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• What's the purpose of side lights? 4 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Fine for a parked up car but why use them if you are driving? They don't save on electricity by not using dipped beam. Dipped beam don't dazzle other road users. It seems strange that as dusk falls some drivers will move to side lights before dipped beam when it gets really dark. Maybe it's
• Golf Windscreen Icing (Inside!) 28 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  I bought a new Golf early last year and it's been fine until now. During the last few months, it has been prone to inside condensation, especially on sunny winter day's, which, to be honest, I have put down to changes in temperature whilst it's parked. But in the last few days, the condensation
• Taffy Cop strikes again!!! 1 May 2002 (Forum)
  From Ananova today. A policeman has been booked for parking illegally as he sat in a van trying to catch speeding motorists. The Pc from Gwent Police was on duty in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, south Wales, when a member of his own force issued him with a £30 fine for parking on a single yellow line. He had
• Ford Transit Connect - Accident advice 17 Oct 2018 (Forum)
  So at approx 3pm today I got caught at a closed road junction which I had to reverse to turn around parked cars on my left and with no cars behind me I started reversing I had a quick look down the road behind me nothing there so I was watching the parked cars while reversing so I didn’t hit them
• Motor racing on public roads 15 Jul 2014 (Forum)
  Reading this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28261960 article made me laugh a bit. We're one of the most car hating nations as far as goverments and local authorities go yet we want to be a centre for motorsport? A touch ironic, althought perhaps the thought of all the parking fines
• Peugeot 406 (1999 - 2004) - 2002 2.0 Climate control 18 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  I have just returned from holiday. I drove the car to the airport no problems. On our return pick car up after two weeks in car park. Start driving home, no heating of any sorts. Air conditioning works fine plenty of icy cold air but no heat. Any suggestions about possible cause?
• Free Emissions Test - Trafford 25 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  Hi all I thought someone might find this useful. There will be a free emissions test tomorrow (Thursday 26th February) between 10am and 3pm. The venue is ASDA car park near the Trafford Centre. Its an informal day, so if you fail, you won't be fined, just given a leaflet advising you to get
• parking at focus 11 Jul 2011 (Forum)
  for the staff to actually do anything to help, brought quite a bit...came out went home.....a week later i had to take the bulk of the product back as it was faulty...lol......had a slight debate with the manager, but thought that was it......Suddenly one of these PARKING CHARGE NOTICES, turns up from g24 Ltd
• VW Passat 2.0 TDI - VW 2.0 TDI loss of power and EMS warning light 6 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  I have had the car 3 years and had no problems at all. I took the car to a safari park today and crawled round the park for around 45 mins in first gear having to stop and start. On leaving the animal park and heading to the exit I noticed that there was no response from the engine to pressure
• A warning for blue badge holders. 17 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  responsible. A week later I recieved notification by the borough council that the fine stood!!. My mistake was assuming the same rules on blue badge parking on the highways applied in council owned car parks. I have never returned to this place since that day 2 years ago. {Actual place
• Ford Mondeo 1 (1993 - 1996) - 96 2.0 auto - revs dying when accelerating 1 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  Hi all, just bought a 2.0 Auto Mk1 mondeo and have a few minor niggles. This one is quite annoying and hopefully quite simple to resolve :D When I start the car it is fine, then after about a minute, if I stop and then go to pull away again (lights etc) the revs drop to the point of stalling
• Ford Fiesta - Really frustrated by Council 18 Mar 2018 (Forum)
  I really don't know how to handle the council at this stage. 4 months ago, I was parked in a kerb-mounted marked bay on my road. It was a Saturday night. I didn't have reason to use the car on the Sunday, so on Monday morning arrived to drive the car and discovered two council fines
• Bill of Rights vs FPNs 25 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  an order by a local authority to pay a parking fine through the post has staved off collection of the fine by quoting the Bill of Rights Act 1689, "That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." This means that no fines can be imposed
• 2008 VW Polo (9n) - Steering Not Returning to Centre 12 Mar 2019 (Forum)
  I had the droplinks, wishbones, lower arm bushes and balljoints replaces yesterday. Now when I turn the steering wheel half a turn, it seems to tighten up (almost like a slight loss of PAS) and doesn't return to centre easily like it did. It's more noticeable when going slow (like in a car park
• Cars with no keeper - tow away? 5 Apr 2016 (Forum)
  The local paper today tells us one car in the area has had over 100 parking tickets, owes the council almost £9000, yet the council claims they can't find the keeper to send enforcers to collect the cash.  It seems there are similar cases elsewhere of hundreds of tickets per car
• Ford Focus (1998 - 2004) - 99 1.6 warning lights on?? 17 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  Hi hopefully someone can help me, i drove my 1999 1.6 ford focus from north England down to south Wales, after a few days of not driving i drove to a local town 3miles away and my airbag, handbrake and tracking control lights came on while i was driving. i parked up while shopping got back in my
• Return from Val D'Isere 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  to pay the parking fine in France ! The Tabac didn't sell des timbres and the Poste wasn't open any time I was available. Giving up skiing time to pay a parking fine is not in my order of priorities. I'll have to send them a cheque in Euros to settle it. However, with low French fuel duty rates we
• Red Route fines going up. From This is Money. 7 Aug 2021 (Forum)
  will remain in place.  A hike to fine amounts for Red Route offences, such as blocking yellow box junctions, breaking parking rules, performing illegal turns and driving in bus lanes, would see motorists receive a maximum penalty charge notice (PCN) of £160, up from £130. Making
• focus2.0 petrol - poor running 24 Sep 2011 (Forum)
  like its running out of fuel parked up over night this morning absolutley fine no probs at all got on motorway same thing happend  any ideas before i start  spending money trying to fix it would be greatley appriciated
• Golf Mk2 GTi battery discharging itself 6 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  be fine for days or weeks then the same problem again. This morning the car was fine on the 25 mile trip to work and I parked up at 9am, then at midday flat as a pancake. Jump starting and all is well. The battery is new and when the problem occurs by the time the car is jump started the problem has