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  • Zafira 1.6 2007 - Nightmare trader/mechanics- Zafira 26 Apr 2018 (Forum)
    of mechanic who then wiped it off and said its probably just not deleted properly. Halfway home it came back on again (I live 30miles from the garage) They told me to bring it in and I couldnt because my partner was about to give birth any day and we needed the car (they said it would be fine to drive
  • BMW 5-Series E61 Touring (2004 - ) - 25,000km report BMW 530d 9 Jun 2009 (Forum)
    ) and the fact that even after 6 years it is just much better to drive than any of its competitors. I ordered an automatic estate version with a long list of options including the ?Exclusive? edition which gives you loads of nice goodies like metallic paint, heated comfort seats, nappa leather, park distance
  • Grand Scenic - full review. 3 May 2007 (Forum)
    , and noise levels from inside the car are lower than the 1.6 petrol version we also drove. Performance is fine in the context of an MPV. Performance figures vary depending on where you look, with 0-60 being quoted as anything between 10 and 12 seconds in various magazines. I would guess the lower half
  • Forced out of car due to insurance blunder Vol 2. 15 Oct 2008 (Forum)
    a wonderful person, is cool, calm and collected and, mercifuly, the kids are fine too. Jane tells me she is sure that we had the renewal notice through weeks ago and she remembers seeing the direct debit go out on the bank statement - so that's two of us. Back in the police wagon the officer is adamant
  • Cuba Fly Drive 29 May 2008 (Forum)
    . Most tyres were bald and I picked up a thing or two about tyre construction too. English cars were represented with a Ford Zephyr 6, 105E Ford Anglia, Austin Devon and a few Hillmans. You?d see plenty of abandoned and cannibalised wrecks just parked by the road side where the owners had presumably
  • Poor service at Honda dealers 15 Apr 2007 (Forum)
    of this as well, and he says 'we were short of drivers, so nobody had the time to do it, but I'll make sure it gets cleaned this time'. Fine I'm happy. My wife drops the car in monday afternoon of this week, with toddler in tow. They are advised it'll take about half and hour, so she meets up with some of her
  • Ford Transit - Help with independent dealer 21 Dec 2013 (Forum)
    hand vehicles, common van faults, common Transit faults and the like) and looked it over. One of the fuel injection rods (the number 1) had liquid around the base of it (there's a circle where it had pooled) and on smelling it, it smelt like fuel. I told the dealer and he told me it was fine
  • Cheaper than cycling - Recommended to Merc owner 27 Apr 2013 (Forum)
    didn’t leave much room for him to get past and get ready to tell him to s*** off. ‘Have you just bought this?’ he says excitedly. ‘What’s it like?’ I tell him it’s fine. Then someone comes up behind and hoots before I can start ranting about central locking. When I
  • Cyclist curfew 11 Jan 2013 (Forum)
    with road humps and cars parked on either side, I had to follow a cyclist in the dusk. He had no lights. No reflective jacket. No helmet. But he did have a mobile phone attached to his earhole. I couldn’t overtake safely because of oncoming traffic. I had to just bounce along behind this idiot
 

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