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Thank you for your kind words. Best advice I can give anyone is learn how a Cars CAN Bus(es work) and learn WHY one module talks with another. I personally wouldn't bother with the Motor Trade now, the business to be in is IT , trouble is this, Cars use Computers BUT ........................ We had a lad who was brilliant with computers, micro electronics, binary, hexadecimal, programming etc, he wanted to apply this to Cars, because he loved Cars ...................... Problem was he did not know how an Engine, Gearbox, ABS / ESP etc etc actually worked mechanically. Whoever comes along these days need to understand and be fluent in BOTH. Most who can do this are older gits like me, who grew up with Carbs, Points and Condenser, spent all their life in this trade and also moved with the times, and are still moving with them. And on that note, the reason I am AWOL right now is because I am now training myself to do EEPROMMING here in house, have just bought a load of SMD kit, tools, programming hardware and software, and have so far sucessfully cloned a Mercedes V8 ECU to allow "Drive Auth" on a V6 Car .................... Yeah, my SLK R170. Nothing got bricked, V6 ECU put back on Car, Car running fine, and I now have a V8 ECU to plug and play when I fit the V8 over the winter. This all came about after talking to a guy who I regard highly in the EEPROMMING game, and have used for standard module cloning etc, but he didn't have a clue what I wanted him to do when we spoke. The thing is this, you can't just Virgin a V8 ECU, or Clone the V6 one, because either way, it won't work, if you clone it with the Cars ECU will then have V6 Programming, wrong firing order, wrong fuelling etc etc, and if you just alter the V8 ECU Immo, it will not work with things like the V6 Cars ESP, Auto Box, Electric Fans etc etc ...................... So you also need to be very selective about which lines of Code in which of the 3 main files you alter, and that takes some real skills. So, that's why I'm AWOL, no time for forums at the minute, customer work, sales and this self teaching project. I'm enjoying and doing very well with it at this stage, in actual fact I don't know why I didn't get into this years ago !! Cheers

you still need a competent person to carry out your warranty work you need to make customers aware your warranty if self warranting is a return to base unless prior approval to repair elsewhere is in writing also things like hotels private airyplane to destination in the event of a breakdown isnt covered you are basically giving the customer enhanced mechanical cover commensurate with a s/h product attention is in the detail and get them to sign at pos to confirm they have read your terms and conditions and your gdpr statement

Thanks i will get in touch with him and see if he can help. Completely understand with the CRA but i had a customer the other week who i think felt i was lying to him about the CRA and lost a sale as i couldn't provide a warranty. Since sold the car anyway but want to try and provide as much a i can to a customer to get the best reputation possible

I totally agree,I would imagine you might be able to network some good dealer group contacts for stock etc.aswell as loads of other stuff that could improve your business.I am sure there will be plenty of good people there,I was just referring to the bullshitters.There appears to be more and more of them about.Just lately I had this guy telling me that for 2 grand per month he could radically improve our SEO and we could then buy a lot more stock at the door.The small print on the extended contract said that no results were guaranteed.....he was told to Foxtrot Oscar.

I'd wholeheartedly recommend A1 Approved , they'll tailor a product for you , take all the calls (and flack!) and supply all the booklets and as you'll be self funding you'll have a nice little pot build up .

Probably the best advice you'll ever get, ignore other traders. Or more specifically, listen to a select few and ignore the rest.