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I bought a car from an independent car dealer at the start of July, which still had four months' manufacturer's warranty left. The car advert stated warranted miles and a full service history. Two weeks...
I purchased a new A4 from an Audi dealer on 10/1/2005 for £23,000. The car was brand new and came with a 3-year warranty. On 3/8/2007 I took a further warranty through the dealer for a further 3 years...
The MoT on my 2003 Jaguar X-Type 3.0l Sport Manual expired on Wednesday. Last week I booked it into an MoT centre in Bath and took it there on Monday. I was very confident that it would sail through -...
I purchased a car today. I am really happy with it, though the "full service" he stated was only a quickie and I have a tyre on the legal limit, and just as I left the dealership he mentioned that the...
We bought a car with our wedding money about seven weeks ago from a dealer. We found the dealer to be very nice and we test drove the car, and although the previous MOT wasn't available we saw the service...
We recently bought a car from a dealer only to find it had been clocked. The dealer issued a refund although we are still waiting to receive the tax money back. We also sold him our dead car for £350 and...
I had the fuel pump on my 2004 Ford Focus 1.8TDCi replaced under warranty by the garage I bought it from. It took them five weeks. Now there a problem with the dual mass flywheel. They are saying that...
I purchased car on 28/10/09 for £6999 from a trader. Since then I have found out that the car has done 117,000 miles, dated 24/6/09. When I got it, it read 30,000 and now done 35,000. It came with a full...
In 2007 I purchased through eBay a Ford Galaxy 1.9TDI with 98,000 miles on the clock for £4500.00. Having spent about £1500 in two years on various mechanical parts I decided to get rid of it using a well-known...
A couple of colleagues reckon that there is a wide variation in the margin of error allowed in the despatching of pump fuel. One colleague reckons that he does not get as much Shell per litre as he does...
 

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