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I have an Hyundai i10, mainly brought on your recommendations, which I purchased in Sept 09 (59 plate) and it has just had its first service. On driving out of the dealership, I started hearing a wind...
Someone drove into the back of my wife's car and is fully responsible. Direct Line then passed me onto Drive Assist for a rental car while her car was in for repairs. They are delivering it on Tuesday....
I bought a secondhand 1999 Audi A4 Avant at the end of July for £1800. It had done approx 97,000km in 11 yrs. I drove it the following week to France, where it broke down (problem as yet undiagnosed)....
My girlfriend recently chose her local BMW garage to repair the bodywork of her Z4 after a brick was thrown at it. However, before she had taken back ownership of the car after it had been repaired, another...
I was recently hit by an oncoming vehicle who was overtaking several parked cars on her side of the road. She was considerably over the centre of the road, onto my side. The road is a single carriageway...
Following a blow-out of the front driver's side wheel of my Audi A5 coupe, the RAC recovery vehicle took me to a garage to have the tyre replaced and the tracking checked, as both tyres were worn on the...
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=85270 I looked at the above thread and I have suffered the same problem with my car. Is Volkswagen liable for this?
I was reversing back into a parking space parallel to the kerb. I was facing the direction of the traffic coming towards me, so I reversed a metre or so to get a better view of the traffic coming towards...
Some friends and I left our cars for a day parked in marked bays in a local village square. There were no limitations on time. On our return at 4pm we found a fairground had set up in the interim, and...
A garage is trying to rip me off. I took my car in for a service and MOT, but when it came back it couldn't be driven because the handbrake was stuck on. I was told that the brakes had come apart and it...