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• £8K repair bill. Blame the dog? 31 Mar 2006 (Forum)
  . The £70,000 car ploughed into a skip near the Capital Radio host's South London home. Johnny said: "The funniest part was having to explain to my insurers. I couldn't make a claim as Harvey wasn't a named driver on the policy."" How could this have happened? Have some details been skipped? Have any forum
• Growing consumer debt 6 Sep 2005 (Forum)
  Heard an item on the radio recently which quite surprised me. Apparently consumer borrowing in the UK is growing by £1m every four minutes - much of borrowed to spend on cars. This item reminded of an incident recently when I was selling a Mercedes (a W202). The buyer was organising a loan
• Mr. Lucky 27 Jul 2005 (Forum)
  see it stationary up the hill as I glide off on to an empty M40. Here on the radio of big problems 6 to 8 northbound so glad I chose the M40. Take the new dual carriage A43 down to my destination. Gliding under the M1 at 15a I see it is at a standstill northbound as well. Nightmare day
• Speeding (mostly excl cameras) XXVI 14 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  )or a stick (discounts on insurance), then soon everyone would have to have it. Well I almost fell of my chair this morning, less than a week later, when LBC Radio news said that the government was proposing "tracking repeat speeding offenders cars". Us motorists, should get together to resist moves like
• Mechanic Drove 25 Miles To Ascertain Fau 19 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  my car and as I was drving out as the dealer was closing, noted the trip meter had an additonal 25 mls clocked and radio was on quite high. Any views, experiences and action I should take - I have no evidence re the mileage when I left the car at the main dealer, who is a franchised dealer. Thanks
• Blown Audi A4 parking light 28 Dec 2004 (Forum)
  I have a 2002 model Audi A4 Avant with Xenon headlights. The offside front parking light has blown. This wouldn't be a problem except this has triggered a permanent warning on my driver information system where the radio display normally lives. This is very annoying. I popped up the bonnet
• What every car should have, but doesn't 28 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  and under the bonnet. And they should be decent sockets, not these silly 'cigar lighter' things which are huge and waste space. 2. A standard radio interface (I know there have been several attempts) 3. A standard mobile phone interface, connected to the speakers and with a built in microphone. Just
• Final Car 18 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  have chosen the no cost option of an alectric sun roof in place of the standard Air/Con,and finally it has the same radio as in the Vectra ie takes tapes of which I have plenty instead of CDs. I am the octogenarian from how old are you and feel I will be leaving my wife a car with less expensive
• Primera starting problem 7 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  coincidental but it seems to start better with the clutch depressed and the radio off (please, no laughing). Anyone got any ideas? Cheers Mark
• Cheaper cars? 2 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  windows full stop. Have a catch and locking mechanism to slide them up and down. No carpets, just rubber mats. Radio, ash trays, glove compartments get rid of the lot. No servo brakes and ABS right out. Just the bare minimum, although I would have to have fabric seats to sit on and in this country
• Car's been done 24 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  skin. Does anyone know where we can get a de-locked handle to replace it with? Under normal circumstances the car would be alarmed and operated by remote, so the locks are nothing but a liability anyway. Don't know why they picked his car, there was *nothing* in it, even the radio front was off
• Pre purchase banger checks. 25 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  Is the car registered in your name. MOT Reason for Sale How long have you owned it. Checks: Tyres Sills Gen. Body condition Signs of leaks. Radio/Interior electrics. Drive Shaft Boots Compression test (Is this over kill?) Listen for rattles at all revs Coolant Oil Brake noise Does it drive straight
• vibration when winding steering wheel 15 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  to hear over a moderate radio volume) Many thanks in advance Ben
• Well-priced basic 12v power pack 10 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  I don't normally recommend them except on price - but my local Makro has a perfectly decent 12v powerpack on sale for approx £23 once you add in the VAT. No extras like built-in compressors, but very useful if you are: (1) As daft as me and leave lights, radio etc. occasionally. (2) Have
• Driving old clunkers. Why not? 28 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  Purring along the Chester High Road at 70 mph on the Wirral last night in my 10 year old Volvo 740 SE, I wondered how a newer, more modern car would feel. How could it be better? Bob Harris on the radio, memories of grilled mushrooms with Brie and bacon as a starter, rib-eye steak, perfectly
• Audi A3 2.0 TDi 170PS DSG - a review 30 Jul 2007 (Forum)
  (similar to the petrol engines with twin exhausts), the 140PS has tailpipes which point to the road. Inside the central area of the dash has changed slightly to accommodate the new Audi Concert stereo which is deeper than the old stereo so the hazard warning switch are under the radio and the climate
• New Car Time - Replacing Nissan Primera P11-144 6 Dec 2013 (Forum)
  a parrot kit of audio in cable, I want to control the device through the radio. Either that or I have the ability to change the radio for an OEM. Other things are niceties, but I think if I had to put two things at the top of my list for other most desirable things, it would be: Front Fog Lights
• Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec 2000 - Speedo dropping intermittently 19 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  A week or so ago the speedo needle just suddenly dropped whilst I was driving at 70mph on the motorway.  I felt a slight loss of power and the radio volume dropped.  At the same time my heart came up in my mouth and my legs turned to jelly! I do the same journey 5 days
• Ford Fiesta (2002 - 2008) - 03 1.4 strange electrical fault,possible bad earth 19 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  the battery and gave it a clean and the problem ritghed itself. Then two, three maybe four weeks later it starts doing it again, very strange. I've rectified it in this way twice now and its started doing it again. Then recently while going down the motorway one day the radio volume dropped down a level
• Peugeot 307 (2001 - 2007) - 02 2.0 Anti Pollution - ESP/ASR - BSI 24 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  to a corroded connector on the BSI unit (located behind the glove box) so they striped irt down cleaned it up reset and cleared the faults and hey presto back to normal (no limp mode). They did advise that the BSI unit may require replacing as the corrotion may have spread into the box. Incidently the radio