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• Isuzu D-Max - "Check System" message, keyfob failure 5 Dec 2023 (Forum)
    Three other faults also occurred the same day: 1) no reversing light when reverse gear selected.  2) no central display switching to rear camera when reverse selected (can switch to camera manually).  3) no GSI (gear shift indicator) number showing at all in any gear.  Dealer says 1) & 2) are related to loose parking sensor shorting and blowing common fuse, and that 3) is due to faulty clutch switch and unrelated to 1) & 2).
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  Can I fit a nudge bar to my car? 1 Jun 2020 (Ask HJ)
  l have a Honda CR-V. Can l fit a nudge bar?
• Review: Nextbase 512G dash camera 15 May 2017 (Forum)
  Recordings are okay rather than exceptional samples in websites are a lot clearer than I can reproduce. Glare from headlights often masks number plates....
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  Toyota Avensis Tourer 2.2 D-4D or 1.8 V-matic 19 Feb 2014 (Ask HJ)
  I drive about 12,000 per year and am looking at a 2009 Avensis Tourer 2.2 D-4D TR with 70,000 from a main dealer (Toyota approved, 12 months warranty)...
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  Mileage incurred during a service - is this correct? 15 Nov 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 2013 Audi TT RS Plus that recently went into the local dealership for its first service - a 9000 mile oil change. When I collected the car I noticed...
• Any - Speed cameras 4 Jun 2012 (Forum)
  It had to happen. After 53 yrs driving and over 1 million miles, I have picked up my first speeding ticket. I believe that the fact that I have gone this...
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  Car damaged in car park - is there anything I can do? 11 Mar 2012 (Ask HJ)
  My car got scratched, presumably by another vehicle, whilst in the long stay airport parking at Heathrow. There were no CCTV cameras in the vicinity. I...
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  Do foreign drivers have to pay traffic fines? 7 Nov 2011 (Ask HJ)
  Recently I was caught by a speed camera in Switzerland whilst driving a German hire car. The Swiss police tracked me through the hire company and sent...
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  Surface with a smile 30 Jul 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I have just spent a week touring in West Wales. My travels included all types of surfaces: motorways, lanes, mountains, villages and towns. In over 600...
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  Is there any way I can defend against a red traffic light offence? 15 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I have just been summonsed to appear in court after going through a red light. The red light I went through is at a big junction with multiple lights and...
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  Boots 27 Jun 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 2005 VW Passat Trendline TDi PD 130 saloon that has done 81,000 miles and I am thinking of changing it. My problem is to find a suitable replacement....
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  Unoffended 30 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
  As a regular reader of your column, I am looking for some advice on a potential speeding offence. On the evening of 06APR2009, I was flashed by a fixed...
• Road Pricing IS a step to Big Brother 18 Jul 2007 (Forum)
  (change .. open and trustworthy government... cow excrement) "A Home Office document accidentally released suggests police should be given instant access to cameras which monitor congestion and road charging. " "But internal documents mistakenly circulated around Westminster by the Home Office contain details of a more wide-ranging plan to track journeys throughout England and Wales.
• Head-on collision: Video clip (2) 14 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  In my case, the other driver was on the wrong side of the road and had no insurance. The police weren't interested; and it was in the days before I had a flash camera phone (which I could have used to photograph the other car on the wrong side of the road after the accident). Has anyone got any thoughts on the feasibility of installing grille-mounted (or dashboard-mounted) video cameras?
• tailgating HGVs 8 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  I decided that I had had enough of this idiot so overtook the car in front and continued at 50mph only to see the HGV tailgating the car that I had just overtaken. There is only 1 question I have, where were the police? Surely there are enough cameras to see this going on. Unfortunately it was too dark to see the reg number. Rant over
• Faster down south. 2 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  M6 Toll (dont count I was the only one on it) M42, roadworks - 50 mph limit, everyone toodling along at 50, BMW lane at 60 slowing sedately for the cameras... Again all civilised. Slight feelings of deja vu start at High Wycombe on the M40, slight bunching, aggression, middle lane now up to 80, BM lane now 90. And then the m25. The three ring circus much beloved of maximus Suicidal speeds, inches of bumper space, everyone rushing along nose to tail at 70mph in the 40 mph limit slamming on anchors millimetres before the cameras........
• Why do people.... 24 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  Act surprised when their main dealer charges more for the service than the purchase of the car? Do i really need to explain this?!! Think Speed Camera's are justfied? They never get put near schools/hospitals/old peoples homes. They are always on clear, straight roads where you can do 60mph but they put a 30mph limit up 3 days before the camera appeared.
• NIP recieved after 2 months 17 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  Speaking to the camera unit call centre they say as long as the origional NIP was sent out to the registered keeper within 14 days of the offence then it's valid. Well my V5 says at that date I was the registered keeper, (though to be fair I have only just recieved the backdated V5 in the post).
• Aussie speed cameras - update 16 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  Some of you will remember this post back in early Jan:- Father in law got a nice present for New Year, a speeding notice from Queensland Police. Apparently...
• The Short Arm of The Law 9 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  During the course of conversation she asked him why the two outer lanes to the pumps were often coned off. He told her that the security cameras could not pick up those lanes, so unless it was busy they were shut in order to discourage drive-offs. She jokingly said that now she knew that, she would know which lane to use if she wanted to do a runner without paying.