We are the independent Volkswagen Group specialist garage in South Wales… and yet this blog hasn’t done a VW salesy-financey round-up in absolutely ages. In this post, we’ll put that right with a quick summary of how our favourite automotive giant is doing. The European background According to Forbes, European car makers are facing some… read more
The recent road safety campaign by National Highways takes a gentle approach – but do the brutal approaches of the past work better? A few weeks back, National Highways launched a road safety campaign that it called, ‘Little changes, change everything’. It targets two driving issues: middle-lane hogging and tailgating. Take a look at one… read more
Every car rolls off the assembly line with a recommended service interval. Here we unpick what that means, and whether it’s a big deal if you ignore it. What is a service interval? All manufacturers recommend that their cars are regularly serviced. The service interval is the recommended maximum length that the car should go… read more
With the UK elections looming, what is each major party promising to the UK drivers? Good luck finding that out from their various TV appearances – any useful information has been buried under a steaming heap of spin, soundbites, evasion, recriminations and interruptions. But help is at hand: our at-a-glance guide tells you what the… read more
Last time, we looked at how drivers were coping with changes to the Highway Code, with a quick quiz thrown in. This time, we’re zooming on the most controversial change from the 2022 updates. Fixed Penalty Notices go through the roof A couple of months back, the Home Office released the FPN (fixed penalty notice)… read more
Be honest, when was the last time you looked at your Highway Code? If you’re like 55% of UK drivers, it was the day you passed your test. For a forty-year-old driver, that could be 23 years. For someone who is 60, it could be 43 years. Given that the Highway Code has had… read more
Want to watch some car ads from yesteryear, filmed in FuzzyvisionTM and featuring comically outdated clothes/attitudes? Of course you do! All TV admakers face the same problem: they have a minute or less to make a product stick in your mind. Ideally, you should associate that product with things or you like. Just imagine the… read more
If we didn’t LOVE car maintenance, something would be terribly wrong! After all, as a successful independent garage, it’s what we do all day, every day, keeping car owners from Cardiff and South Wales on the road. But we get it – not everyone thinks like us. Some of you out there would rather watch… read more
Question: What percentage of British drivers would do something unsafe if they broke down on the motorway hard shoulder? Answer: 78%. That alarming result comes from a recent survey conducted by the RAC. They asked 1,900 drivers what they would do in the event of a motorway breakdown that left their vehicle on the hard… read more
Elon Musk claims that the new Tesla Roadster will hit 60 mph in less than one second. Yeah, well, Elon Musk says a lot of things. Then again, he’s achieved a lot of things too. So, for the sake of argument, let’s say that when the Roadster hits the roads in 2025, it achieves that… read more
