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• Audi A5 and S5 (2007 - ) - 2008 3.0 Insurance Rights? 8 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  to a write off, but as the car is only 3 months old and cost me £41K brand new from the dealer back in June the costs haven't escalated high enough to cause the vehicle to be considered a write off. So the opinion is to repair the car (new font wing, new door, new door shut panel, new rear wing, new rear
• Any car - Buying a new car, what happens old car insurance 13 Aug 2013 (Forum)
  Hi, I am thinking of changing my car and are getting confused with car insurance. Hope someone out there can give me some advice. If I have another 3 months car insurance to run on my current car, when buying insurance for the new car, do I have to use last year's No Claims
• Mid Large Family Car 17 May 2022 (Forum)
  Hi all I'm looking at getting a used car, up to five years old, 60k miles, £25k.  I need a decent size boot and genuine comfort for four.  I prefer an old fashioned interior (think cream leather and wood) rather than all the high tech gizmos and shiny bits
• Ford Focus Estate - tyre age/general degradation 4 Jul 2013 (Forum)
  really-a bit of a general discussion re:tyre degradation Recently inherited a low mileage but 13 year old car-done 45000 miles,and on original rear tyres ,which are very legal still. got a slow puncture, but tyre company would not repair-and only replace with new-on the basis
• 2003 Renault Scenic (old shape) - Car Pulling to Left Under Braking 3 Oct 2011 (Forum)
  Hi, I've got a 2003 Renault Scenic 1.4 (old shape), which is pulling to the left under medium braking. Light braking, it's fine, heavy braking, it's fine, but under medium braking, it seems to dive down a bit at the front, along with wallowing
• skoda cars - oil consumption 31 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  Hi. Both my wifes car(1.2tsi Fabia), 35000miles, just under 3yrs old, and mine(1.8tsi Octavia, 8000miles,2yrs old, have both started using a fair bit of oil. I bought my car having been impressed with the smooth good performing engine of the 105bhp Fabia, so am rather concerned at the oil
• skoda cars - oil consumption 20 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  Hi. Both my wifes car(1.2tsi Fabia), 35000miles, just under 3yrs old, and mine(1.8tsi Octavia, 8000miles,2yrs old, have both started using a fair bit of oil. I bought my car having been impressed with the smooth good performing engine of the 105bhp Fabia, so am rather concerned at the oil
• skoda cars - oil consumption 20 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  Hi. Both my wifes car(1.2tsi Fabia), 35000miles, just under 3yrs old, and mine(1.8tsi Octavia, 8000miles,2yrs old, have both started using a fair bit of oil. I bought my car having been impressed with the smooth good performing engine of the 105bhp Fabia, so am rather concerned at the oil
• Humourous car ad 10 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  DES MOINES, Iowa - Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet." After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone ? by placing an ad in the local newspaper. ADVERTISEMENT The ad reads: "OLDS 1999 Intrigue
• Does anyone still use krooklocks / autolocks, etc? 16 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  I think i may be right in saying that cars under 5 years old, maybe longer, are fitted with alarms and/or immobilisers as standard. If your car is fitted with these security devices do you still use any other security devices like krooklock, steerlock, autolock etc. devices that covers
• Towball to tow hitch 20 May 2005 (Forum)
  Advice needed please. I have recently fitted a towbar to my car so that I can pull my caravan and on stock car days a car transporter trailer. I have just bought an old trailer this week which rattled badly when towed. I put this rattle down to the fact that the trailer is well balanced and offers
• MG ZS - Rust on a 7 month old car 28 Feb 2020 (Forum)
  Hi all After some advise. Bought a brand New MG ZS at the end of October 2018. I have now noticed many rust spots on the car for example all 4 sill jacking points are rusty various places under the bonnet. Now here do I stand with this as a car is so new it should not have
• VW Polo 2018 1.0 TSI 95 - Extended service intervals 6 Apr 2019 (Forum)
  Is there any evidence for or against long life service intervals ie 20,000 miles for a modern petrol engine such as the one in my Polo? My understanding is they were created to satisfy fleet owners, many of which flog cars when two years old, and others have high annual mileage. These people
• DVLA Vehicle Check - Missing Vehicles. 1 Oct 2015 (Forum)
  I Sometimes like to take a look at the above site to see if some of my old cars are still on the road, but since the site was updated a year or so ago, it seems that some of my old cars are just not recognised. They are recognised on the Auto Trader site, but of course this doesn't tell
• "12 year old car" - Corrode rage 29 May 2013 (Forum)
  Re: Reply to AP's letter in Telegraph Motoring 25th May 2013. HJ responded saying: "In law, the dealer is only liable to buy back the car for the price you paid. He is not liable for any money you might have spent rectifying it." Given that most dealers refuse to take back
• Car choice? Disabled OAP 24 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  Looking for some help on a choice of car for my 81 year old mum, who's recently left hospital with a knackered left leg and severely decreased mobility. She's now going to need a small automatic, five door car with enough space for a fold-up wheelchair if she eventually needs one. Her current car
• Old Models on Manuf Websites 8 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  It is said that for every new carsold there are 4/5 2nd hand cars sold. I realsie that HJs site has a car-by-car breakdown for cars stretching back 15 years but it is not the same as Manf Car Sites. Look up most manufacturer sites and you will see the 2007 models have been updated with the 2008
• Cost of motoring versus age of car. 4 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  Some 20 or 30 years ago I saw a survey which compared the cost of motoring for cars of different ages. I think it was by the AA, but it may have been RAC or Which? magazine. The survey showed that the cheapest cars to run were 4 to 6 years old. Newer cars cost more in depreciation. Older ones
• premature breakdowns 23 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  I've been driving volvo cars for a number of years now. My car at the moment is a S80 T6, I thought it was my dream car, expensive(for me anyway)6months old,10,000 miles on clock,pristine condition. Within a week I was having trouble with central locking - car taken back to garage to be sorted
• extreme bangernomics 8 Jun 2020 (Forum)
  Two blokes I know do nothing to their cars, zilch, nada, a Mazda Mx5 20 years old and a Jag S type pretty old. Jag cost about £800 and has merrily gone on for two years or so. Jag guy just runs them til they break and buys another, how they don't just stop running I don't know.