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Archives for January 2007
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Vauxhall Zafira - Spare wheel!
We bought our first ever new car in Sept 2006, a Vauxhall Zafira. After only a couple of weeks we found that someone had stolen our spare wheel (its under the car) Apparently this happens a lot and a simple K lock fitted as an extra would make this impossible (according to Vauxhall) But we were never told this by the…
Car Rental Fraud
I went to a car hire and arranged to hire a car from the Friday morning until the Sunday evening. The owner of the car hire congratulated me on choosing a car which would not only give him trouble free motoring but, which was also ideal for the type of trip he had in mind. When signing the standard form, i paid the deposit…
Wheel Caps! 13inch
Heya... I wanna know the cheapest place i can get a nice decent set of wheel caps for my VW Polo... 13"... no preference as long as they look decent....
Car warranties? which one?
Just bought a used car for my better half. need to get a warrant y sorted for it. been on a few sites, wondered if anyone had any personal recommendations? any horror stories/companies to avoid? cheers all Tibs
European car rental
Hi. I'm sure this must come up regularly but I never get anywhere with the searches on these forums. I'm looking for the best value (ie. cheap and reliable) car rental service for travelling across northern spain. Any suggestions? Many thanks.
Breakdown REPAIR Cover
Has anyone used this before - It is not breakdown cover but insurance if the car develops a fault during the insurance period I ve been quoted 80 pounds for the entire year, which I think is extremely reasonable. My only concern is when you come to actually claim and how the claim process works I am also concerned that the…
Buyacar.co.uk
Hi, The website buyacar.co.uk offers some amazing discounts on new cars that I don't seem to be able to get my local dealer to match (or even get close to). I'm trying to work out the catch. So far I've discovered that you do not get the V5 document until six months after you take delivery of the car (to prevent you from…
AA Breakdown cover "better than free"
option 100 starts at £31.80. £20 back via quidco & I used a code for 3000 nector points ( found the code on rpoints) which is worth £15 in sainsburys or £30 in Adams. I did this a some weeks ago & it worked fine. ;) Hope it helps
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