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• VW Lupo GTi - Recommendation for sporty city car 9 Feb 2015 (Forum)
  big.   It needs to have rear seats but they can be small (as the kids are small, and long journeys would be in the S-Max).   I thought of the Lupo GTi as it seems to be a shrunken version of my old A3, but those cars are 10-15 years old now, and I'm sure that there are more
• Keeping a five year old S-Max 24 May 2014 (Forum)
  I have decided to keep my S-Max TDCi Auto for at least another 18 months.  It is about to have a service and MoT at 50,000 miles.  It has been regularly serviced (every 12 months and 10,000 miles) and has been reliable. I have no complaints about the way the car has performed
• Any - True Cost of Motoring. 5 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  suspect many people do not know the true cost of running their car. The other evening I pulled into my drive when someone I know vaguely was walking by. He made the comment “You must be a rich man”! I queried this and he said “To put the petrol in that car”. That car is an old (sub
• How much power do you want and why? 26 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  eastbound over the pennines at 40MPH in 3rd gear. Of course all that is forgotten about these days with modern cars, but i was reminded of it reading a forum on LDV (old post office) vans. They were aware of Shap and it reminded me of old times. So i guess i`m quite contented with little, in terms of power
• Baby seat help 27 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  Hi, We need to buy a second car seat for our baby as just having one seat isn?t practical as our baby will soon be going to a childminder. I have a car with ISOFIX fittings and would like to get a car seat that can use them for maximum safety. Due to the fact our baby is only 5 months old, she
• Ford Focus brake pad wear indicator? 1 Feb 2007 (Forum)
  Does anyone know whether a 4 year old Focus has a warning light (or possibly audible warning) for front pad wear? Reason for asking is that my Sister-in-Law's car failed it's MOT allegedly for worn front brake pads. The Ford dealer insisted that the pads would need replacing for the car to pass
• Getting my 17 year old on the road 3 Jun 2006 (Forum)
  I'm facing the dilemma of many parents. My son is coming up to 17 and keen to get onto the road. I've got about £5k to get him started - car plus insurance. I am totally unclear about how to tackle this - should I buy a car once he has passed his test (and his pass plus)? Should I buy him a car
• New Mini polarizes opinions 6 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  was younger. I would not buy an old mini now because they are unreliable and rusty and our second car does 40 miles a day. I love the new Mini - it looks cute, is well built, well engineered, fun to drive (not blindingly fast but the old one wasn't either), keenly priced, should be reliable, reasonably
• Audi Q5 - Webuyanycar 22 Sep 2021 (Forum)
  My car is three years old in a week’s time. Do you think that the warranty expiration in 7 days time will have a significant impact on the offer they’ve made for my car?
• Honda Accord Type-R 5 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  Anybody had one of these? any pointers on a 5-7 year old car. I do hear the are virtually unbreakable. Looks like a lot of car for £3-5.
• Cats 22 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  How old does a car have to be for it to be legal to remove the catalytic converter and have it replaced with a straight through pipe? My car is a 92 J plate and is having some exhaust problems. News cats are expensive..... Gavin
• Insuring 89-year old fathers car for self and son 12 Jan 2011 (Forum)
  89-year old father had a stroke last August which affected his peripheral vision in one eye. He has not driven since but the doctor has not actually told him to contact the DVLA or insurance company so my son (who lives nearby) and myself (who live 60 miles away) who are both on the insurance policy
• Temporary Car - 18 year old 4 May 2004 (Forum)
  year old, thanks to the appalling driving of others my age. Is it illegal to contact my own insurance company and asking them to cover me in my dad's car for a week? I suspect that the answer would be yes, as technically the car would be insured twice! Taking public transport is impossible
• What should I replace the Forester with? 18 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  My father is giving some thought to getting rid of his older Forester and taking over mine. You may recall how he bought mine for himself and then decided he preferred his old one, so handed the newer one to me. Anyway, that leaves me without a car, obviously, as I don't want his old Forester
• Audi RS4 v BMW M5 service costs?? 23 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  miles in the Mondeo since new (6 months old), and so would prefere to stick with a car without a cambelt (my old SEAT Leon TDi had huge cambelt service costs). Can anyone tell me what experience they have had with service costs on these cars, and any problems that may arrise once upto and past 80k
• air-con on 1yr old Corolla 22 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  I bought a one year old Corolla, 1.6 auto, which I am very happy with. Its my first car with air con, and I must admit i cant seem to get it very cold in the car at all (if you have an air jet directly on you its cold, if not it doesnt feel that cold at all)! At first my Dad said it would need re
• You can't turn a pig's ear into a silk purse. 16 Jan 2010 (Forum)
  The familiar old anti-diseasal rant. I'm utterly convinced that over the life of a car a modern diesels cost much more than their petrol engined cousins to run. Yeah sure there are some cracking diesels out there, I know. If you're a high mileage company car driver who'll get a car for 2 or 3 years
• Battery life 17 Aug 2024 (Forum)
  My Volvo 940 TDic is 13 years old it has its original battery. Twice in the past couple of weeks I have been asked to give jump starts to much younger cars. Are modern batteries made to a lower standard? Having looked at the one in my new Outback it does look a bit insubstantial but then it's
• Citroen Berlingo - Old ad-blue fluid 29 May 2023 (Forum)
  I understand ad blue has a ‘use by’ date on the containers. But what about ad blue that’s been in the car for a while? I ask because I don’t do many miles, although they are long trips, as a result I hardly use any ad blue. As the tank is quite large, the stuff has been in there for quite some time
• Wiper blade life 8 Nov 2019 (Forum)
  There are plenty of threads about blade problems, but I've not tripped over any about the working life of a blade.  I recently fitted new Bosch blades to an old 306, which eliminated juddering caused by stiff old ones.  Looking through the car's history I noticed that blades had often