Being a daft bugger, I only realised yesterday that the tax disc on my tax exempt Rover had expired last December. (MOT and insurance all up to date). I've been using it every day, often passing the VOSA vans on the Menai Bridges and not heard a murmur. It was a police woman checking the cars in a local supermarket who finally pointed out my lapse. She was dead keen on having it towed away...

Have just bought a vectra with sat nav first of all can I get updates for speed cameras etc if so how? Also is it equipped for speed cam monitoring? Mel

Does anybody know where wind up car ramps can be bought? I missed these: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=011&sspagename=STRK%3AMEW A%3AIT&viewitem=&item=320117662456&rd=1&rd=1 The bumpers on my car are too low for normal ramps, aren't most car's these days?

I have a crack in my windscreen with a stonechip in the middle. It is on the passenger side, extends from the bottom of the screen, approx 5 inch long, to the passenger edge of the screen, approx 1 inch up. Will I need to replace? Is it a MOT fail?

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I have 215/40/17's* on a Mazda 626. Cornering at speed makes me grin like a dickhead but I can't help feeling the ride suffers considerably. It looks like the normal size is 205/55/15. Given that I can replace the wheels and tyres for less than I can refit the wheels on the car for (and have a set of wheels to sell) it seems like this is the sensible thing to do when replacements are...

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A) Skoda Fabia 1.2 70 HTP- sounds ridiculous- like a cross between a sowing machine at full chat and a ladies-pleasure implement!! Resplendent with cup holders, and soft touch dash, quite surprisingly nippy, but works best over 4000rpm, sounds like it wants to rev to a million rpm, but progress hampered by the rev limiter. boo. Comfy and cold a/c, tyres squeally at making-progress-speeds....

Yes, someone rear ended me yesterday - anyone have any recommendations as to where to take my slightly shorter (Light rear end damage) Chrysler Neon for an insurance quote? Many thanks in advance A

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Mum's been offered one of these cheap. 133k, FSH . Good condition. Are they any good? Mike P

Prices seem reasonable on a number of 3-4 year old used that I'm considering at Car Giant (White City, London) - anyone any experience of using someone with (apparently) 5,000 cars in stock? The "buying procedure" which seems to involve filling out enquiry forms, calling at the collections centre at a pre-arranged time and calling first to check your car is ready, seems a little over the...

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Mike P wrote: Has anyone ever bothered to see which is more economical - driving on a motorway at 75 with windows open or driving with windows up and aircon on? Just curious.. I've tried aircon on and off at a constant speed, looking at the fuel economy readout on the dash. It's such a small difference that you can't measure it.

Take a look through the door windows next time you see one. Audi might as well have made the doors out of girders...

It was GPS based (and let's assume it just works), and like was said, it enforced you to do no more than the speed limit. 20 in a 20, 30 in a 30. You get a different style number plate so that people behind you will have a little more patience knowing that you're going as fast as you can. But what if.. as a result of you agreeing to being enforced to do the speed limits in rural areas, it let...

I can't bring myself to type how much I have just paid to have the clutch sorted on our Multipla. Oh the pain. It's gonna take some drink to stop that from keeping me awake tonight. Anyway, apparently the Poles are flooding into the country, doing everything cheaper than our boys and everyone is going out of business. So if anyone knows a Polish car mechanic in East Lancs please pass their...

A friend of mine said that he saw a VOSA vehicle recently and all they seemed to be doing was photographing passing cars without any means odf stopping any and he wondered why . Tax Discs came to mind but they have this info on a database anyway and I thought it might be checking for SORN'd vehicles out for a drive .. Seems the most likely. I also thought about cars being seen that didn't...

Saw one of these in Tesco's carpark today and considered shagging it, it was that lovely! WANT! Si