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🚘 Here are some threads you might find useful: * A compendium of car maintenance tips 🚘 And here's some relevant content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Cost of living crisis help * Cheap Car Insurance * Cheap Breakdown Cover * Cheap Petrol & Diesel - Cut prices & improve fuel efficiency * Cheap MOTs * Motoring MoneySaving -…
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Pay Off Car Faster or Sell For Cheaper Car?
I need some advice please as what's best to do. I have a 20 Plate Leon. 4.5. Years left on a loan at 3% interest but it's depreciating faster than I'm paying it. Currently £230 a month. There 11.5k left in the loan I was thinking of selling it. I think I can get 10k for it and pay the other 1.5k reminder from savings. Then…
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NIP M25 J9 to 8 no gantry illumination!
Got NIP for going over the limit by 10 mph while overtaking vehicles that were slowing down ,no limit was advised on the gantry before the junction and after the junction.
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Expired driving licence
Renewed over 70s driving licence in December and have just realised didn't return my old licence. Do I really need to do that or can I just shred it?
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Breakdown cover where annual full service isn't required?
A lot of the providers I find on comparison websites have in their terms, that you need to have the car serviced annually, and they may ask for proof before coming out. Does anyone know any providers that dont require this?
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Speeding
Got a speeding letter and admitted I was guilty . I was said to be doing 35 in a 30 zone. N Yorks police letter says they give leeway of 30 plus 10% plus 2 so 35. But they start prosecuting at 35 shouldn't this be 36 ?? 56 years of faultless driving 2ithout a fault so I am cross with myself
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Accident. Legally, whose at fault?
Hiya, Had a little accident this morning. Wasn't my fault but wondered if legally it wasn't my fault. I was turning right into a car park. There was a stationary car waiting to pull out of car park. As I turned in I passed the car and our wing mirrors didn't touch so there was space between us. I then heard a crunch…
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Morrisons Pay-At-The-Pump Warning
Saturday 13 April I am a
pensioner. I needed petrol so I went to
my local Morrisons petrol station. I
knew I had a balance of £102.58 in my HSBC current account (I don’t have an overdraft). I decided to go to the ‘pay-at-the-pump’
pump. I only needed about £25 worth of petrol and didn’t want to use my credit
card, I’m…
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Unresolved claim affecting insurance price
Hi I'm just looking for some advice please. My daughter has been driving for coming up to 3 years now and in June 2022, a lady reversed into her in a supermarket car park. There was very minimal damage and the lady admitted at the time that she was at fault (they were both reversing at the same time but my daughter had…
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Autotrader - excluding/blocking Cinch
I’m currently looking for a replacement car and want to be able to view given the plethora of options (and Covid spec cars). When I search on Autotrader the first couple of pages are cars from Cinch available with a mile (because they’ll deliver to my local WBAC site) which leaves me trawling for the non-Cinch cars that…
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Can I claim for damages against a car repair firm for refusing to honour their 2-year warranty?
Can anyone help? I had a new exhaust ‘fitted’
just over a year ago by a well-known Nationwide auto care company. From day one
I had problems as it was fitted with very little ground clearance. They tried and
failed to rectify, but for me some other more important life events took over
and this was not my priority.…
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No claims bonus and mobility car.
My disabled mum is needing a mobility car. I will be the one driving it. I have my own car but it’s not suitable for her needs and has no space for a wheelchair. The plan is to get a mobility car (she qualifies) and give up my own car since I live with her and have no need or space for 2 cars. However the mobility car…
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Diesel Cars VW Audi
I have an Audi car that I purchased which subsequetly was found to break the omission rules etc etc. I keep getting emails about claiming compensation but keep being told VW Audi claims were settled and closed. I received nothing, why cannot I claim now?
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Pothole Damage Query
Hi all, Looking at putting in claim for a really deep pothole. The appropriate council have asked for letter of interest from my insurer, and they won't process without. Obviously I don't want to claim via my insurance, but is this them saying that if I don't claim via insurance, I can't claim for pothole damage? Just to…
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How long did it take your car insurance claim to be dealt with?
I would like to say Happy Sunday but it is a bit bitter. I have been unsettled since the morning of the 6th February. Somebody stole the infotainment system and the media display from my car! I have gained accesses to two neighbours' CCTV footage and found some suspicious activities but the police say they don't show clear…
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Insurer being difficult on no fault accident
Any advice please? I had a no fault accident and my car was written off. My insurers used the words ‘no fault’ throughout the claim process and also waived my excess for this reason. However, a month later my renewal is due. My insurers are saying I must declare this as an at FAULT accident until they can claim costs from…
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Drunk driver crashed into my parked car
A drunk driver crashed into my parked car and was arrested. It turns out that we share the same insurer but the insurance company is saying we should process our claim through our own policy as they need unspecified information from the police to process the claim through the drunk driver's policy and they cannot give us a…
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VW Tiguan power steering issue + potential dispute
Hi folks Situation below 1.Went to the shops came back to car and dash was lit up and power steering, parking sensors etc not working. Red light steering but car was drivable. 2.Took to mechanic who checked obd and it returned loss of communication with power steering module and the fix is to replace the steering rack.…
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Cancelled car insurance
Afternoon all! After some advice! Today, I received a letter from my car insurer stating my car insurance has now been cancelled due to a missed payment. For context, the insurance renewed in February and is paid annually. The bank details on account were old, so they were not able to take the premium. However, the letter…
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Automobile Association breakdown service App usability
To report a vehicle breakdown just call phone number +44 330 102 9981 But here's the challenge if you use the smartphone AA App to report a breakdown. :sThe sequence of screens:I've broken downReport broken downContinue logged outAre you with your vehicleVehicle location foundAdd a vehicleRegistrationIs this your…
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Car Insurance Help please!
Hi all, I wondered if someone could shed some light on this as I just do not understand what is going on! I have held my licences for 8 years. I have no convictions points or anything like that and yet my insurance is coming out at over £1000! I haven’t held a policy in my name for just under 2 yrs so my NCD is still valid…