When we went to our car to return back home to Berwick upon Tweed, after redeeming my two night business card prize draw at Jurys Inn Edinburgh, the car wouldn’t start. Not really a surprise; it was a frosty morning, the car had been parked for a couple of days and it was the original [...]

We own an 8-year old Skoda Fabia 1.4TDi with 108.5k miles on the clock. This car’s been pretty reliable and returns an average of 67mpg for our particular driving conditions. But, despite its reliability and frugal consumption, it may be time to change it due to its age, as from now on a lot of [...]

Our almost eight year old Skoda Fabia is going in for its MOT in a couple of weeks. My husband’s already taken it up to Kwikfit for a check on the tyres and exhaust and they’re looking fine. If we don’t have to spend too much money getting the car through its MOT, I have [...]

Under new EU legislation, insurance companies will no longer be able to factor in gender when working out insurance premiums. This means that cheaper car insurance for women is likely to end. On average female drivers don’t claim as much on car insurance, as they are less likely to be involved in the more serious [...]

If you’re buying a used car, versus a brand new car, you need to be very careful that you do make a sound purchase. New cars suffer from very high loss in re-sale value (depreciation) in the first couple of years. This means that you could save a few thousand pounds buying a second hand [...]

Most people who are running a car would like to save money. But motorists should be careful about ways to save, as some can turn out to be false economies. Buying the Cheapest Car Insurance Of course you want to get good value on your motor insurance and not be paying more for the same [...]

I’ve noticed enormous differences in price when shopping around for car insurance. Sometimes the way they calculate premiums seems quite illogical. When my husband retired, the insurance company that we’d been with for a couple of years added around £80 to the premium. I need Class 1 business use for our car, some companies included [...]

We’ve been tihinking about replacing our 7+ year old Skoda Fabia 1.4 TD  for the last few months and had some experience with car salesmen who appear to inhabit a parallel universe. However we finally decided that we were going to buy a new car, as we could get a decent trade-in price for our [...]

After going round in circles for a few months and a couple of encounters with car salesman who appeared to inhabit a parallel universe,  we’ve finally come to the decision to keep our old car. We were very tempted to replace our Skoda Fabia 1.4TD with a new Skoda, as Skoda currently have a couple [...]

I always have UK breakdown cover to give me peace of mind when I’m travelling by car. Fortunately I haven’t had to use it very often. The last time was a couple of years ago when I had a tyre blowout on a dual carriageway in central Scotland. Normally it costs quite a bit to [...]