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Simple question I guess

For longevity ie 2-3 years trouble free motoring and for £2k would you choose ( presuming both have good history , both around 90k miles and 12 months MOT )... Read more

EVs will never be a viable option for the following reasons ;
When the car gets to around 8-10 years old it will be worthless as who in their right mind would buy a car that is likely to need a new battery that costs more than the car is worth. So how is this good for the environment? Just think of everything you own that uses a rechargeable battery, its useless, your mobile phone battery after a few years degrades to the point where it needs to be connected 24/7 to work!
If everyone did end up in EVs (doubtful), the Kwh rate will skyrocket and it will cost more to run than a internal combustion vehicle, the only bonus is its easier to steal electricity than fuel by bypassing your meter at home.
Unless there is a charger at every car parking space at the motorway services, people will be stranded or in mile long queues trying to charge their car.
Not everyone can have a charger at home, those that park in streets or live in high-rise buildings.
Those who end up with more than 1 car at home will need multiple chargers, who wants numerous unsightly chargers on their house!
There will be a growing number of people who think it's funny to unplug your vehicle when it's charging.
We don't produce nowhere near enough electricity in this country to charge all these vehicles, imagine when everyone gets home and plugs their EV in = blackouts
Just use a flat rate for vehicles based on weight, those small and light do less road damage, the heavier suvs and lorrys cause more so pay more..... Simple Read more

Morning all,

I picked up a Volvo C30 3 weeks ago with a 2 month warranty with it. It's been absolutely fine other than a 'grinding' sound from the front at about 40-60 mph. At first I thought it could be the manifold blowing, it's not ridiculously loud but now I'm very aware of it.... Read more

Hi everyone my apologies if this is the wrong section, (Admin please relocate if not the appropriate locations)

So I was hoping to gauge peoples understanding of the following event.

Driving on the A34 which is a dual carriageway in Oxfordshire. I am in the right hand lane in my car following a car and a small van in front of me which is overtaking an HGV, in the left hand lane. I then have cars behind me, a Luton Van starts undertaking all the traffic and stops short behind the HGV which I am next to overtake, the small van then returns to the left hand lane and then the car in front is slowly speeding up. I’m following the car in front of me, and the Luton Van which previously undertook everyone in left the left hand lane is ahead of me by about a foot and starts indicating and merging into my lane as im speeding up, he comes right over forcing me onto the central reservation. Im blowing my horn thinking he has not seen me, I have a car close behind me so I cannot brake. The Luton Van effectively overtakes the HGV by driving down the centre line between myself and the HGV. I’m not sure if the HGV had to go onto the Hard shoulder to avoid a collision. After we overtake the HGV he returns to the left hand lane and then swerves in front of the car behind me flashing his lights and the swerves to left back and forth, we now overtake another HGV with another van in front, all the while he is driving up to me pretending to ram me from behind, then undertakes by breaking the speed limit again, recording me on his phone not looking at where he is going and almost rear ends another Van had I not pointed to it.
In all honesty I knew he want to overtake me from the left hand lane and cut I front, but I couldn’t go anywhere and I was speeding up after following a slower vehicle overtaking a lorry. But it has me worried because I feel I should have allowed him to undertake dangerously but I am very assertive.

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