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I went to tax my car yesterday at a Post Office, and was told that they could not check my insurance and MoT because the post office could not afford online facilities. How bloody ridiculous. The police...
Is there a legal requirement to display a tax disc in the lower near-side corner of the windscreen? I have received a fixed-penalty notice for 'Tax-disc obscured' when it was in full-view on the TOP near-side...
I was wondering, considering the current state of Britain's pot-holed roads and motorways, how much of the £215 road tax I pay actually goes back into maintaining and improving the road network? Is it...
Is there such a beast as a low or zero emissions, 60+ mpg automatic car?
I am the second owner of a 1997 Vauxhall Astra 1.6, which is still a good car but has become very expensive to run, especially as I have reached my 80th year. I am unsure whether to go for old, like 12...
I purchased a Micra Acenta 1.2 automatic, which is four years old with 4,500 miles on the clock. It seems to be running perfectly after a few hundred miles. Does this car have a chain-cam drive? Why am...
Having recently purchased a Hyundai i10, an ex demonstrator 6 months old, and being told VED was £20, as you state in your reply to HM. I have received V11 from Swansea, which tells me the annual road...
During last year summer (June 2010) I had an accident which resulted in my car going into the garage. The car was kept in the garage for four months due to lack of parts (which had to ordered in) and incompetent...
Our car is a Saab 93 Sportwagon Automatic 1.8t on a 55 plate and we average 32mpg (according to the on board computer). We drive between 5,000 and 7,000 miles per year, so not enough to consider diesel....
This was late on a Saturday, so I waited until Monday morning and taxed at the Post Office, so now I'm all legal - but: Where do I stand with recourse to the dealer? I bought the vehicle in good faith...