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• Zafira 1.6 2007 - Nightmare trader/mechanics- Zafira 26 Apr 2018 (Forum)
  Halfway home it came back on again (I live 30miles from the garage) They told me to bring it in and I couldnt because my partner was about to give birth any day and we needed the car (they said it would be fine to drive on so I did - though as little as possible). Then the day after my son was born the clutch pedal had a weird click when starting to depress (the mechanic has since said this is just a spring and tough luck if it annoys me).
• BMW 5-Series E61 Touring (2004 - ) - 25,000km report BMW 530d 9 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  edition which gives you loads of nice goodies like metallic paint, heated comfort seats, nappa leather, park distance control and xenon much cheaper than if you ordered them separately. It rather spoils the effect by also including chromed windscreen washer jets which look like they just escaped from a Cadillac Escalade and which cannot be deleted when ordering.
• Grand Scenic - full review. 3 May 2007 (Forum)
  It all works too. We have already fallen in love with the keyless operation, but I still don't like the electric parking brake, even if it does, in fairness, work very well. Practicality The boot is vast, which is why we went for the Grand ( we won't need the 7 seats more than very occasionally). I like the way the rear seats slide forwards to give more bootspace, or rearwards to give more legroom.
• Forced out of car due to insurance blunder Vol 2. 15 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  Again I have to get permission to leave the police vehicle and go and inform Jane what's happening. Eventually, my father-in-law arrives, is directed by the police to park on the bridge over the motorway on the interchange itself where, by this time, there is another police vehicle parked. Coincidently the recovery vehicle arrives at the same time and lines up in front of my car on the hard shoulder.
• Cuba Fly Drive 29 May 2008 (Forum)
  English cars were represented with a Ford Zephyr 6, 105E Ford Anglia, Austin Devon and a few Hillmans. You?d see plenty of abandoned and cannibalised wrecks just parked by the road side where the owners had presumably just given up trying to keep them going. A lot of ex-Canadian yellow school buses were in use, but the broken windows, rust perforated bodies and bald tyres scared me.
• Poor service at Honda dealers 15 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  Either it's been done maliciously or more probably the air freshener was taken off to clean the dash, or was knocked off, and then replaced upside down, leaked, someone noticed and put it back the right way up. I drive the car in to the dealers this morning, and I spot the servicing manager in the car park, and I ask him to take a look. He says immediately 'Oh I was pointed this out by the car cleaner before he even began to clean it, he came in and showed it to me and said, xxx this was here before I start'.
• Ford Transit - Help with independent dealer 21 Dec 2013 (Forum)
  One of the fuel injection rods (the number 1) had liquid around the base of it (there's a circle where it had pooled) and on smelling it, it smelt like fuel. I told the dealer and he told me it was fine, there were no leaks - the fuel injector rods are one of the common problems with Transits, it's why I paid particular attention to it. On the walk around, I asked him what the faults were with it, if anything major or minor needed doing to it and he told me no, there was nothing.
• Cheaper than cycling - Recommended to Merc owner 27 Apr 2013 (Forum)
  ‘Have you just bought this?’ he says excitedly. ‘What’s it like?’ I tell him it’s fine. Then someone comes up behind and hoots before I can start ranting about central locking. When I park the Sandero on my street, one of my neighbours comes out and starts asking me about it. He says the salesman recommended them when he took his Merc C-class for a service.
• Cyclist curfew 11 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  Two recent incidents brought the whole debate to life. First, in urban south London with road humps and cars parked on either side, I had to follow a cyclist in the dusk. He had no lights. No reflective jacket. No helmet. But he did have a mobile phone attached to his earhole. I couldn’t overtake safely because of oncoming traffic.