Advice and Tips
Christmas car wars
Millions of Brits will spend the festive period locked in arguments as the stress of visiting family and friends takes its toll.
Coyote discourages speeding Santas this Christmas
With a big freeze once again being forecast for the festive period Coyote, the newly launched speed camera alert system, is urging motorists to be speed aware this Christmas.
Used car buying - it’s all in the timing
Some purchases are naturally seasonal: the bikini = summer; the scarf and woolly hat = winter. Shoppers looking for bargains will wait to the end of each season and then buy in the sales, taking advantage of the seasonal drop in demand. With this in mind, HPI urges buyers to use seasonality to their advantage when it comes to buying a used car. Clever buyers can save thousands of pounds on the asking price.
Snow tyres and driving in hazardous conditions
Snow tyres are common place in other countries, however, the fitting of them in the UK is causing confusion amongst motorists when it comes to the effect it will have on their car insurance.
Drink driving convictions - motorists will pay the price
Convicted drink drivers could see the cost of their motor insurance premiums rise by as much as 75 per cent on average, according to moneysupermarket.com. Worse still, some may find they have difficulty obtaining insurance in the future.
Driving schools take pupils for a ride
Up to 27,000 extra driving tests have been failed in the last year by learners taught by trainee instructors - while most pupils did not even know their instructor was learning on the job, AA investigations reveal.
Pack a poncho this winter
For protection and safety in the dark winter nights, Halfords has the solution to keep you warm and noticed outside.
How to cut the cost of motoring
Will Thomas, head of motor insurance at Confused.com issues advice on cutting the cost of motoring with petrol costs at an all-time high.
Closing the gender gap among drivers
‘Who’s in the driving seat?’,a new study of gender differences from the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists), has found that women and men aren’t so different when it comes to driving behaviours and attitudes. Most of the men and women surveyed enjoy driving, and rate themselves to be confident, considerate and safe behind the wheel, but almost twice as many men as women claim to be very confident.
Shoppers go the distance for Christmas gifts
More than 22 percent of Christmas shoppers have driven over 50 miles to get the latest ‘must have’ Christmas gift and almost one in ten have embarked on a 100 mile round trip, according to a survey by leading used car website motors.co.uk.
A Seat Young Driver session is the perfect gift
Still searching out those last-minute gifts for tricky-to-please teenagers? A voucher for the successful SEAT Young Driver training programme could be just the thing.
Glass’s top 10 residual value winners
Vehicle valuations authority, Glass’s, has revealed the top 10 cars that you should have bought three years ago to retain the highest value of the car’s original list price. Deciding what new car to buy can sometimes be difficult, but a big part of any buying decision should be how much the car is likely to be worth in the future, relative to the price you pay for it.
Used Car Expert helps consumers fight rip-off Britain
When used car buyer Alice Austin had her car stolen just four weeks after purchase, her insurance company tried to pay out just 80% of its real market value.
Road safety evaluation website launched
A free website to help road safety practitioners evaluate their education, training and publicity activities was launched today by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Department for Transport.
Ice and snow brings toll of collisions
The current icy spell has led to a 23 per cent jump in car insurance claims as cars slip and slide into other vehicles, kerbs, barriers, police cars and even a wild boar.