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Stronger Regulation for Written Off Vehicles in Ireland
The Department of Transport and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has today, 22nd December, 2010, launched a public consultation process seeking the views of all...
by Shane Teasky
15 years ago -
Car Dealer Jailed For Clocking Cars
As misleading selling practises go, it's difficult to get worse than 'Car Clocking'. Once the habit of a small minority of black market sellers armed with a cor...
by Shane Teasky
15 years ago -
Winter Driving
Some useful tips for winter driving from Paddy Comyn at CompleteCar.ie here. When it comes to driving safely on Icy roads Paddy advises motorists to decrease sp...
by Shane Teasky
15 years ago -
Ireland's First Motorway Service Station
Ireland's first motorway service station opened last month in Lusk, North County Dublin. The SuperStop Consortium (made up of Applegreen, Pierse Contracting and...
by Shane Teasky
15 years ago -
Fake Garda Warning in Circulation
A friend of mine called me up this morning asking if I'd heard about the new tactics being used by armed gangs in Ireland. She went on to describe an elaborate...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Thousands of Ex-Taxis to Flood Used Car Market
It's not widely known but since the 1st January 2009, new taxi and hackney vehicle licences have been issued only for vehicles that are less than nine years old...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Joyriding on Public Roads
I had a great couple of days traveling around Donegal on the bike last weekend. The weather was just perfect for it with beautiful scenery and (surprisingly) ex...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Reckless Driving With Fatal Consequences
The latest figures for 2010 from An Garda Síochána show that there have been 68 traffic fatalities recorded up until 9am on May 11th. That's down 24 (26%) for t...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Citroen Nemo Fails Which?Car 'ELK' Test
Check out the following video from UK Consumer Rights Campaigner 'Which?Car'. It illustrates in graphic detail why Motorcheck believes safety features should be...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Car Clocking Costs Irish Consumers Up To €40 Million
A report published this week by the Office of Fair Trading in the UK indicates that Car Clocking - the practice of deliberately interfering with a vehicle's odo...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Are the Upcoming Changes to the NCT Really Necessary?
With some interesting changes coming into effect on the first of April, I thought it would be useful to review the new categories coming into the NCT. Are they...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago -
Beware of Cloned Cars From the UK
"Beware of Cloned Cars" That's the message from Caroline Curneen, PR and Marketing Manager at the European Consumer Centre Ireland. The ECC has said that the th...
by Shane Teasky
16 years ago
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