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• Subaru Impreza II WRX (2000 - 2005) - Hit and Run 26 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  - scuffed and gouged bumper, smashed number plate. Surprising given force of the shunt. He managed to push the Impreza back into our other car, luckily no obvious damage to that one. I did pull out a bit of his tow hitch from my bumper though. Report incident to police on non emergency number. They refer
• Peugeot 205 record? 1 Nov 2000 (Forum)
  money on her. I began by saying that there was a happy ending, and there is. I'm delighted that the car is now ready to begin a new life towing gliders on Highland Glider Club's grass airfield. She will easily take this new role in her stride and I'm sure that she will be able to do this for very many
• Advice needed after accident :( 21 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  . My car was blocking the road! I got a farmer to give me a tow into a layby on the other side of the road and a copper showed up, breathalised me, checked my insurance, etc. He never asked me what happened. (Needless to say, i passed the breathaliser). My car wouldn't start and my girlfriend
• vauxhall - do i have any chance of getting a refund or more 17 Oct 2016 (Forum)
  broke down on the 2/9/2016 towed by psc on the 8/9/2016 dident get the car back untill 30/9/2016 total:39 days out of 91 days of owning it money lost on this car; ek motors repairs £300+ car insurance when repairs carried out: £ 39 days worth
• Peugeot 307 - Faulty car and court! 30 Mar 2016 (Forum)
  it. On the day of returning it the car broke down and the cam belt snapped. AA man diagnosed and towed to the dealers garage. The dealer shouted abuse at us and the AA man and we were told to remove from his courtyard or he would get his forklift truck and put it in the middle of the road
• Dealer not giving car back ! 21 May 2013 (Forum)
  miles when cold, but he may have towed it.) He called me a week or so later saying he found a buyer and he needed the V5 ready . Happy with the news I got my mum to sign the V5 (she was the registered keeper and I was a second driver, using it occasionally) and handed it to my girfriend (who
• SAAB 9-3 - Probable wrong diagnosis - Where do I stand? 20 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  towing to a garage of my choice. I went on to the saab forums and found a specialist in my area. I called them and they told me to take it in for looking at. This was 3 weeks ago, so as you can imagine things have not gone too smoothly! After 2 working days the garage advised
• Nissan Almera Tino auto late 2003 - Steering wheel vibration at 60-65mph plus,not w/b? 20 May 2010 (Forum)
  that very good local family firm had balanced it.) Took car for brief test drive immediately afterwards with their staff in tow -seemed problem gone or very hard to detect, however was unable to maintain 70mph for long due to road conditions and powering through 65mph can remove judder anyway
• Rear Collision 3 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  I'd be interested in views on the subject of a minor collision that I've been involved in. A couple of nights ago, I was following a vehicle towing a large trailer at a fairly slow speed on a fairly busy single carriageway. The trailer (similar to a horse box) was so large that I couldn't see what
• 306 406 HDi timing belt / pulley tick 22 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  otherwise runs/starts fine. Note it quickly deteriorates into lathe chewing metal noise. This is a tow-in, not drive-in, job once you hear it. -- Note:1 I've had lots of pulley failures in taxi fleets, mainly 406's, but 306's now showing same trait as they approach the 1st belt change. Pug HQ has been
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  Can you recommend some all-weather tyres? 30 Nov 2020 (Ask HJ)
  I have 2018 Volvo XC60, which was fitted with Michelin Latitude Sport 3, 235/55 R19. They will soon be coming up for replacement. What do you recommend?...
• Hyundai Getz - Accident not my fault, bit unsure of where I stand 16 Jun 2014 (Forum)
  dented a bit of the rear passenger door. Anyway I managed to get the car home , my husband arrived and we drove very slowly back home . My insurer had just said oh yes someone will be in touch within 24hours to tow the vehicle. 24 hours was not acceptable and as home was only a couple of miles away I
• Ford Fiesta (1995 - 1999) - 98 1.3 engine management fusing (F28) 8 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  deduced that it had to be an short circuit somewhere shorting against the body of the car somewhere, but this could be anywhere on the car at all. after I got towed home to burntisland, I had almost used up all my spare fuses, and all that I had left was a 30A fuse, double the correct rating, so I plugged
• Vauxhall Astra 2.0 Diesel - 2013 Vauxhall Astra - Worst Deal Ever??? 8 Mar 2023 (Forum)
  , they couldn’t restart it so towed it back to the dealership for me. Got the car back about a week later after they regenerated the DPF. I didn’t exactly trust them so took it to an independent garage who plugged in the diagnostic software and conformed DPF reporting okay, but they also found
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  I want a car that has a spacious boot, good fuel economy and is cheap to insure/tax? 21 Jan 2017 (Ask HJ)
  What car is best for me? I like a high driving position, boot space for camping, good fuel economy, ideally some bodywork protection/trims, good all-round...
• elusive VW Golf Mk3 starting/firing issu 14 Nov 2013 (Forum)
  to be a lack of feed to the coil anyhow. he suspects either the electronic igintion which is buried in the coil assemably or perhaps something like a hall effect chip buried deep down in the dizzy. Tow to proper VW garage (Martins in Basingstoke/Hatch-they good there). I say hurrah becasue now
• Ford Transit - Help with independent dealer 21 Dec 2013 (Forum)
  and start it. The engine started using EastStart but then stalled - fuel was not getting to the engine from the fuel filter (the fuel filter was getting fuel from the tank ok) so he suggested it might be the fuel pump. It was now around 5:30pm so he towed my car to my regular garage, for them to look
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  Legal position with car bought at dealer but has suffered catastrophic engine failure 30 Dec 2012 (Ask HJ)
  My Father-in-Law (a 79 yr old OAP) bought his Grandson a second hand car from a local dealer in Aug 2012 so that he could get to his University placement...
• Volkswagen Passat (1997 - 2000) - 200k mile mark reached 14 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  but I haven't bothered replacing them. Size wise, it was bigger than our needs when we first bought it. Having said that however at well over 6ft I can sit behind myself comfortably. Now with a toddler in tow, the car is coming into its own & is standing up relatively well to the abuse. The boot
• Volkswagen Golf V (2004 - 2008) - 1.9TDi 136k miles, 2nd interim report 9 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  disappeared on the hard shoulder when opening the bonnet revealed a small, but definite, trace of oil blown from under the filler cap. No way was it going to start. After an, er, interesting, tow down the motorway, it was eventually delivered into the hands of a VW garage, who promptly diagnosed a failed