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I am taking advantage of the scrappage scheme to trade in my N reg Peugeot 106 to buy a Hyundai i20 on 1 September. My insurer refuses to amend the value of my Peugeot 106 and says it would (in the event...
We are currently a two car couple and have just paid over £700 to have both cars serviced. This has made us realize that as pensioners it is time for us to become a one-car couple. Our problem is how best...
I have some money to spend on a new car and like the Nissan 370Z and the BMW Z4, both have great looks and initially it was the Z4 I fancied but your two star rating put me off. I have been on today and...
My recently acquired son-in-law, a 28-year-old VAG mechanic, is seriously considering leaving his VAG Main Dealer employer to take over a Snap-on Tools franchise. It is seemingly an established round:...
I've written you in the past, when we lived in the UK, but we’re now in Maryland. I'm considering selling my two aging vehicles - a 1994 Honda Civic with 200k miles and a 1999 Nissan Sentra - for a 2010...
This week we traded in our car under the government 'Scrappage scheme'. The car road tax had another 5 months to run and we asked the dealer for the disc so that we could claim a refund from DVLA. Our...
We have just ordered a Hyundai i10 on the scrappage scheme. We have a cherished registration on the part-ex car. We have been told by the dealer that the plate has to go on retention until the new car...
Our faithful 1993M Nissan Primera 1.6 LX has been forcibly retired having done 161,000 miles and now requires a new engine (£2,000) as the timing mechanism is completely out of kilter. I believe that this...
I want to change my 2004 Golf 2.0 FSI with 40,000 miles for a smaller car (from reading your column, an Abarth 500, FIAT 500 or MINI Cooper), but I still want enough zip to make frequent driving on motorways...
We are very concerned about the increasing width of modern cars. we hired a Peugeot 308 in Toulouse last October and it was frankly too wide for the little villages in the Aude Department. We think that...
 

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