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Hello there, would a Skoda Octavia (1.4/1.6 petrol 2005-2007) be worth buying? Especially with a higher mileage of 150,000km and more? And would it be risky buying from a private seller? Dealers are dear...

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Rasti

Can you do a review on the Opel Insignia?

Have you heard of SsangYong Motor? There aren't any prices on www.ssangyong.ie

What is the simplest and easiest way to work out VRT, when importing from the UK?

How economical is the 2010 Audi A6 automatic 168bhp please?

How much is a black 2008 Ford Mondeo TDCi Zetec 125hp with 68,000 miles, Bluetooth, parking sensors, all electric windows in showroom condition worth?

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How's this for an early Xmas present? I've just picked up my 2008 Ford Mondeo 1.8 TDCi from my dealer where it was in for its annual service. As usual they were giving me a report on how the service went and unfortunately they had to advise me that I'm going to need a lot of work done to my car, which I wasn't expecting.

Because of rust, repairs have to be made to the fuel tank, exhaust system (including a new catalytic convertor), the timing belt and a few other bits and pieces. All in all it's going to cost me over €3k. I've been with this dealer for a while and any work on the car was always done through them, so I trust them when they say the work is urgent. As the car has 193,000km on the clock I was expecting the timing belt to need replacing in the near future, but the other repairs have floored me. The car has always been dealer serviced. I had been planning on changing the car later this year, but now I'm not sure what to do. I could repair the car, but that will push back my plans to change the car and I'm taking the risk that nothing else would go wrong, while my car would continue to lose value.

Alternatively I could bring forward my plans to change, and hope the €3k in repairs that would have to be discounted against the trade in value by the dealer would still leave me in a position to do a deal. Any advice you could give would be appreciated.

Just to give you a good laugh, the weekend before I got the car serviced, my wife had ordered a new MINI Countryman to replace her Ford C-Max. We can't back out of that deal now. Had I gotten the service a week earlier, we could at least have postponed changing her car to replace mine! Timing is everything, I suppose...

How much do you think I can sell my car for either to the trade or privately? It's a 2006 Peugeot 307 CC 1.6 with 95,000km, three owners, good condition, full service recently, red metallic, cloth seats.

How much biofuel is in the diesel sold at petrol stations?

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