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Car Battery Choice
Need a new battery for my Renault 1.5 diesel. Can anyone recommend a good battery? Is it worth going for a more expensive Varta or Bosch, or a rebadged item such as Alphaline or Numax. About 65amp/hr would be the capacity. Merry Xmas to all.
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rta
On Monday i was waiting at some traffic lights to go straight ahead the lights were showing red for me. They then turned to green for me to go i set of doing around 7 to 10 mph when a car drove across the front of me from my right i had no where to go and hit her off side wheel arch. The lady stopped and admitted it was…
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MOT Con at Nationwide Autos
Dear People Please be aware Nationwide Autos are offering £27 (half price) MOTs currently. I took my car there(Coventry) on the 12 of December and the MOT failed due to exessively pitted rear brake discs. I was offered repairs totalling over £200 to rectify plus another £27 for the retest. Unknown to them I had, had my car…
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Ford Focus Cutting Out
Hi all, I have a ford focus turbo diesel 1800, 4 years old, It has cut out whilst driving 3 times in the last 5 months, without rhyme or reason! The first time I was driving at about 30k and had just changed down to 2nd going up a hill. Car just cut out and stopped dead. Local garage checked it out and could find nothing…
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Genuine sale? Help please
Hi there just looking for a bit of help really lol... Basically I am in the process of looking to buy a new car. Found one on autotrader last night a 56 plate peugeot 307 for only 2200... a bit underpriced tbh :S Anyway I contacted the seller and he emailed me back there saying how the car is in Italy for work purposes but…
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Red Driving school
My husband took out the driving instructor course with Red Driving School in March 2008. He paid over three thousand pounds for the training. He passed the theory test but failed the second part of the examination. When he went in for the first day they told him that it was all workable around his current monday-friday 9-5…
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Mot
I was taking my car for its MOT when I decided to nip in to town for fuel before I went, I drove by one of those vans that check if you have tax, I have tax and insurance but was wondering if they can detect I didnt have an MOT. Is it a £60 fine if you dont have a MOT even if I was going to the garage ?.
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guaranteed future value car buying schemes, help!
i am struggling to describe this properly so i appologise in advance! i am looking to buy a new car next year. i look at these ways of buying a car with the guaranteed future value(they all have different names, think ford is options for example) an emple would be.... mini one £13k deposit 2900 credit 10140 first payment…
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A warning to drivers!
Hi everyone, Just thought I'd send you all a little warning about mad crash cash crazy drivers out there...... On Sunday I witnessed a guy doing a crazy manuever.... he basically made a u-turn into on coming traffic and smashed into a car. He got out of his car and started making all sorts of claims about the damage to his…
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Getting back My Excess
Hi, 10 months ago a car ran in to my house and caused some damage. The claim was paid out in full. But now I am having trouble getting my excess back from Tesco Insurance. They say the they can not pay it as the third party insurance company will not pay 'them' until they get the police report. Several calls to tesco later…
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How regulate car servicing costs
Yesterday my 2004 Toyota Prius went into the Toyota garage for a routine 40,000 mile service estimated to cost £200ish, and I elected to wait for its completion. The main servicing bill came to £198.22p, so as expected. After 90 minutes, I was advised that front discs and pads worn close to limit and changing these would…
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Seat Ibiza 1.9 TDI part 2
Hello guys I posted a while back about my new car that I got for £90 including 4 months road tax. As this is a 1998 car it has a few faults which I have sorted but there is one that I am not to sure if it is worth fixing. When I put the car into reverse gear it sends shudders through the car does anyone know if this is a…
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Cheap Triain please help
Hi, I do hope someone can help. I am looking to get a train from Manchester to Newcastle Upon Tyne on Saturday 19/12 returning 20/12. I need to set off around early afternoon and return around the same. I would appreciate if someone can help and suggest a way to get cheap tickets. :beer:
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Car loan taken out by family
In 2007, because I couldn't get a loan myself my brother took out a loan to buy my car and I was to make payments to him. Unfortunately due to illness and injury I've had to give up work. Whilst my brother is happy to keep up repayments on the loan, now that I'm on benefit other debts have built up and I'm worried that if…
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alternator problems
Grrrrrr I hate cars :mad: OK, so the battery went a few weeks ago. We changed it, it was fine for a few days and then last week the alternator went. I managed to find a second hand alternator and a guy at work offered to fit it for me after a few garages saying they wouldnt do it. Great I thought. He's finally fitted it…
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NCD advice
Took out a new car insurance policy with company X in August. Company X asked me who my previous insurer was for my policy, i told them it was company Y and heard no more Today i rang up company X to make a small enquiry, they sorted that out and then told me i had still not sent them the proof, i explained what happened…
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new car on scrappage scheme ?
Hi, my 10 year old car's clutch has just died and I'm not about to spend the sort of money required to fix it, on a car of that age. I'm wondering about the scrappage scheme - is it just kiddology, with the retail price being raised first before the scrappage deduction is applied, or does anyone know of any good deals out…
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FAO. BMW E9O drivers, Mechanics, BMW Part specialists or anyone in the know
I need to replace 2 airbags on my car, think i can do it myself but need to find the parts as cheap as possible. any ideas?
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I need a mortgage
I had to call in Halfords today for a Headlight bulb :eek: I am still in shock at the price, not ready to confess how much i paid.
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Lost my immobiliser (sorry if spelt wrong)
As title says I have lost my immobiliser (mitsubishi outlander) and now cant get it started. AA phoned, who will be here soon to take to garage. Does anyone know if this is going to cost a fortune to fix and or how long it should take. Many thanks in advance K
