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I recently smelt fuel on my drive. I called my local Mercedes Dealer who sent a mechanic and diagnosed that a rat or similar creature had chewed the fuel hose. Is this feasonable?
Here's a conundrum. I'm tall. So I need a car with the following.
1. Seat height adjustment for both driver AND passenger.
2. Auto gearbox.
3. Full length glass roof. (Doesn't necessarily have to open.)
Priced...
I'm thinking about buying a new car and it has 139,000 miles on the clock, is that worth buying at 700 quid? The car is a 2001 Ford Focus 1.6l 3dr hatchback.
I wrote to you a couple years ago asking whether an extended warranty for my newly purchased 2007 Dodge Dakota. I took your advice and purchased a LIFETIME bumper to bumper warranty from Chrysler for $2000...
My daughter has a one year old Qashqai petrol 1.6 bought from new.
She is going abroad to work for two years and can't take the car.
What is her best option?
Sell the car and take the loss of the...
My house was broken into and the keys for my Volvo V50 stolen from my office. The car was used three days later in an armed raid and subsequently abandoned on a main road. The cars keys were not recovered...
The clutch has started slipping at 34,000 miles on my Peugeot 407 2.0 2009 Sport and was wondering if you could recommend a replacement kit that would last longer that the genuine one.
It would appear...
We have a 23k mileage Agila and are concerned about the strength of the clutch. I think that this is a common problem to this model but is there any modification that can be made. We will speak to the...
My 406 hdi has a rough idle. When I rev it up it seems fine - a little misfiring, but soon it hits the turbo and it's OK. It feels almost like it's running on 3 cylinders on tick over.
A friend has done...
My BMW Z4 is 4 years old and I have driven 32000 miles. It has just had it's second service where I have been told that the manifold is corroded and needs replacing, together with the exhaust system and...
We have a Citroen Xsara Picasso 1.8 petrol on a 51 plate. When we bought it in September 2010 part of the deal was to replace the cam belt which they did. Now on New Years Eve 2011 the car broke down....
When I went to have my Hyundai i10 car serviced after 18 months and with only 25,000 miles on the clock, the mechanic in the franchised dealer said that the clutch would need replacing, due to "wear and...
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