I have a 2005 VW Transporter 1.9 tdi that I have had and used for work for a few years now and it is getting close to 185k miles and a few things are starting to fall apart/off.

I have been offered a job. Hooray! However it means two or so 3 hour round trip motorway commutes a week and maybe a little tooing and froing when I am there. I do not want to move the kids or lose the house where we live currently so am accepting some hassle and working away certainly for the next little while.... Read more

Not in the UK I know, but a lot of bad habits seem to migrate across the pond eventually.

A lady in San Francisco went to her car after it had been parked overnight to find that thieves had removed the $10.000 traction battery through the back window. All 180 pounds of it.... Read more

Electric Cars.
The motor industry is misrepresenting the reality of ownership of an EV especially smaller cars.
The purchase price is manipulated by taking the battery out and placing it on lease. However when you come to sell the only buyers available are the brand dealer or private. WBAC and the like wont touch it neither will general garages or other brand dealers as they get stuck with the battery lease cost until they sell it. So a very large % of the resale market is not available. The brand dealers know this so screw you on price! No one tells you this till its too late, especially the motor industry and Government who have an agenda. The second issues is when key parts (their are only 3 really) go wrong out of warranty which is an issue starting to occur for buyers. The parts like the battery charger are not built for repair but replacement. In theory this is good until you find a new charger for example costs more than the residual value of the car!! So its completely uneconomic to buy it but unless you do you have a useless metal lump sitting on the drive. Again funny enough this is also never covered when magazines, reviewers or the motor industry talk about EV ownership. So be aware as great as the move to EV might be the industry is yet again less than honest lets hope this less than straightforward and necessary move isn't diesel MK2 Read more

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I've got 15+ years of no claims bonus. My insurance runs out on 15-Oct. However, as it happens, I go out of the country for 2 months around then and return on 15-Dec.... Read more

I think there should be a clear difference for those minimum measurements, as it is clearly a matter of tyre types and where are they used mainly.

There is no doubt a winter tyre would perform better with deeper grooves, in snow but have no significant advantage in a warm and dry climate.

Also, tread depth is not the sole factor - what about wet braking ratings? You can have a brand new tyre with a poor quality compound that has a lousier wet braking rating than an almost worn-out decent one. Read more