I went from a company to a private car, albeit on an immediate basis. I got a letter from my company stating that I had the benefit of a company car for the previous 15 years without any claims, accident or incidents. That was accepted and I managed to receive full no claims discount. I think something similar from your previous company may do the trick. NCD is usually based on a sliding scale these days. 1 year is 14%, 5 years is 20% up to 9 years for 30%. Any discount is worth having though. Good luck. Concrete

To me, that just shows how much of a rip-off the insurance industry is - I get 70% off the initial premium with my full 14+ years NCD (Esure do a 7+7 year reduction if I recall, you get a lot off in the first 7 years, possibly up to 50% NCD then much less in the years after) on an ongoing private insurance policy (rather than work one). It shouldn't matter whether the policy is for a privately owned car or company car, as long as you have proof of bonus....

"Lexed" question and Which. A couple of years ago I wrote to Which, being a subscriber, to question as to why in their annual car test reports the majority of recommendations were for Diesel cars. I pointed out that I suspected that the majority of Which subscribers would be like me, and have an annual mileage of well below 8k. The response from a Which person was that "I have a diesel and have no issues", what they failed to mention was that it was a leased car returned after 3 years, for the next owner to have all the problems. Which is why I take very little notice of Which reports on cars or IT

I was leafing through some Which? magazines at my local library recently whilst researching an item my parents wanted to buy (they aren't great at doing so online and asked if I could find out for them) and saw Which?'s annual car report. Needless to say that I wasn't impressed with the quality of their reviews - giving Germany cars and especially the expensive and diesel versions top positions - only Toyota/Lexus getting a look in within the top 5 of the majority of categories. They even rated the Germans makes reliability as high, equal to or better than Japanese and Korean, though Kia came out top but only on that score, not for individual cars. I agree with you that, in my opinion, their testing was inadequate and wasn't comparing cars on an equal basis. To me, their results didn't bear any relation to real-world experiences as we see on HJ and owners forums and more like the auto mags whom to me are biassed by concentrating on performance and handling over short term tests on smooth roads whilst being wined and dined by the car manufacturers.

I've noticed that Which? seems, at least to me, is reducing in quality by employing lesser quality testers and journalists and releasing lower grade reviews and articles about consumer issues, sometimes (in my opinion) looking like they just used a search engine to put it together, rather like 'reports' (IMO) on the MSN website.

You say you have fuel, the fuel sender unit says you don't. Which one do you think the ECM will believe? The ECM will not initiate the DPF regeneration process unless there is sufficient fuel in the tank, and also limp mode may be activated to prevent damage to the fuel pump and injectors. I think you may have answered your own question here. Check the fuel tank sender unit for accuracy. Or it's possible the DPF may have reached the end of its service life and needs replacing. They don't last forever.

The power steering on these is fully electric and the system needs to see a road speed signal to operate correctly.The fact that the speedo does not work also,could be a problem with the speed sensor in the gearbox.The speed signal may possibly come from the abs system (if fitted)

... gaffer tape, WD40 and a hammer so pretty much covered all bases there. What could possibly go wrong?!

Made me laugh anyway - I think we're at the same level of expertise! (I was actually using a hammer on my gear lever knob the other day - no joy, but a bit of Araldite seems to have fixed it...)