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  • Heater performance in modern eco/electric cars? 10 Aug 2017 (Forum)
    Winter's coming, and I feel the cold even more now I am old and thin. Top of the list of desirables is a heater that pumps out loads of hot air asap on frosty mornings.  This is never mentioned in auto-reviews so please can owners of Leafs, Volts,  tiny ecoboosts etc tell me how good
  • 1;9td synergie - fuel consumption 27 Aug 2012 (Forum)
    hi i had a replacement engine put in my vehicle and its now doing around 15 mpg i took the vehicle back to the local garage and they put my old injectors in it. they had engine  had already used  my old  fuel pump put on it so they said
  • How do I swap my Ford Focus cassette player to a CD player? 3 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
    How easy is it to change the cassette player to a CD player in a T-reg Ford Focus?
  • Hire Car Excess Insurance for old Vehicle 19 Aug 2008 (Forum)
    Hi, I hope someone really can help me with this. I am hiring a beautiful 1960's VW Camper van to go over the Isle of Wight in. Only thing is the excess...
  • Good old public transport 16 Apr 2003 (Forum)
    on a sunday. The money they would have spent on a taxi could have fuelled my car all the way to London! Nice to see we have such a flexable rail network. Keep driving your cars folks!
  • Which small car offers good fuel economy? 16 Mar 2013 (Ask HJ)
    My wife has a Vauxhall Meriva 1.6 Club which is three years old in August and has done about 15,000 miles. It cost just under £9000 new as it was the last...
  • What cars with three proper back seats? 24 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My wife is expecting twins - and we have a 2 year old and a labrador already. We drive low mileage (9000 pa) and need an automatic (I have a bad knee)....
  • Honda fixed my faulty gearbox for free. 22 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I have a 2003 Honda Jazz. When it was seven years old, I had reason to call at the service department of Brayley Honda, Hemel Hempstead, where the service...
  • Could pressing the wrong pedal have caused these old ladies to crash their automatic cars? 22 Oct 2010 (Ask HJ)
    I know two elderly ladies who have each written off their nearly-new automatic cars due to lack of control. I am convinced that, in their cases, the problem...
  • Clio partra 24 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
    My wife has reluctantly decided to give up driving and even more reluctantly to sell her old Clio, which has served her well for many years. It is an 1994L...
  • What could I replace my 15-year-old Volkswagen Polo with? 12 Jun 2010 (Ask HJ)
    Having recently sold my trusty 15-year-old Polo, I'm looking to replace it with something similar in size. I only do about 1000 miles pa and the car is...
  • Is there a reliable car my 19-year-old daughter can learn to drive in for under £6000? 1 Jun 2010 (Ask HJ)
    I am looking for a good, reliable secondhand car for my daughter to learn to drive in. She is 19 years old. I live in Kingston upon Thames and my budget...
  • Legal A’d 5 Sep 2009 (Ask HJ)
    I have a 5-year-old Mercedes A140 with only 37,000 miles on it. I bought it at less than a year old from the Mercedes dealer. I have now been told that...
  • Watching the second hand 22 Aug 2009 (Ask HJ)
    I have seen a nice one-year-old Ford Focus C-Max Titanium, 6,000 miles, at a local Ford dealer for just under £14,000 and I am tempted to buy. However,...
  • Why does the fuel economy differ by 9mpg between two identical Ford Focus? 10 Aug 2010 (Ask HJ)
    My wife and I have identical Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec diesels, one four and one two years old, and we often swap. The tyres are the same make and same pressure,...
  • Do we have a case against a dealer for badly advising my father-in-law when it came to financing his car? 8 Oct 2018 (Ask HJ)
    My father-in-law recently passed away and I have been tasked with selling his one year old car. Up investigation it seems he had been given really bad...
  • When does a car become dead? 6 Sep 2008 (Forum)
    I have often read on this forum that one should continue using an old reliable car until it is dead. What are the signs that that a car needs to be inevitably replaced?
  • Cars and snobs 23 Jul 2007 (Forum)
    In technical a thread with a lady with a x reg astra has been told its a banger and people that sell such very old cars are technically selling barrow boy bomb site cars. Comments please.
  • Mazda 6, Skoda Octavia, VW Passat, Ford Mondeo? - Best value Family Estate for around £5000 19 Jun 2013 (Forum)
    I'm looking for a good value, reliable and solid family estate. With a budget of around £5-6k, and annual mileage of around 8,000 miles, I don't know whether or not to go for: A 4 year old VW Passat 1.6 Diesel with +140K miles on the clock A 7 year old Mazda 2.0 Diesel
  • What should I pay for a one-year-old Ford Titanium TDI? 30 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
    Can you advise what the target price should be for a one-year-old 59-plate Ford Titanium TDI (either 1.4/1.6) diesel? I am a cash buyer and I'm being given...
 

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