This morning when I started the car, there was a warning light left illuminated on the dashboard. Needless to say the icon was a bit obtuse, at a guess I thought it might be something to do with the brake lights, as it looked a bit like a cross between a bulb and the hand [...]

This morning when I started the car, there was a warning light left illuminated on the dashboard. Needless to say the icon was a bit obtuse, at a guess I thought it might be something to do with the brake lights, as it looked a bit like a cross between a bulb and the hand [...]

You say ‘electric car’ to most people in the UK, and the majority will think of the frustration of following a slow milk float in traffic. Certainly the milk float has contributed to the opinion that electric vehicles are generally pretty slow – indeed the production options for electric cars in the UK such as [...]

So yesterday was another early start, as my Golf went in for part two of it’s service that was started last week. As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, I’m running the Golf on variable service intervals – so when it went in last week it hadn’t had a service since February 2006, over [...]

There are times when a satnav that I could easily download the track logs from.
Having received a mysterious bill relating to our car rental in Switzerland in the summer I queried it with Hertz Customer Relations in the UK. Today I got a reply from them, going through the expected spiel about the renter being [...]

As a result of my the variable service intervals on the car, it is always a bit of a surprise when it announces it needs a service. To get around that, it will usually come up with a warning that one is coming up. A couple of weeks ago, the Golf announced that it would [...]

One of the letters that was waiting for us when we got back from our holiday was one from the car finance company reminding me that the payments had almost been made on our Golf and that it was almost time for the final balloon payment on the credit agreement. The letter of course was [...]

When the reminder that our Focus needed servicing a couple of weeks ago, we found out that our local Ford dealership which was Reg Vardy had now become Evans Halshaw following their merger with Pendragon PLC. It doesn’t seem to have made that much of a difference.
The car was in for it’s MOT and service. [...]

When the reminder that our Focus needed servicing a couple of weeks ago, we found out that our local Ford dealership which was Reg Vardy had now become Evans Halshaw following their merger with Pendragon PLC. It doesn’t seem to have made that much of a difference.
The car was in for it’s MOT and service. [...]

One of the reports on Watchdog tonight made several national news bulletins, the story of Pink Meet & Greet, an airport valet parking service.
Now I have to say, that my opinions of what valet parking attendants could get up to were partly formed by the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where Ferris borrows his friends [...]

So after the excitement around here yesterday when Vantis over the road received a bomb – apparently intended for one of their clients, Speed Check Services – attention is now focused on Swansea, where now the DVLA has now received a letter bomb, certainly indicating a motoring connection between the three bombs so far. There [...]

So before dawn this morning I was up and off to Ridgeway VW to have them replace the entire gear stick due to the broken bit of trim on the top. On the phone the service agent had said that the job would take about an hour, but it was best to leave an hour [...]

Today was one of those days when you feel you’ve slipped into a parallel world where everybody is totally barmy. One of my more popular postings was this page about my experiences with the DVLA online vehicle registration page. It’s had a steady stream of slightly odd comments, however the one today really took the [...]

It looks like we’re not alone in being shocked by the news of the accident that Richard Hammond, presenter of Top Gear suffered yesterday whilst filming for the show. Aside from the obvious abscence when the new series starts, we hope that the accident isn’t used as excuse to change the programme. I’m sure the [...]

So after my discovery of another blown bulb at the beginning of the week, today the Focus went back into Reg Vardy for the second week in succession.
Unfortunately, it was confirmed as another blown bulb, again necessitating major surgery to the front of the car to change it. However, unlike last week, when it came [...]

So after my discovery of another blown bulb at the beginning of the week, today the Focus went back into Reg Vardy for the second week in succession.
Unfortunately, it was confirmed as another blown bulb, again necessitating major surgery to the front of the car to change it. However, unlike last week, when it came [...]

So having paid £32 for Reg Vardy to change the headlamp bulb on the Focus on Saturday, I checked out the lights when I put the car away tonight. However the pattern of the lights looked wrong. Taking a look at the light, although the main bulb was replaced and working, now the side light [...]

So having paid £32 for Reg Vardy to change the headlamp bulb on the Focus on Saturday, I checked out the lights when I put the car away tonight. However the pattern of the lights looked wrong. Taking a look at the light, although the main bulb was replaced and working, now the side light [...]

This weekend we’ve had a couple of repairs.
Firstly there was the Focus Bulb change, which started off somewhat stressful when we arrived at the dealer to be told that they were only planning to asses the work that was needed, not actually do it. At this point I said that I had told them [...]

This weekend we’ve had a couple of repairs.
Firstly there was the Focus Bulb change, which started off somewhat stressful when we arrived at the dealer to be told that they were only planning to asses the work that was needed, not actually do it. At this point I said that I had told them [...]