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    Keeping lights and mirrors clean on long journeys

    My car has headlight washer, all they serve to do is drain the washer fluid quicker! I also have an electric boot, but since the car has keyless entry ive gotten in the habit of never taking my keys out, so i end reaching for the boot release on the boot.....1st world problems :( I did end up...
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    Brand New car every 2, 3, 4 or 5 years when the best time to change ?

    Ive had 3 company cars in my life time, and 3 years was the sweet spot in terms of not requiring any major maintenance, 1st one was a Focus ST3, 90k hard miles over 3 years, no work required apart from stone chip correction, 2nd was a Honda Accord Diesel, which just required a DPF, i did a lot of...
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    Spec me an SUV - Trying to decide on my next SUV

    I was looking at SUV's to replace my A4 Avant earlier in the year, i looked at pretty much all of the ones you mentioned apart from the Skoda. I liked the Xtrail and CRV, but they werent the best choices for a company car due to emissions. The tiguan looks nice, but it felt a bit cheap inside...
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    *** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

    I used to be very anti snow foam, but since ive started doing a few more miles for work and the roads being filthy, im finding it really works well as a prewash, i find it still needs to be washed with a mitt afterwoods, but it does remove 75% of the winter grime, which can only be good for the...
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    Looking for new car.. Merc 350 GLC, Audi Q5?

    Looked at both, but with the 4 bangers instead of nice engines. I found the Q5 marginally better to drive, Merc being newer, is nicer inside, but the engine was a bit agricultural. They offer no more space then the car equivalents to be fair. I ended up going for a XC60, mainly because its a...
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    New car collected!

    I found the ride to be quite harsh on the Tiguan R line. Nice looking car, reasonably well specced, but its a let down inside, quite a bit of hard scratchy plastics and the seats were a bit meh, considering how expensive it is. But out of those 2, i would prefer the Tiguan, kit levels as std...
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    Dacia appreciation Thread

    Nothing will go wrong as there is nothing to go wrong on them! Its very simple tech, and quite old, the K9K dci engine has been around for donkeys years.
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    Dacia appreciation Thread

    Its not a bad looking car the duster, but i wouldnt buy one, but i wouldnt every buy a new car with my own money. Ive had 3 new car, and the supposed prestige brand was the most troublesome, and some of the most unreliable used marques, gave me the least trouble. I think people incorrectly view...
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    Car Allowance

    Fuel benefit, is rarely a benefit, you need to be doing a stack of private miles (15k plus!) for it to be worth it, certainly if you are a 40% tax payer. Company cars arent really the perk that they once were imo, i'd love to opt out, but my company wont let me, and even those that can, have to...
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    Audi owners in here!

    I had a 62 ref for 4 years, and my loaner 16 reg wasn't all that different at all, the same lifeless steering, both as refined as each other ime. You must have had a duffer! Like I said its not all that different if your coming from the previous generation, don't get me wrong it's a nice looking...
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    Audi owners in here!

    I looked at the new A4 avant, coming from the old one, it wasnt different enough for me, and for some reason Audi have jacked up the options prices. I wish they had altered the design a little more, but i guess thats not what Audi are about, interior is best in class now, apart from the stupid...
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    *** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

    Been there done that lol.
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    *** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

    To be fair, you get to a point where you settle on some set products and a cupboard like that is enough. My kit is fairly simple and has been for a few years, the trio of 3M polishes, PB BH glaze and FK1000P. Then its a bottle of wheel cleaner,APC,PB Nat look interior cleaner, gliptone...
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    What is the average mark up on four court

    Being a boring sod, i had a wander over to my local BCA auction last week, my old company car was going to through there, and i was intrigued to see how much it would fetch at auction, lex wanted 10.4k for me to buy it direct from them, at auction it went for 9.1k. I would expect the car to be...
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    Show Us Your Motors!

    It's only 100 quid dearer over the year compared to a A4 Sline Avant (190bhp).
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    Show Us Your Motors!

    Lol. To be fair, it was either this or a MPV that could swallow up 2 kids seats and a human in the rear, not even a skoda superb or E class could do that!
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    Show Us Your Motors!

    Its the same CO2 levels as my A4 Avant TDIE (116) so very good on tax. Its when you go 4WD/auto etc, when the tax jumps up.
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    Show Us Your Motors!

    Not expecting much love for my new company chariot, but i present you my new Ovlov XC60 R design Lux D4. Its replaced my utterly infuriating Audi A4 Avant TDI. Yes its a dagdag soft roader, but its supremly comfortable, has quite a pokey engine (190bhp) and actually handles ok for a larde...
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    What have you (accidently) taken through airport security?

    I had to take some Boiler Ignition transformers from BHX to FRA, not fun explaining that one, as it was just after 9/11, and im a muslim!!! I was working for a boiler company doing R&D on a new system at the time, had to get the company MD to intervene!
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    Selling to webuyanycar?

    Sold a Merc C320 a few years ago to them, lovely 2007 car with lowish miles, but could not shift it for love nor money, I guess it was a crap colour and the cloth seats that put people off, but it has electric seats and sat nav etc. Anyway, plugged it into WWAC, and got a decent amount for it...
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