Car Mechanics

Fleet update

It’s been a year or so since my pair of 15-year-old sporting hacks – a Jeep Cherokee Sport Limited and a VW Golf MkV 1.6 Sport were laid bare across CM’s Our Cars pages; are they still proving to be good buys I crowed about? Essentially yes but advancing age creeps up on the best of us, with cars being no exception. There comes a point when you need to take stock of whether a vehicle is worth repairing to survive another year or to trade-in.

Take the Jeep first. Just before Christmas I got one of the most welcome presents a motorist can

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