May 2023
After any advice or recommendations if anyone can help. Son has finally finished completing all modifications/upgrades to his car and after doing the usual rounds of comparison sites not many results are coming back from them and when they do majority are still coming back with black box insurance over £2500!!
He's 25, full-time plant fitter for a plant manufacturer, lives at home with us, no dependants, has 1 claim from Jan 2019 (Arson so went fault) 4yrs no claims and now expired points from October 2018 and Feb 2019. ... Read more
Hi, could anyone know the radio code for a ford galaxy mk3, serial number 006324. Thanks for any help. Thanks Sparky 100. Read more
Hi elekie, all working, thanks again. Brilliant website.
It may be cheap and inferior but whatever it seems that since 2019 the consumer has been paying well over the odds according to the consumer watchdog. Bit late but the truth is there The fact that the stuff is sold in litres and not gallons is the biggest con
Supermarkets and fuel retailers pushing diesel and petrol prices higher than needed, competition watchdog finds (msn.com) Read more
I suspect the use of decimal point pricing is that folk simplistically react to the major numbers in the price. 145.9p will always be seen as lower than 146.1p despite that the difference is utterly trivial.
A 0.2p price difference on (say) 30 litres of fuel is 6p. Enough fuel to get 500 yards down the road to the next fuel station??...
I recently bought a 2014 Ford Galaxy 2.2tdci and soon realised the clutch was sticking/jerking up. Took it to my long time mechanic and it needed (I think) a new slave cylinder. This was done and clutch feels good now. But two issues - one I can't always start the car first time I have to press the clutch a couple of times for the button to work, which my mechanic did note when I picked up. But also the car feels slower and I can't feel the turbo the same. I can hear it turning quite loudly but the car is slow and slow up to speed. Though it's a big car I was surprised it had some acceleration when I bought it compared to my previous car, a 2 litre petrol Mondeo Estate with no turbo. However it now feels like that car did to drive, especially getting up to speed on dual carriageways etc.
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Well, there's something up with your clutch! Flywheel possibly. I don't think you've actually lost power in the engine, it just not all getting to the wheels.
I'm sorry if I've missed something recent on this topic here on the forum.
My annual search for car insurance has just started again and the landscape looks rather different this year. Last year I paid £336. This year the quotes I'm gathering are in the region of £440 - 460, for the same car, which is now worth rather less. The compulsory excess now seems universal across my quotes at £350; on last year's policy it was £100.... Read more
Well maybe-but if cheaper comprehensive prices can be achieved by nudging up the excess-then maybe it’s worth risking that route?
Sometimes. It often depends upon what the existing voluntary excess is and whether the policy default excess is zero or [whatever]. I found a few years ago when I was still with esure (had been for about 12 years at the time) that both my compulsary and voluntary excesses were zero, but then they jacked the price up by about 10% (I was in my early - mid 40s then).
I checked what difference it would make to all my quotes, including theirs, by changing my voluntary excess to £100, and that took 10% off across most of them. I've left it as such ever since, and found going to £200 made a far smaller difference, so thought better of it....
My car was rear ended on Saturday (by a work colleague, but that's another story...).
She googled 'Admiral claims' to get the telephone number and reported the accident. I subsequently received a telephone call offering repairs and replacement car etc. All fine, I thought. ... Read more
GF got scammed a 40US fee for a Turkish entry visa (which should be free) via a similar sounding interception.
I did warn her, having encountered and bypassed the dodgy (but not illegal) site when I got mine, but she doesn’t listen to me, since I’m a foreigner, and, despite rumors on here, a man.
As well as the rip off there was concern about the credit card being compromised, but that seems to have been OK.
Slightly surprised to see AI being suggested as a solution. I would have thought it was much more likely to be part of the problem, but I suppose the Internyet could become a Black/White AI battleground.
It’s a jungle out there / here
Got done for inadvertently entering the ulez on a wet and windy night at 11.15pm. Going west down the M3 should have got me home for around midnight but as luck would have it the M3 is shut. Detour gets me home at 12.45 am. Straight away I set an account to pay the charge but still get a penalty notice for £90. You are supposed to set up the account on the same day it turns out. I appeal this to be told I had to set up another acc to let them take money from me...this was news. I haven't been to London by car for many years, furthermore I won't go again. Read more
How supercar owners dodge the Ulez charge despite massive CO2 emissions | Daily Mail Online
ULEZ is nothing but a money grabbing exercise which is grossly unfair to the majority. All this Carbon? emissions is fine but should be phased in at a much slower rate. There are two oil fields in a state in the east middle east that have stopped flaming off the gas from its wells These 2 oil fields are apparently giving out more carbon than the whole of the UK in a year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWu4x8gYj3Y
OK, hardly VW Dieselgate territory... Read more
Is Andrew Australian? i always thought he was South African, wherever he hails from he's forgotten more about serious offroading than most will ever know.
Having googled, he is British but has lived in Australia for some time. He seems to be what's known as a haemorrhoid - once they come down they won't go back up again and they're a massive pain in the a***.
Hi everyone
Looking for some advice in my situation
I’ve bought a used car 14 days ago from business seller based on advert on Autotrader. Seller has status Trader not a Private. Advert was clear - “car has no faults, no problem”. Paid deposit to secure the car, arrived to check and pick up few hours later. I was offered to check a car, which I’ve made, but it was not possible to have a look underneath the car as seller do not have such facilities . I’ve checked - 4 wheels in place, engine is working, car model is a same as advertised
Based on advert, seller has offered 3 months warranty but I was advised it’s from 3rd party warranty provider. I was given a leaflet from this warranty provider and as I saw, before give me a warranty, the seller should make a pre check of the car including e.g oil check , exhaust, windows, etc. I’ve been told all is done, then they set up 3 months warranty for me. All my questions about any leaks, any issues with car were answered as “no problems at all, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to offer you this warranty”. Okay, paid the rest, picked up the car.
After 7 days, drop the car to check to local garage and:
1. Oil leak, no idea which one, gear box or engine
2. Sub frame damaged, not even corroded, but damaged due some strike as advised by my garage
3. Middle part of exhaust system, felt off
4. Other stuff like a issue with brake piped due heavy corrosion
5. Crack on front window, I may probably do not notice it as was a heavy rain
6. Leak on rear shocks absorbers
Etc etc
I’ve contacted with seller, no answer
I’ve checked with MOT history and found same issues were advised on last MOT but as seller has not told me about them I was under impression it’s fixed
My question, could I use my consumer act right to reject to accept this car and pass it back to seller for full refund, just worried, as on paperwork I’ve sign it was a statement “I have fully inspected it and found it in satisfactory condition “
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All depends on how old and cheap the car is I guess.
Do the things raised make the car not fit for purpose or not to the standard a reasonable person would expect given age, miles and price?...
Last year travelled to Canada and had a hire car.
Although requested a car with GPS navigation.
The car used Siri for me to use Apple maps on the onboard navigation display.
This I used and setup my travel plan using WiFi at the hotel before departure. If I changed to another destination or return route to hotel etc. I had to turn on my roaming for the map to come up on the display.
Because of this I got stung for roaming charges, if I had GPS like TomTom/Garmin device then no charge.
Is there anyway of using Google maps overseas with no roaming charges on my iPhone to plan routes to destinations. Read more
A few years ago, when I went to the states and Canada (2019) my roaming covered canada only,, so bought a $29.95 cellphone with some data and minutes. did the trick for 2 weeks.
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Agree with others about a broker. The main market insurers like Admiral, Direct Line etc can be very fussy about modifications. One, Admiral I think, wouldn't quote for my 205 GRD because one of the previous owners had replaced the original steering wheel with one form a 205 GTi.