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My girlfriend would like to know how much it's gonna cost to get our 2003 Mondeo TDCi automatic fixed please? It's recently developed a problem with the speedo and mileometer only intermittently working....
I should be grateful for your advice on the following issue. My daughter bought a secondhand Volkswagen Golf 1.6 SE 2003 60,000 miles for £4,000 from a small car sales company in Devizes in December. It...
I purchased Ford Focus via finance last Saturday. I picked up the car Tuesday and took it back misfiring with the engine management light flashing. The garage replaced a sensor which took two days. I...
I bought a car in June 2010, found a problem with the inlet swirl flaps, took it back to garage and they apparently repaired it over the course of a month. I got it back in August 2010 and in December...
My wife's year 2000 BMW 728 E38 requires a new windscreen. We contacted our insurer, Swiftcover and were told that we could have the replacement handled completely by Auto-Glass. I phoned them a few days...
My Volvo V40 2001 is due for insurance renewal and like any wise fellow I checked first on price comparison websites. But as I had reversed over a Caterham last June in a petrol station (easily done) I...
Two weeks ago the Dynamic Stability Control Unit failed on my wife's 5-year-old MINI Cooper (with 45,000 miles on the clock). I was quoted £937.22 for the replacement part by the staff member at Fawdington...
My son recently acquired a new SUV; this was after a long delayed wait. Sadly, after two months' ownership, it was damaged while road parked. The driver responsible admitted responsibility and an insurance...
My next-door neighbour's relative's car was parked on their drive, and I reversed into it and just scraped the side, and took a chip out of the light unit. I offered to pay for the damage done out of my...
A few months ago I scraped the left-hand rear door and bumper of my KIA cee’d against a wall. No other vehicle or person was involved. I decided to have the car repaired, but as I had not used my insurance...
 

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