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• VW Golf cabriolet year 2000 mk3 (mk4 front end) - Headlights 29 Sep 2014 (Forum)
  Hello there, got into my car last night and the dipped beam would not work. Everything else is fine, full beam, side lights, parking lights etc. Can anybody help?? All was fine the night before, this problem was sudden, no warning. Thanks.
• Parking Enforcement Criminals 24 Jun 2006 (Forum)
  Disabled bay painted around car A council has apologised to a woman who was fined £60 after workmen painted a disabled bay around her car. When Shirley Hatcher, 67, parked her car in North Road, Southampton, Hampshire, there were no parking restrictions in place. Mrs Hatcher, of Priory Road
• Peugeot 106 - Peugeot 106 Cutting Out (Only After Being Parked). 20 Sep 2015 (Forum)
  My 1998 1.1 106 has started cutting out. After being parked for a while (Usually about half an hour). It starts up again fine, but cuts out within a mile or two. It happens on short and longer journeys, but never until after I've stopped. I drove it for about 25 miles the day
• Kia Sportage - Is faulty Electronic Parking Brake an MOT fail? 10 Sep 2022 (Forum)
  Our 69 plate Sportage has a faulty Electronic Parking Brake (it doesnt seem to engage and not does the light come on). We took it in around June and the dealer has told us it's fine to drive but the parts may take some time to arrive ( as of today they still don't know). We also haven't noticed
• Fines for untaxed car 14 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  My car was clamped at the beginning of July as it was untaxed. This was my fault and I have no problem with it, hadn't taxed it since April, had totally forgotten as it was parked in a garage as I was working away. Was the first time I'd driven it and ironically had driven to my parents house
• Litter fine 30 Nov 2016 (Forum)
  behind her. As there were strong winds this morning, the winds blew the paper away without her noticing. This officer approached her and issued a fine. Where does she stand as she is has been brought up not to litter and she feels that a genuine mistake was made. Is there an redress as with parking
• Parking tickets-valid or not 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  was obviously welcome not just parked up and wandered off and chance them saying 'tough, pay up' or should I ignore it, with the incorrect reg number they can't trace the car to me but would they check through all the photos by which time the fine would have doubled because not paid within the 14 days
• Two parking space hog 28 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  a bag of fresh manure in the boot!) I wonder if a parking warden could have been 'summoned' (how?) to impose a fine?
• Focus wont go in to 5th gear or reverse 7 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  Hi I have a 1.8 ford focus T reg that has done 78,000 miles or there abouts. A few days ago I stalled i accidently went to put it in reverse withiout the clutch down which stalled it as could be expected. It has reversed fine since then and gone in to 5th fine since then....until yesterday
• Protection of Freedoms Bill: a weasel clause 26 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  . Britain is full of private parking companies that levy enormous "fines" on people who stop too long in shopping car parks, enter private roads (usually unwittingly) and commit various other very minor mischiefs on private land.  The companies get agreement of the land owner to police
• PCN - no work done at suspended bays 12 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  Dear Honest John. Unusual one here I think. My wife was issued a parking ticket at 8:07am on the first morning of a five day suspension of a row of parking bays. The suspension was for pavement repairs. The suspension was taken down by 8am the next morning and no work was done on the pavement
• Cloned plates 30 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  How about this. Guy's plate gets cloned and over 6 weeks the cloner (is that a word) racks up £2,000 in speeding tickets/parking fines/bus lane fines. The guy contacts the Council, not interested just pay up, contacts the Police who call him a liar. He tracks the cloned plate and provides
• Leyland Roadrunner - Leyland Roadrunner Parking Brakes 29 Jun 2010 (Forum)
  Hi all. I have a leyland roadrunner, 1990, which has just failed the MOT. The main failure is the parking brakes are only 7%. When you first start up, until there is enough air in the system, the lorry will not move, so they are working. The foot brakes are fine. The lorry has been
• parking ticket valid or not 21 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  legislation in 2008.   Also warden advised people with me after i drove away i face a £1,000 fine for driving away before he issued ticket is this legal.   Regards   Sean
• Honest advice on Private Parking Company charges 6 Jun 2012 (Forum)
  at pepipoo.com. Remember, unless the charge is from the Police or Council (the only people who can issue fines), you do not have to worry about it!
• vauxhall engine - frozen engine 15 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  my starter motor had packed up so the car was parked up when the weather was really cold i ordered a starter motor but when we tried to bump start it it just seized up and is dead it was parked up for a week it had been running fine up until it not starting and has just been mot,d we think
• Department of the bleeding obvious 16 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  A smallish inside page item in today's Telegraph informs us that parking in London is the world's most expensive. Please: tell us about it. And about the clacking robots, strangely bearing human identities, that pursue the enforcement of countless thousands of unjust parking fines, many based
• Audi A3 Sportback - Intermittent failure to start - weird! Help! 12 Oct 2022 (Forum)
  . I can recreate the fault when I drive 11 miles from work then park it at the gym for an hour. It will never start. However if it's parked all night or all day at work it's fine. Just seems to be if it has been on and then parked for a short time. I've had it to a garage but they were
• parking in a private car park 18 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  Any help with the following issue would be gratefully received. I'll try to keep it brief..here goes.. My flat, which I rent comes with a private car park and we have one allocated space which my flat mate uses. Within the car park however there are a number of areas
• VW - Towing in Brent 12 Jun 2012 (Forum)
  .  I went out this morning to find that I had forgotten to put a Visitors Permit on the car today, and had received a parking ticket - stupid of me - annoying, but completely fair. I went back inside resigned to paying the fine.  At lunchtime I went back outside to get the ticket in order