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  Honest engine? 31 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I would be pleased to receive any thoughts/comments you have to make about the Seat Leon engines available. My choice appears to be between a 1.4TSi SE...
• Vauxhall Zafira A (1999 - 2005) - 99 1.8 Ignition light on intermittently whilst dri 20 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  Hi, I drive a 1999 T reg Vauxhall Zafira which has developed yet another annoying fault. Whilst on a motorway drive two weeks ago, the light which shows the engine and a spark (the ignition light?) came on and stayed on for about 60 seconds. this continued throughout the journey which was about 120 miles each way.
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  Inposture 25 Jul 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Can you offer some practical advice about the correct driving position? I realise drivers come in different shapes and sizes. I am approx 5' 9" and have...
• Renault Clio II (2001 - 2007) - 02 1.2 Orange coil warning light and fault P0790 9 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  Hi, Hope someone can help. On my way to work this morning, my clio (52 plate but Jan 03)lost power as I was driving along the dual carriageway and the orange coil warning light came on (electrical fault). The car would still drive but wouldn't rev over 2500 revs. I pulled over and the engine cut out as I was trying to phone my husband for help!
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  Scrapping a living 6 Jun 2009 (Ask HJ)
  My father in law, who is now 84, drives a twenty-year-old Renault 5 which he is planning to use in the newly announced government scrappage scheme. He...
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  Early learning centres 24 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
  My brother and my wife are learning to drive and we have been looking around London for places/tracks, etc that are preferably free of traffic so they...
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  Eco worrier 17 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I have just bought a 2004 manual BMW 320 diesel ES Tourer. I switched on the computer at the start of a run largely in 6th gear of 130 motorway miles....
• Wedding Bells - idiot local driver! 23 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  "Travelling at such great speeds in a busy residential area is reckless in the extreme and seems to indicate that this young man has no respect for other road users or even for someone else's property, because he was driving a hired vehicle." A police docket for the three separate charges of reckless and/or negligent driving had been opened at the Goodwood police. Latest news is that the bloke was arrested at home yesterday morning.
• Learning to drive manual transmission--Question 5 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  Hey, y'all: Here's a story that might make you cringe: One day when I was seventeen and had recently got my driving licence, my dear father decided he was going to take me out in his car and teach me to drive a manual transmission. (I had taken all my behind-the-wheel training on automatic cars, so this was entirely new to me) So, we hopped in his '76 AMC Hornet station wagon and headed out on an empty frontage road in Minnesota.
• It's not all Black and White! 15 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  I have 2 cars A Volvo C70 T5 Auto and a VW Bora 1.9TDI Auto. I drive 38 miles each way to work so 384 miles week. I've driven both cars to work for a week and worked out the average Fuel Consumption for each The Volvo 35mpg and the Bora 47mpg. Doing my sums it will cost me at todays fuel prices £553 a year more to drive the Volvo to work over the bora.
• Which company car to choose ? 13 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  In two weeks time, I start a new job. After over 25 years of driving, I will be getting my first company car. The job will involve journeys of between 10 and around 300 miles, carrying a small amount of computer equipment and tools. I would expect the driving to be mostly motorway / A roads, with relatively little town / city driving.
• 'Needing' to drive fast when there is a emergency? 6 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  To be able to let other road users know that I was in a genuine situation 'could' have enabled me to get to the hospital sooner. As a side note, I also wonder whether at other times those people that are driving at v. high speed (i.e. 100mph +) past me are also genuinely needing to get somewhere asap. To have a means of indicating this to me would at least temper my inbuilt rage at being cut up at times ;-) At the end of the today however, I suppose that any such method is liable to misuse......
• Need new job - but driving's all I know! 25 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  I'm very much feeling that I need a change but I'm stumped as to what to do next. I've done 10 years on service bus work so don't want to go back to that. I tried taxi driving before that and definitely don't want to do that! Driving is really all I know but I really need something that a) pays more and b) gives me more of a life. Any thoughts folks? Thanks in advance...
• Not driving in Dublin 20 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  Hardly a vehicle in sight under five years old, but congestion to make a Londoner blench. Driving back to the airport from Killiney on Friday evening with two charming second cousins once removed in their hire car, they showed how to reduce the journey time - for about 20 miles in all - from two and a half hours to one and a quarter: pay to cross the toll bridge and go through the very long new toll tunnel, at a total toll cost of ten or twelve quid.
• Driving in Italy 10 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  A few random observations after two weeks on the roads of Italy The worst sign-posted roads I've ever encountered - tiny direction signs right at junctions, no warning at all. LOADS of Truvelos painted grey in villages which might account for how slow the Italians drive - this really surprised me, I was expecting much more spirited driving and liberal use of horns and lights - experienced almost none of that Awful motorway inter-changes often where two lanes merge and then de-merge within 100metres so you have two lanes of cars jostling to get across each other - that was fun.
• Driving in Ireland 3 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  Perhaps there is a company that sells transfer panels to cover your windows! We didn't visit any big cities so I don't know what driving in Dublin is like - probably like any other big city - i.e. terrible unless you know exactly where you are going!
• Ford Focus unexplained noise, 1.6 Zetec. 18 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  Hi Guys, I really hope somone can help me. I have a Focus 1.6Zetec (Black) on a 01' plate, 80k miles. Driving around town its a really nice, acceptable drive (For what it is) but when I drive at between 55-60-70+ MPH It sounds like the car is doing 95-100MPH!, Kind of like a revvy, vibrating droney noise.
• Do people actually CARE about their driv 17 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  I don't know how we do it, but it seems to me that unless we wake people up to the profound responsibilities driving involves, we won't get anywhere.
• W reg Mondeo 1.8LXi - options 8 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  I tried to drive it onto my drive and it made a crunch and now won't even start. AA man says sounded like timing belt off. I've had someone else look at it since who says engine is not repairable and exhaust is broke.
• Insurance for 2nd car while selling? 1 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  I have just bought a car privately and so am going to be selling my old one (the VW Polo, once I get the central locking problem fixed!). I have switched my main insurance policy to the new car as that's the one I'll be driving. I need some insurance for the Polo to cover fire, theft, and me driving to the MOT station and back. First question: my current insurer (Diamond) won't offer any cover for unnamed drivers taking it out for a test drive, is it standard to rely on the potential buyer's policy and their cover for driving other cars?