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These days, motorways seem to be full of people creating mobile roadblocks by selfishly cruising in lane 2 of motorways or pulling out much too early to pass slower traffic. They create logjams of vehicles...
I noted your recent comment on the time lag with VW DSG gearboxes when starting at junctions. My three-year-old Passat 2.0TDi DSG suffers from this to such an extent I am considering changing it for a...
A recent discussion with some friends concerning left foot braking in an automatic prompted me to write this e-mail. I have driven automatics for around 25 years and when I hire a car, I always hire an...
The current disgraceful state of the roads here in Northumberland, and apparently across the rest of the UK, finally puts paid to the absolute lie that speed cameras are about safety. If the previous government...
I thought my milometer might interest you. I attach a picture I took This week (I was stationary) that shows the milometer reading 111111, the trip reading 111.1 and the mpg 11.1 and I was in first gear....
Please can you offer some advice? We have recently been sent a "Parking Charge Notice". The Notice shows my wife's registered vehicle entering and leaving a MacDonald’s car park at Bell Lane London Colney,...
I am in the motor trade and was on road test in a customer’s car the other day. He was driving and block changed from 2nd to 5th at about 35mph going UP the gearbox. I was horrified, believing this would...
Perhaps you would like to alert your readers to a potential trap. Recently, in Hanover, parked up legally in the museum area, I returned to find a ticket on the car. On enquiry, this turned out to be a...
Thanks for the photo of the speed cushion with a pot-hole actually in it. The location looks like Thames Ditton, or Cobham, in Surrey. You may be interested to know that my nephew was pulled up by the...
Further to my last email I wanted to warn you about some very nasty potholes in certain Surrey back lanes. Please be very careful if you use the popular shortcuts across country, from Ockley to Ewhurst,...
 

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