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Q The RAV4 which you have helped me with in the past has now ceased to be (or at least it will shortly) having failed us on a mountain road in Wales. Although the broken propshaft would clearly have been replaceable, the bodywork was so poor I decided not to spend more money and cut our losses.

After very little searching (I know, probably not the best way to do things), we bought a 2015 Dacia Duster 1.5 dCi (K9K 856 engine) with 78K on the clock, basically on the grounds of it having very clean bodywork.

Although the

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