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• Car insurance 14 Jan 2017 (Forum)
  would be likely to claim against the whole pot. Basically, they are encouraging my wife and her mother to claim for similar personal injuries so they, the insurers, do not have to pay out to the other party. Is this a scam? My wife really does not want to take part
• I never bought or sold car - Enforcement Officer visited and collected fine 22 Dec 2014 (Forum)
  .  Since I have no idea about this I asked some of my English friends and they advice me just to ignore as it is a scam letter to collect money as a fraud.now what to do I have no idea. I paid money because the officer threatened me if I do not pay within 5 minutes then he will remove all my belongings
• Vauxhall Astra - Renewal of Tax Disc 2 Jun 2014 (Forum)
  to the expected charge of £99. When the tax disc arrived I saw that my Debit card had not been used there was a surcharge for using a credit card & the disc  had cost £99. My first thougt was that there had been some sort of mixup at DVLA but now I realise that I have been scammed
• any car - easidrive credit hire 31 Jul 2013 (Forum)
  . I now discover that I am liable. I really feel that I have been scammed even though as a credit hire company they seem to be working within the law.  Easidrive contacted me and under flas pretenses said i had no need to contact my insurance as they would be taking care of everything
• Authorised Repair??? 5 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  loose on my 12 month old Mazda. Does anyone know if this is a scam or am I just getting even more cynical as I get older?
• Merc C220d coupe '63 plate, 55,000 miles - In for service 1 month ago, at the garage still... 5 Aug 2022 (Forum)
  to say the head gasket has now blown and it will cost £2000. They then say, they are happy to buy the car for £2000 less than Autotrader prices. I've told them I need a day or two to think. I'm not sure if I'm being scammed or just the victim of an unfortunate string
• Peugeot 208 - £2K courtesy car bill after uninsured accident 16 Dec 2019 (Forum)
  courtesy car 'scam'  that claims management companies operate and signed the agreement. He's now got a bill for the car hire of £2K (3 weeks for a Hyundai i10!!!) and is a bit worried. He has been offered and accepted a £6K settlement for his written off car but hasn't had
• Vauxhall Corsa 2007 - 83 yr old stopped driving, one for SLO76 5 Jun 2019 (Forum)
  is a widow, was a bit distressed at having people coming to her house (had been scammed before).. i said Ill pretend I'm your son if you want. Upshot, she offered me the car for £1000. Came yesterday and did all the documentation online with DVLA, and gave her a copy, put the car on SORN on my driveway
• Mazda 6 - Alas poor Mazda I knew it well 19 Mar 2013 (Forum)
  within the next week. I refused all offers of a loan car, the stories on HJ regarding credit hire scams had done their job! And I am already feeling fitter from the enforced cycle to/from work. So far so good. Am impressed all round with the speed of response so far. Just that valuation next
• Insurance called about alleged incident with car 2 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  Hi Honest John Readers I'd be grateful for some advice. My insurance company calls me saying an incident was reported to them, involving a car with my Reg.  (I initially think it's a scam, due so many claims, PPI, etc. calls and txts I get). My initial reaction
• VW Passat TDI CR 170 DSG Estate - air-con failure - stone damage or dealer con? 16 Aug 2011 (Forum)
  My car has suffered air-con failure. I tried to get it reg-assed at my friendly local independent. There's a tiny leak so he wasn't able to help. His parting shot was "watch the main dealer stone-chip damage scam". Lo and behold, the dealer calls. "stone chip damage
• Information sharing subscription 31 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  I'm quite sure that main dealers must form a significant part of the readership of this forum, even though they rarely openly contribute. Next time my car has to have work done on it (which will be soon, see previous posts) I intend to leave a copy of the DISHONEST JOHN'S GUIDE TO SERVICE SCAMS
• faith restored in honda dealer :-) 31 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  After 3 years of the CR-V we wanted another. Problem is that only Honda dealer in 40 mile radius, sold us our last one as a one owner from new car (in fact had 3 previous) and denied all responsibility, serviced the car and neatly performed the screen wash scam on the bill, and in general treated
• We're all criminals now 24 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  of them, so goodbye shops/jobs/council tax any day. Another scam, which I hadn't heard of before, was the bus lanes where you can drive your car during certain hours/days but the times change along the same lane, with a tiny sign parallel to the road to say so! Naturally, there is a CCTV camera
• Fiat Panda - Malta car hire scam 7 May 2013 (Forum)
  look like a new version of an old scam. The annoying bit is that there's nothing we could have done to prevent that sum being removed from our Visa account. Or is there? Does anyone have any advice or comment? Thanks
• Fiat punto - Private Sale, suspected trader, Duff car! 5 Sep 2014 (Forum)
  I bought a fiat punto two days ago from a man who claimed it was a private sale. It has now started leaking water and my garage said it needs a new head gasket. I feel scammed. The seller is a mechanic and told me he had bought the car from a friend who did not want to spend money on the MOT. He
• VW Passat - Scammed by (deleted) 15 Jun 2017 (Forum)
  I have decided to expose xxxx on all the forums I can, after what they did to me as CAB couldn't do anything.  I paid £2000 for a recon...
• Autotrader Scam ??! 9 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  now im only 18 looking at buying my first car, so im not too good at spotting dodgy deals but this deal looks a little strange i emailed this guy about...
• Parking fine whilst on holiday in Jersey 23 Jul 2017 (Forum)
  airport we were advised to take a photocopy of the current blue badge. Tick. Guess where the 2018 badge is? Yep still on the b****y photocopier I'll bet. This understandably fell on deaf ears at the penalty office (we could be telling a porky or scamming) Thing is, the fine
• Alli - Attempted fraud 12 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  . The scam works by having a buyer e mail rather than ring the dealer . The story is always the same ,you are asked to deposit money by western union in your own name ,if you're not happy with the car when you see it you can recover the money . The key to the fraud is that you are asked to e mail a copy