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  How does black box insurance work? 9 Jan 2019 (Ask HJ)
  I have made numerous searches for car insurance and on every one the cheapest by about £50 is a quote from Hastings Direct Smart Miles where you have a...
• Mechanical sympathy 3 Aug 2018 (Forum)
  Forty years ago I jacked up and placed enough bricks under my Mk1 Escort to be able to wriggle underneath to remove the propshaft and the gearbox then renew the clutch plate and the very noisy release bearing.  This and many other practical tasks were typical amongst the young motoring
• Land Rover Freelander 2 (2006 - ) - Stationary but the Insurance want 50/50 21 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  driving down a single track road with passing spaces I had just passed a blind bend & in the narrowist part of the road met a Saxo coming the other way. As I had just passed a passing space I was quite happy to reverse back but as I selected reverse I realised that the young girl hadn't even eased
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  Which fun convertible sports car do you recommend? 16 Mar 2013 (Ask HJ)
  My other half wants to buy a convertible for fun driving. He loves cars and used to have a Spitfire that he tuned up and drove as a young man. Now we are...
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  BMW 3 Series convertible from the '80s; good first car, or am I mad!? 13 Jan 2013 (Ask HJ)
  After an ebay hour spent looking at these online, I was wondering whether they would be affordable as a first car? My brother will be learning to drive...
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  My daughter's 2006 Fiat Panda has developed a power steering fault at just 19,000 miles - why? 31 Mar 2012 (Ask HJ)
  Based on excellent reviews, I encouraged my young daughter to buy a 2006 Fiat Panda and up to now she has been very pleased with it. It has now done just...
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  Why do the police fabricate offences against drivers? 23 Feb 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I had the money and inclination to take on the boys in blue when they completely fabricated a "speeding" offence against me. They even produced a "witness"...
• Ford Focus 07 - Headlight electrical fault 23 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  Hi we have a bit of a problem with the driver side headlight. We have now gone through 4bulbs in 12months on one side. The last time it went the bulb actually came back on for a day before ceasing to work altogether. I'm wondering whether this is maybe a regular electrical fault
• Begging - On The Motorway!! 14 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  Approaching the M40 slip road today, around lunchtime, reasonably fast moving traffic. Car parked 20 or so metres along, young guy waving his arms around, in the road, female doing similar, in distress, apparently, both of Eastern European appearance & another person in the vehicle. We stopped
• Rover 214 Advice Please! 14 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  , but is that the only thing that makes them worse? I have also taken into account thats its an old persons car... But then isn't every car (ok, maybe not the american muscles... But they aint exactly common cars over in the UK). As I am a young driver, this is to be my first car. As I look at it, I like the look
• Zig Zag Zones 6 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  ) their offspring realise they are not only causing congestion, breaking rules/laws, demontsrating a bad example to their children, but also endangering the lives of other children with their selfish behaviour? The young mother I pointed this out to this morning looked at me as if I was talking Outer Mongolian
• Honda Accord 30 Jul 2002 (Forum)
  have. It has no surface rust beneath its original lime green paintwork (urgh) and there is no evidence of any major prangs. It seems to be mechanically fine too, with a new WOF (NZ for MOT). For $700 (about 210 quid they can't go far wrong) and get this for insurance - $500 for 4 young drivers - one
• Road rage - advice please 15 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  was dangerous, and it looked like he was going to assault me given half a chance. Perhaps in future some old lad, or a young woman will suffer at his hands. I am wondering what I can do that is constructive. I have a mind to report the driver to the local police given that I have the registration
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  A friend's young son had a car accident, but no other vehicle was involved - should he tell his insurer? 8 Mar 2018 (Ask HJ)
  My friend's 21 year old son had a car accident on the ice last week. His car (a cheap old thing) was a write off, but no one else was involved. The AA...
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  A vehicle continually parks and causes an obstruction outside my house - what can I do? 25 Feb 2020 (Ask HJ)
  There are laybys outside the houses on the street where I live. My neighbour has a small lorry (crew cab flat back type) and he has to bump it up onto...
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  Does the Ford Ka+ have the same issues as the Fiat 500 that it's based on? 23 Jul 2017 (Ask HJ)
  I recently put a small deposit down on a 2017 Ka+. Yesterday, a friend told me that it's a poor Fiat engine and bad gearbox. I'm now worried. Could you...
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  Neighbour scuffed my car and wants insurance involved - what's the best way to get the damage repaired? 13 Jul 2017 (Ask HJ)
  The boyfriend of my neighbour's daughter damaged my car lightly. As all parties agreed it was minor damage, I said I'd get a quote and we'd get him to...
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  Can I recommend the Drive Check Plus and motorcycle Bike Safe training courses? 5 Jan 2013 (Ask HJ)
  A couple of months ago I wrote to you to say that as I was having to self-assess my driving for the third three year period and I would like to have my...
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  I don't want my car written off, what can I do? 14 Dec 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I was recently involved in a failure to stop accident in Bradford, where the other driver shot off after appearing to hit me deliberately. He pulled out...
• SatNavs in Africa 21 Sep 2010 (Forum)
  On TV yesterday there was a programme called “My Family's Crazy Gap Year” recording the progress of a couple of young people taking their three children on a “4x4 driving adventure in Africa”.  They bought a 13 years old Land Cruiser, “...with a lot of work