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• Volvo S80 battery problem 1 May 2006 (Forum)
  , unbeknown to her that the batterry had ran out she tried countless times to start the engine with the result that the engine was flooded with fuel. I managed to get the RAC guy to give me a jump start and lso moanaged to clear out the flooding and the car ws fine..drove it a few places just to recharge
• Celebrating 40 years of the 18-22 series Wedge 27 Mar 2015 (Forum)
  BMW’s Mini factory on the edge of Oxford. Strictly speaking, we were told - by a Mini factory guide who worked there at the time - that the 18-22 was manufactured on the other side of a bypass on land now occupied by a gym, an Audi dealer and a science park, but the 18-22’s body
• Volkswagen Polo GTI 2015 DSG 1.8 TSI - Need to reject / swap car 21 Mar 2016 (Forum)
  wasn't mentioned when I ordered the car.  I challenged them as to why, and they said it was some jargon due to 'price quarters, and it has fell into the next quarter and now it has gone up slightly' ..  because I wanted the car, I said right, okay, fine.. Thinking it's not much extra
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  My Thai 21 Feb 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Last September, I sent you an e-mail to ask if you would be good enough to give your thoughts on Chiang Mai in Thailand. Your reply tipped the choice of...
• Renault Clio 1.5 dCi 68 road test . . . 28 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  the road, and the odometer reading returned when I restarted - and it was fine until the day when we returned the car, when we got the error message again on starting in the morning. This time, at least the needle on the fuel gauge behaved itself, and gave us the same reading it had been giving
• New car time 5 Oct 2023 (Forum)
  a salesman. Salesman took us outside strait to another GR. Told him it was an Icon we planned to buy since it had all the kit we wanted (except rear parking sensors which are an option and rear tints which the chap down the road can do us) and had no desire to buy a car with kit we did not want. He tried his
• Citroen Relay II, 2002-2006 (registered 2007) - Burning smell (clutch?), slow air suspension, etc 4 Sep 2023 (Forum)
  miles, but half of that was in the last year, after a service in May 2022. It takes over 7 minutes for the air suspension to build enough pressure to release the handbrake after being parked overnight. Is this normal? If not, could it be due to the problems noted in the MOT? Roughly how
• Toyota Yaris Hybrid - Coincidence or negligence? 6 Apr 2021 (Forum)
  in March 2020 and took it for it's first MoT under my ownership in March this year. The MoT was fine but with a recommendation to change the two front tyres as they were near their legal tread limit, and an advisory that the rear offside tyre was cracked and would need dealing with. I had the two front
• Mercedes-Benz SLK 200K - To write off or to not write off? 18 Aug 2020 (Forum)
  Hello! Sorry for the length of post! So someone hit my car while parked and just drove off, it was all caught on CCTV.  I rang my insurance explained it all and the girl said it was a write off without even sending someone to look at it.  To the point where she told me I should
• Skoda Superb - A cautionary tale about DSG Gearboxes 2 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  telly. Ventilated seats. Even footrest for the back as it's just huge. Could rent the back out to a family and they'd have room for their furniture. Wednesday - at 8.30, I parked up in Littleborough and started watching BBC 1 Breakfast News. RAC arrived after 9 and a nice man explained
• Vauxhall Vectra B facelift (1999 - 2002) - 02 1.8 coolant temperature woes 10 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  this and no difference so I now figured the thermostat was stuck open. Whilst waiting for stat to arrive, I had the cam-belt, water pump and rollers changed as it was due on the service schedule. Got car back and replaced stat (just stat and not the full stat housing, using QTH600K kit) and everything seemed fine
• Daihatsu Charade (2003 - 2006) - 2000 mile report 29 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  . Seats are pretty good comfortwise, no complaints having done 200 miles today. Driving: Performance is very good, no doubting that, due to the lack of weight. Steering is nicely weighted and neither too quick or too slow. Grip is not a strong point but in normal driving it is absolutely fine and the car
• 1994 Fiesta - sudden dead battery 7 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  lights all went out and the car engine seemed to labour a bit. She waited for a minute or so, then turned off the rear and front demisters and all the lights came back on and the radio did too. She drove home (another 10 miles or so) then parked up normally. Next morning, she went to use the car
• MOT Asian style 6 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Time for my boss Big G. to register his Honda. Actually he's one month late so has to pay fine. Register your car or bike here can take a whole day, so many people and long lines. You have to bring your vehicle and nowhere to park unless you pay one of the cruising traffic cops to stay away from
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  Personal injury claim - is this a common scam? 9 Aug 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I had a minor low speed bump with another car at about 1mph. The female driver was fine about it and we exchanged details. A few days later I received...
• Bangernomics 22 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  expensive new car on your drive as long as image isn’t a major concern. No monthly payment, no expensive main dealer servicing, no worries if it catches a scuff or a dent and you’ll be carefree about where you park it. It can be truly worry free monitoring of done right. However to list cars I’d recommend
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  I'm being prosecuted for speeding but the police won't supply photographic evidence. What should I do? 9 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  In January I received a speeding ticket for an alleged offence in November. I wrote to the authorities asking for the photographic evidence they informed...
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  Family panning 27 Mar 2010 (Ask HJ)
  My daughter bought a 2006 Mazda 3 (manual, petrol) from a Mazda dealer last year for £7k just after her first baby arrived. It's a very nice car and is...
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  Can a relative from Australia visit UK for six months, buy and insure a car and take it to Europe for a while? 9 Jun 2022 (Ask HJ)
  Early next year I will have a relative from Australia visiting me and staying in UK for around six months. Rather than hiring a car for such a long period,...
• mini cooper D 09 reg - the car people problems with my new car 18 Dec 2012 (Forum)
  noise from rear passenger side got in touch and they looked at it, they had it a week changed the bushes and drop link but noise was still there, but when i went to pick the car up the customer service guy told me on the phone all was fine no noise!! i asked him if he would come out just to make