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Its not always easy to judge something like this unless you can see it
in the flesh and have walk around it etc .
But i'd say the guy (when in rome) should have extended the front end at

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(1) nice
(2) ugly
(3) cant decide

Can anyone be kind enough to tell me why once upon a time skodas were
laughed at ?
Now it appears skod are making top notch cars especially the lovely octavia
rs which sits on the next door neighbours drivewat.

It occured to me the other day that MOTs are astonishingly cheap for what
they are. Why would anyone bother paying the AA or RAC the far side of a
hundred quid to look at a car?

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I count 10 - wild! .

My mum's asked me to get rid of her old Polo. I'm unsure as to whether I'd
be best off scrapping it or trying to punt it out in the ad mag. Any ideas
of its worth would be handy.
It's a K plate Polo Fox Coupe (that means pov spec 2 door hatch, shaped like

I was wondering if there are any vehicles out there with a manual and a auto
box that can easily be switched between ?

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If you got this as a christmas or birthday present - what would you say
to the person who gave you it ? .

Has anybody on here ever been given a car as a christmas present ? .
Or even as a birthday present .
To twist things around , Have you ever given a car to somebody as
christmas or birthday present .

Can I just say, before the "can I pour water on my windscreen to thaw it
out" brigade kick off yet again, yes you can. Make sure it's just
tepid/lukewarm and your screen will not explode.
Oh, and the "my heater won't work" and the "the temperature gauge hardly

We occasionally do trips for work, using our own cars.
One of my colleagues just screwed up and used his company credit card to
pay for the fuel for a trip (£30ish) and then tried to claim the mileage
allowance for the trip (£120ish) and subtract the fuel bill from it, as

New year project?
http://tinyurl.com/332jw2
(BBC news item)
Chris

I've had a Yaris 1.0 courtesy car. Overall, not bad (for a 1.0 shopping
trolley), but the one thing I couldn't cope with was the brakes. They
felt like they did *nothing* on the motorway at 70-80, but at town
speeds they were so over-light, over servoed, non-progressive and ...

Ibought a used gearbox, which has turned out to be a massive false
economy, I now want to find someone who can just deal with it at a
fair price. I think I'll need to get a reconditioned one.
Any ideas? A geabox 'specialist' or any *competent* mechanic?