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I don't know what downtime is these days...so much stock now so when I get a quiet day it's admin, weedkiller, painting the office or take a few for a run to clean the brakes off and try and pop up an EML before a punter does! Nothing better than a day doing fuel runs and seeing which window switch has decided to stop working. Back before we got busy my colleague and I played a fair bit of poker on rainy days...fun but not necessarily a money maker!

Update: At the recommendation of my regular garage (one of the technician there has an E90) we changed the oil. The owner of the garage said if the previous service was done using cheap shitty oil it could be manifesting itself as low pressure oil at high speeds, something they have seen before on these cars. They put in the correct oil and a 70 mile drive later by myself at speeds between 50 and 80mph and not a sign of a warning light. The tech also checked the strainer and said it looked clean and no signs of mashed up timing chain guide. I'm sceptical that this won't re-appear once sold but ultimately that's also me over thinking things.There were a few codes, one relating to the NOX/Catalytic Converter being sulpherised but after the aforementioned long drive this didn't come back. I've got 2 punters lined up to buy it when it's ready (just having a new MOT) so I'm going to repeat the long test drive again early next week but if the codes don't reappear and the low pressure warning light doesn't come back on I feel I've done as much as I can and it won't keep me awake at night when sold. Thanks again for all your helpful suggestions.

"Spleen" Bridge is outta my area lol but yeah, lotsa MacDonalds over there, I used to do a regular DJ residency in one of the Hotels near there Yeah we do have some tossers up here, usually Engleesh from Plockton, only yesterday I turned one away telling him i was booked up for 8 weeks lol, reality is booked for 3 weeks

Either this or just tell him to f.o. anyway. Quite why you’re covering batteries for 2 months is beyond me anyway.

Any particular reason you can’t answer my question?

I dont use cap or glasses, for me the best way to price a car is to find the same model,same spec and mileage on autotrader and ebay. I'll then value it according to what other tradrs are actually pricing them for. I find cap retail figures manheim put out are generally above what traders are actually selling the cars for.