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Potholes are the dark secrets lurking in a car's history
We have long since suffered a pothole epidemic on Irish roads, so much so that it has become a running joke, and even lead to an outbreak of peop...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Ford Focus
Years built: 2005 to 2011 Bodystyles: Three-door hatch, five-door hatch, four-door saloon, five-door estate What is it? It’s only one of the mos...
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PCPs driving down used car values
PCPs driving down used car values? It’s already happening… Last month, we warned that the values of used cars in Ireland are beginning to soften,...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: BMW 3 Series
Years built: 2005 to 2011 Bodystyles: Four-door saloon, two-door coupe, five-door estate What is it? It’s the car you’ve always wanted. Well, for...
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Selling a used car - Sniffing out the dodgy used cars.
Did you know that our sense of smell is one of our most powerful sources of information? We always tend to think of humans as being either visual...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Seat Alhambra
Years built: 2010 to today Bodystyles: Five-door large MPV What is it? It's the second-generation Seat Alhmabra and, somewhat surprisingly, it’s...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Nissan Leaf
Years built: 2011 to today Bodystyles: Five-door hatchback What is it? It’s the first electric car you could actually, realistically, use on a da...
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Car profit - How to make your car make money.
In recent weeks it’s become horribly apparent that we may be building up a nasty bubble of car finance. With rising sales of new cars, the values...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Opel Insignia
Years built: 2009 to today Bodystyles: Four-door saloon, five-door fastback, five-door estate What is it? The Insignia was Opel’s big comeback ca...
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Fuel consumption figures are good news but there’s a Co2 sting in the tail.
This past week, PSA Group, which basically means Peugeot and Citroen, released what it calls ‘Real World’ fuel economy figures for three of its k...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Mazda 5
Years built: 2005 to today Bodystyles: Five door, seven-seat MPV What is it? With an increasing number of Irish families suddenly finding themsel...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Volkswagen Tiguan
Years built: 2007 to 2016 Bodystyles: Five-door crossover What is it? It was VW’s first go at a proper 4x4 crossover (unless you count various ja...