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RAC renewal
Got my latest renewal: Single, solutions 3, roadside & recovery & at home, personal based - £89, which is £10 less than last year. Anyone know of any RAC offers at the moment? I seem to remember someone saying they only paid £50 - through Tesco, or cashback, maybe?? BTW, renewal date is 21.1.12, so any offers would need to…
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Slashed Tyres for the second time!!
Hi Wonder if anyone can give advice really, have had my tyres slashed for a second time in a year, all 4 of them!! Also in July had my house burgles and car stolen!!! So time for CCTV, was going to have it installed in July, but to be honest I thought it was a one off and we were not a target, sooooo wrong in my thinking!!…
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Advice from savvy London Tube users?
Not sure if correct board but here goes. A group of 8 of us have booked a show and Travelodge on a saturday in Feb. Previously we have travelled from the Northwest by train. However, this time, the train tickets are very expensive. 2 of the group have company cars and wouldn't have to pay petrol costs and have offered to…
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Don't get stung by a main dealer like I did
A quick service of my toyota. £1300? Budget tyres for £102.50 each? Oil at £58.60? Is this right? I took my car to Inchcape Toyota Oxford for a service costing £320. I received a call after 2 hours saying that all four tyres needed replacing at a cost of £102.50 each. I instantly thought "that's a bot expensive", but…
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Work horse for £2k or less
Basically I'm working a lot more hours and doing around 500 miles a week, so looking to buy a work horse as I don't really want to be putting that sort of mileage onto my 5 month old Insignia which is approaching 8k as it is. Two cars I've been looking a lot at are the Focus 1.8 tdci and Astra 1.7dti.. both seem fairly…
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Evans halshaw - what to expect
Last week I put a deposit over the phone on a nearly new car that I spotted on the Evans halshaw website (car was a good price and what I'd been looking for for a while) I've already had my car valued for part exchange by them and plan to pay in cash. I've also said I won't need the £98 "check" charge as I'm doing a HPI…
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Where to go for Installing a cd player
im getting a cd player for xmas, but wanted to save money i.e. by buying it from amazon, and not using halfords. i was wondering how do i go about getting a single din dashplayer installed in a car. whats the average cost to do so. i'm looking at getting a Parrot ASTEROID
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Wiper linkage on new style corsa?
Bit of a shot on the dark but wondering if anyone can help. I have a 2008 3 door vauxhall corsa (1.2). Stupidly turned my wiper blades on not realising one of the wipers as stuck frozen to the window. Took it to kwikfit, they refused to even look at it, saying it's a main dealer job. Took it to nationwide autocentres and…
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M25 Friday afternoon???
We will be traveling down the A1M and leaving at J9 on Dec. 16th. What time does the traffic clear? Is it best to go anticlockwise? That is the way we normally go.
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Thrifty Car Hire & Authorisation charges
They really know how to put you in the proverbial **** don't they. Hired a car on Friday and paid £53 for the privilege. They asked for my Card Licence, Paper DVLA licence and 3 utility bills to go with it. I didn't have the paper DVLA licence to provide them so they charged me £5 to ring up DVLA for 1 minute so that I…
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car crash
Hi, Please give your opinions Car A was on a junction waiting to turn left into the main road. Claims to have his indicator on but driver of Car B says there was no indicator. Car B was also wanting to turn left into the main road. Car B Undercut Car A (enough space in the road for both even thou its a one lane road for…
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Scottish Citylink
I am travelling to Scotland from Belfast on citylink for the new year and was wondering if there are any discount codes that any one has that would be of help to me?
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getting a garage to change the oil
I really hate to do this but I cannot loosen the sump plug on my Peugeot 306 HDI. It's bloody impossible and the weather is now really cold which makes it unpleasant to even try. How much should I expect to pay for a garage to do this? Is it worth getting them to use the oil and filter I have bought or will I not same much…
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Ford Focus Front Indicator Lenses
RE: Ford Focus 2007 model (56 plate) I had an advise note on last years MOT regarding the orange indicator strips inside the front headlight units on my focus. I was told that the orange was worn away and it would not pass this years MOT? Im not sure if the units are sealed or not but suspect the garage is trying to get me…
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Fit to drive?
Hi All My car was recently hit by an elderly driver who was trying to get into a parking space beside my parked car. i was climbing in the driver seat at the time and had signalled for him to wait. He bumped into the back of my car then reversed and parked else where. When challenged he said he hadn't hit me and as it was…
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How to complain about RedSpottedHankie?
OK, I found out about this site from MSE: they enable you to buy train tickets with Tesco Clubcard points. I have used them for the first time, and I have two issues with them: Firstly, I bought a flexible return ticket from them, and they did not provide any indication of restrictions on times when the return half could…
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Change vehicle registration
In order to insure our car for son to drive, the main insured person needs to be the registered owner. Our car is registered in my name but I want my DH to be main driver in order to use his NCD. How do I do change the registered owner? Do I just complete the form as if I was selling it to him? Can I go ahead and sort out…
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Help! Car accident and Insurance
Hi folks, I hope you can help me. Yesterday a car hit the side of me as I was driving along a main road- he was coming from the side road. I was at no fault at all and my best mate was in the car with me. I pulled over straight away and asked him why he hit me. He was very abusive and said that he told me to drive and I…
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Ford Fiesta Stuttering/missfire
Got a fiesta Mk6 (53 reg) 1.4 16v Zetec with 86k miles on the clock Had a Miss-fire on it 3 or 4 months back which caused engine light to flash and put car into limp mode. Called AA and they diagnosed it to be coil pack but in fact when he took off engine cover it turned out it was water build up around plugs and ht leads…
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Missing drain covers - scrap metal thieves
Something that's been happening in our area. Thieves are taking drain covers, the council assumes to sell as scrap metal. The council are putting cones over the affected drains but obviously something to watch out for, particularly cyclists. Having said that, I tell my husband off for being too close to the kerb if he's…
