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Expert advice: how to get more trouble-free miles from your motor

How many trouble-free miles has your car covered? And perhaps more importantly how many more is it good for? Records by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) show there are more high mileage Skoda Octavias in the UK than any other vehicle. That’s currently 1950 UK-registered Octavias with a valid MOT that have done […]

Expert advice: what you need to know about new exhaust emissions zones

Whatever you think about the government and local authorities clamping down on pollution with exhaust emissions zones, we can’t escape them. And as time goes by, restrictions are only going to become tougher. We’ve already heard of some customers being caught out and fined for driving in London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ). Read on […]

Expert advice: How you can beat the Christmas food coma this year

An estimated 24 million drivers are expected to hit the road after eating their Christmas dinner on December 25th. Nothing unusual about that. What worries me is they could experience side effects from over eating that affect their driving in a similar way to drinking. I’m a qualified nutritionist and have spent years studying the […]

Expert advice: winter car faults and simple fixes to resolve them

Here in the UK, we might have had an exceptionally warm summer followed by so far, a mild autumn. But winter car faults are just around the corner, waiting to plague our motors and interfere with our best-laid plans. Every year at Green Flag we see an increase in call outs as the weather gets […]

Expert advice: how to know when your brake pads need replacing

Braking and brake pads are vitally important when it comes to road safety. We’re frequently so consumed with how fast cars can go or the economy they return that we forget how important stopping is. And anyone who’s had any kind of brake failure will testify to what a terrifying experience it can be. But […]

Expert advice: what an engine warning light means and what to do

This March we saw a significant increase in the number of customers ringing us with their engine warning light on. These faults were up by more than a third (39.3 per cent) compared with February. Warning lights can be worrying and frustrating in equal measure. They’re a worry because they indicate trouble. And when things […]