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  Are headlamp deflectors still required for motoring in Europe? 17 Jun 2015 (Ask HJ)
  Please could you advise me whether headlamp 'deflectors' are still required for European motoring, specifically in France? I own a recently-acquired 2014...
• Drunk driver - Hip Flask defense 25 Jun 2019 (Forum)
  Another witness saw the rtc and phoned it in as he drove off (hit a hedge so no other vehicle damaged), they have also identified the person we saw as the driver. He's not a young chap, I'd say over 60. My question is will the back calculation prove he WAS drunk at the time of driving? Or does he have a chance of getting off? Will the courts give him a heftier sentence for lying?
• Insurance, remarkable value for money 24 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  Some young people spend what we spend on a year's car insurance on a night out. How long can this go on, will we see massive rises in coming years? Will the state, for instance, get round to invoicing the insured held to blame for state (police, coroner, hospital etc) costs for accidents where fatal and serious injuries result leading to apparently huge £1m+ costs?
• 09 plate winners and losers 14 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  Obviously it's hard to tell with vanity plates, but I haven't seen any 09 plate Range Rovers, 7 series Beemers, very few MPVs and ever fewer hot hatches (although the latter may be due to young male drivers not being able to get finance). What have you seen (or not, as the case may be)?
• The Hi-Vis tunics should have been a clue!.... 26 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  By the next layby, the BMW was shepherding him in. Point is, I saw the tunics - and it didn't bother me because I wasn't speeding. Why didn't young C2 driver see them?Maybe he should have got a 'driving without due care and attention' charge to go with the inevitable speeding ticket I'm sure he headed home with.
• Water Ingress-VW Passat 1.8T Estate 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  Other sites/bulletin boards suggest drains blocked under battery, or, sun roof rain channels blocked or pollen filter housing leaking-but pollen filter is on passenger side. I'd love to keep the car as otherwise its been OK, but as have young children in the car, unless someone out there can come up with a solution, it has to go. Any ideas anyone?
• Intimidation, what do i do? 15 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  Nothing as you'd would expect from a sensible person like me. But i'm sick of this, absolutly sick to death of being intimidated by mainly van or lorry drivers who use there size to intimidate me by pushing me down the road.. So how to I deal with this virtually daily occurence? I can't take much more.
• Boy racers 3 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Parked outside Halfords waiting for eldest son to drag himself away from bicycle dept. when a fancy looking small Pug covered in chrome and alloy bits and pieces pulled up at the side of me and out gets young driver with a bit of a stunner girl friend. I was just about to call after them that he'd left the engine running when he turned round, pointed his key at the car and switched the engine off. What a poseur thinks I (or something like that).
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  ….with the truth 11 Apr 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Seeing you refer to the Hyundai i20 returning "more than 50mpg" I wondered if it has the same 1,248cc engine as our recently purchased i10. Our only disappointment...
• Mechanical sympathy 3 Aug 2018 (Forum)
    The almost continuous tinkering with an old car to keep it as good as possible was part of the motoring experience and the word driver implied some mechanical knowledge.  Most drivers brought up on these vehicles would have learned some mechanical sympathy and perhaps still have it.  I wonder if we are expecting too much from todays motoring crowd who are brought up on vehicles with dynamic qualities plus comfort and ease of use we could only have dreamed of combined with perhaps just one annual visit to the garage.
• Land Rover Freelander 2 (2006 - ) - Stationary but the Insurance want 50/50 21 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  Her first comment was about 4x4 drivers! This girl had attitude with capital A. There was no way she could of ever got through & I still don't know how she passed even with the damage. now my good old insurance company bless them want me to accept knock for knock as there are no witnesses for me but the saxo driver had a passenger!.
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  Which fun convertible sports car do you recommend? 16 Mar 2013 (Ask HJ)
  My other half wants to buy a convertible for fun driving. He loves cars and used to have a Spitfire that he tuned up and drove as a young man. Now we are...
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  BMW 3 Series convertible from the '80s; good first car, or am I mad!? 13 Jan 2013 (Ask HJ)
  After an ebay hour spent looking at these online, I was wondering whether they would be affordable as a first car? My brother will be learning to drive...
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  My daughter's 2006 Fiat Panda has developed a power steering fault at just 19,000 miles - why? 31 Mar 2012 (Ask HJ)
  Based on excellent reviews, I encouraged my young daughter to buy a 2006 Fiat Panda and up to now she has been very pleased with it. It has now done just...
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  Why do the police fabricate offences against drivers? 23 Feb 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I had the money and inclination to take on the boys in blue when they completely fabricated a "speeding" offence against me. They even produced a "witness"...
• Ford Focus 07 - Headlight electrical fault 23 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  I would have thought a 3 and a 1/2 year old car is very young to be developing electrical faults? We have the lights set auto generally so they are on more often than I'd probably do manually but that wouldn't explain the it being one particular side.
• Begging - On The Motorway!! 14 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  Obviously only had enough £$£$ raised for a few miles worth of petrol! Dangerous, stupid & no doubt there are enough helpful, but not so street wise other drivers that will help these people out. VB
• Rover 214 Advice Please! 14 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  But then isn't every car (ok, maybe not the american muscles... But they aint exactly common cars over in the UK). As I am a young driver, this is to be my first car. As I look at it, I like the look of the Rover 214, I think it looks nice and am definately not into doing a car up to make it look better, if I wanted a fast car that sticks out like a sore thumb, I'd get a mustang.
• Zig Zag Zones 6 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  What can be done? Is it lack of driver education or is there too little enforcement? The Highway Code is not really clear about these markings, I quote, " Keep entrance clear of stationary vehicles, even if picking up or setting down children " It would have been better worded if it said, ' Keep entrance clear of stationary vehicles, NO PICKING UP OR SETTING DOWN IN THIS ZONE ' (Maybe I'm wrong and these zones do allow pick ups, DVD can you clarify?)
• Honda Accord 30 Jul 2002 (Forum)
  It seems to be mechanically fine too, with a new WOF (NZ for MOT). For $700 (about 210 quid they can't go far wrong) and get this for insurance - $500 for 4 young drivers - one of whom is 17! Makes my UK insurance renewal make me cry. (You may remember me asking about that a while back.) So now in the flat it is an Accord and a Skyline. Any other suggestions now I'm looking?