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• Road Manners 10 May 2001 (Forum)
  of the lowering of social politeness generally in the UK. See the proliferation of road rage. Here's a fine example, which happened to me this morning: Appointment at the doctor for my daughter, car park full, one parking space being vacated, driver taking ages, me waiting patiently (no pun intended), obviously
• Strange hankerings 11 Sep 2020 (Forum)
  for young drivers. Only 63bhp but it looks mad. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/2015-suzuki-alto-turbo-rs-is-pocket-racer-from-japan-video-photo-gallery-93149.html I think Dacia miss out of a lot of sales by not offering the Dokker MPV, Van and pickup in the UK. These things are hugely popular as taxis
• Honda Accord - 2004 Accord v 2008 Mondeo mk 4 24 Jun 2020 (Forum)
  engines once they fixed the swirl flaps and similarly good things about the Honda 2.4L K24A series engines. I should note that I'm a young driver so the insurance is ~1.5-2x more for the Honda. The 2004 Honda Accord 2.4L i-VTEC Executive is up for £2.7k, automatic, petrol, has had 1 owner
• New car for Mother-in-Law 14 May 2008 (Forum)
  Hi, The time's come for the Mother-in-Law to get rid of her ageing Corsa, and she'd like me to find her a replacement. Criteria are (not very exciting I'm afraid) * Automatic * Easy to drive and park, she's a fairly tentative driver * Compact, but enough space to carry her 3 young grandchildren
• Northumbria Police 3 Good PR 0 27 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  of knowledge of Highway code. Some 200 yards later I was stopped by a another young fool in a Panda car who proceeded to berate me for using my horn. As he must have seen the incident he took the option of berating me rather than pursuing the driver who had caused the incident. Victim 1 Perpetrator 0
• VW Golf MK6 2.0 TDI GT Clutch Slip 28 Jun 2017 (Forum)
  to look at it. I've just checked the warranty and if any damage is found to be our fault, it's not covered under the warranty. I know I might be jumping the gun a bit but don't want to go to the dealer unarmed if they say it's my fault.  We're both good drivers, I drive for a living
• Nissan Qashqai (2007 - ) - good choice-opinions/alternives please 19 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  My Ford Puma is dying. Having spent more than its worth in repairs already this year the sad noise its made this morning is forcing the issue and I have no idea what to replace it with. What I do know is that as much as a liked my Puma I had outgrown it...I was a young single girl when I bought
• Court Summons for Parking Offence 18 Nov 2007 (Forum)
  to offer directions (we live in an area of scattered farmhouses and often see people looking lost) they handed me a letter containing an NIP. I had to explain to my two young kids that I wasn't being arrested The NIP simply asked me to confirm if I was the driver at the time of the offence. I completed
• Catastrophic Brake failure 6 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  off. Neither the other driver was injured nor myself but I am now faced with a fault claim on my insurance history and likely increased premia. I need to source a new car quickly and until the insurance company settle my wife deos not have a car as no courtesy car is available as the car
• Best legal advice 22 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  colleague was a very young policewoman. I got in the back of the car whereupon the young woman started to aggressively question me as to my driving speed, distances, weather, the other driver?s speed etc. etc. etc. each question came as bullet out of a gun. I didn?t have time to answer even one of them
• Peugeot 307 - Car mounts pavement, Reg photo, Police No Action 8 May 2014 (Forum)
  /parking area outside number 387 Rayleigh Road. The rogue driver, a young, dark haired male, narrowly missed hitting me with his nearside wing mirror as the car swept past. The driver had apparently mounted the pavement because vehicles travelling up the hill in the opposite direction, were having to pull
• Drink and Drug Drive Campaign 11 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  Constabulary's Road Policing Unit, said: "Last year 27 collisions occurred over the Christmas period in Leicestershire as a result of drink driving. Any alcohol can affect your ability to drive, impairing your reaction time and your ability to judge both speed and distance. Drivers should always be aware
• 3 x idiots - 1 x unfortunate 22 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  the life out of the poor girl. 3 - On Thursday night I was driving through the city at closing time when a young bloke who had obviously more alcohol in him than common sense decided he would run headlong towards oncoming traffic with both arms outstretched in a similar fasion to a primary school kid
• 'Death Trap' 22 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  that's the real problem and cause of accidents. But often it's because drivers in the line tailgate making it difficult to pull back in, that you chance another couple of cars.... Further up the road it's now 40 mph due to recent building of big housing estates and subsequent rise in young kids
• BMW 3 Series Convertible - Lent uninsured friend my car to fix but crashed it 30 Jul 2019 (Forum)
  on in the morning by him and he informed me that he crashed it and ran from the scene. The police were then involved and I gave the drivers details to them and he was convicted later on last year. At this point, I was expecting some sort of restitution to be involved with the conviction but to my dismay nothing
• peugeot 107 - how much to haggle for <1 year old city car 16 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  hello! my cousin has recently passed his test. yey! the destination and nature of his new job necessitated the ability to be mobile. seeing as he is a new licence holder, young, male and lives in a ghetto area (......east london)  the choice in cars which would
• Ford Fiesta (2002 - 2008) - Crash 22 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  are both 20 and have been driving carefully for 2 and 3 years respectively and i feel we may lose our no claims over this. i dont think it is fair that because i am a young driver people assume i was speeding. she was driving a brand new scenic which was a mobility car. hope i have explained it properly.
• which drivers' car for commute? 25 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  the 32mpg fuel economy and repair bills! We tend to drive in Mondeo at weekends and on holiday because it is bigger for our young family, but apart from my personal driving pleasure it makes no sense for me to have the larger car from day to day. The first assumption that I'm willing to have
• VW Polo 2003 Automatic Transmission - Advice on buying a used car 29 Dec 2024 (Forum)
  to get from point A to B. I’m still a young driver, and so I can’t really afford to do too many repairs, and I feel this is unwarranted especially since its only been a week since I bought it. I even have a photo that shows the dash lights on, and the mileage at 89994 (it was 89974 at its last MOT done
• A Lovely "Day" Trip to Scarborough 11 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  and the moorland scenery more than made up for that omission. The downside to this tale, poor young Steve, who is to drive the BMW, when he gets his licence, will have to pay £3000 insurance, on a £450 car. Good job he's honest or there would be another uninsured driver on the roads. Makes it good to be alive