar situation for a car this old?
• Primera 2.2DCi - dead turbo? £'s to fix? 22 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  shouldn't and tows me to the Nissan garage where I will check in tomorrow for analysis and repair! So big question I am scared of asking is how bad in terms of £'s could this be? New turbo fitted =£????. Also, the car is less than three years old and has been serviced by a main dealer according
• Hyundai - Hyundai "Happy Returns" upgrade your scrappage buy 23 May 2010 (Forum)
  http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/best_deals/item.htm?id=35929 (From the article) It?s not only old car drivers who can benefit. Happy Returns will allow those who were savvy enough to buy a Hyundai using scrappage another chance to pick up an unbeatable deal and own another new Hyundai. Owners who
• Gutted. My new car is old already! 1 Jul 2005 (Forum)
  being introduced next year but was suprised it is available now, 2 months after I get my new car. How is a buyer supposed to know of forthcoming updates to enable them to make an informed decision about what to buy and when? I was pretty well clued up, did lots of reasearch and went onto various
• First car - Motorway driving 6 May 2017 (Forum)
  licence for 1 year and 25 years old).  In terms of budget, I'm willing to spend up to £5000 on the right car, if it has a relatively good sell on value, as I may work abroad in the next 1-2 years.  Can anyone recommend a car that fulfills the above criteria? Should I stick
• When is a new car not new? 21 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  that the car was a 2002 model and in the build date was December 2001! The 3 year warranty starts from last September so that is OK but to my way of thinking the car is over 2 years old!! Does this happen often or do we as consumers need to check the build date on each new car that we buy? Any thoughts
• BMW 535i - Family MPV - but which to sell? 22 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  Hi, bit of a dilemma...I have agreed to (finally!) make the change to an MPV for the wife, 3 kids and 2 dogs (bit of a squeeze in a 10 year-old Mk IV Golf!) I can't really avoid changing as I'm swanning (very comfortably) in a 13 year-old E39 BMW 535i (absolutely gorgeous to drive, smooth
• Do you trust Dealer Franchises 23 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  Two recent problems with my VW TDI and my answer would be no ! When my car was under warranty just over a year ago, it had a new turbo fitted because the old one was overboosting due to sticking variable vanes and a new CV boot because the old one had split. 6 months ago, the same CV joint
• Where’s the joy? 10 Jan 2021 (Forum)
  replacements for old “Terrance” the Toyota now that family car duties have been handed over to “Venus” the very capable Volvo. Wife to blame for car naming btw. The Toyota has been utterly dependable and drives without fault. The body is rust free and the underside looks like a three year old car despite
• Nissan Almera Tino 2.2 dCi - Poor fuel economy 6 Apr 2019 (Forum)
  .....my previous car, a 1997 Peugeot 406 1.8lx petrol averaged 37 mpg over the exact same journey, surely my 50,000 mile 5 year old Nissan should be bettering the ancient old petrol motor? It is a 23 mile each way commute, A roads and the New Forest (40mph limit), I don't exceed the speed limit, I
• Ford KA 1.3i Studio - Auxiliary Belt Noise? 21 Nov 2013 (Forum)
  ! We have done about 200 miles in the new KA and its superb, accept for the presence of a Ticking/swishing noise comming from the engine which not present in our old car. I assumed the Auxiliary Belt was to blame so for the sake of £12 I replaced it with a reputable brand
• French reputation for rust .... no more 12 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  Time was when French cars rightly had a terrible reputation for being prone to corrosion. As a case in point, I recall going on holiday in 1980 with a Belgian friend and his family, when we drove in their eighteen month old CX from Brussels to Saint Jean de Luz. The two things that stand