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I have a loan car and its on the MID but i tell customers to sort their own insurance. The courtesy car is worth about £35 so if they put it in a tree no harm done.

You must be fucking mad. Let them order a taxi. I base this comment on one single ‘experience’. A friend ran a couple of courtesy cars for his various scumbag customers (car sales + a workshop) & then one day one was wrecked. A proper job, driver pissed-up, a number of parked cars smashed up, the courtesy car looked like it had been dropped out of an aeroplane. I don’t know how insurance companies work but as well as the NCB, the policy was loaded & his next year’s bill (which I saw) more than doubled to over £8K and that was after he’d pared back cover. Over the next few years it must of cost him a five figure sum, all for someone who walked away financially scott free.

these are good on some cars

Its the application of the KISS method Casper I was taught to K eep I t S imple S tupid

Personally, I think that you need a decent scanner to do this job nowadays. They are way too useful to ignore. But leave spending big bucks to your mechanic. Remember it’s just a tool, having a scalpel doesn’t make you a surgeon!

are you sure its not the sickly sweet smell of a leaking heater matrix?