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• Audi A3 + S3 (2008 - ) - crash damage not repaired properly 15 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  Hi All, Unfortunately someone rear-ended my 7 month old A3 S-line in June of this year. They hit me at about 20mph I would say. I was able to drive the car to the Audi dealer, and the next thing I knew, it was at the "approved" Audi repairer for the region. Now this Audi repairer is allegedly
• Advice needed re accident claim 16 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  on, visability very clear and my son had his lights on etc. The next thing he knew was when somebody drove into the back of his at speed. My 18 year old son who had just passed his driving test 4 months prior (so you can imagine what premium we paid to have him insured fully comp £££££'s). My son got out of his
• FIAT Punto (1994 - 1999) - Garage stripped engine - do I have to pay 12 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  this morning asking if I can come for it now. They say, we didn't get time to put it back together yesterday, we've got your number and will call you when it?s ready, the guy working on it has had to go out for parts, and inform me that there are labour costs to pay, yes, I appreciate you had to diagnose
• Hideous Insurance Renewal problem 7 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  spoken to the insurer?s customer complaints department who tell me that they have voided the original policy and they are investigating. I have asked them to make it clear to me that they have taken this decision of their own volition. I need some advice please on how to argue with a ?computer says
• Honda Accord Tourer Diesel: 20k report 13 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  leather conditioner to try and get rid of this. I had to change the front tires at 18,000 miles; they weren't completely worn out, but as I was going on holiday, I couldn't leave it any further. Anyway, I don't really like them getting below 3 mm. I've replaced them with Pirelli P6000 Powergy?s
• 10k in an 'ugly duckling' ? 28 Jul 2005 (Forum)
  ) in mixed driving conditions from the trip computer and this rises into the 40's if I do significant motorway mileage. Others will probably do better than this as I consider myself pretty heavy footed. The engine is an absolute stonker and is starting pull strongly from even lower down now in 3,4 and 5
• Tokyo and Toyota 19 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  to see a Daihatsu Terios badged as a Toyota CAMI. The range topping and hugely conservative Century with 5 litre V12 is heavily reminiscent of something Boris Yeltsin would have trundled off to the Kremlin in rather than the flagship big brother of the S class-copy that is the CELSIOR (Lexus LS430?) I
• (my) Autotrader gems 25 Aug 2022 (Forum)
  completely flat on all classic shape 900's
• Sub £1,000 motoring 21 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  year £208 2002-52 VW Passat 1.9 TDi SE Bought for £400 to replace above and intended to be a temporary measure until I found something better but it went on to last for over 2yrs until rot got the better of it. Cost per year less than £200 99-V Toyota Corolla 1.3 S 5dr bought as another stopgap
• Renault Espace (1997 - 2002) - Diesel Problem Vol2 19 Sep 2018 (Forum)
  ://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=24466&m=614963 s
• Are current VED rules simply killing old cars? 9 Nov 2013 (Forum)
  for £2400 and it's not even the higher spec'd model; it's the base model Lupo E (mine is the Lupo S model with CL+EW). So the short-term benefit is there, but in just 5 years, if I keep the car, I'll have paid £900 for tax alone. Throw in the odd cambelt + regular servicing and that initlaly
• Why DO we have to have such wide tyres these days? 19 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  or even earlier)   My dad's Renault 16 and Pug 305 had 145 section tyres. These cars were understeery by nature anyway, but it's not as though they were lacking in grip. At either end. A 1990's Pug 405 estate (steel wheels) had 175 section tyres. In the 80s, 185s were
• Ford Fiesta (1995 - 1999) - 98 1.3 engine management fusing (F28) 8 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  that this must be a common fault on mk4 fiestas(and possibly the mk5's aswell) since the donor car that I took the replacement wiring from was starting to chaff also and given time would have ended up with the same problem as myself. there also did not seem to be one other person that had had the exact same
• Reborn classics - your choices? 5 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  -penned Alvis T350 (30MPG out of a British saloon with a 3.5L V8 - in 1954! Long before the Buick - later Rover - V8 had been built. T350 had hydrolastic suspension, too) would be able to put the wind up the Germans... Rover P5B - based on Ford DEW98 platform as on Lincoln LS/Jag S-type/XF (so a bit
• Peugeot 207 (2006 - ) - A week driving in Portugal 11 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  was probably in it?s best environment - 5th gear 2,000 revs and acceleration on tap when required, but even then if you came across a vehicle which could be overtaken it had to be planned very carefully as there is no way this car would take off quickly and once 3,000 revs was reached there was nothing left
• SEAT/VW tdi pd VW505.01 oil follow up 21 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  , is as likely as finding rocking horse s***, as used 1.4 tdi's are very rare. Option 3 will cost me loads, option 2 leaves me with no car and loads of hassle, option one leaves my with doubt and worry (I planned on keeping this car for a few years). So there you have it. Sorry about the length of this post
• Impressions of new Focus C-max 19 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  and found that I preferred the driving position in a 70's Transit to that of the C-max and that the CD player sounded very iffy in quality. Not that much later, with steering not all that communicative and the fuel gauge plunging rapidly from full towards the 3/4 mark after only about 30 miles then my
• Sick Alfa 156 2.0 TS Man 9 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  as failed front wishbone arms. Took 3 months to order in parts by which time car tended to understeer and vibration developed at all speeds through front of the car, (also changed tyres to Potenza S03's from Pirelli's wished I had put Michelin on). 4. 22 months old, dealer finally fitted new front wish
• Letter toWelsh Assembly on car restriction plansci 2 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  that company car drivers are to be taxed on the amount of ?pollution? their cars produce. Carbon dioxide is a vital trace gas, essential to life on earth. It?s the bubbles in beer. Pollutant? What utter rubbish. Nature puts out 200 billion tons of CO2 via the natural carbon cycle whilst fossil fuel burning
• letter from the colonies vol 14 18 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  and 130lbs, and a useful prop-forward in the Manila 10's, might care to forego his manners and beat a path for us both so to speak to the door of the "CLNIC" (sic). In an instant we are through the door followed by heaped insults and are greeted by a vicious looking person in a white starched uniform she