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Parking in front of a driveway
I have a neighbour who lives in a house, with a drive, opposite to me. My side of the street are terrace houses with no drives. The neighbour chooses to park his van on our side of the street, most nights and leaves his drive empty.( his drive is big enough for two vans). I know he is not doing anything illegal, but it is…
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Time of day that advance train tickets become available
Hi, I've recently had cause to buy lots of train tickets for a trip away in August. I'm using Virgin trains mainly to go from London up north. I was kinda hoping that I would be able to blag myself the £12 single tickets as soon as they became available so I was checking thetrainline.com's website. The tickets for the day…
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HELP! Accident while accidentally uninsured...
I borrow a friend's car last week, believing myself to be covered 3rd Party on my own insurance. I was then in an accident (not my fault - someone else drove into the back of me, and has already admitted full responsibility) and while reporting it to the police it became apparent that I was driving uninsured. Of course,…
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Offering to share 50/50 £2K scrappage deal with anyone looking for a new, small car
Are you looking to buy a new car, but don't have an old one which qualifies for the £2000 scrappage scheme? I am going to scrap my car (which does qualify) shortly, but I am not interested in buying a brand new car to keep. I would however happily scrap the car via this scheme to buy a brand new, small car (say around the…
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Petrol station - filling up container with fuel
Short version - Ran out of diesel at weekend, went to nearest garage and gave him container (green as it was all they had when I was buying it) Due to conversation I never told him what I wanted in it and he didnt ask so I walked over to pup to see him finsh filling it up with petrol. I did ask to swop a container in the…
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Parking in London
Dear All I am going to the theatre tomorrow at the Shaftesbury theatre, i am driving from the Southampton area and will be driving the M3 route, i was planning to try and park at kew gardens as i know there are some free spaces. my questions for you helpful people 1. Is there still some free parking there 2. If i can't…
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Beware National Van Rental
I hired a van from National Van Rental yesterday, I booked it online £37.77 fully inc, sounded a good deal to me. When I went to pick the van up the girl behind the counter said, can I have your credit card, she was going to put an excess deposit of £550 and a fuel deposit of £90 total £640 which are refundable all being…
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Woops! Damaged my aerial
Aerial v Garage Door....Garage Door wins. Do the screw-in type have a standard thread? Do you reckon this one will do for a 2002 Mazda 323? Any other suggestions on good places to get one? Thanks
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Vauxhall Service
Hello all, I have a W reg vauxhall corsa due for a full service. I was thinking of using kwik fit ( they seems to charge £139 ) but heard some real bad things about them in these forums. To be completely honest, i find it extremely difficult to trust a mechanic or a garage as i've had bad experiences in the past.…
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Emissions search website
The company I work for has changed its car allowance policy, rather than be limited by the cost of the car, it is now down to the CO2 emissions. Does anyone know a website that allows you to find all cars less than a certain emission? In my case less than 160kg, but an automatic,all the sites I can find make it easy to…
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Low New Car Price vs Finance APR
Hi, Apologies if this has been addressed before. I'm looking to buy a new car. With some of the broker sites it will cost approx £20K after discounts. I want to take it on a Personal Contract Purchase (or even PCH) plan as I'm pretty sure I will want to return the car in 3 years. Am I right in thinking I have to trade off…
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speeding
think i got caught speeding in a courtsy car about 6 weeks ago 60 in a 50 by a van with a camera in it phoned the garage today there said they had never heard anything i put me hands up to it and would take the points but how long do i have to wait to hear anything
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Authorisisng a personalised numberplate.
Hi, ive just bought a personalised number plate,now I have to register it before i can actually use it on car. The D.V.A. have asked for my the number plate authorisation,the log book and the vehicle license(tax). Do I have to send the actual tax disc from the windscreen. Thanx.
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Stoke on Trent Police getting crafty...
Travelling through the Meir area this morning on Sandon Road I saw half a dozen Bike traffic police surrounding a hire van. My first thought was they had pulled the van over for something as the doors were open and police were in and out. Drove past later and was amazed to see they had obscured the open door with a sheet…
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carquake
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has experience of carquake? They have a good deal on a skoda I like. Just I can find little information on these guys, how they operate and whether I should even consider using them. Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance G
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Price increase, HELP NEEDED!!
Hi, Not sure if anyone can help but i bought a brand new car yesterday with suziki as part of the scrappage scheme, I asked to pick it up at a later date, anyway they have phoned again saying there has been a price increase of £500 unless i pick the car up in a few days even thought i signed yesterday confirming the amount…
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Speed Cameras On Motorways
I think I may have just gone through a speed camera on a motorway at about 75mph (was overtaking at the time). Am I likely to get a fine? Is there any site where I can check the locations of mobile speed cameras? Tyneside in particular ;-)
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Car written off - Need help please
Right this is what happened. I was driving down a dual carriageway in the left hand lane. Someone pulled out from a side road into the side of my car. They have admitted full liability. It goty taken to the body shop and I was told to await a call. Well the call came today and its been deemed 'uneconimical to repair'. I…
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sold car ebay what do next?
Hiya guys I just sold a couple of cars on ebay one sorned and the other on the road. Question is what do i need to do when they come to pick up (2 different people). Can I just give them the ebay paperwork or do I need to handwrite them a receipt? I'll give them all the dociments etc and they're giving me cash so nothing…
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Aa
LO ALL, Just had AA re-newal in, roadside and relay £103-00, phoned and quiiried cost and they dropped membership by 25%, whoppieee. Hope it helps someone, worth a phone call. Smudge
