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• Insurance write off 13 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  A colleague has just had his car written off in accident which is indisputably the fault of the other driver. (A post office van, turning right across his path into a minor road). My understanding is that his claim should be settled in such a way that he is no worse off after the event, ie the amount that should be paid should purchase from a trade source a similar vehicle with a similar history.
• Audi A6 Refurbish or replace ? 5 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  As I've reported before, I bought my A6 2.8 quattro new in 2000, since when it has covered fewer than 25,000 miles as it's driven only at weekends. It's been faithfully maintained beyond the schedule. Six years on I've been toying with the idea of getting one of the new A6s, the 3.0Tdi quattro.
• Xantia Rear Doors Not Opening. :( 30 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  Hi, My rear doors have stopped opening. They started one at a time, i.e. one would stick and the door would remain as if locked when the car was unlocked. Then it would open normally one day and break again the next. Now both door won't open at all. I thought it might be electrical but even manually unlocking the door doesn't do it and besides the locking button on the door moves with the central locking.
• 1.8 Focus fuel consumption 11 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  A 2.0 with Cat then followed which did typically 8m/l (36mpg) then a Vectra with between 30 - 34 mpg and now a focus with 30 -33mpg. The focus is a nearly new model bought from the local Ford dealer and has covered 6k miles. The tail pipe looks quite black and in the good old days of carburetters I would be looking to make some adjustments. The car appears to warm up very quickly and drives perfectly well.
• Check your nuts 11 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  Yesterday when pulling up outside the house the Girlfriend informed me of a rattle from one of the wheels. When I checked Two of the wheel nuts were rattleing around behind the covers of my alloys. I was not able to hear the noise from inside the car so God knows how long ago they came out. I cursed myself as I would usually check the wheel nuts a week after getting any work done that requires the removal of the wheels, but with Christmas...
• Sat Nav a gimmick? 3 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  One down side I did notice was the fitting which was done professionally, was that when the screen deployed, it appeared to cover the heater controls such that you couldn't get at them!
• Vauxhall Corsa 3 door - Drivers Seat won't lock back into position 9 Jul 2023 (Forum)
  The seat mechanism jammed / broke and so the seat backrest would not lock back into place and the seat slid up and down the runners and will not stop in any position and the car wasn't driveable. It ended up being a broken cable. This is a quick fix which will get the car working again. It should also work with the passenger seat.   Other fixes online have suggested waggling the lever whilst pushing and pulling the seat.
• Site Adverts and Pop-ups 26 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  The greater part of the site holds a lot of useful and valuable information around motoring - whether this is things such as the Car by Car breakdown, Buying/Selling Cars and Road Tests and much more or things such as the useful website list. If you haven\'t explored the rest of the site, then I encourage you to do so. This all takes a great deal of people\'s time, in particular HJ\'s.
• Vauxhall Insignia Sports Tourer - Is this MPG-based scheme unfair? Help please! 7 Feb 2016 (Forum)
  He is not required to submit actual mileage amounts for business or private use, as they are not used in the calculation. This system would work if all vehicles achieved this figure without fail. However, when a car is only able to average around 53mpg, the employee ends up subsidising the business mileage themselves - to a fairly large degree if this mileage is high. Other colleagues have experienced this problem too, but the amount to which they are affected varies with the terrain they cover.
• Company Car vs Car Allowance 18 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  I need something thats economical and the petrol auto just isnt around town. I'm lucky to get 30mpg and thats driving it under 3500 revs. I just need some advice of company car vs car allowance. Which is better and does anyone have any input into it. Thanks in advance and I hope someone out there can help me. I look forward to some replies
• hassles buying a car 27 Jul 2001 (Forum)
  And I?d need to get an insurance certificate insuring the car over the last few days of July. Having rang the insurance company they quite reasonably want 10.50 a day for having 2 cars covered (I?d still have the part ex until the handover). Rang Toyota garage back and they said ?
• Advice needed re accident claim 16 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  The police came the following day and took a brief statement from my son and did a pnc check on the other car that came back not at the house he took me too ... surprise, surprise. Obviously and with the police advise we then had to advise my sons insurance of the RTA who arranged to have my sons car taken to be repaired and a curtosy car dropped off.
• Land Rover Range Rover Sport - is the least reliable car to buy for the 2nd year 14 Nov 2019 (Forum)
    More than half of the owners who completed Which?'s survey said their car had suffered at least one fault in the last 12 months.  These problems weren't minor niggles either. Some 7 per cent had issues with the engine management system, which can be a serious - and pricey - fault to fix.
• Vauxhall Insignia CDTI - DMF on Insignia - Vauxhall wont reply!! 6 Sep 2016 (Forum)
  The DMF is hanging on by a thread, the thing sounds awful and I’m worried that it is now damaging the gearbox. The car has only covered 40k and has dealer stamps for every service bang on schedule. I feel that a DMF failure at 40k is not really good enough - the car is immaculate inside and out and has never been spared a penny.
• Italian Driving Fines...what to do? 13 Jul 2015 (Forum)
  All I can recollect about the car I rented was that it was a White small sized car. I returned the car on the 30th at Venice Airport, from where I flew back home.
• Peugeot 308 - Wide range of rear tyre pressures 15 Jun 2015 (Forum)
  Peugeot in turn do not answer technical queries on their helpline, referring me to the dealer... All the dealer has to offer is the published information. Since one is often alone in the car, but rarely fully laden, and frequently with apart load that can be anywahere between these two extremes - does anyone have a practical solution to cover most normal use without endlessly changing tyre pressures?
• Toyota Avensis - 1.8 V-Matic thoughts/opinions 21 Apr 2014 (Forum)
    The car also used for family holidays etc.  Speed and handling not so much of an issue these days.  My budget - £8,000 (key factors: cost of ownership, reliability and comfort) My previous car (Nissan Primera Sport only cost me £4000 and lasted 9 trouble free years doing 115K miles under my ownership).
• Ford 2011 Zetec Mondeo 140 tdci - Ford Mondeo 2011- Engine malfunction light!! 24 Aug 2013 (Forum)
  Fords cleared the fault, and for about 1,000 miles the car drove really well. At about 20,000 miles the car reverted to driving as before. Only this time the hesitation was gone, but the thrust in acceleration has returned. In addition, when this thrust in acceleration comes, so too does the engine malfunction light.
• Convince me! 18 May 2012 (Forum)
  Now - My Toyota has been standing for the past 4 months, and apart from charging up the battery, there is not a single problem with it - and its covered 190k. That's the kind of car I want - it'll get me from A to B, get about 34mpg from a petrol Auto, and seat 5 in comfort. All things a 10 year old Carina can manage easily. I couldn't really care less about image (I'm just not going to buy a Ford or Vauxhall), I just want a car that has all these features.
• Sale of Goods Act 1979 "warranty" questions 25 Jan 2012 (Forum)
  Hi I'm got some fairly basic Sale of good act 1979 warranty questions about a second hand car purchase. I purchased a Volkswagen Passat TDI estate 2 and a half months ago from a car dealer. The car has since developed a hot start issue that prevents the car from starting if it's been recently run and the engine is hotter than 60.