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Save or scrap?
Last summer I bought a Renalt Megane and had it serviced etc. Unfortuntely at the weekend the car stopped and had to be towed back. Having spoken to the garage apparently they think the timing belt has jumped (?), which apparently means the valves and pistons are all mangled up inside. It will cost min £1500 to fix, but…
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Seat belt extender help
We have just bought Nissan Quashqi and have 3 child seats in the back which fit fine but the only problem when the seats are in it is impossible to connect the seat belts,does anyone know where we can get extensions so that the socket piece comes up through into the car seat,there are loads on ebay but Nissan belt catches…
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Insuring Two Cars?
Hi, I just bought a second car and got insurance on it, and the first one is now off the road, but I had a question regarding using both of them... Now, I love my first car, and would want to switch between them when ever I fancied but I can't afford to insure both of them (£800 for me) at the same time which would rack up…
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Train timetables - unusual question
My house is approximately half a mile from the entrance to a mile long rail tunnel, there is a ventilation stack just down the road. Over the last few months I keep hearing a noise, usually around midnight that sounds like a heavy lorry going over a series of speed bumps and clanging. As its unlikely to be anything on the…
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Newbury Park Tube Station
Can anyone tell me how safe it would be to park a car for 3 days at Newbury Park? Also, how long roughly does it take to travel from N/Park to Liverpool St Station
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Volvo S40 alloys on Mitsubishi Space Star
I noticed on ebay a local seller who is selling a set of Volvo S40 alloys, with four good tyres. Now I could possibly do with a second set of wheels for our Mitsubishi Space Star for winter tyres this autumn. The Space Star and S40 (along with the V40 and Carisma) are all based on the same platform and have the same wheel…
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Land Rover - Help
Hi everyone. I know a lot of you drive Land Rovers so I thought I'd ask does anyone know what size windscreen wipers I need for a landrover freelander one? Hope you don't mind me posting here. Many Thanks :T
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Advice PLEASE on purchase of a 2007 clio
Hi everyone :-) I really would appreciate some advice, I went to look at it yesterday. Its a 2007 1.4 renault clio dynamique in grey, 64k on the clock and its £4000. The body work and everything inside is immaculate, has only had 2 owners. trade sale. the tyres were very worn, so the dealer is putting 2 new front ones on…
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Parked cars, right of way.....
[semi-rant] This isn't a question of who's right or wrong..... If your approaching an obstruction on your of the carriageway, the oncoming vehicles have right of way..... Simple. What i'd like to know, is why so many people genuinely believe the opposite to be true? I'm not talking about arrogant BMW drivers or boy-racers,…
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Fuel efficient driving.
Now edited to update on 16th March 2011 INTRODUCTION With fuel prices where they are I thought I'd finally get round to writing up some thoughts that I've had regarding fuel efficient driving. I've travelled around 3 x 550 mile tank loads whilst thinking about this. So this is the result of around 20 hours of thought. I…
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CP Plus LTD
Please Please Please can some one give me some good advice....I recieved a charge notice 2nd Feb 2011 regarding parking on the 31/01/2011, I replied back saying I was not the driver but sent it to the appeals section, I then got a reply on the 08/02/2011 regarding me sending a standard letter and that there was no…
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Oil Company RipOFF
why is it that petrol companies advertise their petrol on the forcourt say 130.9p per litre yet when u put a litre in at the pump it says 131p am i missing something here or is that against trading standards? why dont they stop the .pence as there is no such coin and just round it up to the nearest penny. also why dont…
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car door lock out of warranty - manufacture makes offer
Hi All Rear door lock on our VW went last week, just out of warranty, door wouldnt open, told it was a complicated fix by a couple of garages need special tools, so took it to the dealer and they fixed it for a staggering £270. Now pushed VW since it was just out of warranty and they offered to pay 60% of the cost. I…
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best date to book train leeds-london 29 may return 1 june 2011
hi there I know there is a "best time" to book advance tickets but can anyone advise what this is please for the above details. a couple of years ago i just struck lucky booking tickets in the october half term and got 2 adults and 2 kids return for £66 using a family and friends railcard and would love to do the same this…
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Isurance co admitted liability on my behalf
For an incident I denied happened (apparently the other car suffered a scuffed bumper!) and now my insurance premium has quadrupled! Can they do this? Obviously it was cheaper for them to settle than contest but I'm really peed off as I don't even think it happened!
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Really need help about my car issue!
I usually buy a year period road tax and did't notice it's already expired until the car has been clamped . I missed the reminder letter as well because I moved to a new address. They said no exception and no excuse for this and I paid £100 to release my car. I immediately bought a year road tax after that. Unfortunately,…
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Trainline
I have only used Trainline once before so am not familiar with how they operate. Last week I accepted a ticket at a certain price but, part way through the payment process, the price went up. Leaving aside that a contract had come in to existence (in my opinion) surely this should not happen. Has anyone else experience…
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Car Park crash - will insurance go 50/50?
Ok, so about 3 weeks ago some one ran into me in supermarket carpark. Not much damage to their car, but my rear bumper is quite messy. I pointed out I'm in the Motor Trade and was willing to get it repaired at cost as the other person seemed nice enough. Anyway. I got several quotes for the damage and reported back to her…
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Toyota Yaris - Car Key Help
Hi, Bought a Toyota Yaris yesterday but it only has one key with transponder for immoboliser. We don't have have the master key code. Thought I better get another cut to avoid costly ECU replacement if we lose the key. This website claims to be able to cut one from a picture with a transponder: http://www.carkeyhelp.co.uk/…
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continuous insurance enforcement
Good idea in that it keeps all owners insured. But not such a good idea perhaps for folks engaged on a long term rebuild project. In many cases the car may well be just a collection of boxes of bits awaiting re-assembly. At least a SORN notice is free, even though it has to be done every year or risk I believe a £1000…
