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Are German Brands As Reliable As You Think?

May 3, 2016 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

WarrantyWise.co.uk has found that many UK car buyers believe cars produced by big German manufacturers are more reliable than they actually are. WarrantyWise asked more than 750 people who they thought were the most reliable manufacturers in the UK, with Mercedes, Audi and BMW all coming in the top 10. Conversely, WarrantyWise’s data shows those […]

Filed Under: Maintenance & Breakdown Tagged With: Audi, BMW, Car Articles, Car reliability, Car reliability ratings, fiat, Ford, porsche, Reliability, Renault, toyota, UK car buyers believe cars produced by big German manufacturers are more reliable, vauxhall, Warrantywise

Honda Named Most Reliable In Recent Survey

February 2, 2016 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Honda Civic Type R, Tourer and Sport 2015

In a survey of over 30,000 people carried out by the Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU), Honda came top for reliability. The brand received a reliability rating of 93/100 and a further 79% of survey respondents stated they would recommend a Honda vehicle. The Honda Jazz was rated as the top car in terms of reliability in the […]

Filed Under: Car design, Daily News, Editorial, Featured Posts, Industry News, Maintenance & Breakdown, Technical Tagged With: Buying a car, Car Articles, Good cars, honda, Honda cars, Honda vehicle, OCU, Organisation of Consumers and Users, Reliability, Reliable cars, Well made cars

Help Complete Warranty Direct’s Real World Survey

June 9, 2013 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Hosted at www.warrantydirect.co.uk/wd360, the Warranty Direct 360 Used Car Survey will be the most comprehensive, all-round study of UK used car ownership ever conducted and will use data from more than 50,000 live policies to give a full ‘360-degree view’ of vehicle ownership. Warranty Direct’s unique www.ReliabilityIndex.com website has made the UK’s largest direct provider of automotive warranties […]

Filed Under: Competitions, Daily News, Editorial, Used cars Tagged With: Bangernomics, Motorist satisfaction, Reliability, Reliability Index, used cars, Warranty Direct

Skoda Yeti Tops Which? Consumer Survey

October 18, 2012 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Consumer brand Which? ran a recent survey to discover which new car was the most reliable. The brilliant Skoda Yeti came out top. In a survey completed by owners of 47,000 vehicles, the petrol-powered model ranked number one in the SUV/4×4 classes with a 98% reliability score. As that was the highest total of any […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Editorial, New Cars Tagged With: Consumer surveys, New Cars, Reliability, skoda, Which?, Yeti

On Strange Intermittent Problems…

June 27, 2011 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Sometimes it can be difficult to pin down exactly what’s going wrong with a car. A friend of mine is a mechanic and someone recently had their car bump started and took it in for him to take a look at. The weird thing? Once it got there, it started up every time following about […]

Filed Under: Maintenance & Breakdown, Money, New Cars, Technical Tagged With: Alfa syndrome, Diagnostics, Garage work, garages, New Cars, Reliability

Skoda – Committed To Quality

March 26, 2010 by Mr Butterscotch 1 Comment

Once again Skoda has proven that they are committed to the quality of their vehicles and has been justifiably awarded for doing so. In this case, the UK arm of the firm has won Škoda Auto’s Human Touch and Customer Care award for the second year in succession. This is the fourth time in five […]

Filed Under: Awards, Editorial Tagged With: Customer care, Customer satisfaction, JD Power, Quality, Reliability, skoda, Skoda UK

Urgent: Toyota Accelerator Pedal Recall In Europe

January 28, 2010 by Mr Butterscotch 2 Comments

As this is such a serious matter, here are the words (without filter) direct from Toyota. Stay safe out there folks and please heed the following advice if you have a new Toyota. Note, my emphasis. “There is a possibility that certain accelerator pedal mechanisms may, in rare instances, mechanically stick in a partially depressed […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Safety & Security Tagged With: Accelerator pedal, Customer Relations, Mechanical failure, recalls, Reliability, toyota

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