November 2020
I'm looking to buy a used van/truck above 3.5T, and have found a suitable example on Ebay, through a small business seller. The van came from a local furniture shop who certainly would have been vat registered, I'm not sure how this seller acquired it, directly from them or what. The van is for sale without vat, I'm just wondering why that is, as it came from a vat registered company, I tried asking the seller and he didn't seem sure, but said 'the agent it came from might not have been vat registered'. That rang alarm bells for me as I guess it could have been bought by a small man and van sole trader like myself, I don;t earn enough to have to pay charge VAT yet, and I thought he might have bought it, realised there was a problem with it and quickly sold it on. Or am I being paranoid? A Little help please, i am a struggling man & van, desperate for a van with a much bigger payload so next time I get stopped on a Vosa weighbridge, I won;t be overweight. Read more
Reading a roadtest in Car Magazine I was struck by the huge differences in the economy achieved on test between three very similar cars. Those were the new Ford Kuga, the Peugeot 3008 and the Volvo XC40.
The cars all covered the same route at about the same pace yet the test mpg varied wildly from the Peugeot’s disappointing 34.1 to the Ford’s exceptional 97.5(!), with the Volvo filling the middle ground at (still decent enough) 62.7. ... Read more
Yes, it's the 64 KWH battery,and it was the realistic range that sold me the idea of a BEV rather than a PHEV (PHEVs of course make perfect sense as a company car). Depending on how you drive it and on weather conditions, the range is likely to be between 250 and 300 miles.
On average twice a month I, or SWMBO, or both, do a 200-mile round trip from Dorset to Berkshire. That can of course be done in the A3 (which will actually do the return trip twice on one tankful) but it would be preferable for either car to be able to do it....
Replacing tyres is very wasteful and environmentally unfriendly. If HRH the POW resoles his shoes (as I do), for the sake of the environment should we not be doing the same for our tyres? Retreads used to be commonplace - perhaps they still are for trucks. Should there be an incentive, lower vat perhaps, to use re-treads? There should be no reason why they cannot be made safe to use, especially as road speeds are now so low for the average motorist. Perhaps we would see fewer littering the verges. Read more
<< I wonder if Andrew-T is volunteering to change his car's tyres to retreads next time then? >>
I think Andy knows that I was remarking on a dismissive comment about the environment, not advising the use of remould tyres....
I have a plug in tyre inflator/compressor that plugs into the cigarette lighter port of the car and would like the option of being able to use the compressor using a 240 socket in the garage.
Is there such an adaptor I can buy to plug into the garage socket so that I can plug the compressor cigarette lighter fitting into it?... Read more
Run the engine while you're doing it-that will keep the battery charged.
An engine at idle speed produces very little current....
I wonder why this post activates my spam filter! Read more
Shame. I've still got a diskette with my thesis on it with no way of reading it.
Floppy drive external around £25 on Amazon, come with own driver, though windows should find on windows driver database. apparently
Alfa will be a niche brand when they join PSA ; I wonder if they will ditch DS as a Alfa rival?
Or will the re badge Alfa’s as DS models?
The seat position memory stopped working for no particular reason that I could see, it would not move the seat or accept or store a new position, so had to revert to using the manual buttons instead to move the seat. No lights visible on the memory switch panel in the door.
Check fuse - ok. Disconnect battery for 30 minutes - reconnect - no different.... Read more
That sounds similar to the result of disconnecting the battery on the Civic with the key in the ignition, it corrupts the keycode, not that I ever did it, there was a warning on Civinfo many years ago about it.
Enjoying our last day of freedom yesterday, while strolling around Cambridge I entered a town centre shopping mall and noticed one unit just large enough to contain a Tesla Model 3. A couple were in an earnest but slow-moving conversation with the salesman about ordering one. After five minutes or so I was able to politely ask if he could open the boot and froot so I could assess luggage space. 'Sorry sir, the car is sealed and I have no access'. With an eye-rolling 'unbelievable' I made my exit. Read more
If not I'd suggest it was an excellent salesperson you dealt with as they judged you not to be someone who was too likely to buy.
it wouldn`t have hurt for them to open it for a look, and not up to the salesperson as to what a person is thought to be doing....
Hello,
I need some information regarding buying and exporting a car outside the UK. I am a EU driver license holder living in Northern Ireland and I need to travel back to my home but with the whole Covid-19 situation I try to avoid flying so I came up with the idea to buy a car and just drive back to my home country which is in the EU but since I've never owned a car in the UK I am not quite familiar with the legal matters and decided to seek for advice/information here.... Read more
OP says he's in Northern Ireland.
Are rules there same as in GB?
I'm scratching my head to think why. Has anyone got the answer.????? Read more
Another reason why people are holding onto their existing cars is that the latest models are needlessly complicated by ever increasing reliance on "tech" which keeps prices and repair costs high.
My pet hate is touch screen menus which are dangerous to operate while driving. Then we have automatic lights and wipers, autonomous braking, lane departure warning, stop-start and many other expensive features which few people actually want or need.
Most manufacturers market the cars which they want us to buy, not the ones we want to buy. Apart from Dacia, they seem oblivious to the demand for uncomplicated no nonsense cars which are cheap to buy and maintain.
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There's no VAT because a previous owner has paid the VAT on the vehicle.
VAT can only be charged once on vehicles. If someone claims the VAT back on a commercial vehicle, the VAT amount will be added back onto the vehicle. And round it goes until someone paid the VAT and doesn't reclaim it....