OUR RESIDENT MOTORING expert Paddy Comyn is starting a brand-new Car Clinic series where he will answer all your motoring questions and queries.

Paddy has over 25 years’ experience in the motoring industry, but his passion and enthusiasm for cars started long before it was his job. As he puts it himself: 

“Many of my family have that strange affliction of seeing cars as having personalities and souls. Not everyone has that, of course, nor should they. We can make very boring dinner-party guests.

“Over the years, though, I’d say I’ve developed one genuinely useful skill: I can match a person to a car pretty well.

“I tend to be the guy people ring, and they invariably start with, “I am thinking of changing the car.” The filing system in my head starts to organise the options – not in a slick ChatGPT way, but more like the slow, methodical churnings of an early 20th-century fairground attraction.”

He is ‘the’ car guy to everyone in his life and is willing to widen that role out to you, The Journal readers. 

Whether it’s specific advice on an upcoming purchase or a technical question about a mooted national policy, he wants to help. 

If you have a query or question, please send it along with the subject line CAR CLINIC to motoring@thejournal.ie – we will publish all answers on Mondays on The Journal. (Your questions will be anonymised.)

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Paddy Comyn is the head of automotive content and communications with DoneDeal Cars. He has been involved in the Irish motor industry for more than 25 years.

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