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Please may I bestow a couple of accolades through your column. My wife’s 4-year-old Corsa, out of guarantee, developed a seemingly small problem where the dial that directs the air within the car jammed....
My wife and I are now driving our eighth Proton car. What this has brought us over those years is a very good reward for our loyalty to the same dealer, Reg Thompson Cars of Keighley, West Yorks. Small...
My independent Mercedes-Benz servicing garage tells me that the Sensotronic Brake Control unit on my 2004 E320CDI (90,000 miles) needs replacement at a cost of £900 or more. I've read on various MB forums...
I read with interest the letter from ‘MH’ with regard to older luxury cars being value for money. I purchased a 53 plate S-Type Jaguar, 4.2 V8 model for just less than £7000 about two years ago from ‘CarGiant’...
I had a long standing airbag warning light fault in my 12-year-old Mercedes-Benz E Class and took the advice you gave to another reader, to contact www.airbagman.co.uk. They were remarkably efficient with...
I would like to nominate C Latham Motors of 85 Hospital Street, Nantwich 01270 625666 as being the ideal local garage that really has the interests of its customers at heart. Their service is everything...
You kindly printed my letter where I asked if you could recommend someone to restore my Triumph Stag and I thought I’d let you know the outcome. You forwarded an e-mail from another correspondent who recommended...
My 10-year-old, 30,000 miles, serviced by Mercedes-Benz A-Class suffered the dreaded ECU fault warning light. The Mercedes-Benz garage informed me a repair would cost £1700 if it was the gearbox or £6000...
Following your answer about garages replacing aircon compressors when all that was needed was a new clutch, mine failed a week ago. I took the car, a 10-year-old Passat, to our local independent garage...
Further to your remark about cut-price MoTs, I have taken our two elderly cars to PK Motors in Tunbridge Wells for the past 13 years. They give a 25 per cent discount to existing customers and have never,...
 

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