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I have recently bought a second hand Golf with full VW history and have had nothing but problems. First of all, I have experienced juddering from the auto gearbox. VW carried out tests and determined...
I recently purchased a very expensive motorhome from a dealer. Before completing the purchase the dealer agreed to rectify an engine manangement warning light, completely valet the vehicle, touch up some...
My car looses a lot of water due to something being wrong with the seal for the box where the spark plugs are found. Water gets to the spark plugs and now there is rust all over. I was gonne let it be...
My wife puchased an 08 reg BMW 318i last September. The engine sometimes misfires. I read on your website and in a letter in today's paper that the 2.0-litre 4 cylinder petrol engine is prone to injector...
I have a friend that has just bought a car with brand new MoT from a garage who were selling the car as 'sold as seen. The garage he bought it from failed to explain about a faulty cv joint and head gasket...
Last year at 70,000 careful miles several swirl-flaps came adrift on my BMW 730d and one went through the engine into the turbo. Inlet manifold and turbo replaced, one set of valves and piston changed....
I purchased a new car from a dealer Jan 2010, the car started showing defects April/June 2010. Defects being: -Rattling window -High pitched whirring noise when when pressing the accelerator (when the...
My 2007 Mercedes-Benz C220 Elegance estate is showing an entirely intermittant SRS fault. Is this likely to be a main dealership only problem?
Began to have a loss of power around 10,000 miles ago (car is only 8 months old). Now at 25,000 miles it has started to display and engine malfunction warning under hard acceleration. It has a fairly new...
I've just got my car back from having an MOT and my heating has noticeably deteriorated, prior to the MOT it was working perfectly. On the heating dial, I used to have it one click in the red and it...
 

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