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Advice please on dissolving car paint!
Hi I hope there is someone out there who knows about car paint. With the wide range of talents you lot seem to have, hopefully I will be lucky. After recently having my car reversed into, I had a panel repaired and resprayed through my insurance. Last week I noticed that it looked like the colour ended before the bottom of…
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driving lessons
hi there, just a daft quick question, when i was 17 i got my provisional licence, i never carried on with my lessons or did my tests but now im ready to ive chosen my instuctor and booked some lessons for next week, only thing is i havnt got the counterpart that comes with the provisional, i must have lost it, so my…
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Anything like an MX5?
Had an MX5 a few years back and loved the car. It was nippy but I also liked the direct steering, rear-wheel drive, pleasant gearbox, reliability and low running costs. In the end, it went because the wife complained about getting a bad back and the boot space would only house a box of tissues. Is there a similarly-priced…
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Dent repair - insurance or not?
Seems some local disaffected youths kicked seven bells out of some cars parked on the street last night :angry: Can't decide whether to go through insurance (with £300 excess) or not. Car is 2003 Focus in great nick which we will keep until it dies and the front wing will need fixing as the paint is damaged:…
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Travelling From Southampton to Manchester HELP!!!
Hey I plan to travel up to Manchester from Southampton on Saturday 28th May, just for the day for a football match. And I have looked at the prices of ways to travel up there and they are ridiculously expensive. So could people help me to find cheap deals or ways to travel up there, I havent got a car so that rules that…
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What is going on?
I'm a follower of BTCC and now WTCC for about 3 years. We have front wheel drive cars trouncing rear wheel drive - I thought FWD was worse? We had diesel trouncing petrol in BTCC last year - I thought diesels were supposed to be slower? And in WTCC, we have European Chevrolet donks trouncing the rest of the field. Just…
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Help calculating PCP Interest
Hi Guys, I hope someone can help me. I've been quoted PCP finance for buying a new car and I am wondering how the Interest rate is calculated? Below are the quote details if someone can help me. While I'm sure the figures are correct I'm baffled about how much interest I am paying based on 7.4% APR Period of Hire: 36…
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Deposit for Car Refundable
I recently found a second hand car I liked at a main dealer through their website. It was also on Autotrader and both did not have a picture but it was the exact spec I wanted so I called them and they said it hadn't arrived in their showroom yet (hence no picture) but would be happy to take a deposit of £500 to reserve…
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Which Used Car/Van Valuation Guides?
I'm about to sell my van privately and buy a used car either privately, or from an independent dealer to replace it. However, valuation guides vary considerably: Wisebuyer values seem on the low side Parkers values seem on the high side What Car? values actually don't seem too far off to me Not sure about Glasses (pay-for…
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Insurance
It's not a surprise that they do it, but the extent to which insurers try to fleece customers does amaze me. Daughter had a renewal notice this week (police officer, young driver, 1 accident before current policy, no convictions, protected NCD) for £795 from her current insurer. Can't remember last year's price but this…
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Best way to sell my car?
Hello, I was wondering if I could get some advice off people in regards to selling my car. Its a peugeot 206 06 plate 1.4 verve in good condition. Im going to be moving to central london so wont be needing it anymore. Im not in a great hurry to sell but would the sooner the better really. Im not too sure where is best to…
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Vauxhall corsa sri 2009
basically had few issues with my second hand car i bought from dealer few months back, tried fix etc and no result, so doing an exchange. we found the corsa 2009 sri 1.6 16v turbo, lovely car to drive, little bigger than what we got and worth a bit more aswell. what i want to know is there anything i need to know before i…
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Cheaper petrol here
http://cars.uk.msn.com/features/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=157384874
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registration plates
Does anyone know what this means ? We are looking to buy a new car and we have seen 1 with states 2007 (z1) can anyone please enlighten us on what this means ? thanks in advance
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Motorbike licence
Hi every one I'm looking for some good gen/advice really. I have savings growing nicely and have decided i want to do my bike licence. But im not to sure how to go about it. All i know is i have 9 months before i can go for direct access but still not to sure what this entails? Comments gratefully recieved :beer:
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Train ticket advice please
My sons on leave, and returns to Winchester tomorrow, traveling from Manchester. There is a direct train, but his ticket has london in the 'route' section. Does this mean he has to travel via london, or that he can if he wishes? thanks
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Free Insurance or 9-11 years of No Claims Discount (NCD)
Hi, I am stuck over what to do regarding insurance. I am purchasing a new car through PCP. By doing this I get 3 year servicing and free insurance for 1 year. My circumstances are not straight forward. I have not had my own car with my own insurance for a few years. Once I decided I was going to get a car I approached my…
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Car repair is now costing more than the car!
Hello, I hope you can give me some advice. The garbox on my 51 reg Toyota Yaris recently gave up and I was towed to a local gearbox and clutch specialist. They originally quoted me £600 to fix it which I painfully swallowed and said go ahead. Then they called up to say that there was a problem and it will need something…
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Electric Mopeds - questions
Is there anyone on here that has much knowledge about electric powered mopeds such as the one's illustrated in the link below: http://www.fun2ride.co.uk/v2/fun5.html I have been thinking of getting one for my wife, but I know nothing what-so-ever on the things, such as license, taxing, road legal stuff. I have looked about…
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Reclaiming overpaid deposit after VT of PCP
All, A bit of an embarrassing one this, but here goes.... In another thread I've just posted I explain how we have VT'd our Merc and are now disputing repairs owed. Having studied the paperwork (2.5 years on, I know, not clever) I notice that the invoice states we paid £3910 as a deposit. However, I have an EFTPOS receipt…
