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Sell My Car

Sell Your car This is the definitive guide to selling your car in the UK. No matter how good your...

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Best Websites To Sell A Car

The best UK websites for selling your car in 2025 Find the best websites to sell your car in the UK....

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Car Valuation

Discover the Top UK Car Valuation Services for 2024 The ultimate guide to the best car valuation services. View Services...

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Scrap My Car

Scrap My Car Fast, Convenient, & Environmentally Friendly Car Scrapping Services Across the Country Enter Car Details Welcome to Car...

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Buying A Car

The Complete Car Buying Guide This is the definitive guide to buying a car in the UK. Most of the...

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Best Websites To Buy A Car

Find Your Perfect Ride: Top UK Used Car Websites for 2024 The best websites to buy your car in the UK....

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Car Finance

The Ultimate Guide to Car Finance UK 2024 This guide will explain everything you need to know about car finance...

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Best Warranty Providers

Best Used Car Warranty Providers in the UK 2024 Find the best warranty providers for your used car in the UK....

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Breakdown Cover

Best Breakdown Cover UK 2025 Find the best UK breakdown cover providers in 2025. View Providers There are a lot of...

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Guide to GAP Insurance

The Ultimate Guide to GAP Insurance When buying a new car, there are many different types of insurance policies that...

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Guide To CAT A, B, S, N Cars

The Ultimate Guide To Cat A, B, S, And N Cars When an insurance provider writes off a car, that...

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Car Subscription Providers

Best Car Subscription 2025 Find the best car subscription providers in the UK. View Providers With the internet helping to...

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Car Tax Check

Car Tax Check: Check if Your Car is Taxed or Not Check car tax status. Quickly check if a car...

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Car ULEZ Check

CAR ULEZ Check: Check if Your Car is ULEZ Compliant Check if your vehicle is ULEZ compliant. Simply enter your...

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E10 Checker

E10 Checker Check your vehicle’s E10 fuel compatibility with our fast and accurate online tool. Enter Reg Check Compatibility Wondering...

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Free MOT Check

Free MOT Check: Check the MOT Status of Your Car You can easily check a car’s MOT history by entering...

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Car Care and Maintenance

From Garage to Glory: The Complete Car Care and Maintenance Guide When you first buy a car, be that new...

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Car Service Guide

Car service guide As a car owner, one of the best things you can do to keep it properly maintained...

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Guide to Car Fluids

The Ultimate Guide to Car Fluids When you own a car, it’s important to remember that it doesn’t just run...

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Guide to Car Tyres

Drive Safe, Drive Smart: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Tires The tyres of your car are one of...

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Best Used Cars

Check out these best used cars catering to different needs and budgets

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Comparisons and Alternatives

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We Buy Any Car Vs Motorway

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We Buy Any Car Alternatives

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The AA vs RAC vs Green Flag

Let’s find out which is the best out of the three leading breakdown cover providers: The AA, RAC, and Green...

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Driving Without an MOT: What You Need To Know
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Is it Illegal to Sleep In Your Car in the UK? 

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The minimum information we need to register you is your name, email address and a password. We will ask you more questions for different services, including sales promotions. Unless we say otherwise, you have to answer all the registration questions. We may also ask some other, voluntary questions during registration for certain services (for example, professional networks) so we can gain a clearer understanding of who you are. This also allows us to personalise services for you. To assist us in our marketing, in addition to the data that you provide to us if you register, we may also obtain data from trusted third parties to help us understand what you might be interested in. This ‘profiling’ information is produced from a variety of sources, including publicly available data (such as the electoral roll) or from sources such as surveys and polls where you have given your permission for your data to be shared. You can choose not to have such data shared with the Guardian from these sources by logging into your account and changing the settings in the privacy section. After you have registered, and with your permission, we may send you emails we think may interest you. Newsletters may be personalised based on what you have been reading on theguardian.com. At any time you can decide not to receive these emails and will be able to ‘unsubscribe’. Logging in using social networking credentials If you log-in to our sites using a Facebook log-in, you are granting permission to Facebook to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth and location which will then be used to form a Guardian identity. You can also use your picture from Facebook as part of your profile. This will also allow us and Facebook to share your, networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Facebook account settings. If you remove the Guardian app from your Facebook settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a Google log-in, you grant permission to Google to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth, sex and location which we will then use to form a Guardian identity. You may use your picture from Google as part of your profile. This also allows us to share your networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Google account settings. If you remove the Guardian from your Google settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a twitter log-in, we receive your avatar (the small picture that appears next to your tweets) and twitter username.

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We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

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We offer a ‘My details’ page (also known as Dashboard), where you can update your personal information at any time, and change your marketing preferences. You can get to this page from most pages on the site – simply click on the ‘My details’ link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

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