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  2. Pop Alexandra
    I have had a lot of positive experience with a truck import back in 2020. I worked with RBI and would recommend them with any vehicular imports. You could see more at https://rbi-he.com/industries/transportation
  3. metcars
    Yikes! Maybe I’ll just leave it?
  4. trade vet
    There will be hassle,good luck We ( our family company ) used the same insurer for many years and still do having paid them many thousands for motor trade ,buildings,pensions and also our personal home insurance.We were always named on our trade policy as being covered for business ,social and domestic use of our company cars.We never had any claims at all.So when I retired I no longer needed a company car ( and to pay Company Car Tax ) so I having been quoted ,I got covered on a private car having declared full no claims.A month or so later they contacted me threatening to cancel the cover because I had suppled false information to get a No Claims Discount.They were adamant I did not qualify and would have to start afresh.They said that I personally had not previously had a motor insurance policy in my name so could not apply a no claims discount.I tried to argue that as I was a loyal customer for many years and had paid them many thousands without any claims plus we still had several policies with them ,they should give me full no claims .They still refused. I was told that it may be possible to get full no claims accepted from another insurer who will take your money but in the event of a claim,it may not be accepted having relied on my declaration.So we now have 4 cars on the one private Comp policy which I have got down to £1500 because each car does less than 3k per year……If that is any help !
  5. metcars
    I’m looking at moving from motor trade to private insurance. Will there be ‘hassle’ getting my NCD accepted. Apparently Churchills are a possibility. Has anyone done this recently or have any info? Thanks
  6. TM1989
    Hi how’s everyone doing? Specially in the north west? Anyone selling much stock? We’ve been dead just tyre kickers popping out of the woodworks.
  7. trade vet
    So praised by the judge who rejected the claim as it was established buyers remorse because a relative had supplied another car ,yet it still costs you £550 when it was sold for £1850.! That’s par for the course in the Small Claims Court for car dealers.The message is……don’t sell cheapies to punters under 60 or better still ,don’t bother at all.
  8. TM1989
    Sorry to hear mate
  9. Hargy
    Update on above case. We did go to court and judge declared this was more a case of buyer regret as customer had bought a car from her relative and just thought she could return car to us. She did describe me as ‘very honest and trustworthy’ and rejected the claim. However she did award customer £400 compensation for the length of repair time along with court costs so although we won the case we still feel we lost as it cost us £555?? Seems you can’t win no matter what you do.
  10. trade vet
    Rates are not likely to come down. They do £600m t/o and net £350m profit without employing many people. How good is that.The thing is that it doesn’t work as well as the original Autotrader mag which came out on a Thursday was also expensive but had paid for itself by Friday morning ! Your options are,don’t advertise all of your stock,buy £20k worth of AT shares as hedge against future increases,only advertise and show one model of vehicle with a choice of more in stock etc.Anyone else got any better ideas. It could be worse,in the US they might threaten to cancel your account if you advertised on another platform !
  11. steve1958
    the greedy people at autotrader are increasing the price yet again from an already overpriced platform, they have a complete monopoly so they can charge whatever they like, just another example of corporate greed
  12. Beautiful South Martin
    Thanks for the info mate much appreciated
  13. TM1989
    Hi You will need the 11 digit ref number on the green new keepers slip to tax the car again. The green slip you have her is the one. Make sure you take that off her when she gives you the car back. Don’t put anything into her name mate. You’ll just have to get the v5/green slip off her. cross her name out on the v5 with acid/make up remover and just sell it to someone else mate. A little bit of Acetone normally does the trick to rub details off very carefully mate. I’ve had a couple of these idiot customers too unfortunately.
  14. Beautiful South Martin
    Just had a customer wanting to hand a car back after 1 week of ownership. My question is this? DVLA have not been informed of new keeper change which is at present 1 owner. It was taxed by direct debit and customer has advised she is cancelling direct debit once it is returned. Once I put it back up for sale and resell how do I re-tax to new keeper ? Trying to avoid putting it into the cancelled customers name as 1) her name will be on the V5 2) And if I did I'm not sure I will ever see it again once its posted out to her by DVLA as she's a bit of a shouter. Any advice please.
  15. trade vet
    I thought I could value stuff,but not any more.I saw this elongated Mini Countryman with big alloys today.24 plate EV .An elderly lady got out and I was thinking who has stitched her up with that ,it must be about 35 grand.It turns out they are 58 grand ! The job has gone mad.No wonder Peter Vardy from the motor trade dynasty is jacking it in.,how many will follow ……All the best.
  16. Paul C
    Personally I use enterreg.com
  17. trade vet
    I would be emailing the manager for an explanation,give him a headache.Surely Storage fees were invalid anyway when the Met Office was issuing severe storm warnings to travellers from the middle of last week.It is very unfair that a substantial account holder could now be billed by their transport company for an aborted collection caused by BCA ‘s mistrust that you will pay them £12.Major problems I usually accepted but stuff like this really got me annoyed.
  18. steve1958
    its impossible to get through to the manager at Edinburgh, they really don't want to know, we've just added up all the BCA purchases we have done in the last 12 months and it comes to about £500,000 yet they wouldn't release the vehicle over a lousy £12 until it had completely cleared their online payment system
  19. trade vet
    That’s really bad,surely your BCA credit facility is more than £12 ! I would be speaking to the auction manager . They used to nice people at Ingleston.
  20. steve1958
    just another update, BCA finally put it back through the online auction, but disappointingly they still didn't declare the V5 and actual model details had a discrepancy and the vehicle subsequently went 2k over CAP, whereas if BCA had been honest and open in their description it would have barely achieved CAP
  21. steve1958
    yes, BCA are definitely getting worse in all areas
  22. steve1958
    we have a vehicle for collection at BCA Edinburg, we were originally going to collect it on Friday, however due to storm Bert and heavy snow in Scotland we put off collection until Monday (today) however when the pre-arranged transporter arrived at BCA Edinburgh, they would not release the vehicle until a 1 day (£12) storage charge had been paid, by the time i frantically paid it via bca's online portal the transport driver had left the site, due to having other dropoffs and pickups to do, i really think BCA and in particular BCA Edinburgh are incredibly penny pinching and with an uncaring attitude, they could not care less about 'weather excuses' as they put it, (storm Bert ranks as one of the worst storms in years!) now i have to re-arrange the transport collection, with more subsequent storage fees being incurred.
  23. trade vet
    Surely no one relies on guides anymore when you have various on line retail platforms to compare.There are of course conspiracy theories why Cap values are generally well below the market.As for Glass’s,in the distant past it was usually only the franchised dealers who subscribed annually and we like many others would just give a salesman about £2 for the previous month’s issue and work off that.
  24. friar
    Used to be Glass’s guide in pocket,not now I know. What’s best place now for values?
  25. Willoughby
    My understanding is that if you are moving the car on the the road with no tax - you need to display trade plates (whether its in the Trade or not) as you say ... if car is pre-booked for an MOT they aren't needed as this is a specific exemption....
  26. trade vet
    The bottom line is that Judges do not like car dealers.The Judge is unlikely to know that an ABS sensor is not a big deal.I have unsuccessfully defended 3 cases brought by punters in the Small Claims Court where I thought there was no way I would lose.On the other hand I have won cases against an architect,a builder,a clothing wholesaler and the best one BCA.I think you will need to be able to prove that you offered a free repair and that they refused.Also it is important to make sure they have correctly followed procedure prior to issuing their claim.Was it sold with a new MOT,did you get a PDI sheet signed on handover,did you note the mileage when you had it back.How did you word your signed sales invoice . It is very unfair but selling cheapies these days is very risky and you might have to take your medicine on this one if you haven’t got a good defence which the Judge understands.
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