If you have an older vehicle you may find that it requires quite a few repairs in a short space of time to keep it road worthy. Recently when taking my car in to have some brake pads fitted, I was advised that my exhaust would soon need replacing along with the suspension both sides and 2 new tyres. Although this work didn’t necessarily need doing immediately, it would need doing over the next few months. This left me in a dilemma as to whether I should cut my losses and get rid of the car or slowly try and get everything fixed, hoping that nothing else would crop... Read More
Paintless dent removal
If you get a dent on your car paintwork then you may not require it to be filled and re-sprayed as use to be the case. There are many companies now offering paintless dent removal services that allow them to pull the dent out of the car without damaging the paintwork. If the paint on the car has been scratched then this will not help with that but even removing the dent can make the spraying job a lot cheaper. Not all garages will offer this service, but companies like Chips Away do and the price is a fraction of what you wuld pay at a body shop. Ideally you want to avoid... Read More
Making sure you know what you are paying for with your car repairs
Car repairs always seem to come at the time when we can least afford it. If something goes wrong with your vehicle and it is not covered by a warranty then you can spend anything from a few pounds up to thousands of pounds dependent of what the problem is. Unfortunately some garages take advantage of the fact that people do not really know what they require on the vehicle and therefore quote for extra work or try to upsell the parts they are fitting. It is vital that you try and find out a bit about the problem yourself first and look up and information they give you to... Read More
Adaptive cruise control, an option worth having?
Standard cruise control has been around for some time and can be particularly useful on stretches of motorway or clear roads where you have a speed limit to stick to. The issue with standard cruise control is that if the road is busy you will undoubtedly need to break to slow the car down which will usually disable the cruise control. In a row of traffic that’s speeding up and slowing down regularly this can get pretty annoying and it can be easier to just control the car yourself. However we now have a new bit of technology, adaptive cruise control and this is a pretty... Read More
Advantages of Reg Transfer and How Can You Do It
People frequently change their vehicle and thus their car’s registration numbers also get changed frequently. It becomes really problematic for memorizing the license number of the vehicle. if you don’t know you car’s number, then how will you identify it? Another fact is that people purchase private plates for their vehicles to get unique and attractive identity for the cars. These types of number plates are purchased in quite costly prices, and when you sell out the car the number plates also get sold. By the DVLA is nowadays offering you facility of... Read More