Yep - that's them!
They advertise and sell via TV and the net, and at a chain of stores in malls nationwide Durablades, Car Care kits (never wax your car again!) - lots of other great non-automotive products as well - the George Forman fat-free cooking system, the AbFlex stomach muscle toner, the Nippon never-need-sharpening knife set etc.
It's cheap TV, and their adverts are on all day, in between the soaps, to entice gormless housewives to spend all their hubbie's cash.
Having ventured into the shop one day, whilst SWMBO was shopping elsewhere, I was amazed at the quality of the stuff. To say it was cr@p would make gerald ratner look professional ...
To return to the motoring links, here's a brilliant one on the oil additive subject -

www.1st-in-synthetics.com/oil_additives.htm

Well worth a cut and paste, and then print for bedtime reading, methinks.

Have gut feeling you are right on the button there John S. Have always liked my breakdowns right in my own garage which I consider the really best place to have them. BtB Worst I can recall was in a pool motor (Opel Manta) one cold wintry, snowy, rainy, gale force windy day shortly after the M40 opened. Left Birmingham 05.30 to go to creditors meeting in London, broke down (motor stopped dead - no obvious ignition fault) walked what seemed like 2miles to phone only to find not yet connected to system. Walked back to car. Decided to climb embankment to find phone book (some chance there only building in sight was shuttered pub with no sign of life at all.) Back to car to thumb ride to somewhere (anywhere except where I was would do) and kindly Shell Tanker Man went past and screamed to standstill 2/300yds up the hard shoulder dropped me off at Garage in High Wycombe. Took further 2hours to organise collection of Manta.
Went back to Brum on train from High Wycombe spent next 3 days in warm bed with hot woman.

Happy Days Long gone thank goodness,

Phil I .

Not as such. I contacted the bankers ombudsman but they said it was nothing to do with them. In the end I gave up.

I agree though, the bank do have a duty of care since it was their negligence, i.e. they lost the cheque book, that led to my loss. The difficulty with the legal case is that all the official banking guidelines state that bankers drafts should be cleared before handing over the goods.

My car was recovered 10 feet out of a ditch - I received £800 for it as scrap so my loss was £7700 plus a lot of heartache.

Oh well. Give someone an opportunity and they will take it!

I bought a Fiat Punto sporting 1 year ago. The car has been great and came with all the extras aircon sunroof cd changer etc.
I do think they could improve their sales staff. I have used motorpoint and their staff are much friendlier and spend a bit more time with the customer.
One tip be a bit cautious about the cars that are in stock ie on display. Check them out thoroughly Most people will order their cars in advance from the computer lists of cars being delivered these can be secured with a 300 deposit. the cars on display may have been rejected once delivered because of blemishes etc so its caveat emptor check everything especially if they appear to be the last of a particular model they have got.
Better to see that they have 20 of your car and choose one of these.
Last tip the website is very good and lets you see which cars are due to be delivered....

Try Fastrack at braintree in Essex.