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"Passengers are having to change bus partway through their journeys to comply with an EU directive.

The legislation stops drivers clocking up more than 31 miles behind the wheel without a rest.

If a journey is any longer, the driver must pull over and wait for a replacement. "

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I bought a 56 plate Peugeot 207 last October. Since buying it I had to replace the side panel (someone drove into me) and am now having to deal with further repairs due to a 4 wheel drive vehicle driving into the 207 whilst parked. I imagine the car will look absolutely fine after a trip to a body shop. Anyway, I've since decided that I want rid of the vehicle.....Do you think I'll have trouble selling it? I want to exchange it for a Suzuki Swift. What's the best way of doing so and how much do you reckon I'll get for it?

It's a 16v S 90 A/C 56 plate.

Thanks

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Ford is selling Land Rover and Jaguar to Tata.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7313380.stm

I wonder what the world's cheapest car maker will do with these if Ford couldn't make Jaguar profitable? Read more

What with reading so many episodes of dealers dodging warranty claims, I was heartned by the superb treatment from my local Suzuki dealer.

I had been hearing what I can only describe as a 'hiss' from the back axle when the engine was under load in higher gears. You could hardly hear it when it was full of things but empty, it was certainly there. Bearing in mind that the 3 year warranty runs out December, I thought I would pop into my dealer and just get it checked, fully expecting to be told 'theyre all like that' or something to that effect.

The manager took it out for a drive and then spent 15 mins with it on a ramp checking the fluid and checking anything else that could have been making the noise.
He said normally you would look to the tyres and wheel bearings but they were perfect and it must be coming from the back axle somewhere and was happy to confirm that it was certainly not normal and that he would like to have it in for three days so they can strip it down and see whats causing it, replacing whatever was required.

What so impressed me was that despite it being neither a serious sounding noise nor any insistance on my part that it was definately a problem, they took it completely serious, made a complete assessment of the noise and at no point did I feel that they wanted to do anything but make sure my van was totally 'right'.
Really made me smile that there are still customer focussed dealers out there who take even the most seemingly minor noise seriously. Read more

I am looking for a suitable child booster seat with the deepest possible cushion to combat the car sickness bought on by the high, upwards sloping rear door shoulder/ window line of our car (5 series Touring). The current seat worked quite well in our V70 (with a nice flat window line and light interior) but not so well in the new car, exacerbated by a dark interior.

All the boosters I have looked at seem to have relatively shallow cushions, quite unsuited to providing a good view out the window for a 5 year old when latest generation car design tend to decrease visibility and a feeling of "openess" the further back in the car you go. And the seat doesn't settle very well when used in the centre rear seat position to try and provide better visibility, especially round corners!

Any recommendations gratefully received (there is an ISOFIX facility too on the rear outer seats) for something that provides a good deep cushion base . It seems to be something the manufacturers have overlooked from what have seen and other folks have said the same. Read more