Probably motoring's equivalent of Geoff Boycott! He hates factual inaccuracy and avoidance of the fundamental facts of anything. Cars are meant to fulfil a purpose of getting from A-to-B, hopefully enjoyably, comfortably, and elegantly, not to serve as mobile communications and entertainment centres!
Dear Doc, I own a Volkswagen Passat 2.0 TDI (138bhp) with the Euro-5 engine which, although it is now just over five years old, has only covered just over 34,000 miles. We very rarely use it for journeys of less than around five miles, and most of the miles have been clocked up on […]
Hi Doc, I have now discovered for sure that my Focus has a 2.0-litre TDCi Mondeo Engine, 2007 to 2012. I think I told you that I had suspected it was not the original engine, and I suppose I should have guessed that before now! So I have gone and bought a Mondeo […]
Hello Doc, Any thoughts about the truth of these stories I keep reading that electric cars use lithium metal and cobalt in the batteries and motors, and other apparently rare elements in the drive motors, with long-term availability of both being very much in control of China and Russia? Is this true, and how […]
Hello Doc, I bought my ex-Motability SEAT Altea XL 1.6 TDI DSG auto first registered in August 2011, in late July 2014, with under 13,000 miles on the clock. It came from car hypermarket Fords of Winsford, in Cheshire, complete with new MOT certificate, and they changed the number plate to my personal number. We […]
Hello Doctor. I couldn’t help but think of you when I read a letter in the ìHonest Johnî letters column in last Saturday’s Daily Telegraph. Someone wrote in asking about the benefits of using premium petrol in his BMW 535i, and was told that premium petrol would give him up to 10 per […]
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