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Trade in price help
Can anyone help me out please? What would the approximate trade in price be for a 2004 2.0 GT TDi Golf good condition inside and out with 35,000 miles on the clock? Thanks in advance. :beer:
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Worried - car tax expired months ago
Hi all, I have got myself into a real pickle and I wonder if anyone can offer their advice/experience. I moved house a year ago, and I have just found my V5 with my old address on it. No wonder I didn't get the car tax renewal notice, and it's now been expired for 6 months. (not SORNed either) I feel so stupid and it's not…
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Can't I just SORN it?
I bought a BMW 325 this week. Carefully, I chose < 225 emissions level. Over this, and the road tax jumps to £400. Except I now find it's 229. It's an automatic. How early can I tax this? Expires July, I'm thinking retax before 1 May? What is stopping people declaring a SORN and then driving? What detection capacity do the…
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Kerbed Alloy (Mini Cooper)
I've just kerbed my (almost brand new) Mini Cooper, badly scraping the (expensive) alloy wheels quite deeply around a quater of the way around. Does anyone know if there's anything I can do other than buy a new wheel? :mad: Thanks!
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vehicle check website
Recently used Mycarcheck.com and bought their Platanium Check for £19.95. For this amount of money I got 2 cars checked - bought one for my son and had to also buy an old one for myself; both cars went through a 15 point safety inspection at the local Nationwide car centres - attached to AA/Halfords. These checks are…
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Car battery - where to buy?
I need to replace the car battery on my 04 reg Honda Civic Sport. Not sure what size it is. ANyone got any tips like where to by... online or Halfords? Are they easy enough to replace for a novice DIYer!!? Many Thanks
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Shims and brakes?? Lexus advice please
Took my RX300 to Lexus dealer today for a routine service to be contacted a couple of hours later to say that I couldnt take the car home again as the front brake discs and pads were below the legal limit and they didnt have the part in stock so would have to wait until tomorrow. Fair enough but ... Cant remember exact…
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HSBC Plus road side assistance
Hi, has anyone with HSBC had to use the HSBC Plus road side assistance when something has happened to there car? Just wondering if the service is worth paying £12 or so a month, or is it basically worthless and id be better off paying more for the AA or RAC?
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Car being written off - help with Insurers please
Several weeks ago a lorry drove into the side of our car whilst my son who was driving was on the main rd - the lorry pulled out from a side street and broadsided him - at the time they admitted liability - then changed their tune - we disputed their version of events and the impact damage proved that the accident couldnt…
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Sell my car on Ebay but which listing format?
Hello, I want to sell my car and have decided to give Ebay a try, as it looks straight forward and reaches a wide audience and is relatively cheap. I've bought and sold a few things on Ebay before but never a car. Does anyone have any experience of this? Is Buy It Now or auction better? Also there are classified ads…
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car auction - mechanic help?
I know nothing about cars (apart from how to drive one) and I want to buy from my local car auction, spending about 5k. Is there a service where I can pay to have a mechanic to go with me to the auction to check over the car first, to make sure I don't buy a complete lemon or pay waaaay over the odd for it?
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London to Bracknell commute
hi i'm just wondering if anyone has experience of commuting to bracknell from london. i've just been offered a job in bracknell and am wondering whether to take it. i don't currently drive (although am learning) so would have to be bus or train. does anyone have any ideas of reliability, cost etc and which method would be…
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Toyota Previa And insurance Prices
hi i own a toyota previa 1997 2.4 r reg my question and is a bit confusing is when i insured the vech i was asked how much i paid for the vech. could any 1 explain the reason why this question is asked and my worrie is that if my vech got stolen or total loss what would the insurance pay out..do they pay me what i paid for…
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Ford want to buy my car back, good or bad thing?
Hi ya, I bought my focus from the local ford dealer two years ago, they have just sent me a letter asking if i would be willing to sell my car back for them as they have a lot of people wanting this type of car? Is this just a ploy to get to me to buy another one of their cars or will they actually pay top price for it? It…
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whats a good price for a full service
we have a ford mondeo 1.8 04 model. we need a service but we want the full works. kwik fit do one for about £165 and our local garage quoted us about £300, what is the average people pay thanks
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Cheap Rail Tickets To St Pancras For Eurostar Connections
Official MSE Insert: If you've arrived from Google, our fully researched Cheap Train Tickets guide may be helpful. Back to the original post... Having booked a package trip for our family of 4 over easter to Brussels by Eurostar, I had a shock when I realised that I had to fork out another £114 to get to St Pancras from…
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Beware of SWIFT INSURANCE
Swift are running new ads to tempt customers. They are only interested in getting new accounts but will not settle claims in any reasonable amount of time. Do not be taken in by them I was with them for three years, fully comp, and have a tiny claim as a driver dropped his load in front of me causing my car to be a write…
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Poll... Car servicing prices..please vote
OK Gang, here goes. Where better could I test this out! :T I run a very small company of about 4 people that has grown from nothing to being very busy even in these hard time. People still do have money, but quite rightly are being more careful and intelligent on how we all part with it.. to get the best value they can.. I…
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Help Please
Hi All, I have Finance with Welcome Financial Services (oh no!!!!), I signed the HP agreement in November 2006. 7 months later, personal issues forced me to lower the payments which they were happ to help out with. I signed a new HP agreement extending the terms to 6 years. I have just this minute confirmed it was a HP…
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Car Tax Problem
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I am coming to the end of a driving ban due to drink driving (please dont tell me how stupid and wreckless i am, lesson learnt ban fine rehab course etc) My problem is my ban expires on 13th April, which is a bank holiday monday, i have inusrance sorted, but i am being told i cant tax…
