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0% finance deals on cars
Sorry if this has been asked a thousand times before - the search engine didn't seem to like '0%' as a keyword! I'm just wondering what experience people have of these. I've looked at car financing schemes - HP, PCP etc - and most of them have a big deposit at the start, a final payment, and various rules about who the car…
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new mot rules
Looking through the latest edition of car mechanics magazine.it list some of the new rules for mot tests and it says the speedo is now part of the mot test.In particular it says if the screen to the dials is cracked or missing it will fail,mine is missing can anyone confirm if this is correct please??
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Nissan Service Plan Issue
Hello: I recently purchased a new Nissan car from the Nissan dealer network and at the time I negotiated a number of things including 3 years servicing included in the price. No paperwork specific to the service plan was ever shared with me but it was positioned with me as I wouldn't have to pay the service costs for the…
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Poorly car :(
My Peugeot 107 has over the past week had an engine warning light come on. The clutch has also started vibrating. We've taken it to 2 different garages who say the warning light is to do with the catalytic converter. Has anyone got any advice on haggling/how to know you aren't being ripped off? I don't know anyone in the…
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Faulty Car Window Motor Query
The window motor - Passenger side - front on my X reg Renault Megane Coupe has started making a 'crunching' sound when in use and going maybe 3 inches up or down. In certain positions its possible to move the window with your hand to push it home (from open) which is worrying from s security aspect. Anyone have any advice?…
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So sad - thinking I have to wave bye bye to my car
It's a '53 VW Passat and has been pretty reliable since I bought it 4 years ago; pretty high mileage (180k) but has been serviced pretty regularly (not quite to VW spec, but almost), new cam belt last winter. The electric motor in driver's window has gone, so window is taped up (otherwise it slips down!) and now it's in…
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Acceptable payments for car?
Hi guys, Found a buyer for my car.. He wants to pay by bankers draft.. Is this a safe way for me as the seller? Thanks, Z
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Dealer registered New Car "Early" what can I do?
Hi everyone After saving hard I traded in my old car & bought a new Citroen. I paid for the new registration of 1st September 2012. When I got the logbook, it had been registered on August 31. The salesperson said a genuine mistake had been made & promised to sort it out. He's been dishonest (said he had called DVLA and…
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answer found, thanks
the answer has now been found, thanks
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Should i contact his insurance?
Hello people. cutting things short. Some guy has scraped across my car, i have no witness or cameras showing he has done it. But what i have got, is his silver marks on my car, and he has my car color marks on his car. when next to my car it looks like he has full left locked to get out and his front end has hit my back…
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Seat cars - reliable?
I'm looking to buy a new car soon, as my Fiat Punto drinks fuel and engine oil like it's going out of fashion... not to mention it drives like a pile of..... I reallllly want a Seat Ibiza as they have good offers on them... But I wanted to see if anyone had experience with Seat and whether their cars were reliable or not?…
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Car Insurance calling me a liar!
I took out insurance with AutoSaint. Part of my insurance includes getting a tracker box fitted to my car within the first 2 weeks of joining. The tracker box never arrived so I called them to explain. They told me this is a fault on their behalf, that the boxes are made to order and mine wasn't made yet, to sit tight and…
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General used cars question
I'm about to get a new (to me) car, I'm after an automatic, with low miles, not too big and a smallish engine, maybe a 1.4. I'm thinking about another Corsa, but there's not many around here at the moment,so thinking about another make. Hubby says it has to be either ford or vauxhall, anything else is too expensive for…
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Ford radio code
Hello. I am new to the site so will understand that this is not a New thread but part of an existing one. I am searching for the code for a Ford 6000CD radio serial no. M032899. You would not believe how difficult it was to get out of the car !
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Pedestrian hit by biker - biker trying to claim from pedestrian
Hi, Last week, my heavily pregnant girlfriend was knocked down by a motorbike at some traffic lights. She was crossing the two lane road and checked that the lights were red first. As she was half way across the first lane a motorbike hit her causing her to be knocked over and the biker to come off his bike. She was taken…
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MOT question
OH's car is booked in for its MOT on Friday with our usual mechanic. He had it in his head that it ran out on Monday. As it transpires, the MOT ran out yesterday.... At present he is in Coventry at work and is now wondering whether to chance driving the car back to Stoke and borrow my car for work tomorrow or, to try and…
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ford mondeo rear door card
Hi all here with more woes :-) My rear near side door is leaking and now resolved that its due to the known issue of the internal plastic denigrating and water pooling round the speaker and dripping inside the door seal. I have read on line how to remove the door card so i can possibly fix it but just how easy is it for…
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Quick bit of courtesy car info needed
I'm returning a courtesy car today as I received a phonecall from the garage that the work on my car is complete. The work on my car is being done as part of a claim against a third party (third party admitted liability). The courtesy car was given to me with 30 miles left in the tank, however I'm returning it with over…
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Road tax disc, online - is MOT + Insurance certificate required?
When applying for a road tax disc online, are they MOT certificate and car insurance cerfitifcate documents required? or you can just do it online, without them being sent anywhere? (as when you do it in a post office, you show them to the cashier) but we want to get the road tax online.
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Driving licence woes
Hi gang I married in 2008 but haven't changed my surname on my licence or changed my address as I have moved several times in the last few years. Having read the DVLA website it states I need to fill in a form from the post office and send in original documents ie passport or marriage certificate to prove my identity. But…
