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• Worth respraying a 5 year old car? 7 Dec 2004 (Forum)
  My T Reg Mazda 323 has some blemishes around the rear bumper and rear offside wheel - couple of deep scratches, grazes and marks accumulated over the last 5 years (I've owned the car for a year). A local, and recommended, body shop place will respray the bumper and rear three-quarter panel
• car salesman turned magician 28 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  Congrats to the car salesman who in front of the eyes of my 18 year old daughter (and fortunately those of my wife and I) turned a £4000 retail Polo into a £6000 car with only the aid of a computer screen and his manager behind the scenes. This trick was performed by means of various useless
• selling a near new car 30 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  Hi-- 1st post I've always driven very old cars until last year when I needed a car that wouldn't cause grief in the company car park. Now I have a 2 year old w reg GLS omega to sell with fairly low milage. Where the hell do you you go to sell privately. Surely someone must need such things. I'm
• Ford Granada - old - broken off tip of dipstick 11 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  A cousin of mine phoned me yesterday to see if I could find out if the broken off end of his dipstick,  apparently lying in the oil sump, would do any damage. The car is  a 2.8l Granada built in 1985.  He thinks its a Mk 11.  Could anyone advise, please?  
• Call me old fashioned........ 11 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8192748.stm But is this not what used to be called "Policing", you know where proper Police were allowed out in a car to give out not only tickets but also advice and guidance!!!! It seems things are somewhat circular! Hardly a new concept is it! Hopefully
• MoT renewal sticker 28 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  Ive never peeled one off the mot sheet since it went modern and ive very rarely seen one stuck in a windscreen. Im talking the new type not the old ones you wrote on with a ballpoint pen for it to fade in a month. Do you remove the sticker from your mot certificate? 3 year old and less car owners
• Drivethedeal.Com 22 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  Got some prices from DrivetheDeal.com but how good are they? What worries me is they don't seem to do Part-Ex and I don't want the hassle of having to sell my old car privately, plus the fact I would have to find another £4k to cover the purchase until I sold my old one. Their website has
• new or old model 13 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  we are thinking of buying a 2 seater, but with a budget of around 20k the quandry is, do we go for the bottom of the range 161bhp tt roadster, or a new top of the range mx5 2.0 160 bhp. bearing in mind the tt will soon be an outgoing model. depreciation costs have then got to be considered, the car
• New Old Golf 6 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  Doing the rounds of the local VW dealers on Friday to find a replacement for my mum's Corolla I was asked if I would consider a new Golf V 105 TDi S without aircon. This would be the older pre aircon car but desirablke nonetheless. Seems the dealer has bought 50 of them from VW. Any idea of true
• Old Peugeots 20 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  Very first car I had was a Peugeot 404 - 1973 on an L with about a zillion miles. Probably saved my life when a mate (?) drove it into a ditch. Wonder how practical such a thing would be now, haven't seen one for years. Question - Peugeot's used to have character and were pretty well screwed
• Banger, £3k or 3 year old? 25 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  this car!) I'm thinking it might be easier to get rid of as a p/x, as they might not check it out so stringently! The options are: 1.Another car the same (i might have trouble explaining the reason for a direct replacement at the dealer tho) 2.A newer shape, £3k ish of the same prob R reg 100000
• Newer Car For The Wife - Suggestions Please. 14 Nov 2020 (Forum)
  After 7 years the time has come to replace the misses car (16 year old Vauxhall Astra Auto). Budget is £4,000 + Trade In Value so max £4,200 and looking for vehicles with up to 60,000, max age 8 years old, either manual or auto. Majority of mileage is within town
• Car battery life 22 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  Hi I have a 16 year old Celica with a 5 year old Exide battery (date shown on the battery). I have only had the car for 6 weeks. Now when I tried to start the car today, the battery was dead although I did a short journey 3 days ago without problem. Questions: (a) Is the 5 years a normal lifespan
• First car for 17 year old 26 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  Well, that dreaded time has arived - my son will be 17 in a few months. Unfortunately, neither of my cars will be suitable for learning in due to the high insurance. Having done a search on this site with no useful results, perhaps I could have some advice please! Above all else, the car must
• Eurpoe Breakdown ins for cars over 10 yrs 6 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  My Volvo 940 GLE Nov 1991, is clearly over 10 years old. National Breakdown no longer cover cars over 10 year old for Europe. As with all big Sweedish Volovs {not the Dutch ones} its in first class condition bodily and has only covered 90 odd thousand miles. I intened to keep it for at least
• Buying used car 17 Sep 2016 (Forum)
  Hi,  I wonder if someone would be able to help me out with my problem. Just recently I have passed my driving test and now I would like to buy myself a small car. I am 33 years old so the insurance is not as high as it could be with younger people but still a pain. I am considering
• Company Car - New or Used? 3 Jul 2016 (Forum)
  years. I am trying to compare the benefits from an cost efficiency, tax and user perspective between continuning to buy new cars and buying cars that might be 2-3 years old. Most obviously buying a 2-3 year old car would mean mileage is already on the clock so turnover would
• Cars that don't deteriorate badly after 7 years 1 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  on fairly accurate and representative data (i.e. those that compare cars of the same age), seem to be based on fairly new cars. I'm thinking in particular of Which? (cars up to two years old, iirc) and JD Power (basically 3 year old cars) and ADAC (cars up to 6 years old sorted by year
• £7k for runabout for sister with new baby! 1 May 2011 (Forum)
  Hi all, My sister has just passed her driving test aged 34 & is due to give birth in a few weeks!!  Her hubby has a work car, Volvo estate, and their old motor is a 2002 Golf 1.6 mark 4 which is showing it's age.  I might advise her initially to run around in the Golf untill
• Old cars you still like the look of. 29 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  I don't mean established classics like E-Types and the like, but run of the mill stuff that's maybe 20 years old give or take, and you still feel odd pangs of desire when you see a nice one. On the way into work this morning I was overtaken by an absolutely immaculate mk2 Astra GTE 16v