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I have just bought a second hand car and so cancelled the insurance on my old car and used no claims etc on the new one. I need to sell my old car and thought, incorrectly, that as I am insured to drive other cars (third party basis) via my main insurance, I could use this to do test drives for my old one. I checked the gov website and realise that, unless a car is permanently off the road, it has to be insured. I have just been looking at temporary insurance i.e for a couple of weeks whilst I try and sell the car but realise that it is almost as expensive as a policy for a whole year,. I can't imagine I am the only one who has this sort of problem and feel like I may be making this more complicated than needed.... Read more

Motoring magazine testers always seem to prefer the "quality" of some cars interiors to others.

They seem obsessed with soft touch plastics and shiney chrome trim things, rather than whether the switches will continue to work for years and the dash will remain rattle free.... Read more

My temperature gauge goes up - as soon as it gets to the last white mark before the red - the temp light and stop sign comes on and it beeps at me. Temp keeps going up into the red. But if you keep driving and ignore it after a few seconds all warnings stop and temp starts dropping until it goes back to normal of 90.

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Well I really thought I'd found the source of the rattling but it's still happening. All the plastic air inlet stuff is nicely secured now so i can forget that. Nor is it brake pads as the noise still continues when braking.

The rattling starts up after I've done about twenty miles on the nearside. If was anything to do with the suspension surely the rattling would happen straight away not wait twenty miles and then start. So I'm thinking driveshaft, yet it's not making the familiar clicking sound on tight turns. Then if it's not that, then possibly coming from the gearbox. After the oil has heated and become thinner, whatever is loose in the box would be likely to show up more, I guess. This chattering rattle happens at all speeds whether in or out of gear. Negotiating a bump the rattling increases slighty and when that happens my thoughts swing back to it being a suspension problem. It sounds like a loose bolt dangling down and flapping about, but loose bolts don't wait twenty odd miles to make a noise. Read more

Now, i know that personally, i am on my 4th chevrolet, and all things considered, the current cruze does the job ok, but Shocked to learn today from my friendly local dealer that all new chevrolets will have 3 year warranty, not 5.

Something we should know...... Read more