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• Insurance for "chav" mods 19 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  A question for all you young lads or for the insurance experts My nearly 19 year old son is changing his car from the ancient VW Golf he had to practise in. He is looking at a 7 or 8 year old VW Polo - likely a 1.4 (please no comments about the car - that's his choice). He is already planning
• Oops is the word needed. 20 Sep 2001 (Forum)
  Hi all, On a lighter note this one. As i work in an aircraft apprentice school with lots of young drivers, male and female, i posted up a list of speed camera locations in our local area. I hope it will slow them down a little. Some hope ! One lad was reading the lists and mentioned that he'd
• Car accident 7 Nov 2010 (Forum)
  3 years ago my mum and I were traveling on M25 to Southampton when the traffic started to slow and then came to a holt.  We were then hit in the rear by a corsa being driven by a young lad and a lady
• Vauxhall Zafira Tourer - Serious injury by angerous driving charge?? 13 Aug 2019 (Forum)
  an email from the police officer stating they have injury claims for 2 passengers and the driver, claiming to be minor and 1 major injury to the young girl mentioned (apparently several facial lacerations, one down to the bone) he has stated he needs to get a statement from the girl now she is out
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  A friend can't afford to replace his now written off car - what can he do? 7 Sep 2018 (Ask HJ)
  A friend passed his driving test and purchased his first car six months ago. A few days ago he was stationary at a road junction waiting to join the main...
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  Which family car has 4x4 and will accommodate three children? 25 May 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I need to buy a family car that will accommodate three young children with proper full-sized seats. Seven seats would be nice but I am not comfortable...
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  I hit another car whilst reversing - whose fault is it? 3 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I was reversing back into a parking space parallel to the kerb. I was facing the direction of the traffic coming towards me, so I reversed a metre or so...
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  Noisy parker 24 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
  While my car was parked on my drive it was hit by a young driver who it seems fell asleep at the wheel. The police were called, and after testing that...
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  Fitting consequence 10 Apr 2010 (Ask HJ)
  Regarding your report about a driver being stuck in France with a Skoda Octavia that had a clutch release hose fail, apart from the follow up with the...
• Advice on stopping boy racers please 22 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  would say how sorry they were and that they have been offering driver training for young people etc. etc. to which I would say "Three times I reported someone who is an accident waiting to happen, and you lot did nothing". I work in a customer-facing, performance-based role. If I transferred
• Minor Bump 9 Oct 2015 (Forum)
  . Not much damage to either car, but more annoying was the abuse I got from the young lady driver- it was my fault, I was going to slowly in a 40 zone etc. When I pointed out it was 30, I was called a liar and various other things!. I have been called many things when I am out and about in my clerical
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  Are headlamp deflectors still required for motoring in Europe? 17 Jun 2015 (Ask HJ)
  Please could you advise me whether headlamp 'deflectors' are still required for European motoring, specifically in France? I own a recently-acquired 2014...
• Drunk driver - Hip Flask defense 25 Jun 2019 (Forum)
  to update us. He has pleaded NOT GUILTY saying he drank when he got home. I understand this is called the Hip Flask Defense. Another witness saw the rtc and phoned it in as he drove off (hit a hedge so no other vehicle damaged), they have also identified the person we saw as the driver. He's not a young
• Insurance, remarkable value for money 24 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  We've just re-insured our three cars at an average cost of just over £200 each, fully comp, protected on two policies, legal protection on all three, all including yet more tax taken by any increasingly indebted state. Considering just how incompetent so many drivers
• 09 plate winners and losers 14 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  of choice where I work Losers: Anything with a big petrol engine. Obviously it's hard to tell with vanity plates, but I haven't seen any 09 plate Range Rovers, 7 series Beemers, very few MPVs and ever fewer hot hatches (although the latter may be due to young male drivers not being able to get finance
• The Hi-Vis tunics should have been a clue!.... 26 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  , the silver BMW. By the next layby, the BMW was shepherding him in. Point is, I saw the tunics - and it didn't bother me because I wasn't speeding. Why didn't young C2 driver see them?Maybe he should have got a 'driving without due care and attention' charge to go with the inevitable speeding ticket I'm
• Water Ingress-VW Passat 1.8T Estate 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  Seen postings on this topic before and wondered what the current state of play was regarding the all to familiar problem of water ingress in VW Passats? Vehicle is a V reg 1.8T Passat Estate, 100k miles. Problem is water is comming in from somewhere and saturating carpets on drivers side front
• Intimidation, what do i do? 15 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  . A young lad in a white van quite literally feet from my bumper trying to intimidate me to go faster even though i'm at 40mph which is the temporary camera enforced limit on this piece of road. I tire of his pathetic and unessecary driving i gesture for him to back off with my hand. as polite as i can
• Boy racers 3 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Just had to share this one with other backroomers. Parked outside Halfords waiting for eldest son to drag himself away from bicycle dept. when a fancy looking small Pug covered in chrome and alloy bits and pieces pulled up at the side of me and out gets young driver with a bit of a stunner girl
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  ….with the truth 11 Apr 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Seeing you refer to the Hyundai i20 returning "more than 50mpg" I wondered if it has the same 1,248cc engine as our recently purchased i10. Our only disappointment...