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Coupe suggestions
I am looking to trade in my kia sportage for a coupe shortly and wonder if anyone could suggest any? Using parkers, my sportage should have a trade in value of £7300 and I would ideally like to add no more than a £1000 to that, although the lower the better. The cars I have considered so far are the BMW 318ci coupe and the…
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Cycle To Work - HP Agreement problems.
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P/X for diesel instead of petrol
A mate looked at and bought a £20k car on wednesday, gave a £1k deposit on credit card and returned home with a signed order detailing cost of new car, less deposit, less PX. When he got home on wed he spotted that the PX vehicle details described his car as TDI - it is not, it's petrol. The dealer called him today to say…
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Car Insurance Dispute
A lorry knocked a road sign into my husband's car causing £500 worth of damage. He stopped and exchanged details. My husband called his insurance co. - esure - and we had the repairs done in Oct 2009. Now they've written saying the other company isn't paying up and it needs to go to court and my husband may lose his no…
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Exhaust Fitters - North West for Ford Galaxy
Hi guys, hope someone can help. Firstlt i'm posting on behalf of my old man who can't use a PC! Ok, his 1997 Ford Galaxy failed it's MOT today and he's :mad: over it! now he's been quoted £500 due to it needing a new Exhaust system including the Cat. I've done a bit of digging about on the net and i think i've managed to…
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Took my car for repairs, got it back in a worse state
I took my car for some repairs so that I could sell it. The next day they called me to say that the repairs had been done but another problem had been identified. Apparently they rolled my driver window down. When they did it rolled all the way down so they took my door apart to manually get the window back up and they…
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BMW 525tds info
I am after some advice on a 2004 bmw 525tds, i know it is similar engine to the omega 2.5td but with different ecu and transmission. has anyone any knowledge on reliability is the engine any good and is there anything in particular i should be looking for on these cars? friend thinking of buying one so i am going to look…
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Damage to my car
3 weeks ago, someone broke into two flats above where I park my car, trashed the flats and threw paint out the window...90% of it landing on my car. i've since had to go through my insurance to get the call fully re-sprayed at a cost of £450 to me and about £3500 to my insurers, i've also lost 2 years no claims bonus. My…
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Four seater convertibles - which is best?
I'm thinking about treating myself to a convertible - always wanted one but been sensible up until now. I will need a 4 seater unless I want to put the children in the boot and wondered if any MSEs had recommendations. I know they are more expensive than "normal" cars but residual value is better. At the moment my choices…
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MSE News: Supermarkets cut petrol prices
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story: "Four major stores have reduced the cost of filling your car at their forecourts, taking up to 2p off a litre of fuel ..." Read the full story: Supermarkets cut petrol prices
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Can I just have a moan about my street parking
I live in a little cul-de-sac of 10 houses that is hammer shaped. We live right on one round corner of the hammer (back gardens of another street on the other corner). Every house has at least 2 parking spaces - a garage and a drive. We are lucky and have 3 :-) in that our 'garage' is a carport that goes right through into…
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6 points on licence
I just wanted to say, that my insurance premimum last year was 413GBP with a clean licence. I got 6 points this years (two incidents of 3 pts each) and my premium now is 373GBP. therefore do not despair if you get points. TWH
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Dangers of buying cars off Ebay
Hi there :) What should you be looking for when buying a car off Ebay? My husband needs a new car and suggesteed getting one from Ebay but don't want him being conned or driving something unsafe as he has got to take the children in it. Any help appreciated. Thanks!! :T
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Ways to sell my car?
Hi All, I'm wondering if you can help me. I want to sell my car so that I can buy a cheaper one and pocket the difference. It's worth £4k in its current condition. The thing is that I don't want to do a private sale as I'm a single female and don't want to have to deal with people coming to my house and then having to go…
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1/2 price MOT with Nationwide Autocentre through Autotrader
Hi, Thought this might be of interest. I've just used the offer and had an MOT done for half price with no work needed. The bot won't let me add a link as I'm a new user, but if you google for "autotrader half price MOT" it should be the top result - the preview text says the cost is £33 but if you click the link it shows…
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Your favourite decade for cars
Just replying to another thread made me thing of this. What decade do you believe the best cars were made in and why? For me, I like the 90's. Gave us the Toyota Supra 2nd Gen and the lotus elise. Still both fantastic cars.
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please help me with insurance company
on 25th June while my car was parked & empty a lorry's unsecured door smashed thru my rear windscreen-great damage.liability admitted by driver. My insurance company-Co-operative (how ironic) have been a nightmare from initially refusing me a courtesy car -not available over the week-end apparently- I was crying on the…
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Retaining old insurance documents
I've just changed cars (to a little diesel, 64mpg, £30 tax) and duly rang my insurers to advise them of this. They advised me that they would send the new documentation and then advised me to destroy all the old ones. Now, as a lifelong financial squirrel, I'd planned to sentence them to my financial gulag box file for the…
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Strimmer smashed Sunroof, who pays?
Just got in not long ago after a very slow drive home! Had been out with DD and 2 dogs for a country walk, coming home in the car. Pulled to a stop at a small roundabout, noticed a lady with her back to me strimming the grass verge directly opposite, this was 8pm. The grass verge is on the public highway, and behind this…
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Buy 4 MICHELIN tyres and claim £40 in fuel vouchers
Just bought 4 new Michelin tyres from Micheldever Tyres and Auto near Winchester in Hampshire (thoroughly recommend them by the way :T) and they gave me information about an offer that Michelin are running between 1 July and 31 August 2010. If you buy 4 Michelin tyres you can claim £40 of fuel vouchers to use at…
