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• Worst Van on E bay!! 25 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  and pasted from the advert! \'Ladies & Gentlemen - if you are looking for a nice van with loads of Tax and MOT stop reading now and look elsewhere! This van is pants - big granny furry pants at that! No MOT - don\'t know what it needs but it is taxed until end of this month. It is the 1.8 Naturally
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  Heavy Metal at Blackbushe Today 6 Sep 2004 (News)
  . A 129k mile Y reg Mondeo 2.0 Zetec went £225 over reserve to sell for £2,925. And even the scrap was expensive. An 85k unwarranted 89G Tipo 1.4 DGT with working digital dash and an MOT until next month sold for £30. A rust-bucket 62k unwarranted 87D Micra 1.0K sold
• VAN MOT "failure" 26 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  My best mate runs an independent retail business and has two vans for delivery purposes. One of them went in for its MOT this week at the local Hi-Q outlet. Result? It failed its test and the list of problems requiring putting right came to a four-figure total. Somewhat taken aback, my mate
• Vehicle involved in accident and SORN 3 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  Hello, The small company I run has two small vans on the road, mid December a car driver reversed into one of them, not our driver's fault, the van was undrivable due to bent front suspension. Van goes to accident repair centre (ACR), a week later the MOT expires, can't MOT due to accident damage
• Battery - Diesel or petrol engine? 29 Apr 2005 (Forum)
  Morning all, it's been a while since my last post.I need a bit of advice regarding the battery in a Ford diesel van. My Dad's Ford Escort diesel van has just failed its MOT in a big way so looks like it will be on its way to the scrap yard very soon. I will be removing the battery as it was new
• MOT test and fuel additives 26 May 2005 (Forum)
  Car is due for MOT soon. Not had a problem with emissions in the past but its not something I can check at home before I take car to garage like I can with lights etc. Just wondered is there any benefit in my adding something like Redex to the tank prior to going for the test? Our fitter in work
• How long do you keep a car for? 1 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  of you may know that the clutch on these models can be changed whilst sitting in comfort on the front armchair so job was soon done. Wont mention garages name but they were a Rover main dealer,hmmm. Anyway I used and abused Auntie for a few years until I got a job with a company van; in those halcyon
• New MOT - interesting quirks 17 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  I took the documents to the PO to tax our company van, and an eagle-eyed cashier spotted that the hand-written "U" on the registration number on the MOT certificate could, if read at the wrong angle, look a tiny bit like an "L", so she rejected the certificate and refused to issue the tax disk. I
• Renault Trafic Van Juddering after MOT 16 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  Vehicle - Renault Trafic Van, (camper), 2002 2.1 diesel. Hi, Hope this will be a simple answer. Had my van in for an MOT a couple of months ago and it has been stood since then. Came to use it this weekend and it judders quite badly at around 55 to 60 mph. Is there a process of elimination
• Van advice 12 Jun 2006 (Forum)
  Good morning. Self-employment beckons and I'll need a small van for business, needless to say I'm on a budget. My choices at the moment are between an ex post office Vauxhall combi diesel 2003, 37,000 miles, 1yr warranty & mot for £4,000 locally, or an ex British Gas Citroen Berlingo, 81,000 miles
• fabia engine warning - oil overfill 5 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  Had my Fabia 1.4 16v in last wednesday for an annual service, mot, brake fluid change at skoda dealer. £350. Used the car little during the week, a couple of miles and this tues went up the road 130 miles or so. A day later a little into the return journey the amber engine warning light came on so
• Noisy Peugeot 406 Aircon Compressor 28 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  I've got a diesel 406 HDI, 2000cc, Y reg, 170,000 miles, that my wife drives during the week while I use a van for work. About three months ago I heard a loud `clicking' from the engine that we isolated to when the air con was engaged. I took the car to the guy that does our MOT's, his advice
• First MOT 21 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  Just a warning never to believe anything anyone at the DVLA says on the phone. One of our vans needed to be re-licensed in September, the anniversary of its first registration. Even though that was then three years after first registration, it did not need an MOT in order to renew the tax. We were
• Vauxhall combo van 26 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  Hello all i have just bought a cheap van for runaround and to take some pressure off my passat tdi. It is a vauxhall combo corsa van 1995 and has mot and tax but it has a few problems,might be just me after driving my passat is seems like everything thing feels wrong! I bought the van but have
• fiat cinquecento 2 Feb 2007 (Forum)
  ,what do you think will be the likely running costs for this vehicle will be (insurance,tax,fuel,passing mot etc).Going off other readers experiances is this a good cheap run around to buy?if not what are the other options?or should i keep paying the tax on the works van.I think the van tax is likely
• Dispatch van- uneven rear brakes????? 11 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  Hi, HELP AND ADVISE PLEASE. my van has failed its mot on uneven rear brake application.(o/s/r low) i have free up the load sensor linkage and renewed the wheel cylinder to the o/s/r. i have been back for a retest and the reading is still the same, low on the o/s/r, i was told the difference
• Farewell faithful VW 13 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  After 9 years ownership, I have today sold my '97 P reg 2.4D Transporter. a LWB High Roof variant. I bought it at one year old from a main dealer as an ex demo/parts delivery van and not once in all these years has it let me down! Admittedly I only covered 105,000 miles in it, mainly commuting
• quick mot question - split rear wiper 17 May 2007 (Forum)
  ive got my vans mot next week and need to know if a split rear wiper blade will fail? next question , if it does can i remove the whole wiper arm because the rear windows are blanked off? thanks
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  Classics at Brooklands 7th June 1 Jun 2007 (News)
  rebuild and current MoT. Expect to pay around £12,000 to secure it. Dating from 1938, the Bentley 4¼-litre Sports Special is an interesting conversion in the style of the Eddie Hall car that competed in the 1934 to 1936 TT Races. Originally fitted with a four-door saloon body
• escort 1.4. Tickover too high? 2 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  Good evening fellow petrolheads, Have just bought a 51 Escort van with LPG conversion and it goes very well and cheaply. It is a bit slow to return to tickover when on overrun but settles to about 800rpm which seems a bit high. At its recent MOT the mechanic suggested marking the idle speed