Pothole repaired very quickly

On 27th December, my car crashed rather noisily into a pothole. At 9.30pm, I reported the pothole online. At 10.30 the following morning, a Hampshire Council employee rang to establish the exact location,...

Coiler flowered

I took my 2008 Vectra to a Vauxhall dealer (Downside Motors, Chilcompton, Radstock near Bath) for its annual service and MOT on 31/10/12. I have used this dealer once before but wouldn’t say that I had...

The Axemen cometh

I recently saw your advice to a Honda Jazz owner saying contact Honda Happiness Accident Assistance rather than his insurer in the event of an accident. On the same basis, in the event of an accident in...

Shedder gorged

Last winter, I cleaned out my shed and found some old half-used bottles of windscreen washer fluid. I tipped them all into my washer bottle. The resultant cocktail blocked all my pipes and it cost me £125...

How safe do you need to be?

Have the Health and Safety anoraks at Audi gone too far? I start my new car in the garage, drive it outside, select 'Park' and apply the handbrake. Now, when I open the driver's door to close the garage,...

Nice little earner

I thought that you might be interested in an email from a leading Legal Expenses Insurer. Is it any wonder insurance premiums are at the level that they are when insurance brokers like us are being targeted...

Ex-Factor

Recently you had a question about sun cream removal from car paintwork. With 3 young children I've had a lot of experience with this. At first I tried hot soapy water, T-Cut, clay bars - nothing would...

VED Consultation Paper

I will be submitting my observation that there are 307,407 vehicles that are totally exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty under the pre-1973 Historic Vehicle Class. At even the basic VED Rate of £130 for...

Volkswagen engine codes

For SEAT Leon/Toledo and Volkswagen Golf/Bora Skoda Fabia/Octavia 1.9 TDI 130 engines, it is recommended that the best vintage is probably an AWX engine code from 2004. However on checking, the only cars...

Scratched screen - will the garage fix it?

I've just bought one-year old, 4600-mile, Mercedes-Benz E-Class from Mercedes-Benz Used Retail. I drive it home and put in garage, and three days later when I went to drive it, I noticed three fairly deep...