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Refund of a fine for speeding and referral of the case to court
I was issued a fine for a minor speeding offense and paid it in full and on time, as instructed. However, six months later, the payment was refunded to my account without any explanation. Then, after twelve months, I received a court summons demanding payment of £400 for the same offense. This occurred without any prior…
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Car Finance Settlement Help
I have requested a settlement figure from my car finance company and paid the amount required, How long does the finance company have to remove the finance marker from the vehicle and send me a completion letter, As finance company are saying 21 days which i think is totally unreasonable
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AA Vixa
Does anyone have experience of using the AA Vixa device? You plug it into your car, connect to an app and it monitors your car's 'health' Thanks
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Car lost power
Hi , about A minute from work, car felt sluggish and lost a lot of power. It felt like a puncture, could hear a grinding noise. Looked around after turning engine off, all tyres looked fine (small amount of clear residual smoke from exhaust - normal ten seconds after turning off engine?). Petrol tsi golf. Any ideas? Will…
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Electric cars not allowed at park home site.
I live in a park home on a residential site. All the residents here have been furnished with a letter informing us that all electric vehicles are to be excluded from the site, due to the fire risk. My take on that, is that given the governments big push to promote electric vehicles, we eventually will not be able to have a…
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Courtesy car not provided
I’ve recently been involved in an accident where another driver hit me from behind whilst changing lanes. It was initially submitted as a non-fault claim on my part, however my insurance has since decided that they will be treating it as an at fault claim as they believe they won’t be able to claim costs from the 3rd…
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Parent’s car stolen from driveway 3 days after they died, what do I do?
A long story short my dad died last year and last week my mum died too. She was 59 and physically well so it’s with the coroner still and suspected suicide. I visited the house the day after to make sure it was locked up but didn’t enter it, since I really didn’t want too and even if I did the spare key was missing from…
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Who's liable to pay compensation - garage / insurance/fleet company
I am leasing a car via salary sacrifice , through a very well known Fleet Company. In December 2024 I hit a pothole, which damaged my left hand side front alloy. I have paid the excess to have the alloy replaced by the insurer's approved garage. The car had tyres replaced, and even with a dented alloy was driving perfectly…
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New Car - Hatchbag, Titan or Boot Buddy Boot Liner?
I asked for recommendations on boot liners a couple of weeks ago and have been doing some research. Having dogs I need a boot liner to keep the boot as clean as possible. In my last car I had a Hatchbag liner which wore very well and after 6 years was in great shape. The only problem was the fact that the velcro didn't…
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Courtesy Car not provided
I’ve recently been involved in an accident where another driver hit me from behind whilst changing lanes. It was initially submitted as a non-fault claim on my part, however my insurance has since decided that they will be treating it as an at fault claim as they believe they won’t be able to claim costs from the 3rd…
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Selling a car back to who sold it to me
Hey guys long story short I brought a car privately which was the biggest mistake I ever make, was my first car and turned out it wasn’t road worthy. To my surprise seller is offering some not all but some of my money back. I got the new v5 thingy in my name when he sold me the car I won’t be there my partner will when he…
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Forgot ro renew car insurance
I am with Aviva. Just back from holiday to bowen an email saying my policy expired yesterday. As soon as I can I am going to phone them to renew. My concern is the renewal price was the best. Will I now forgo that price and be charged a lot more? Obviously I will not drive the vehicle until i have a new policy
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It's not just EVs that can be taxed early!
Lots of discussion about taxing EVs early to avoid paying for another year but I've just taxed our Peugeot 108 1.0l petrol that is due to rise from free to £20 tomorrow following the same instructions as the EV discussions. Tax was due in July so dodged 9 months of payment 😁
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Turns out my car needs a new engine, not a replacement sensor....
Update (or not) Well here we are 6 weeks after dropping my car back to the dealer to replace the engine and still no news. I have emailed almost weekly for updates, having been told on 7th March that the engine had arrived and I should have the car back by 14th March and when I chased on 17th March was told to bear in mind…
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Will my payment reduce
Hi i like many am paying ridiculous interest on my car finance, when this is all sorted will the remainder of the finance % dropped to the lowest level it should have been when I purchased the car? Will my monthly payments go down as well?
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Question about claim against previous insurance
Hi, November last year, I scratched my car against a wall. I planned to get it repaired out of pocket to protect my no-claims bonus. I've just had a quote for the repair and it's a lot more expensive than I thought it would be. I've since changed insurers after the old one expired at the end of the year. Have I any…
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Get FREE tax for an extra year on your EV - is this correct?
Hi - there was this information on the MSE newsletter a few weeks back: ****************************************** EV owners are exempt from paying car tax until April 2025 – but you can delay paying it for another year Up until now, another benefit of EVs is that they've been totally exempt from road tax, or vehicle…
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Mk4 Prius, do I need to continue taking it to the main dealer or shall I use a local independent?
Purchased a gen 4 Prius last year with full main dealer history. Do I need to take the car to the main Toyota dealer? They have equipment that can test the condition of the hybrid battery which presumably a local independent can’t do. Is there anything else I should know about? I’d prefer to take to my local specialist…
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Potential issue with MOT repair
I purchased a used car from a dealer yesterday and the first thing I done was remove the wheels to clean them off and noticed the lower control arm bush was torn. I checked the MOT and one thing that had to be fixed was "Offside Front Inner Suspension Arm". I'm unsure if "inner suspension arm" is the lower control arm aka…
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used car purchase, small claims court
Hi, would welcome the forums advice. I bought a used car in December from a 'private seller' who advertised in auto trader. It checked out fine for MOT (only done October prior), previous ownership etc. It had a full service history from a private garage rather than dealer which seller sent through before I went to see the…
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