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Vauxhall introduces 'life-time' warranty
Good news for anyone planning on buying a new Vauxhall. Any new car from them will come with a life-time warranty, that expires after 100,000 miles. Kia's got a lot of press for their 7 year, 100,000 mile warranty. On the face of it, Vauxhall's even better. More info here -…
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Car Valeting Hoover attachments
hi all Is there any hoover attachements you can get for cleaning the car like between the seats hard to reach places were normally hoover ends cannot reach them,is there special attachments what the car valeting people use. :o thanks
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Can You Beat This ?
Took car in for MOT on Tuesday , Reanault Laguna X reg 70,000 miles on clock (gen) 90 Mins later got call from garage "Car Ready " ! Collected and paid the bill ............... £50 :j Can You Beat That ? Time & Price ?
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Driving a 3-wheeled motorbike on car licence
My son has been looking at purchasing a scooter or 125cc motorbike to get him to college every day. On one leaflet for Piaggio, there was a range of motorbikes with twin front wheels, these grabbed my attention as a possible solution to my transport needs should I get offered a job I had an interview for. My question is…
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2nd Hand Car and Section 75
Right......it took me months to get money from an insurance company after my car was written off by a drunk driver. So you can imagine my joy when I found my new (to me) Renault Clio. I paid £3000 for it on the 9th of July. It then rained....alot....on the 12th of July. The car's sunroof leaked all over the passenger side…
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Car side sill/skirt repair question
Hi, Just after a bit of advise about my husbands car, he has side skirts on his car and in the middle they seem to have lost the adhesive but are still secure on the car. What would be the best thing to repair it so that they are stuck down properly to the car, is there some sort of adhesive/bonding which is suitable?…
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cannot tax car
hi, ive recently bought a new car and wasnt given the log book for it ive sent off for a new one but have been told it takes upto 6 weeks for it to arrive so is there any way i can phone the DVLA office like in a week or so to check if its been processed and if i can tax the car at a DVLA office since ill be the new…
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Forecourt robbery
I was filling up today at Tesco, diesel was being sold for 119.9p per litre, or so I thought. Put exactly 10 litres in, exactly! And was charged £12. This is the second time this has happened, I know it is only pennies, but if it was multiplied by 5 as I would normally do, then multiplied by the hundreds of customers per…
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Mercedes benz service
Dear all my merc( 5 year old C 200 ) is due for a B service which will cost me about £300 at the dealer. The local kia garage is offering to service it for about £100 I have tended to use main dealers because its meant to maintain its value but in reality, does it really make any difference to the 2nd hand value? I am not…
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Classic car policy, modifications, and reatining NCB.
I have a company Mondeo, and have sold my runabout car, leaving me with just my weekend toy car which is now 17 years old it currently has 4 years NCB on it which will hopefully increase to 5 years in January. I was considering switching it to a classic car policy, since it's currently with direct line and insured for only…
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Gears
I need to do a 10 min powerpoint presentation on gears in cars. I don't know where to start. Can anyone offer any advice, templates, animations, facts, structure etc etc etc.
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Retrofitting ISOFIX child car seat brackets.
My wife and I are expecting our first child and we've discovered that our car (a 2007 3dr Ford Fiesta) does not, for some reason, have ISOFIX brackets. Ford have not been very helpful on the telephone. I'd be very grateful if someone could tell me whether its possible to have the brackets retrofitted, and, if so, where to…
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Anyone Like Fast cars
I understand some will criticise that they aren't money saving....but i'm sure you'd all agree even money savers are allowed to have nice things. We have gone without so much over the years and I am looking to get something a bit quick now and have found a bargain. My concern is going from a 50mpg car to a 35mpg car. This…
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how much does a centre exhaust cost??
I have my car MOT'd at my dealer (Peugeot) who failed it on "Centre exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases", which is fine I was expecting it, it's been blowing for months. However they quoted £201.12 inc Vat + labour. I always ring around other garages for comparison and am very confused to find nationwideautocentres…
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Cheapest and most economical 4x4 - also considering LPG conversion?
I'm looking to get a new car around about March of next year (before my car needs its MOT doing in June). Anyway, the next car I'm after has to fit the following criteria: 4WD/AWD option Must have 5 doors Be as cheap as possible Be as economical to run as possible Ideally have as low a CO2 emission as possible So everyons…
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Getting to the SECC from queen st station ?
my friend and i are going to the SECC in oct we are getting the train from alloa to Glas queen st, my friend has walking difficulties so i wondered what is the best way to get there? can we get a bus direct from Buchanan st to secc or would a taxi be the best way all advice welcome
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Carcraft - Thought it was too good to be true!
Hi, Please can anyone help! We bought a car from Carcraft last night and when we viewed the car there was a fake tax disk advertising the price of a 12mnths tax disk. This was one of the main reasons for us buying the car as it was Diesel and did 40 more MPG than our previous car. The tax disk quoted £30 for 12 mnths and…
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collision damage waiver - car hire abroad
I am looking at hiring a car in spain for a week, ive done the price quotes and all okay with that. The price is advertised as 'inclusive of excess' but when you go to the page to book there's a part to tick to purchase 'excess reimbursement insurance' at a further cost of £35 for the week. Now i read on Martins column in…
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Any deals on Driving Lessons?
Hi, i like to know if there is any deals on Driving lessons at the moment. National or Local (Birmingham). My friend took about 50 hours of driving lessons and hes confident for the test. Hes already got his practical booked within a months time but the problem is hes current instructor is unavailable and cannot help him…
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Where can I get oil change done at short notice?
Going on long trip this weekend and realised car is making a bit of a funny noise. And realised its been 16000 miles since last oil change... Any of the national companies do oil changes? How much?
