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  Should I keep my 23-year-old Honda Civic or replace it? 9 Feb 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I have been happily driving my manual Honda Civic for 23 years and it has done 67,000 miles. It is entirely reliable, sails through MOTs and doesn't depreciate....
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  Loyal flush? 25 Jul 2009 (Ask HJ)
  My 40k mile Vauxhall Meriva has just been serviced by the main dealer who, without asking, added some substance to the petrol and engine oil and called...
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  Superparkit 21 Feb 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Just before Christmas, an old boy hit me whilst reversing out of his space at Waitrose. Whilst there was no damage to his vehicle, he has damaged my rear...
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  How do I swap my Ford Focus cassette player to a CD player? 3 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  How easy is it to change the cassette player to a CD player in a T-reg Ford Focus?
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  Which small car offers good fuel economy? 16 Mar 2013 (Ask HJ)
  My wife has a Vauxhall Meriva 1.6 Club which is three years old in August and has done about 15,000 miles. It cost just under £9000 new as it was the last...
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  What cars with three proper back seats? 24 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
  My wife is expecting twins - and we have a 2 year old and a labrador already. We drive low mileage (9000 pa) and need an automatic (I have a bad knee)....
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  Honda fixed my faulty gearbox for free. 22 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 2003 Honda Jazz. When it was seven years old, I had reason to call at the service department of Brayley Honda, Hemel Hempstead, where the service...
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  Could pressing the wrong pedal have caused these old ladies to crash their automatic cars? 22 Oct 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I know two elderly ladies who have each written off their nearly-new automatic cars due to lack of control. I am convinced that, in their cases, the problem...
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  Clio partra 24 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
  My wife has reluctantly decided to give up driving and even more reluctantly to sell her old Clio, which has served her well for many years. It is an 1994L...
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  What could I replace my 15-year-old Volkswagen Polo with? 12 Jun 2010 (Ask HJ)
  Having recently sold my trusty 15-year-old Polo, I'm looking to replace it with something similar in size. I only do about 1000 miles pa and the car is...
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  Is there a reliable car my 19-year-old daughter can learn to drive in for under £6000? 1 Jun 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I am looking for a good, reliable secondhand car for my daughter to learn to drive in. She is 19 years old. I live in Kingston upon Thames and my budget...
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  Legal A’d 5 Sep 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 5-year-old Mercedes A140 with only 37,000 miles on it. I bought it at less than a year old from the Mercedes dealer. I have now been told that...
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  Watching the second hand 22 Aug 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I have seen a nice one-year-old Ford Focus C-Max Titanium, 6,000 miles, at a local Ford dealer for just under £14,000 and I am tempted to buy. However,...
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  Why does the fuel economy differ by 9mpg between two identical Ford Focus? 10 Aug 2010 (Ask HJ)
  My wife and I have identical Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec diesels, one four and one two years old, and we often swap. The tyres are the same make and same pressure,...
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  Do we have a case against a dealer for badly advising my father-in-law when it came to financing his car? 8 Oct 2018 (Ask HJ)
  My father-in-law recently passed away and I have been tasked with selling his one year old car. Up investigation it seems he had been given really bad...
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  What should I pay for a one-year-old Ford Titanium TDI? 30 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
  Can you advise what the target price should be for a one-year-old 59-plate Ford Titanium TDI (either 1.4/1.6) diesel? I am a cash buyer and I'm being given...
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  My car has terrible internal condensation on every window - what's the cause? 4 Nov 2019 (Ask HJ)
  My daughter has a five-year-old Ford Ka. It’s left outside and whenever she (or I) go in it, the internal condensation on every window is terrible. In...
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  Is this Kia Cee'd a good part-ex for my old Peugeot Partner Combi? 12 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I am thinking of buying a Kia Cee'd 2 SW (diesel). The garage has a demonstrator model with about 400 miles on the clock. The price is £14,995 on the tag....
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  I've had an accident and my insurance is registered to an old number plate - is it invalid? 23 Aug 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I have a private number plate on my car. When I put this on I went online to my insurance company and thought I had changed the details. Unfortunately...
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  Will my car fail its MoT if the spare does not have the same size tyres as the rest? 20 Nov 2019 (Ask HJ)
  My 2009 car has just failed its MoT for having different sized tyres on the same axle. The spare wheel (steel, but not a space saver with a speed restriction...