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• Irrelevant - Looking for advice and opinions. 11 Aug 2016 (Forum)
  ? I have the option to return the vehicle under their approved scheme but 1) They have already sold my old vehicle 2) I have spent money already on the new vehicle, namely £600 for a tow bar and having a dash cam hard wired with a voltage sensor.
• Ford Fiesta 1.6tdci Titanium - Cat C repaired car - major issues, any advice 28 Jun 2012 (Forum)
  fantastically well on the test drive so I agreed to buy the car. In total, because of its status as a Cat C I paid £7,100. Three weeks ago less than four months after buying the car the engine cut out and would not restart. I had it towed to Ford who advised me the next day that the cambelt had
• Audi A1 - Reject New Audi 28 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  Visist. Car towed back to the dealership. The car has 16 issues, however the main issue for me is Water Ingress. When the car is left stationary overnight for example or during the hours I am at work, if there has been any rain/cold weather all the glass inside the vehicle will be very very misted
• Audi A1 - Reject New Audi 21 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  of problems have been present with the vehicle and the car has now been in on the following occasions: 12/1/12 - 13/1/12 18/1/12 - Home Visit 23/1/12 - 14/2/12 23/2/12 - 8/3/12 9/3/12 - Home Visit 10/3/12 - RAC Callout 11/3/12 - Audi Dedicated Visist. Car towed back to the dealership. The car has 16 issues
• Advice Sought On Paying The Bill 20 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  Golf 6 years ago I stopped straight away, followed the instructions in the owner's manual, and ended up calling the RAC to recover me back to Manchester. The patrolman didn't even bother to start the engine and winched the car onto his foldout trailer. The car was then given a follow on tow a few
• help! big problems with 306 HDI engine 3 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  , and this clattering became worse with the engine shaking violently. Was soo worried about this, I got the car towed home by greenflag. We have re-checked everything was aligned as we took the parts off again, we just can't work out why its doing this?! I've got some questions about this: What is the significance
• Volvo V70 D5 Estate - The Agonies of Volvo V70 D5 Ownership 12 Mar 2017 (Forum)
  on Christmas Eve 2012. My V70 D5 (2008 model, 88,000 on the clock) cuts out in a traffic jam and won't restart. The RAC man suggests its a lot worse than a low battery and suggests it is a problem with the auxilliary belt that has damaged the timing belt and tows the car to a garage. They in turn repeat what
• DVLA Court Case has any one been to court with the 16 Jun 2015 (Forum)
  :-/ , NOT!  Anyway the first garage sent off the ECU and they couldn’t fix it.. so it went to another and they did.. then it didn’t work still, so had to wait for a mobile VAG comm.. Guy who was on holiday then he couldn’t fix it and then the original garage had the car towed to another garage who
• Nissan X-Trail (2007 - ) - J D power 2009 xtrail 14 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  one is no better than the old, in my opinion, although the wife things the cars a lot better. But at any rate both a decent to drive. Economy, i don't know how these owners drive, but 30mpg towing 1330kg, high 30's solo (max 42mpg old model) previously, and oddly with the heavier more powerful new
• Subaru Impreza II WRX (2000 - 2005) - Hit and Run 26 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  - scuffed and gouged bumper, smashed number plate. Surprising given force of the shunt. He managed to push the Impreza back into our other car, luckily no obvious damage to that one. I did pull out a bit of his tow hitch from my bumper though. Report incident to police on non emergency number. They refer
• Peugeot 205 record? 1 Nov 2000 (Forum)
  money on her. I began by saying that there was a happy ending, and there is. I'm delighted that the car is now ready to begin a new life towing gliders on Highland Glider Club's grass airfield. She will easily take this new role in her stride and I'm sure that she will be able to do this for very many
• Advice needed after accident :( 21 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  . My car was blocking the road! I got a farmer to give me a tow into a layby on the other side of the road and a copper showed up, breathalised me, checked my insurance, etc. He never asked me what happened. (Needless to say, i passed the breathaliser). My car wouldn't start and my girlfriend
• vauxhall - do i have any chance of getting a refund or more 17 Oct 2016 (Forum)
  broke down on the 2/9/2016 towed by psc on the 8/9/2016 dident get the car back untill 30/9/2016 total:39 days out of 91 days of owning it money lost on this car; ek motors repairs £300+ car insurance when repairs carried out: £ 39 days worth
• Peugeot 307 - Faulty car and court! 30 Mar 2016 (Forum)
  it. On the day of returning it the car broke down and the cam belt snapped. AA man diagnosed and towed to the dealers garage. The dealer shouted abuse at us and the AA man and we were told to remove from his courtyard or he would get his forklift truck and put it in the middle of the road
• Dealer not giving car back ! 21 May 2013 (Forum)
  miles when cold, but he may have towed it.) He called me a week or so later saying he found a buyer and he needed the V5 ready . Happy with the news I got my mum to sign the V5 (she was the registered keeper and I was a second driver, using it occasionally) and handed it to my girfriend (who
• SAAB 9-3 - Probable wrong diagnosis - Where do I stand? 20 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  towing to a garage of my choice. I went on to the saab forums and found a specialist in my area. I called them and they told me to take it in for looking at. This was 3 weeks ago, so as you can imagine things have not gone too smoothly! After 2 working days the garage advised
• Nissan Almera Tino auto late 2003 - Steering wheel vibration at 60-65mph plus,not w/b? 20 May 2010 (Forum)
  that very good local family firm had balanced it.) Took car for brief test drive immediately afterwards with their staff in tow -seemed problem gone or very hard to detect, however was unable to maintain 70mph for long due to road conditions and powering through 65mph can remove judder anyway
• Rear Collision 3 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  I'd be interested in views on the subject of a minor collision that I've been involved in. A couple of nights ago, I was following a vehicle towing a large trailer at a fairly slow speed on a fairly busy single carriageway. The trailer (similar to a horse box) was so large that I couldn't see what
• 306 406 HDi timing belt / pulley tick 22 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  otherwise runs/starts fine. Note it quickly deteriorates into lathe chewing metal noise. This is a tow-in, not drive-in, job once you hear it. -- Note:1 I've had lots of pulley failures in taxi fleets, mainly 406's, but 306's now showing same trait as they approach the 1st belt change. Pug HQ has been
• Hyundai Getz - Accident not my fault, bit unsure of where I stand 16 Jun 2014 (Forum)
  dented a bit of the rear passenger door. Anyway I managed to get the car home , my husband arrived and we drove very slowly back home . My insurer had just said oh yes someone will be in touch within 24hours to tow the vehicle. 24 hours was not acceptable and as home was only a couple of miles away I