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• This is a scam of some sort - right? 21 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  I'm advertising a VW Passat for £9,000. Someone emailed me, asking for photos, then replied with this email: >
• Is this an insurance scam 27 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  it is a scam to get cover on a car for a few days/weeks to avoid the new cameras for automatically checking whether a car has insurance? The insurer (Zurich), my bank (Cahoot) and the police (Thames Valley) haven't really been very helpful in the matter. My bank suggested I do nothing as it only happened
• Crash & cash it scam 13 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  This was on the radio today and is very common practice - apparently. Probably old hat and has been flogged to death already... ...but just in case it...
• Help! Has my friend been scammed? 11 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  a car. Could there be any truth in it or has she been scammed. The dealer is well known and a fairly large dealership but something seems a bit odd about how they have gone about sorting the matter. I think my friend has been a bit silly by not asking enough questions and hopefully she hasnt bought
• Fuel Additive - Scam? 15 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  At the first 10,000 mile service of my car, at the main dealer, I was amazed to be asked if I wanted to pay for a £16 bottle of Havoline fuel system cleaner....
• Water as fuel - hoax, isn't it? 22 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  A link somewhere else took me to http://www.gas4free.com ... and it looks to me like it's either a scam or an out-of-season April Fool's joke. I am no scientist, but I thought that: a) the electrolytic separation of water to hydrogen and oxygen required as much energy as was available through
• Cost of spare parts - how long will the scam last? 23 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  Is it any wonder some brands are not selling when they have been ripping of customers for years with parts? On technical now somebody has been quoted...
• Gang jailed for £1.2m car thefts 7 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  Five members of a "car-ringing" gang who stole, sold and re-stole dozens of cars in a £1.2m scam have been jailed. The gang stole 37 cars, forged their registration details and re-sold them. They then stole the cars again, selling each car up to three times. Mastermind Nokhiaz Khan, 31, from
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  Slippery custom 17 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
  This month was our Polo’s first service. On the receipt the long life SLX Oil was priced by the VW Garage in half litres at £6.90 each, they claim to have...
• Road User Survey - Highways Agency 25 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  . An interviewer will visit soon to question face-to-face one member of my household, aged 17 or over and selected at random (so that will be either Mrs D or myself). Fearful of a scam, I Googled and came upon the National Road Users' Satisfaction Survey 2007/8 Annual Report:- http://tinyurl.com/dbddeo Clearly
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  Scamdalous behaviour 31 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I hope you will pass on a warning to those selling their cars privately. Unusually for me I was persuaded by telephone to register my car with a "seller/buyer"...
• Italy - redlight camera scam 1 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  The idea that there is a conspiracy to rip off motorists is a recurring theme in the BR. In this case there was no room for doubt - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7862893.stm
• Scam Adverts 1 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  Just read a sobering piece in Mail On Sunday. Someone bought a £3k vehicle after responding to a scam ad' in Autotrader. The warning given was never send money abroad.
• A new supermarket car park scam 9 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  In view of this thread attributed to adverse camber a day or two ago: http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?f=2&t=71871 this supermarket car park scam highlighted today may prove of interest: http://tinyurl.com/cqno8n I don't know if other forum members have come across it or raised
• Number plate mystery 7 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  with the number plate LOZZIE B..now I've racked the old brain cells and havn't come up with anything that might make this up...I tried a tenuous Irish LOZ 2138 but that doesn't come up on DVLA vehicle check. Any ideas ? Mind you, how stupid can you be ? If you're running a huge criminal scam, why pick
• is my car registered? 13 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  the dealer dealt with, and I provided the details - they are investigating. There is now scam here - this was a merc main dealer, so just cockup, not conspiracy. However, I'm now worried about if I should actually be driving the car. Has anyone any experience of these matters?
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  Mac, the strife 28 Mar 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I've read stories before about McDonald's fining people for taking too long over their meal, but I've just found a new variation. I went to a McDonald's...
• Where are your old tyres ? 9 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  removal and disposal. This scam has also been worked on small lock ups so if thats your business, I'd keep a closer eye on them.
• Autotrader Scam ??! 9 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  now im only 18 looking at buying my first car, so im not too good at spotting dodgy deals but this deal looks a little strange i emailed this guy about...
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  Tester-money 11 Apr 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I have just had my Citroen C5 MoTd. As always my neighbour is a mechanic and we go over all the MoT requirements before the test. Today it failed on excessive...