Motoring Issues

Kwik-Fit Aircon regas

Advantages: You get to deal with a proper company afterwards
Disadvantages: crap

...is working perfectly. Returned to Kwik-Fit and they offered me a refund but they didn't have enough money in the till (£45) so I was asked if I could return the following afternoon and he would ensure the money was there. Arrive on the next afternoon and find the manager had taken the day off and still no money in till! Customer services not much better, they told me that they only carry £30 float at any time and if I send the invoice to them they ...

rhesq 03.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Kwik-Fit Tyre & Exhaust Centres

Practical driving test - My experience

Advantages: Being able to drive!
Disadvantages: The F word - Failing

I read all these posts frantically before taking my test and they really did given me an insight into what it is like, so I thought I would add my own contribution I passed my driving test on Tuesday (woo!!) but it was a long journey starting when I was 17… (If you are just interested in the practical test itself skip down to where it says PRACTICAL TEST INFORMATION) So I turned 17 and got driving lessons for my birthday. I had never really been ...
...just was something I assumed everyone did. My parents, grandmother, sister and uncle all passed first time (no pressure eh?) using the same driving instructor. So my lessons were booked, unfortunately the driving instructor had retired but he assured my mum that I would be in good hands as I could have his Son. At 17 I had just started going out with my friends, just started working part time and was working on my A levels, to say my heart wasn't ...

Amyp1986 15.01.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Member advice on Passing your Practical Driving Test

Its running out and running out fast!

Advantages: Drive less
Disadvantages: Tax has to be collected somehow

Bet you didn't know that the biggest oilfield on dry land in Western Europe is in England, not only that but it's near a camp site in Devon! Ok, Wych Farm in Purbeck isn't South Fork, but the nodding donkeys do suck up an impressive 85,000 barrels a day, and at $120 each at current prices that's lot of money. In fact about 70 miles of the southern coast of England is a bit of a hot sport for crude and with oil rising 400% in just four years its well ...
...broadsheets it reminded me of that episode of Rising Damp when Rigsby buys oil shares from his conman tenant Seymour, who convinces the seedy landlord there's oil in the Penninies, then alights with Rigsby's life savings. Oil has been drawn in Singleton, in West Sussex, since 1991, pulling out 30,000 barrels last year alone. Markwell Wood, near Chichester, is reported to be containing up to 200 million barrels at around 12 billion bucks at current ...

thedevilinme 20.05.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Petrol Price Debate

56p -61p a litre!!!!

Advantages: Cheap fuel, reliable, good for the enviroment
Disadvantages: Takes up some space, only 1200 filling stations

...LPG. What is LPG? LPG is short for Liquid Petroleum Gas, commonly known as Auto Gas, most petrol driven cars or vans (not diesels) can be converted to run on LPG which almost cuts your fuel costs in half. Currently, there are around 140.000 cars running around the UK able to run on LPG & 11 million worldwide. With around 1200 filling stations with LPG facilities in the UK you are never far away from being able to fill up. LPG is a by product ...
...it is very environmentally friendly. LPG vehicles emit less Co2 gases, little sulphur & no soot particles. In the UK we export about 45% of our LPG supply. When LPG is stored under pressure at certain temperatures it becomes a dense liquid allowing a large quantity to be stored in a small space. How does it work in a car? LPG cars run on both fuel & gas separately, in most cases the spare wheel is removed & a round tank that stores the gas about ...

ScottishWestie 19.09.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of LPG Conversions

Cheap and uncheerful

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Not to be trusted, left my car dirty

...had my car in at ATS in Altrincham for a shock absorber, being the only place that could it, as the other usual chain garages refused to quote for it for some reason (BMW Z3 2.8) . Initial thoughts were that the place looked generally derelict, I turned up early and spoke to an uncheery person to be told that the garage opened up at 8.30am not 8.00am. Anyway they did the work and on payment I asked the man I if they had taken it for a test drive ...
...After complaining via the ATS website I got a call from the manager in Altrincham who apologised and said that it had been test driven around the car park! Hardly what I call a test drive for proving a vital safety component is fitted properly. He also said that the man who drove the car out of the garage had washed his hands before driving it. He then suggested that I had a higher standard of hand cleaning than him! I feel annoyed and fobbed off ...

Sandiwayroad 06.09.2006 · Read Full Review
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Review of ATS Tyres and Exhausts