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Renewing Provisional Licence
Please can somebody help me? I got my Provisional Licence in 2004 (forced into it by an older sister), but then never even had a driving lesson due to fear of killing someone! I'm a lot older now and really feel restricted (jobs) and so I have decided to learn to drive. Sadly, my Provisional expired last October so I need…
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admiral
After some advice please, I contacted admiral with regards to my wifes car waiting to go on cover from the 22nd Feb which was agreed when i took my policy out with them last June. The account online says pending car to insure which is wife's. When i called to say i did not wish to insure the wife's car with them for the…
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Road markings?
http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local/video-white-lines-on-memorial-roundabout-leave-motorists-confused-1-6557753 These chevrons appeared 2 days ago. Are you not to enter/cross these i.e making it a 1 lane roundabout. I've never come across markings like this on a roundabout,have you?
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Elephant Car Insurance
Has anybody got any experience of using Elephant? I've just got a weirdly cheap quote. I'm 24 and my Fiancee is 22, neither of us have ever had a car insurance policy in our own names, only named drivers but I have been driving 7 years. Neither of us have points etc. The car is a 2.2ltr sports saloon and we've been quoted…
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New bulb blown in less than 48 hours
Can anyone tell me if i can get my money back or an exchange. I bought an H7 standard headlight bulb( £9.99) from Halfords Monday night, as they were the only place open at that time. Wednesday morning - today - its blown. Their site says no guarantee or warranty but where do I stand on an exchange? Any help greatly…
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Car temperature
Hi folks I have noticed that the car temperature on my dashboard doesn't seem to creep above 45 degrees Celsius anymore, even after some hour long drives. I always remember it sitting in the middle around 90. Any idea why this may be?
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I had a nightmare about my car
I dreamt that someone examined my car and found engine oil leaking into the block. True story.
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Car Breakdown Service with Existing Problem
Hi, Always kept my cars AA/RAC covered but recently havn't due to loss of job last year. Since starting new job 3 weeks ago I HAD planned to redo car cover BUT this morning its got a suspension problem and not reliable to get to garage for repair. Would a breakdown cover company like AA accept me then also inheret the fact…
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Neighbour running a business from home
Hi all, I've got a question about a neighbour of ours. He seems to be running a car repair business from his house. Normally, this would not be a problem, but we live in a cul-de-sac and there are (at the moment) 5 cars outside his house. The house we think is rented (possibly by the local housing association) and they are…
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Scraped car in car park and can't trace owner
Hi all, Hoping you can help. I scraped another car whilst parking at my local gym. Upon checking it looked as though I had left a small black scratch on their car. I immediately took note of the vehicle registration and asked the gym to do a tannoy announcement to the owner of the car. But no one answered the tannoy…
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Audi a3 - rear window wiper fire
Does anyone know what could have caused this? Perhaps water got into the electrics. I thought the fuse would have blown but it didn't. I didn't have the window wipers on, although there was snow on the ground it wasn't falling from the sky at that moment. The wires are all burnt out now, looks like I will need a full new…
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Bought car still under hire purchase without knowing
Hi all, So, first of all, sorry to bring this up as a "first post". I've been a long "lurker" of this forum, but I guess bad stuff has to happen to make me start posting. Also, English is not my first language, so excuse me for any errors. In October of last year my brother in law saw a car on Gumtree, approached the…
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Road resurfacing
hi i am not sure if this is the right place to post this... but when a council decide to resurface a road. Apart from putting up signs warning this are they supposed to carry out surveys ie like environmental impact and health and safety. many thanks
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Car breakdown cover
Can I get car breakdown cover for two months as Im about to get a new car and just want to cover my existing until the new one is delivered
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Reasonable car park fine?
Where I work - a local authority works depot - employee parking is tricky. It's supposed to be via a colour-coded permit system but no-one's used it properly for years. There are more photocopied permits than genuine ones because the site manager has failed to maintain a proper user database (although she won't admit that)…
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2 simultaneous Focus faults. Are they related?
The power steering on my 52 reg 1.8 TDCi Focus stopped working today. At the same time it's started juddering when I accelerate in fourth or fifth gear. Could these 2 things be related or is it just coincidence that they occurred at the same time?
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Summoning to court for mobile use while driving
(1) I am a care worker and this morning I was making my way towards my 3rd client of the day working from my paper rota (2) I was using the GPS function of my phone to navigate to my client's address but unfortunately, it was not on a cradle as last week, I bought a new phone the iPhone 6 which doesn't fit my previous…
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Any traffic officers that can help with a disagreement?
Ok, so i have a friend who has not been ticketed or anything, but we are having a massive disagreement about her driving standards lol!... When driving along the road, if there is a pedestrian on the pavement waiting to cross, (no crossing or anything), or a car waiting to pull out onto the road, she will just put the…
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Damage repair - mobile companies?
Such a stupid thing to do and i'm angry at myself for this one. I was in a supermarket carpark when some muppet walked in front of me. didn't look, didn't even know I was there. Some choice language was exchanged, and thankfully I was far enough away to avoid him. But in doing so I turned awkwardly, over steering, placed…
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Blue Badge refusal - failure to follow due process
In December last year Reading Borough Council refused my application for a Blue Badge within three hours of my assessment on the grounds that my condition was not permanent, (osteoarthritis), and that I was about to have a knee replacement. I appealed both of these reasons as being contrary to DfT guidelines to Local…
