Product I have never seen or heard of on sale today. Something to add to oil and another to put in the fuel tank. Claims up to 21% improvement in fuel consumption, up to 70& reduction in engine wear and up to 80% reduction in pollution. It also " Segregates carbon deposits and limits clogging which is the main cause of wear and decreased performance" - whatever that means

A bit of waffle about tests carried out according to international standards recognised by the automobile industry; "used today by many professionals and private users worldwide". No actual names of organisations who have done tests so I guess it is the usual overhyped stuff @ £24.95 for the 2 bottles. You can get your money back if you aren't satisfied but how are you going to know if it has or hasn't worked - will you be able to locate your segregated carbon deposits?
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Coming back south from "oop North" today I joined the M62 newar Howden, S Yorks. Rather peculiar junction, you go over the motorway to a roundabout, double back on yourself to the only exit from roundabout onto a downhill slip road. Near top of slip road was a police car, half on a very narrow hard shoulder, half on sliproad, with red lights flashing. Thought there might be a queue or something, but no, just cop with radar gun pointing towards motorway below. I joined a clear inside lane at 70 and was almost immediately passed by a lovely red Ferrari which was doing about 80 in the middle lane - well he wasn't going much faster than me anyway. He was being passed by a few cars in outside lane doing about 85 - 90 ish, maybe even faster. Could still see slip road in mirror and watched cops set off and blast along until after a while they were behind the Ferrrari now in inside lane and half a dozen other cars which had been going fater than him in outside lane but which had now moved into middle lane and slowed to 70. Cops overtook them all and pulled in front of Ferrari with all lights flashing. I went past just as they were stopping on hard shoulder.
But why him? There were at least 6 other cars who had gone down outside lane much faster, and yes I realise the Ferrari was doing over 70 so was breaking the law, but it did seem a bit unfair. Maybe they stopped him to tell him what a nice car he had.
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I've been a member of Streetcar for a while now, renting a Golf for a fiver an hour for the few times a month I need a car.

There's an interesting article on Car Clubs in today's (London) Evening Standard where two blokes gave up their cars for a month and used a car club instead. One of the guinea pigs was Richard Bacon who says he has decided to get rid of his Cayenne after calculating he could save five grand a year by using CityCarClub instead. Guinea pig number 2 says he will use a car club as an alternative to a second car.

It's unlikely many people will give up their only car in favour of a car club car, but I was just wondering how many would dump their second car if there was a car club vehicle located within a 'reasonable' distance of their home? And if not, why not? Read more

At last TomTom have done something reactive to the silly drooping dock on the first models of the newer TomTom 510, 710 and 910 units. go to www.tomtom.com/newdock/
I've received mine in about 5 days, great service, wish they would get the RDS-TMC receiver out a bit quicker though! Read more

I recently purchased a 25 with minor frontal damage and have changed both seat belt pretensioners for new ones, because the old ones had activated. The airbag had not deployed but the srs light had stayed on. After changing them the light still stays on... do i need to go to the dealers to be ripped off or is it fixable from home ? Read more