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• Audi approved 9 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  dealer has the cheek to put on their forecourt. Tired old repcars, stonechipped to death, scratched by carwashes (and believe me we are not talking wear and tear here), smoked in cars with holes in the seats etc... How the hell have they got the nerve to write a load of rubbish on their website about
• Car insurance - £137 saved! 19 Aug 2005 (Forum)
  My car insurance renewal came through recently, with elephant.co.uk, at £360. This is for a 10 year old Mercedes W124 E class diesel, fully comp with a boringly normal driver. Up a little on last year, partly beacuse I changed my car. I also noticed that £28 had crept in as well for "hire car cover
• Used car inspection and dealer liability 6 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  Someone I know is looking at getting a fairly old (but quite high-value) used car from a dealer. He is thinking about getting an RAC inspection, but posed an interesting query. If he buys a used car and something major goes wrong (e.g. autobox failure) within the first month or two then I think
• citroen ax '92' ignition light problems 18 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  fine....Took the car for a drive came home half an hour later and wouldn't start again. I then bought a new battery as I the one I had was very old and had been run flat many a time after replacing it the car ran fine no probs.....but now 3 weeks on the ignition light is playing up...It either doesn't
• Help appreciated on selecting new car 7 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  I need a new(er) car!! My Mondeo Estate 2.0 Ghia X is dying (reliable until 100,000 miles then bits falling of left, right and centre - £1,900 spent on it this year alone). Aircon packed up today - £300 to replace condensor - arghhhhh!!! Car is a company one and so will be it's replacement. Want
• Morris Minor Traveller - advice please 6 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  over fairly low mileages? 3. What should he look out for on this 33 year-old car? 4. Any advice re inspections? Many thanks Pat
• Help needed with choosing new car please 31 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  Hi I'm new to this site. We are thinking about getting a new (to us!) car. We have two boys who are both in car seats and are planning to try for another one soon. We also have a long legged greyhound. We travel to my parents for the weekend fairly often. So...we need a car with three full sized
• Importing a car from South Africa 1 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  Am hoping someone can offer some good advice here: A colleague has a BMW Z3 garaged South Africa (Johannesburg) but now works and lives in the UK and will be staying here for the forseeable future. The car is low mileage but 1.5 years old and due to it's value etc he has decided he definitely
• What Women Want 31 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  just because they can, it?s scary?. Status cars were also rejected as ?vain and arrogant?. It seems these women liked men with very ordinary cars, provided that (and they applied the same criteria to mens clothes) they were not to be too old, nice colours, scrupulously clean inside and out
• In the attic 29 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  with headlining sitting on your head. (I don't do this - we have laid the car up for the time being). I was going to try to flog the car, but I can't really expect to sell it in this state. Which is annoying because it is a nice old car and runs just as well as it ever did when it was new. Such is life ....
• Buying Ex-Hire-Cars? 15 Nov 2000 (Forum)
  A local Ford dealer is offering ex-hire-cars, imported from Jersey. They are around 6 months old, showing 2-3 thousand miles. The prices seem to be good - one W-reg Fiesta (a 1.25 Zetec) looked as new, and was on for just over £7,000 We're considering buying one to keep for several years, but how
• VOLKSWAGEN Golf Ready2Go 1.0 TSI 85kW 115CV - Should I buy a car with a visible crack? 27 Jul 2024 (Forum)
  I´m looking to buy a second hand car, approximately 6 years old and I´ve found this VW Golf which looks in great condition generally, runs well and is at a good price from a local car dealer. My only worry is that there is a small crack in the framework at the back left
• Honda Accord UK (2003 - 2008) - Worth buying? 8 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  an old car and I can't imagine insurance would be bothered to fix the car. Looking at what to buy and I quite like the Accord. Thinking of getting 2.0 hatchback. My budget is around £1500 and there are quite a few available around that price mark. Anyone got any experience with this car? As its Honda
• The best of Car Magazine 60s & 70s and 70s and 80s 29 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  programme and find the artcles expletive ridden and just generally poorly written, happy days eh. I wish i could get hold of some old Car magazines from the 80s, I threw all mine out years ago!
• Will platform sharing die soon ? 30 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  make cars cheaper, it makes for compromises. He thinks platform sharing is now a very old fashioned engineering way of thinking. So should other companies keep doing it and in fact do we buy compromised cars when we buy a car that shares componenets and platforms with other models and makes ? (PS
• Alarm Bells on Car Purchase! 4 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  I need your help please! I have been "advising" a friend on a car purchase. I found one particular car which was 1 mile from where she lived and a price (on autotrader) at least £1.5K less than everything else advertised. Long story short - she's looked at it and fallen in love with it and wants
• Cars appearance and MOTs 6 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  Im wondering if the general apperance of a car can affect the way the tester approaches the car. My old Mazda is pretty tatty as cars go. It has scratches, fair sized dent on front wing, lots of surface rust, a badly dented front valance, a dent in the sill, a scrape on the rear wheel arch
• Cars 14 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  I'm looking at buying an old car (10 years plus) and Looking at the car adverts I'm occasionally coming across cars from traders which are inexplicably a couple of hundred quid cheaper than those in other trade ads and are advertised as "To clear", but seem to be described as being in good
• Drunk in charge of a motor vehicle 19 Jun 2004 (Forum)
  'have no key - think we've lost it.' Does it make a difference if that key is hidden in the ashtray, or under the tree stump at the end of the road? Does the old 'trick' of opening the car, and then throwing the keys as far from the car as we can work? Errors in the above, comments & observations
• New car warranty 19 May 2004 (Forum)
  they fited a new clutch. when the car jammed again the AA towed the car to the dealer. First question? Should the brake shoes break up like that on a 2 year old car and is is classed a wear and tear or mechanical failure. I am disputing this with the dealer. They say it is not covered by the warranty