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We charge an admin fee of £150 if the customer arranges there own finance, this covers the time spent required for new set ups when some companies want pictures of premises inside and out and proof of where the car came from etc etc, It’s designed to sway them more to use the finance we provide We also charge a £25 admin fee for any card payments (excluding deposits) this is to encourage customers to pay via bank transfer which means we get the money faster or good old fashioned kesh Not really had many people moan about it tbh.

Unless you are doing cheapies,if you skimp on valeting or any prep you will lose business.It was instilled in me when I worked on an open pitch when I was a boy that your stock had to look mint at all times,be off the button and smell nice.How often when you leave a stonechip on a bonnet thinking it will sell and it doesn’t.You then get it done and it sells quickly.I know a lot of punters don’t open the lid to inspect and listen before buying these days but for the time it takes,I think you have got to do it.

I had the same and a transmission fluid change cured it.

/\ /\ /\ lol they can't diagnose with the machine either "Fitters" not mechanics. If that Jaguar needs a head job I wouldn't fuck with it, I'd get a known good engine from a trusted source and swap it out !!

Talking of fiestas we took one in part ex last month customer advising the main dealers had advised the head had gone, 20 mins in our workshop diagnosed a split in the water bottle which under extreme pressure heat would eject coolant everywhere £20 fix. Main dealers sent what they used to be mostly full of spotty young kids who couldn’t diagnose anything without a machine.

TBH sales wise I don't usually touch Jaguar these days, since the hey day when they discontinued the original straight 6 and V12's but I used to do a lot of those back in the 80's and 90's, owned a fair few too. The V8's I've worked on a few now, there are 3 or 4 running around these parts who are good Customers of my Workshop, normally I'm dealing with Coils, ABS Pumps and water ingress causing Electronic issues on them. My customers have already had Pumps and Timing Chain upgraded Tensioners now. The V8 Jag's are a money pit, much more so than an equivalent Mercedes Water Pumps are a common item, and absolutely pour coolant out when they really let go. You need to find a good indie near you, and don't believe anything a main dealer tells you. Start with a cooling system pressure test, any good honest mechanic should be able to do that and confirm if it is Pump or not, then go from there HTH

I am a big beleiver that we learn a lot more from our failures than our successes and I don't think you would let history repeat for a second. Just go gradually.

It's all the none recorded ones that are the real worry as there is quite a lot out there.

Same here. I forget to look on there now. Same with Sytner. DA next.

We sometimes retail them if they come in as swappers and are up to scratch, wouldn't buy one to retail. I can't tell you what determines a car becoming a write off or each categories criteria but I can tell you that it doesn't seem to harm the salebility (is that a word?) whatever the marker. All we do is new MOT and a VERY THOROUGH inspection on the ramp. I don't treat them like a normal car, when I say thorough I mean thorough, just for personal peace of mind. The irony is they'll be a load of unrecorded stuff in far worse or even dangerous condition floating around out there.

One of our stock cars a Vauxhall Vx220 was written off for very light panel damage, someone went into the side of it, and the insurance just paid us out as a Total loss as Vauxhall don’t make the clams for them anymore, in reality with a wee bit of fibreglass it will be an easy fix.

I'd go as far as to say most people