Autoglym Winter Collection Kits with drive24.co.uk and Wilcodirect: Winners!

December 20, 2012

in General Motoring

autoglym winter pack prizeNorfolk

Susan Alison
Alison R. Biddle
Martin Blake
Susan Bray
Shirley Broughton
Susan Bunting
Merissa Button
David Carter
Andrew Chapman
Tony Cobb
Pauline Crosby
Kevin Cushing
Mark Dickenson
Nick Eton
John Everitt
Philip Filby
Nick Fulcher
Hazel Green
Adam Harding
David R. Harper
Roy Hewitt
Tony Hogg
Ivor Holden
Mrs. S. J. Howard
Chloe Johnson
Vanessa Martin
Mrs. J. McNair
Toby Miller
Peter O’Hare
Sam Pell
Graham Phillips
David Pooley
Spencer Rivett
Alan P. Robinson
Martin Roper
Jean Savage
Steve Searby
Mr. J. Self
Simon Stevens
Mark Tayler
Lee Thacker
Emma Thurlow
Rob Timson
Karl Tondelier
Margaret Trett
Stephen Tubby
Dawn Watson
Richard Webster
Mark Wingfield
Peter Wright

Suffolk

Rhiannon Anderson
Stuart Austin
Mick Barker
Karen Bedwell
Richard Bristowe
Geoffrey Brown
Kerstin Carey
Robert Carr
Phil Darling
Dawn Dent
Roy Dowding
Mrs. H. J. Eatwell
Mike Finch
Chris Firman
Angela Flowers
Andrew Green
Geoff Harding
Jed Harper
Jan Harvey
Andrew Hennessy
Chris Hilling
Ashley Lawrence
Mrs. A. Leach
Kay Lobar
Linda Manning
Robert Moore
Sonia Nickells
Brian Page
Miss Sonia Peck
Andy Peirson
Patricia Potter
Teresa Potts
Ruth Riddleston
Dr. David Rose
Donna Sheldrake
Tanya Simper
Anita Singleton
Heather Smith
Rod Spinks
Dale Spooner
Mrs. G. Tyler
Julie Vowles
Rosemary Walsh
Karen Warren
Elizabeth Whincop
David Williams
Gary Wilson
Roger Woodard
Mr. P. Woods
Mrs. M Wright

Herts and Cambs

Nicholas Aird
Jill Allingham
Michelle Angus
Marcus Bailey
Steven Bareham
Stephanie Boulton
Edward Boyd-Tuck
Adam Bradford
Kerry Brown
John Buck
Mary Burrows
Reuben Cadman
Mrs. O. Carpenter
Janice Danby
Beverley Dela-Nougerede
Barbara Field
Ann Fletcher
Geoff Gibbs
David Gilbey
Kay Greenwood
Paul Hawkins
Mark Hibon
Emma Hone
Jill Horwood
M S Hughes
Derek Jewitt
Melissa King
Jayne Leckie
Christine Leonard
Julie Lineker
Mr. P. Manning
Mrs. A. Marshall
John Monk
Andy Phillips
Chris Porter
JJ Prendy
Monica Read
Lisa M. Richardson
Ben Rule
Mr. P. Sanders
Mrs. K. Shah
Michelle Smith
Tracey Southward
Clare Spitzer
Beverley Spriggs
Holly Webb
Jo Welsh
Leandra Wilford
Roger Williams
Malcolm Windsor

London

Louise Adkins
Dave Ainsworth
Sara Brooks
Neil Broomes
Christine Bruce
James Bruce
Lorraine Cannon
Claire Caudle
Mark Champion
Mansoor Chaudry
Dave Clark
Matthew Clarke
Susan Cranfield
John Drain
Sean Evans
Hilaire Evans
Gareth Gault
Mr. S. Gorman
James Hanks
Barry Harding
Jane Heenan
Tracyann Higgs
Sean Hoggard
Kim Hopkinson
Gary Hopkinson
Miss J Howard-Simpson
Tony Manning
Linda Martin
Chris Mathieson
Peter Merrett
Samantha Millward
Bob Moore
Marif Noor
John North
Alison Onyelekere
Abdul Rahman
Sharon Reeve
Cat Reynolds
Andrew Rodwell
Soham Saha
Greg Salt
N. Shah
Michelle Sturch
Robert Thomas
Solange Thomas
Sonia Vegas
Hugh A Walker
Stuart Walker
Nick Wallen
Teresa Williams

South West

Robert Bigwood
John Billing
Tristan Blacker
Scott Browning
Geoff Bryant
Sue Challenor
Chrissy Davey
Alan Ebdon
Debbie Edwards
Tom Edwards
Janice Ellis
Adrian Esland
Richard Farrelly
Bob & Jenny Flavell
Margaret Gilbert
Robert Gillet
Clare Holding
Philip Honour
Shirley Hoskins
Diane Howell
Terrena Howse
Jennifer Hull
Gerry Jarman
Kathryn Jones
Derrick Layzell
Paul Leinichen
N. Morgan
Jonathan Newby
Sue Norminton
Sue Patten
Carol Portas
Richard Pugsley
Tony Robinson
Stuart Roulstone
Harry Rowe
Alison Scrase
Hugh Selwyn
Freya Shepherd
Mr. G. Shepherd
Peter Stocks
Don Storer
Peter Tapley
Alison Thackray
R. Thorogood
Steve Walrond
Mrs. J. Wells
Sarah Westacott
Christine Westlake
Colin Williams
Jane Wilson

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Win one of 250 Autoglym Winter Collection Kits with drive24.co.uk and Wilcodirect

November 16, 2012

in General Motoring

Competition now closed!


Drive24 have teamed up with Wilcodirect.co.uk to bring you the perfect winter car gift. We have 250 Autoglym Winter Collection Kits and Wilcodirect gift vouchers to give away across our main readership areas, worth over £25!

autoglym winter pack prizeWhat you can win:

  • 500ml Screen Wash
  • 500ml De-icer
  • Premium Ice Scraper
  • Interior Microfiber Cloth

How to enter:

This competition has now closed! Thanks to all who have entered, we will be notifying those of you who are winners in the very near future.

Full terms and conditions:

(a) This prize draw is open to users of Drive24 who are resident in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, London, Devon and Somerset and aged 18 years or over. Employees of Archant Community Media Limited (“Archant”) or Wilco Motor Spares Ltd (“Wilco”), their families, agents or anyone else professionally associated with the draw may not enter.

(b) Only one prize is allowed per user.

(c) There will be a total of 50 prizes allocated to residents of Norfolk, 50 prizes to residents of Suffolk, 50 prizes to residents across Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, 50 prizes to residents of London, and 50 prizes to residents across Devon and Somerset. Each prize will consist of one Autoglym Winter Collection Kit plus a £10 Wilcodirect gift voucher.

(d) An Autoglym Winter Collection Kit shall consist of 500ml Screen Wash, 500ml De-icer, Premium Ice Scraper and Interior Microfiber Cloth, RRP £15.99.

(e) Names and addresses of competition entrants must be provided to comments@drive24.co.uk with the correct competition answer by Sunday December 9th 2012.

(f) The prize drawer will be drawn at random after the division of entries into their respective resident counties.

(g) The winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries received by December 9th 2012 and the winner will be notified via email or phone within five days of the closing date of the prize draw. Should Archant be unable to contact the winner or should the winner be unable to accept their prize, Archant reserves the right to award the prize to another entrant, drawn in accordance with these terms and conditions.

(h) Archant reserves the right to report details of prize draw winners, to take photographs (or other visual media) and to publish such media.

(i) Archant Community Media Limited may contact you from time to time with details of other products/services which may be of interest at the email address you have provided.  If you do not wish to receive these emails please contact us at: comments@drive24.co.uk.

(j) The prize must be taken as offered with no alternative. In the event that the prize cannot be supplied no liability will attach to Archant.

(k) Archant excludes all liability for loss or damage you may suffer as a result of the prize draw.

(l) Entry into any prize draw does not give rise to any binding agreement between the parties.

 

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I Spy From My Hilux…

May 8, 2012

in Road Rants

roadside policeFrom my lofty perch inside the Toyota Hilux I’ve been driving lately I’ve seen many things. I’m no stranger to chunky 4x4s and pick-ups and what many owners say about feeling safe thanks to the raised driving is largely true. You can also see much further ahead than someone low down in, say, a Ford Focus, which helps enormously when it comes to spotting hazards on the road.

Granted, the elevated driving position, Tonka toy styling of the Hilux and its go (almost) anywhere potential can make you feel a little warm and smug inside whenever the weather throws a wet and windy wobbly. I’m not so smug that I’ll go charging through every single puddle I see, but there’s no question that like the water levels in nearby fields my confidence level rises slightly when crossing flooded fords.

Irresponsible you say? Not a bit of it if I’m honest. I know my limits – which are usually considerably lower than whatever vehicle I’m driving – and I’m smart enough to take sat-nav instructions with a big bag of salt if it’s starting to look and sound fishy. So, in summary, there will be no distress calls from the middle of a too-deep-for-your-car ford or photographic evidence of me stuck fast in a too-narrow-for-your-SUV access road.

The subject of responsible driving reared its ugly head again after recently passing a lone police motorcyclist undertaking speed checks on the arrow-straight A14. As the distant yellow dot got bigger as I approached it, I couldn’t imagine a more inappropriate advert for road safety. We’re all told of the dangers of stopping on hard shoulders, yet here was local law enforcement spending his afternoon playing with a glorified laser pointer with nothing more than a fluorescent jacket for protection against three lanes of 70mph traffic.

What was he going to do if his toy gun spotted someone doing a very big speed? Would he jump on his bike and chase after them at, er speed, risking life and limb in the process? That the road in question, and its users, was covered by a permanent average speed camera set-up made the exercise even more futile.

What would have been of greater value would have been an effort to stop and charge people for using their mobile phones whilst driving. At ground level you’ll struggle to see such activity, but from my lofty perch inside the Hilux I was privy to all sorts of stupid behaviour from map reading to one bloke using an iPad. Yes, you read that right, an iPad. But that’s okay because he was sticking to the speed limit and PC Hard Shoulder wouldn’t have been any the wiser.

Some time ago a certain police force decided to drive around in a lorry tractor unit to spot such behaviour as they realised that the lofty driving position was advantageous. Tales of witnessing mobile phone use when on the move and other more loopy activities – shaving, applying make up – soon flowed to the local press and the experiment was deemed a great success. Either I’ve gone deaf and blind or it’s not been repeated because I’ve nothing since that one-off media stunt, which is a shame.

Such activities continue because drivers know they’re not going to get caught when all the police are interested in is taking pictures of you from afar in van on a bridge. I’m a vocal critic of unmarked speed patrols for a variety of reasons, but there’s a lot to be said for the use of unmarked driver behaviour patrols. And you don’t need an expensive truck – just use a Hilux. That that really would be money well spent.

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New small Vauxhall to be called ‘Adam’

May 8, 2012

in Motoring News

2012 Vauxhall AdamVauxhall’s new supermini is to be called Adam, but will not be officially unveiled to the world until September’s Paris Motor Show.

The new small car was officially named in a quirky cartoon-style press release today. It aims to be a ‘blank canvas’ that will allow buyers to customise it to their own exact desire, while hoping to offer something for everyone in its basic design.

Vauxhall states that buyers will be able to customise their Adams more than any other car – a bold claim with the likes of the Mini and the Fiat 500 as potential sales rivals.

Choosing ‘Adam’ breaks the long-held rule at Vauxhall that all their car names needed to end with an ‘a’. The company claims that the Adam is so different to Vauxhall’s cars that have gone before that the previous naming conventions should not apply.

As the car is still undergoing engineering testing it’s heavily disguised with a body wrap and additional false bodywork around many areas to keep as much of the car’s look as possible a secret.

Although its official unveiling has been mooted for the Paris Motor Show in September, it’s expected that many more details will emerge before then.

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Half of motorists ‘can’t change a wheel’

April 30, 2012 General Motoring

More than half of drivers in Britain could not change their own wheel if they got a puncture, according to research commissioned by garage chain Kwik Fit. Among a nationally-representative sample of 2027 motorists, 36% have a spare wheel and the tools to change it but wouldn’t know how to. A further 10% carry a [...]

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Miles Away

April 30, 2012 Road Rants

It’s a dilly of a pickle alright. Don’t mention the F-word (fuel) but it’s more expensive than ever before, and will probably continue do increase in price until the taps get turned off for good. Add into that the vehicle excise duty charges that punish you for having a thirsty beast and the inevitable result [...]

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Stop – I’m the police

April 30, 2012 Motoring News

A man has been charged after allegedly posing as a police officer and demanding the occupants of a car hand him their vehicle – not realising it was an unmarked police car. Scotland Yard said the alleged incident happened outside a Waitrose supermarket on Ballards Lane in Finchley, north London, in the early hours of [...]

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Olympic BMW fleet revealed

April 27, 2012 Motoring News

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and BMW, the Official Automotive Partner to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has revealed full details of the London 2012 fleet. The fleet includes low-emission diesels, hybrids and electric cars, motorcycles and bicycles were unveiled for the first time. It will be used to [...]

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