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Warranty Direct, the aftermarket warranty provider has calculated the average winter breakdown bill to be £408. When they carried out the exercise they found that the most frequently claimed items were ignition coils, thermostats, fuel injection pumps, and central locking motors. They stated that ignition coils were the most likely of the components to fail in winter with there being a 283% greater chance of failing in the winter than in the summer. The most expensive to fix are automatic torque Read more »

I have been asked on many occasions what a DSG gearbox is. As the question came up in the latest edition of What Car I thought I’d cover it. The simple explanation is that unlike a fully automatic box which has no clutch, just a torque converter, a DSG or Direct Shift Gearbox is an automated manual box with two clutches. Whilst in one gear the next gear is effectively pre-selected which allows for much faster gear Read more »