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Rear Trailing Arm Bushing Excessive Play - Vectra C
Hi I'll be honest I've never heard of a 'rear trailing arm bushing' but supposedly my Vectra C is suffering from 'excessive play' on this part. The car has only done 40,000 miles, mainly on urban roads. I found at after putting the car in for a full service. I wasn't really listening properly on the phone, but from vague…
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Wing mirror broken
A car has driven past my parked car on the street and taken out my wing mirror. The car didn’t stop and just drove off. I’ve got it on my house cctv. Is it worth reporting?
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box junction what to do when others ignore it?
The is a box junction near me, at busy times it is a nightmare to cross. Two lanes at the start of the box junction, the lanes then filter into one after the box junction. What happens is I will wait in the left lane until it is clear, however cars in the right lane cross straight over and wait in the box junction, moving…
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100 miles a day on motorways- help
Hi, From Jan this year my job location is changed to Bristol and i live in outskirts of reading. I tried to commute 5 days week in train from Reading to Bristol and the cost is GPB 952ish a month. Which i just felt its not worth it. So in April i bought Mazda 3- 2009 and 37K (paid GBP 4.5K) miles on the clock and used it…
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Assistance with car finance/hire purchase
Hi, I took a car out on hire purchase over 48 months with Arnold Clark via MotoNovo Finance just over 2 years ago. Not only 5 days after taking the car out (with third party insurance [I know, complete rookie error]), I fell asleep at the wheel and wrote the car off. I had nowhere to store the car, didn't want to scrap it,…
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Accidentally drove over a kerb
Last night in a car park I stupidly failed to see a kerbed island (normal kerb height) and drove the front nearside wheel over it (slowly, less than 10mph). It was like this but concrete between the kerbs. http://kwikkerb.org/images/carpark5l.jpg Had a quick look afterwards and couldn't see any obvious damage. Subsequently…
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Auto Aid Car Breakdown
This weeks newsletter promotes Auto Aid as a service worth joining for your Car Breakdown Service On the right side of the Auto Aid web site it displays 5* with a 4.72 rating. Follow that link and it sees to take you with pages of all five star feedback This makes me very suspicious ?…
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driving without due care and attention
Hello everybody, I`m in need of some advice. I`ll try to keep it as short as possible. A dear friend of mine, in his 80`s, is facing court, charges being "driving without due care and attention". He was driving home, at an intersection he pulled out, he says he did not notice the car coming, crashed into it, they basically…
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Car insurance
My daughter cancelled a policy. Now she can't get insured. Is there anything we can do??
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Help with V5C
So my grandson has had a lot of problems with his scooter and took it off the road, telling the tax people. He was then approached by a couple of young men who offered to buy it, he said OK and took money, they pushed it away, but he couldn't find the V5C for them. He does not know their names but knows roughly where they…
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Crashing in street furniture
When there is an accident involving lamp posts, rails and any local authority property, do the police inform the local authorities? If a tree or fence needs replacing, do insurance companies foot the bill?
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Goodyear Tyres Germany/Poland
Just had 4 new Goodyear tyres fitted at a very good price......but 2 are made in Germany and 2 in Poland also both the 2 German tyres have jun 17 manufacture date but the Polish tyres were made nov 16 and mar 17 So the question would that bother you or am worrying about nothing and what is acceptable for tyre manufacture…
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Help with price of Smart car.
At the end of the production run of the Mk2 Smart For2 there was a special edition Cityflame model, it had extras like Brabus lights, black wheels and sports steering wheel but it was still a basic car. One with low milage has come up at local Smart dealers and my DW has fallen in love with it. But they want nearly £7k,…
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I'm new to air con. General advice?
OK, I've just been dragged into the 21st Century, having bought a 2014 car with electric everything and air con, not to mention climate control! So I'm going to be asking some basic questions. For a start, air con (AC). My handbook says to 'run' the AC at least once a week during cold weather. 'Run for at least 10 minutes…
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Which car or cars using company car allowance?
Hi there, I am going around in circles trying to work this out. We currently drive a Nissan Juke (PCP, monthly payments of £200, balloon payment due in Feb of £7400) and a Golf estate (company car used for all of our family trips). My husband is changing jobs so will no longer have a company car but a £7000 car allowance.…
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Car tax fine
Ok long story, my husband’s hobby is to restore old cars. He can have one for months and sometimes longer at a time were he painstakingly paints/polishes/refurbishes etc as he enjoys it. The car is kept in the garage or driveway and is SORN’d. Very occasionally due to lack of space in garage and as our driveway has a wall…
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Mis-selling a car on the new VED
Looking to buy an ex-demo car, registered July 2017 I asked several times that the car list price is less than £40K as I don't wish to pay the additional road tax. However, although having assurances from the sales team that it is less than £40K I am still not convinced. I have not been shown any documentation. I checked…
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Do I need to commit to a Kwik-Fit repair?
Several days ago my car started to give up on me - the power reduced significantly whilst I was driving and was forced to pull in to a car park. I called my breakdown service provider who came out to have a look at it but nothing was coming up on his diagnostic machine, nor could he see any obvious faults under the bonnet.…
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Witnessing A Car Accident
If you witness a car accident can both the cars in front prosecute you for failing to stop and being a witness to a small car accident or big? I guess they would need your car registration plate to give to the police to find you? Is it at your discretion or mandatory to be a witness to an accident to the police?…
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AA Car Inspections
Are they worth it? Could you use their report to get money off a buying a new car that says needs new parts including labour costs?
