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Guide to Buying a Car at Auction
Buying a car at auction is a much feared but essential man skill, like reversing a trailer or owning a chainsaw. All have the potential to go horribly wrong but all will make you look effortlessly cool – if you do them right.
We’ve bought a couple of dozen cars at auction and have never (fingers crossed) had it go wrong. There are pitfalls, of course, but they are fewer than you might imagine. (We also own a chainsaw, a proper fire-breathing petrol jobbie, but reversing a trailer is a skill that still escapes us…) (more…)
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8 New Car Options That You Really Don’t Need
Buying a new car is stressful. After you have negotiated the pricing minefield you then have to confront the most dreaded creature in the motoring world: the car salesman.
Not content with taking thousands of your hard-earned pounds, he’ll then try to scare you into buying half-a-dozen optional extras. You’re in a buying mood and want to treat your new car well, so get suckered into buying a stack of stuff that you just don’t need. A couple of months later you’ll be poorer and feeling like a chump, while your salesman is booking his fourth holiday of the year and arranging his next session on the sun bed.
Here is the BreakdownCover.org Guide to the 8 New Car Options That You Really Don’t Need. (more…)
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Beginner’s Guide to Car Breakdown Services
Car breakdown insurance can be a confusing subject, with its unique vocabulary and small print that many find off-putting. For new drivers, or those who have never bought it before, the whole subject can seem so complex and riddled with traps for the unwary that it can be easier to just ignore the whole subject.
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Family Guide to Touring in Europe
Family touring holidays can be stressful – but great fun! The key is to plan for the worst and hope for the best and introducing a car into the equation adds an extra complication, but one that is more than off-set by the freedom that it gives.
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Caravan Owners’ Guide to Roadside Assistance Services
Modern caravans and cars are incredibly reliable. Long gone are the days of having to de-coke your engine every year, grease your suspension points every week and pay for a full service every 3,000 miles. Not many of us miss such a punishing regime but when our cars and caravans do let us down it can come as even more of a shock.
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8 Things That You Need to Know when Buying Breakdown Insurance
Roadside assistance sounds like such a simple thing, doesn’t it? You pay some money up front and if your car breaks down a very nice patrol turns up, repairs it, and then sends you on your way with a cheery wave.
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