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underground tickets for a family of four
hi, we would just like some advice on purchasing london underground tickets for a family of two adults and two children aged 5 and 11. we are going in november and will be there on a friday and saturday. is there any way of purchasing the tickets before as there are always long ques at the ticket booths when we last went…
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Navman icn 530 or Garmin i3
Am looking at SatNav and have narrowed it down to these two. Navman will be £140 at Costco soon on offer and Garmin about £120, so not much in it really. Don't want anything too flash but a unit that can be transferred easily between cars would be preferable. Anyone got any ideas as to which is best?
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Parking Sensors
I looking to fit parking sensors to a Ford Fiesta for my wife whos just passed her test and when I went to Halfords, they quoted £199.99 for a 4 sensor including fitting. Is they anywhere alese I could get them fitted for cheaper? I'm not looking to fit them myself. Thanks
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car tax/online
anyone know if you do your tax online if it comes recorded delivery or by standard post.. if recorded i wont be in and have to go to the main post office to pick it up and thats more hassle than going into town and queing for tax
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Problem With Eday Chiltern Train-ticket
My mum has purchased 2 sets of a return(2 singles) Chiltern E-tickets(print off from web type thingies) for BIRMINGHAM 2 LONDON. The problem is she did not get anything on the website to print off from what i can tell from her description of the process she went throw on the system. She is assumed that they would email her…
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Peugeot 306 1.9 diesel
Has anybody got any views about this car? any good ?
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Speedcam POI for TomTom
I used to have a bookmark for a site from which I could download FOC speedcam POIs plus other stuff. Can anybody remind me of the URL? Thanks
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Fiat Multipla rear wiper motor wanted
Need a rear wiper motor which will cost over £100 from fiat direct... OH has tried various breakers etc... anyone know of a cheap website of breaker specialising in multiplas?? Thanks very much : )
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Reducing RAC membership costs
Sorry, couldn't trawl through 101 pages to see if anyone else has already done this one :) I joined the RAC last year and got their basic level of cover for about £32. This year, my renewal came through - and it was £43. This is, apparently, the "standard" price, with the £32 being their initial special offer. So I phoned…
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Great Car Insurance Deal
Just got my wifes car insurance renewal notice, £182 with Direct Line for a Honda Jazz, 2 40+ drivers with full no claims and no points. Decided to shop around a bit in typical MSE style and came across a link on the Quidco site for Prudential offering £100 cashback via Quidco. I expected the premium quoted to be well over…
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Urgent help re car purchase
I wonder if someone can assist me. I agreed to purchase a second hand car from a dealership last Saturday and paid a £500 cash deposit. They have been messing me around this week and now the car has been slightly damaged while being MOT'd! They are prepared to put the damage right but I have now lost confidence one way and…
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Paying twice for MOT?
On monday night my car broke down, the AA man diagnosed a burnt out clutch and towed me to a garage he recommended. As it's MOT was due this week I asked them to do that too. They sorted the clutch, and did the MOT. It's failed on coil springs (or something, don't really know anything about cars). It's going to cost me…
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Looking for driving instructor in Birmingham??
Hi All, I am a beginner and want to start my driving lessons.I am thinking of booking around 20lessons but I dont know where to take lessons from.I have contacted AA..they are asking £21 -24/hour and so is the BSM.Can any of you suggest any other place where I can get cheaper than this but I am really looking towards a…
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Is this just an almost dead battery
Got in the car yesterday, turned on the engine as usual, 2 seconds later the engine turns off, as if you had stalled but without the jumping car. I try again, same happens. I check the clutch the gear stick everything is fine. I turn the key again to start the engine, after the engine started up I held it in the start…
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Car over heating
My OH's car is a corsa and sometimes when he is sat in traffic the temp gauge goes up quite high..... A few months ago it went up to just below the red bit so we took it to garage who said that they could not see anything wrong. As tax was due we declared sorn and left it for a while until we had some money to get it…
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Group Train Travel
GNER are offering up to 50% of train travel for groups of 10 people or more. http://www.gner.co.uk/GNER/Tickets/_50PercentOff_GroupTravel.htm
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Car failed Mot
Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this but if not please feel free to move me mods....... My car just failed its MOT and I have decided not to pay the £200 needed to fix it as it is our second car and tbh we can do without it. Its a P reg escort with about 96,000 miles on it and is a bit scratched in various…
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Car finance question
OK 1st post.. Righty ho Thinking about buying a new car for (a Golf) around 14/15k and am wondering about how to finance this new purchase. I have a car which i wanna p/x and have been given a trade-in figure of 5k. There is 3k finance outstanding on my current car, which is at 0% interest. This leaves equity of 2k. Now…
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tom tom one sat nav
Hi Ive decided on a tom tom one sat nav. Link below is the cheapest ive seen. Can someone tell me if its version 2? Thanks Laura http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=353558&cm_ven=Dealtime&cm_cat=Feed&cm_pla=GPS_Navigation&cm_ite=353558_TOM_TOM_ONE_GREAT_BRITAIN
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Vauxhall Meriva
Seen a 55 reg 1.4 Meriva Breeze for £7700 at a car supermarket. Are these Meriva's any good I am only wanting a small people carrier as a 2nd car.
