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I am just renewing my AA roadside Roadside/Recovery Cover and I was wondering whether the AA Breakdown Repair cover for parts and labour is worth taking out. It’s not expensive for what’s covered, about...
Regarding the e-mail headed 'Higher Cars', my brother in law has a Golf and cannot fit clubs and trolley in the boot. Yet my wife's Astra Twintop will accept both easily in the boot. It seems that most...
I had new discs and pads fitted to the front of my 3 year old Subaru Forester at 20k miles in December 2008. Despite taking the car back they are still poor. They don't have that instant response they...
A few weeks ago you published a letter from a reader that gave details of a company that could supply runflat tyres for his BMW at less cost than a BMW dealer would charge. I cut the letter out for future...
My local garage is a small, family-run business. It is just two and a half miles away. They have looked after a succession of cars owned either by me or by members of my family for almost thirty years...
I wonder if you can help me? I have an Audi A4 Cab 1.8T, it is three and a half years old, has done 70k miles and has always been serviced and maintained by the same Audi dealership. Last week I had a...
I have a 2007 BMW 525D M Sport with Goodyear Eagle 245 40 R18 93Y runflat tyres, on 18" alloys. One tyre has developed a small distortion in the sidewall (I kissed a kerb) and needs replacing. I don't...
I have a 2006 Chevrolet and there is smelly smoke coming out near the radiator. I have since had problems with my engine management light. It went off after a couple of days and has never come on since....
You have covered the subject of spring failures through unfinished ends many times. Most of my working life was spent in the spring-making industry producing large hot-rolled springs with diameters that...
Do you have any idea where I might lay my hands on some documentary evidence that the injectors may be the cause of my diesel particulate filter problems? (Google has yet to be my friend on this one.)...