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• Aftermarket Xenons Illegal... 27 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  , failure to comply may lead to enforcement action by the police and may invalidate your insurance. Also the dipped beam must stay on with the main beam. The headlamp must be maintained in good working order, kept clean and aligned/adjusted correctly like any other headlamp. Fitting HID light sources
• My scariest motoring experience to date 4 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  Last Friday, I took SWMBO and her children to see their Grandparents in Cromer for the New Year weekend. We left reasonably early to avoid the bad weather everyone was going on about but about 15 miles away from Cromer, it all got rather snowy. All was well until the road which leads down ("down
• Cam Belt Badly Fitted? Vaux Frontera 9 Apr 2005 (Forum)
  a jump lead start I set off home but could hear a lot of screeching from the fan belt chain so took it back to the garage the next day and they tightened it up and the problem was solved. All was fine over the weekend, did about 120 miles of motorway driving no problems although occasionally I did hear
• Synthetic oil or not? 1 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  Thought this interesting article by a leading R&D Chemist would open some eyes. A word of caution ? You get what you pay for! Below is an article written by John Rowland, Silkolene/Fuchs Chief R & D Chemist for 40 years. Quote: Costs of synthetics vary considerably. The most expensive
• Pug 406 - Exactly how bad are they? 22 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  here's experiences / feeling for what the car-by-car says, all and any comments welcome! From the car-by-car then: * Light Build: Guessing this means supermarket knocks on the doors etc? * Radiators failing after 3 years. + Coolant loss leading to overheating (same problem, or does the latter relate
• Complacent dealers! 28 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  - and still nothing. This says to me that a lot of firms dealing in cars, new and used, must be making so much money that they have no need to go chasing after business. As someone who is self-employed I chase EVERY lead, whether or not it looks worthwhile at the outset. A valuable lesson for those
• Luddites of the world unite 23 Apr 2004 (Forum)
  leads in a low oven, setting the timing in the street, people regularly bump-starting cars down the street, overheated cars in every traffic jam, decokes at 50,000 miles, a bit of grit in the carburettor stranding me in Stoke (very personal one, I admit). Comments invited, V
• I am an idiot Legal advice... 5 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  fixed'. Imagining new leads, plugs, rotor etc. would do the trick I was inclined to agree. Being carless, and time poor I took it off his hands for £900 which was certainly generous, but I knew that, and that's OK. Of course, the problem is related to using a litre of oil every 75 miles (see thread
• Advice needed - Smokey Escort TD. 4 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  is standing, roughly the point where the turbo starts spinning up. Me thinks turbo is gone?? They are taking it back in again tomorrow, but i am seriously considering asking for my money back. Can i do it. I have owned it for just over 6 weeks and they have had it for a month of that! Im lead to believe under
• Road Users Alliance 27 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  road users" have been dismissed as absurd by leading transport and environment groups. The Road Users Alliance, which was launched today, will "highlight the importance of roads" . The Road Users’ Alliance (RUA) claims it will "provide a voice for all road-users – from
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  A family member drove my car without my knowledge and had no insurance or licence - now there's an insurance claim against her? 21 Feb 2020 (Ask HJ)
  About 10 months ago a family member drove my car without my knowledge and had no licence or insurance. They were arrested by the police for being over...
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  The installation of a black box ruined my son's car - what should we do? 13 Nov 2017 (Ask HJ)
  My son bought a new Volkswagen Golf GTE in September for his commute to work. He changed his insurance to an RAC policy with compulsory Black Box. The...
• A Challenge to Essex Police 21 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  all cameras were, there would be no camera revenue! I have attached a long list of the ways that the existence of speed cameras can affect driver behaviour adversely. Will you accept that many, if not most or even all, of these factors can indeed lead to the results we are now seeing? 5/ "Essex
• Mazda 3 - Engine check light codes 15 Jan 2024 (Forum)
  with the car's ECU. - - - - Any of the causes of the fault may put the ECU into a 'safe mode' for the air-fuel mix and lead to poor running or mpg and even possibly other faults if not fixed. Needless to say, the test drive (25 miles, 2x 12.5 mile trips within 2 hrs) did not register
• MPG Petrol & Diesel Figures/Car Economics 17 Nov 2021 (Forum)
  or model I’ll get. They are all family hatchbacks, and the following are in the running: Ford Focus, VW Golf, Seat Leon, Kia C’eed, Hyundai i30, Mazda 3, Toyota Corolla. Obviously years and mileage vary plus specs available. I’ll focus on the Golf figures, as it’s been the leading candidate, but thinking
• all makes - Antifreeze- Blue vs Orange/Red 8 Oct 2021 (Forum)
  ?   In a modern engine the cooling system works incredibly hard it contains less fluid than a decade ago and works at higher pressures. Tolerances are much finer & as little as 0.6mm of scale can reduce heat transfer by 40% often leading to overheating of the engine
• Compact SUV Possibly Hybrid - Please Clue Me Up 13 Aug 2021 (Forum)
  thread here lead me to buy a 1l Toyota Yaris with a fairly basic speck. The car stayed in the family and since 2003 it's never let us down. I've just handed that over to someone else to carry on motoring, but I've been happy driving this as needs be. In 2006 I bought a Range Rover Sports HSE
• Cataract Surgery 23 Jul 2019 (Forum)
  lead to the wrong lens being fitted if surgery was approved. Lying about the pin holes not improving vision would ensure I did not get cataract surgery since it proved that my vision loss would be macular degeneration linked which would mean surgery would not improve my vision and mean I did
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  Is it possible to get into a car without a key? 27 Mar 2018 (Ask HJ)
  My sister's car was broken into but undamaged. She said that thieves have a device to open any car without causing damage. Is this true?
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  My son's No Claims runs out soon - should we insure an old banger in his name to maintain his NCB? 31 Jul 2017 (Ask HJ)
  We run two cars: an Audi A5, UK insured for summer and a Nissan X-Trail, insured in France for winter. We share them both with our son, who lives in London...