I'm after some advice - maybe someone has had a similiar experience in the past.

SWMBO has decided that after a 17 year gap in which she has never driven, it's a long story but needless to say it was my fault :). However, given our village location and me working away, she has decided that it's time she drove again.
My thinking was to get her enrolled at a local driving school again who perhaps specialise in this, I was thinking of doing this as an IOU Christmas present.
Anyone got any ideas on how to proceed or perhaps a different way of approaching this?
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I'm seriously looking at a 2009 A4 avant 2.0d. Unfortunately it's only the 120ps version. The car is some distance away and I haven't had chance to drive it, so have some concerns that it may be underpowered. I don't need a rocket ship, but want to avoid something that can't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

So simple question. Has anyone got any experience of this engine and is it capable enough?

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Well due to the nice weather tonight i've slid into a 2008 Ford Ranger in my Leon Cupra, all 4 wheels locked and i even had time to put it into reverse before i hit him. I was only doing about 5mph and he was stationary, so damage has been limited to his big front bumper. Now as im a mechanic, and my excess is £750, im going to try and source a bumper for it, so has anyone any links or number of a Ford breakers, 4x4 breakers etc, preferably in to Yorkshire area?
Tried eBay etc, no luck
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Help!

My Nissan Tino has been a reliable car for the last nine years but unfortunately with age
(it happens to us all) it just isn't worth keeping it any longer.

So time for a change. I'm looking for a car that'll get me up and down a motorway
(60 miles a day) in reasonable comfort with a reasonable MPG. But most importantly of all good reliability and sub £5000

I would also need to fit the Missus and my three kids in it occasionally. Although she's driving around in a nice new Mazda5 (how did that happen?!)

I think I have befuddled my brain by looking at to many reviews because I now seem to be chasing my tail unable to make a decision. And every time I read the "bad bits" and "what to look out for" I change my mind again.

Anyone got a suggestion other than buy a bike?
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Hi can you guys help? My son bought his 1st car just over 2 weeks ago (from a small local dealership) that has a 30 day warranty and we are getting problems with it. The hazzard lights come on from time to time and the speedo dies (stays at 0) too. As I said, its not happening all the time but happening enough since he bought the car to be a worry. The car was taken back to the place of purchase after 6 days and they said they could not find anything wrong on a diagnostics check they had someone do for them. They have reluctantly taken the car back for a second time today to see if they can see whats wrong. What can this fault be and what should they be looking for as they dont seem too happy to help us? My son almost had a crash cause another driver misread the hazard lights coming on as a signal to pull out in front of him, they had just came on and the guy pulled out. He has just passed his test and we dont want him getting points if he is out and the speedo dies again or worse. Also there is a very low vibration noise like a very low machine gun sound which they were also told about last week and has not been fixed. One of the wheel bearings had to be replaced on the car before we collected it after we flagged it on the roadtest and they re-motd it. We have also found out that the car was at the Citreon garage it originally came from at the end of October with the Hazzard lights and seatbelt warning lights coming on - they could not find the fault.

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