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I have a 307SW 1.6 HDi and the anti pollution fault light is coming on whenever I start the car up. There seems to be nothing wrong with the car, though. No loss of power or anything. I have the following...
My daughter will be 14 on 14th July this year. She is desperate to start driving, and has grasped the very basics of driving on private land. I would love to give her a great present for her fourteenth...
I suffer from symmetrical peripheral polyneuropathy, basically the nerve ends in my feet have packed up which means that part of my feet (toes and the adjacent area) alternate between pain and, more commonly...
I have recently returned from a business trip in Germany. I am interested in your viewpoint on French/Belgian/German drivers who are in the habit of speeding up behind a car in front forcing drivers to...
Do points for speeding affect your insurance premium?
I've just bought a Vauxhall Astra 1.6 auto and the temperature gauge doesn't move when driving but when sitting it starts to rise?
When my car starts from cold for the first five minutess of driving when I let the clutch up to move off there is a short "whooo" type noise, is this the clutch plate or release bearing, or simply change...
I took your advice about getting winter tyres for our C-MAX which is now wonderful in snow and want to get winter tyres for our Hyundai i10. The only ones available (from Germany) are "XL" which I think...
Hi, I see your recent articles in the Telegraph re winter tyres, and the advantages of them. Assuming one opts to have a set on separate wheels (ie not swapping the tyres on the same wheels), is there...
Visiting German in laws this week in my '97 Astra estate, I bought four Uniroyal MS Plus 66 winter tyres (195/55 R 15 85H fitted, balanced, new valves) for Euros 441.56 - that's 375.12 UK pounds at a branch...
 

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