October 2019
My daughter wants to take her car from its current address in Orpington (BR6) to her weekday address in Edgbaston (B16). I suspect it'll end up moving back-and-forth between the two addresses.
Are there any guidelines on how quickly you should inform the insurance company (i.e. when does the status change from visiting to being the new permanent address)? And are there any rules on how to handle two addresses when a car spends time at both?... Read more
I inadvertently purchased a set of tyres with an index rating of 94W compared to the original tyre index rating of 91W.
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I ran on XL tyres on my diesel Octavia hatch because the 91s were not available at the time for my tyre of choice. As said above there are no problems and I honestly did not notice any difference, apart from the feel of new tyres. I literally swapped to an XL version of the same tyre.
Sorry for the long post but I'm at my wits end and no-one seems to be able to help me?
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It's not my decision what the OP should do that's entirely up to them. I'm not saying they should keep or sell I'm just pointing out that there our some people on here that like to put down the nissan qashqai whenever someone has a question about one.
Sorry, but this is just a cop out. The OP has come on here asking for advice, so if you are not willing to stick your neck out in favour of keeping the Qashqai, then you are obviously not that confident of their reliability in general. Also, if you are not willing to offer the OP an opinion on what she should do, then there is little point in taking part in this thread....
Your custom is obviously important to them!
As has been said before, mistakes happen, but it's how they are dealt with that's important. Read more
Well I, for one, didn't know that reminder service existed - I tended to rely on the annual road tax reminder in the post to remind me to book a combined service and MOT. And now that doesn't exist i confess I forgot to book the service and MOT this year and only remembered a feww days beforehand.
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My new to me 2018 Golf has a leak into the boot. Water is clearly travelling through the rear hatch door handle, behind the rear skin and tracking across the lock into the boot. Googling shows its probably a common failing of a drain pipe costing a fiver. The problem from a DIY point of view is that you need to ease off a lot of fixing clips that are prone to break. So back to the dealer for a warranty repair.
How hard can it be to remove the hatch trim and replace a pipe? Very apparently.... Read more
I can’t understand how a country that built U - boats can’t build a car that doesn’t leak water . All the German car manufacturers seem to be struggling to keep water out . I’ve seen so many models with flooded electronics ( because they locate them under the floor) . The worst one is the Bentley continental , where the main security and start module sits under the passenger seat and gets flooded because the plenum drains get blocked.
I suspect a VW Golf is not designed to sink shipping while submerged.
And how come we had an empire and yet we can’t even manage an indigenous car company? We have to sell them to Johnny Foreigner who then makes the company successful.
My car is intermittently misfiring, usually at motorway speeds. Sometimes it is lumpy on startup for a few seconds too.
Before I did anything, I scanned for codes a cylinder 3 misfire came up. Replaced all coils and plugs, checked wiring and cleared the code, and all was well for a few days. Cylinder 3 is misfiring again now and the same code is coming up.
Someone suggested the crank sensor. Would this really only cause cylinder 3 to misfire?
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Oh dear...thank you, I will investigate further! This could get expensive.
So I was caught speeding, 72 in a 60 zone. How will my weekly income be determined? I've been unemployed claiming universal credit for a while, working temporary jobs in between. Not long after I received notice of the fine I completed a paid medical trial and was paid £3000 for roughly one months "work". Will that be taken into account, will I have to work out all I've been paid over a certain period and provide an average figure?
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Oh I hadn't realized that. Thanks.
Perhaps this paint scheme will be offered as option for the 2020 Octavia. It would certainly liven up the roads which are now full of cars 50 shades of grey.
No, no, you are out of date there. Tin-coloured cars are very passé now. New cars are white, black or red, all solid colours, it seems. Read more
Many years ago the VW dealer where I used to get my car serviced had one of those Polo Harlequins as a courtesy car. I was there one day when they gave it to a very smartly dresses woman who was dropping off her Audi. She wasn't at all pleased as she said she was visiting customers all day.
So Mark, when are you going to get your own TV programme? Read more
What a thin and superficial review. Seems prejudiced against LRJ from the off.
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Log on to the insurance company website and get a quote for each of the two addresses. If the new address will be cheaper then email the insurance company and tell them that the new address is your primary residence but that you also stay at the other address regularly. If the new address is dearer tell that is the primary residence but you also use the other address sometimes. It is up to you to decide which is your primary residence and the amount of time you spend at each may vary from month to month or week to week. It doesn't depend on where you spend the most time. If that were the case then oil rig workers would be resident in the North Sea.
If she owns one or both of the premises then there may also be capital gains implications depending on which she decides is the primary residence. To bolster up the claim of one residence being primary she can make sure she is on the voter roll there, get her car tax and driving licence at that address and do all income tax correspondence from that residence. If home ownership is involved it can have big financial implications so be sure to think it out carefully.