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Please Please Help - Personal Loan vs PCP Citroen Deal
Ok Guys - I'm wanting advice please as I have my heart on buying a Citroen DS3, but can't decide which way to purchase one. The options being either Personal Loan and buy one that is a few years old ..... or buy a brand new one direct through Citroen with their PCP finance. For info i currently have a Seat Leon - i have…
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Car purchase gone wrong
My friend could do with some help regarding a car purchase. She's not long had her first baby, and is in the "Sleep deprived new mum" stage, which has lead to (By her own admission) some poor judgements. There are quite a few points in here which worry me, but hopefully someone here can advise. I suspect she's been…
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Passenger front electric window noisy
I have a ten month old VW Up which I have owned for about six weeks. Today for the first time I wanted to open the passenger window (to clear the rain off) and it made an awful noise. It went up and down absolutely fine, but really sounded sort of scratchy. My OH says this is nothing to worry about - just the brushes or…
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Ford Focus 1999 - headlamps converter to drive to France
Hi all, Driving to France for the weekend, and would like to know what you recomend to convert the headlights to comply with driving on the other side. I bought these stickers at Halfords: http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/travel-accessories/car-headlamp-converters/halfords-headlamp-converters But I have no idea…
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Fully Comp v Third party costs
Cobalt Blue has left
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Endorsements code
I have to take my car in to the garage on Thursday for some work. They have told me to bring the code so I can get a courtesy car. Its valid for 21 days, but I go away next month. This code will be valid when I leave but not when I want to get a car whilst I am away. I am just wondering if it is possible to get one code…
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Log Book
Does anyone know how long the V5 log book is currently taking to come through when you buy / change your car with the DVLA?
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Car tax question, dealer taxed car
Hi all, I'm getting a little stressed. We decided to get a new ( not brand new) car and saw one 2 weeks ago. We paid deposit and arranged to pick it up today. Ive sorted the insurance on the new car and phoned the dealer this morning to arrange to tax it. The dealer told me they taxed the car a couple of days ago. My worry…
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Longest anyone has gone without an oil change or sevice?
As the title says, what is the longest anyone has gone? For me its been 2 years.
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When to replace brake pads and discs?
At my last MOT (in Feb 2015) they told me my brake pads are 60-70% worn (they didn't tell me the mm) and the discs are lipped. They wanted to replace them immediately, but I told them to wait. The car is currently at about 45k miles. I am pretty gentle on braking and I think the owner before me was pretty careful too.…
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Parking on front of shop.
Hi All, I own a shop in Wigan on a main road and it has a small parking space on the front of it which I also own. A young lad has moved in across the road and has started parking his car there out of hours. However I needed to load my car on Sunday evening and couldn't get near the place so having had back surgery I…
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Vauxhall Astra 1.7 diesel - fine yesterday, dead today!
Just a moan more than anything else. Started like a dream yesterday, no problems, no worries, nothing. This morning, key in, waited for the coil symbol to turn off (approx half a second, as usual), turned the key - no turn over at all. Fed up with this driving malarky. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Speed ticket ID of driver can't be ascertained
My daughters car which she shares with boyfriend was caught speeding 36 in a 30 zone by a fixed camera She didn't hear anything for 6 months and then got a nip Because she then couldn't say who was driving her or boyfriend she wrote saying so She said they had done everything they could etc. she also stated that she…
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Ford Privilege - getting the best deal
Hi helpful people, I have a Ford Privilege voucher. How do i make this go as far as possible? Do i tell the car dealer upfront or do i negotiate the best price first? Are there any negotiation tactics i should employ? Never bought a car from a dealer before. I am looking at a Ford Fiesta but i'm torn between a Zetec and…
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New car - MOT lapsed, questions - please help, really stressed.
Evenin' all :beer: Really need some help. Apologies if I seem a bit clueless. But I am so very, very stressed about this and have no-one else to ask. Recently drove to the airport. Current ancient car died a horrible-way-too-expensive-to-be-worth-repairing death minutes before rolling into the rented car parking space…
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Servicing Stop - More like Service lacking
Really attractive prices but beware... When making my booking I knew that the service was that someone would pick my car up, do the service and then drop my car back. This being my first time I was reluctant to do this and offered to drive my car to the garage myself. The person I spoke to stated that I could wait at the…
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refund entitlement confusion/bullying
ok first time posting here so i bought a car on july 3rd picked it up july 10th by july 20th a fault appeared that reduced its speed to a crawl ( limp mode i am assured) took car in, no qualms about fixing it, took it away 3 days later same problem, so again took it in, repaired, took it away a few days later same problem,…
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warranty
Hi I recently bought a vauxhall signum 2007 through a private buyer . He had various bills for work carried out on the car over the last couple of months. One of these was a new clutch /flywheel/slave cylinder at a cost of £700. My car has now developed a fault in that the clutch pedal is losing pressure so had the clutch…
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Neil woos , is this your audi ?
for sale https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-outdoor-toys/kids-electric-audi-/1127597307 rung the owner up , evidently the last owner changed the gearbox oil
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Renewing Drivers licence online
I am having trouble replacing or renewing my licence, can someone help please. I have mislaid my Drivers licence which expires December 2016. I have attempted to replace/renew it on line, But DVLA site, says it does not recognise my basic details,(name, address, DoB, time lived at present address) licence no., which I know…
