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  Estate of the nation 22 May 2010 (Ask HJ)
  My wife insisted that I wrote to you before rushing headlong in pursuit of another zany half-baked plan. My bitch (not my esteemed wife) is that I have...
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  What should I look for when buying a used Porsche 911 997? 17 May 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I am set on buying a used Porsche 911. While I love the classic 993, the price for a good one is approaching that of an early 997. For this reason, I have...
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  Photo finished 24 Apr 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I must say that you should use the picture on the front of last week's (or was it the week before) at the top of your column. Hardly credit you are the...
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  Living on scraps 29 Aug 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Having seen a Croydon Volkswagen advert in the local press for “a £2,950 allowance to buy a new Golf on top of the government scrappage.” I called in at...
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  Blowout by blowout account 6 Jun 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 2007 BMW 525D M Sport with Goodyear Eagle 245 40 R18 93Y runflat tyres, on 18" alloys. One tyre has developed a small distortion in the sidewall...
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  Vapour trial 30 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I am looking for a large 4x4. Having read reviews including your own I am drawn to the VW Touareg 3.0 diesel but to get the spec I want I need the Altitude...
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  Re-coil in horror 23 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I thought your readers would be interested in the Ford Motor Co.'s quaint idea of Customer Relations. After experiencing a front coil spring breakage at...
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  Roller bawl 9 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
  6 weeks ago driving my new Nissan Qashqai Visia on a B class Suffolk road at 40mph at a right bend, I espied a pool of water on the nearside and decided...
• Mercedes Benz S-Class W220 (1999 - 2005) - Removing Car from Finance Register Nightmare 17 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  I bought a Mercedes from BCA Blackbushe and it came up as owing finance as its previous cherished plate now sits on another car which was bought on finance....
• Modern traditional - who does it well? 25 May 2007 (Forum)
  no room inside, so the current model is taller to correct that. But the marketing department didn't dare change the basic shape, so the car now wanders around with its tail in the air. The S-type is just awful - a blatant attempt to cash in on Inspector Morse's 60s Jaguar that starts with a grille
• 2 perplexing problems 1996 Range Rover 20 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  that has raised it?s ugly head ? heater core O rings ? when I moved the car (by towing) on the sloping driveway I noticed about a small cup of coolant pour out of the RHS footwell and sure enough there are tell-tale green drips from the bottom HEVAC vent (right on to the Nokia hands-free speaker!) Could
• Mileages and misconceptions? 25 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  doesn?t want an unreliable car). The other group prefer to buy old and cheap, and get the maximum use out of the car for minimum money. Bangeromics is the term I think. As far as I can see, for low mileage drivers these are probably the two sensible options available to them. It?s a sliding scale
• Reducing the cost Personal Injury claims 14 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  The following is a copy on an article in today?s Sunday Telegraph by Teresa Hunter in the Money and Jobs section. It is not available online, so I have retyped it for the Backroom. The cost of motor cover and other insurance will fall under radical plans to overhaul the personal injury claims
• Thoughts from America 30 Sep 2005 (Forum)
  the "tiptronic" type auto transmission allows low gears to be held at higher speeds though not high gears to be held at lower speeds, i.e. selecting "2" in fact allows the transmission to use either "1" or "2", selecting "3" allows the transmission to use either "1" "2" or "3" etc, hence one cannot use the V8's
• Nearly new car running very badly 12 May 2005 (Forum)
  to move on to 'don't put up with it' support and away from the actual problem, and while I'm grateful, believe me if there is any way I can get this sorted, I will! If I had cast-iron, 'always there' problems I'd be fine, but its s**'s law that the car always works when in the garage! Many thanks
• Discovering the joys of diesel 14 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  , NEVER PAY FOR ONE.) At this point I decided I'd had enough, the Beemer had to go. Deciding to go from one end of the spectrum to the other (and the car I had before the 528 was a Jap import 220bhp Prelude Type-S) - I traded the 528 in against a '99 Peugeot 106 1.5 diesel, well, I say traded
• A dilemma 21 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  , probably driving forward in 3rd or 5th gear. She starts to reverse into the space behind me. I say to my wife, quick, let?s get out of here before she hits us - but I can't go forward because of the car parked in front of me. And the old dear is getting closer and closer behind! I hop out of the car
• Doing it yourself!! 10 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  at an acceptable level of reliability then it is the Stag. Suffice it to say that this fella is pretty handy with the spanners. Another car in his family?s stable is a VW Passat and it began to play up. The problem was a distinct loss of power either when the engine was cold, or at high speed. He did all
• Times report - speed cameras leading to higher ac 12 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  of police devoted to traffic duties has fallen from 15 per cent of all officers in 1990 to less than 5 per cent, research by the RAC Foundation found. In January the Metropolitan Police switched more than 300 traffic officers to tackling street crime. Edmund King, the RAC Foundation?s executive director
• Jap imports 8 Oct 2023 (Forum)
  years old so nothing old.   The other question I had was to do with paperwork, I can't do VIN/registration checks to see their full history, so I am concerned that if one has been in a crash however minor or severe will this appear on my log book as a CAT S/N