If you listen to traffic reports on the radio, there seems to be a disproprtionate number of incidents in the area of J9-10 of the M40.
I travel up and down this stretch regularly and I'm forming a theory about it. Long queues on the on and off slips at J10 are the norm most of the day.
I think a lot of people are using the M1-A43 (recently upgraded)-M40-A34 as a kind of outer M25, linking the West and the South Coast to East Midlans, Yorkshire and the North East .
The danger is that wehn people joing the M40 at 10,going south they don't realise it's a short run to 9, where they are leaving again .There is a dedicated lane to exit at 9, and if you miss it it's very difficult to get into it before the exit ; hence the accidents , from people cutting in.
I reckon what could be done, includes better warnings at 10 to keep letf, or even widening to 4 lanes for about 2 miles before 9 Read more

I am unable to provide a link to the article, in today's Sunday Telegraph magazine; it is by Neil Lyndon and it is easily the most scathing and damning review I have ever read on a new car. Do try and get sight of it it and add your comments! It may be interesting to see how many they sell and what those that they do are worth in 1 and 3 years time. Read more

I have a 2 and a half year old Clio 172 and need to get all the brake discs and pads changed.
I can either get the parts and do it myself or have other contacts that can do it for me fairly cheaply.

However, when I questioned my local dealer I was told that if the work was NOT carried out by an authorised Reanult dealer/garage I would VOID the ENTIRE warranty on the vehicle.

The car still has 6 months warranty, but the dealer wants to charge nearly £600 to the job where as I can source the parts myself for less than £200 and get them fitted for no more than an extra £100.

Can the dealer/renault leagally void a warranty in this way?
I can understand if they said the brakes were no longer covered.
Surely, brakes, as a consumable should be exempt and I should be able to get them changed where and when I require it?

On this line getting tyres changed would also void a warranty?!
The exhaust will also need changing shortly too!!

An exasperated Renault owner.
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Hi


Does the distance selling act apply to cars bought over the phone from eg a Car Supermarket..If so how do you go about returning it

Thanks
alan Read more

Having a quandry over what my wife's next lease car should be. She get's a very good subsidised deal from her employing NHS trust. She currently has a Punto Multijet dynamic for which she pays £110 a month fully maintained, 20k per annum.

She will be due for a replacement early next year and we have to start "shopping" now as some cars will have long delivery times. Her mileage means a diesel makes sense (unless fuel prices go really crazy!), and she would like something a little larger and with five doors for convenience (and possibly a future child?). She enjoys driving my Toledo TDI 110 SE.

Having discussed things, we have under consideration a Leon 2.0TDi Sport (would be prefer stylance spec but not available with this engine), Octavia 2.0TDi Elegance, Golf 2.0TDi GT and Alfa 147 1.9 Multijet 150. Any others we should be considering, and should any of these jump to the top of the list? I really like the styling of the new Leon...
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