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  • Does the Nissan Qashqai use a Renault engine? 8 Nov 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I currently have a Nissan Primera P12 but am considering a change. The Nissan Qashqai looks interesting. Perhaps you could tell me if the 1.6 dCI engine...
  • What do you think of the Mazda Bongo? 12 Aug 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My daughter needs a car to ferry her four young children to school and to travel to see us in the school holidays. I have been offered a 2.5-litre Mazda...
  • Is this deal on a new Toyota RAV-4 too good to be true? 21 Jul 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I'm about to purchase a new Toyota RAV4. The local dealer is quoting £25,245 for a cash sale whereas an online company (www.broadspeed.com) has quoted...
  • Which company car for motorway driving with good fuel economy and low tax? 1 Jul 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I am shortly to change jobs and will have to choose a company car, list price up to £28,000. I am 6-feet 4-inches tall, will drive approximately 60,000...
  • Which company car? 21 May 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I am going to have a car through work so to some extent the purchase cost is not a consideration. More important is economy and tax. However I drive...
  • Can you recommend a suitable car for a young family with three children? 25 Feb 2012 (Ask HJ)
    Sometime during 2012 our family will have an addition and we will then have three children under the age of two years old. The current car will need to...
  • Buying a used estate for the family 30 Jan 2012 (Ask HJ)
    My wife is looking to buy a family estate for the arrival of our second child, and also to use for her garden design business. We have a budget of...
  • Hybrid v Diesel 5 Mar 2011 (Ask HJ)
    We have two cars, Audi A4 and Corolla Verso, both 2004 and both Automatics. We are considering consolidating to one car between us. We would...
  • Buying a new or nearly new small car - what would you recommend? 19 Feb 2011 (Ask HJ)
    My daughter is a single parent with a four-year-old child and very happy with her 04 plate, manual, petrol, Jazz, but wants to change it for a new or nearly...
  • Would you recommend a BMW M Sport 3 Series or an Audi A5? 15 Dec 2010 (Ask HJ)
    I have a budget of around £17,500 and I'm looking at the Audi A5 or BMW M Sport 3 Series coupe. Fuel economy and cost of insurance is important as well...
  • Do premium fuels de-coke turbochargers as well as injection components? 9 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
    This is a very important question as many vehicle owners suffer sticking vanes in turbochargers due to carbon build-up, which is very expensive to fix....
  • Nissan Cube - Help me choose the right Cube 3 Sep 2010 (Forum)
    Okay guys give me some feedback on this, please. I live in Japan so these cars would be import only over there. I have narrowed my search to two cars, both Cubes. This is the first one. It has pretty badly stained back seats and a large worn-through patch on the carpet
  • My Mercedes-Benz C270 has developed an electrical fault in the dash. Do you think Mercedes-Benz will contribute? 27 Aug 2010 (Ask HJ)
    I purchased my Mercedes-Benz C270 estate on 1 September 2004 new from a Mercedes-Benz dealer. The instrument panel needs replacement due to an electronic...
  • Eye-bitsa 3 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
    I'm on my fourth Ibiza but need to trade it in soon. I'm comparing it to the Hyundai i20 and Skoda Fabia, both 1.4 petrol versions. Speed isn’t important...
  • Calm without harm 15 Aug 2009 (Ask HJ)
    As a UK manufacture of traffic calming devices, I agree with the comments of your reader from Liverpool about the ramp gradient being more important than...
  • Diss-be-lever 30 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
    I would be very grateful for any advice. I would like to buy a car with small body dimensions and a great automatic gearbox because most of my driving...
  • Shoulder bolster 23 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
    My daughter will be 17 soon and I am starting to think about a suitable car. Due to a shoulder condition she will be limited to an automatic. I would prefer...
  • vw passat model variant 19 Jun 2001 (Forum)
    Hi Guys first time on HJ so please be gentle on me, just acquired a brand new VW Passat 1.9 td pd (red d and red i letters on badge) from a car supermarket (S Ireland import). I am trying to acsertain exactly what engine spec I have 100hp or 130hp. I bought it as a 100 but information supplied
  • Honest John's Motoring Agony Column 06-04-2019 Part 1 1 Jul 2019 (Forum)
    Re Premium fuels. “Particularly important with a Gasoline Direct Injected engine because instead of being injected over the inlet valves the fuel is injected directly so the inlet valves miss the detergent effect of the fuel and can become coated in carbon.” So how will using a premium fuel
  • Any - Top 10 Most reliable hatcbacks....are you sure? 11 Jun 2018 (Forum)
    that breakdown more frequently, but are cheap to repair, are judged "reliable". Thats not how I would judge reliability. Breakdowns over a year or per 10k miles are surely better measures. Cost of repair is important but its its not in itself a measure of reliability.
 

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