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• New Buyers Help 14 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  will happen in 3 years... I'd rather spend 15-20K and get something decent. Part of the problem is that we need a automatic gearbox (the wife cant drive stick) and in France you are looking at 10,000 first price for something decent.   What  I really want is a small-medium
• Citroen Xsara - 1998 XSARA Hatch - Door Locks do not open with key 1 May 2010 (Forum)
  , the car door locks do not work... the seller told me this when i bought ti so i was not concerned, i was more concerned with a reliable engine after the last 2 cars i have had(Fiat and a VW...   not time for France's turn
• Skoda Octavia II (2004 - ) - Five weeks with the Octavia 6 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  would have put in the Honda for the trip to France (and the Honda was an estate which we would load up to seat level). Performance and economy did not suffer that much with the load (still 55mpg loaded and with air con on most of the time). Stereo is good although the CD changer is largely redundant
• french car makers on the run 31 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  started proceedings against peugeot and citroen. there was a first hearing 23.01.03 in paris. The association "securite-autos" is being backed by the magazine "que choisir" (a french "which?" magazine). note that peugeot france had issued a technical bulletin extending the guarantee upto 120 000 kms
• Any considered - Best car to buy at 3 years old 25 Nov 2014 (Forum)
  and this will be my retirement car to be used 1 day a week for work and the rest for visiting relatives and several drives down to Normandy and a couple to south of France  each year. I currently do about 24k miles a year and that will reduce a bit to around 20k. I'll need a large estate for our large dog
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  How can I speed up the replacement of missing windscreen clips after a repair to my Citroen C3? 9 Mar 2013 (Ask HJ)
  Last year I bought a Citroen C3 Picasso locally. After multiple instances of cutting out on motorways in Europe (with ‘Anti Pollution Fault’) and having...
• Analysing Road Accident Statistics 18 Sep 2011 (Forum)
  and we come out 5th best, with the better ones being three minor islands and Sweden. 3.59 per 100,000 a year approx for the UK. 4.5 for Germany, 4.7 Ireland, 5.2 Australia, 6.9 France and a staggering 12.3 for the US. You're three times more likely to die on American than British roads. Most broadly
• Friday Journeys 26 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  ? Sorry for long post - we were really fed up on Friday night, got to France too late for a meal and had to drive down the motorway to the first services to get a coffee and a sandwich! Phil
• Citroen Xantia auto gearbox problem 9 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  My father-in-law runs a '99 Citroen Xantia 1.9 diesel automatic with about 35K on the clock and regular service history. It is used for a mixture of short and long runs and towing. A fault recently developed while he was on holiday in France while towing a small caravan severe wet weather. The car
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  The reason for the set price of diesel is partly to do with refinement processes. 19 May 2012 (Ask HJ)
  You gave the correct explanation to PW of Leicester regarding the price of diesel. To expand on it, the fraction of the barrel that the diesel comes from...
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  Long delayed Skoda ordered 22 Mar 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I placed an order with DM Keith Leeds on 6 October 2010 for a Skoda Octavia Estate 2.0 TDI CR Scout 4x4. The only extra I ordered was metallic paint. I...
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  In-dealer’s exposure 20 Feb 2010 (Ask HJ)
  How do you go about dealing with poor workmanship? Our 2004/54 BMW 318i went in to the BMW dealer we bought it from for what we were told to be necessary...
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  Through the glass darkly 5 Dec 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I had a recent experience that some drivers will learn from. It certainly caught me out. I recently purchased a second-hand car (07) from a reputable dealer....
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  Should I get the emissions update done on my 100,000 mile Skoda Suberb? 31 Jul 2017 (Ask HJ)
  I own a 2009 Skoda Superb. It runs very well, done 110,000 miles and I plan to keep it. Skoda have invited me to bring it in for emission software change,...
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  Buying a new car - what is recommended? 4 Feb 2014 (Ask HJ)
  I am 85, male and fit. I bought a new Peugeot 308 SE HDI (136) in 2008, and have driven only 22,000 miles. I use my car for short shopping trips, and...
• The death of the diesel engine? 19 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  are diesels, well behind the 70 per cent in Spain and France, but not far short of the EU average of 55 per cent. Europe is by far the biggest consumer of diesel-powered cars. As recently as 2010, Japan and the US had only a small, single-digit take-up for diesel cars.
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  Can you recommend a dog friendly car? 20 Jul 2013 (Ask HJ)
  A friend of mine is looking for a replacement for his Land Rover Defender. The car must be dog friendly and comfortable. He lives in Jersey, so it must...
• Any - BMW vs AUDI 14 Jun 2013 (Forum)
  details of the dealer in Chesterfield, and said they have a demonstrator I could borrow, so I duly arranged it, and as I was travelling back from France on the train, on the alloted day I got off in Chesterfield and got a taxi to the dealership, picked up the car and went off. before I had left
• Chevrolet Epica - Chevrolet Epica diesel 1 year on 12 Aug 2011 (Forum)
  changed too. car left spotlessly clean too! (first year service done before delivery) 2 front tyres changed at about 16000 miles, (could have got more out of them but was going to do a lot of miles going to france-belgium and changed the tyres to have new tread on the wheels) very little wear
• Review - Punto van Mk2b 1.3 Multijet (pre DPF) 9 Apr 2010 (Forum)
  . no further problems. It`s great. I love it`s basic nature - and much to Mrs O`s amusement I wouldn`t swap it for anything - although I could if I wished buy something much more luxurious. Shortly it will be in France and then Germany and Koblenz - no complaints then on load space when Mrs O