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This is a good one , Dent man came yesterday telling us he had spent the weekend in YORK celebrating his sons uni exam pass . Heavy drinking he said , " i turned round to hug my son and say well done , we went back to the hotel and it wasn't till then he found out it wasn't his son The mans not here for long

Have had some of the later 2014 onwards and could not move them unless £1k off book.

Not sure I share you fear. They chose to take steroids when the rest of us went to the gym and eat lettuce, we all know who the types I'm talking about. Feck em is what I say.

If your newest is 60 plate the Delphi knock off on eBay will probably do most of the stuff you need and is brilliant for £70

I’ve used Delphi clone for years, brilliant kit for literally a tenth of the price of the snap on equivalent

We have many different diagnostic systems there isn’t one that does everything brilliantly. My advice would be to buy a cheap toughbook laptop and get the copy Delphi Software off eBay for £50. Its almost as good as our £1300 maxidas system for a fraction of the cost!

We do everything in house one mechanic employed full time, but we do not advertise to the retail market we only work for the trade, lots of reasons but in the end this route worked out to save us a fortune we zero headaches. quick example, Phone rings hello Mr Jones how can i help you, hi you fitted new brake pads for me last months and now i have an eml light on, aw ok bring it down and we will have a look, Mr Jones your 02 sensor has failed, well no way i am paying for that it was fine until you touched my brakes !!!!.......good bye retail customers. The work he does on the trade cars doesnt bring in a fortune but pays his wage and then all the work completed on our stock is labor free with enough left over to buy a few pizza's.

I'd only get a cambelt changed by someone I know and trust - it does help that he doesnt cost a fortune (£35 per hour) but I once had someone else do one and ended up buying the car back because he didnt fit the tension bolt properly. To my mind, some jobs are worth 'shopping around' for, and others arent.