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many hurdles to jump i am thinking, here are a few of my thoughts = car transporter drivers [excluding licensed salvage operators] delivering single item to a punter or even ten new ones to a dealership are, in my opinion, not key workers ? correct me if i am wrong, lawgistics suggested that delivering a car was fulfilling a legal contract, while this maybe correct,i would not want to be the one at the side of the road with blue lights flashing behind me, it would strongly deter me and others i would have thought? new cars maybe slightly easier to move out of the showroom, the thought of delivering a used car, unseen to a customer, no matter how much is on the "video" sends shudders down my spine, if the general public dropped there expectations of a used car then fine, but that does not happen [ see my user name] . staff, you cannot work while on furlough, so how many staff are involved in the selling of a new car ? the salesman the valeter the person who does pdi the paperwork person the delivery etc. offset those wages against how many you sell a month, so those wages to be paid, no furlough for the company staff, profit ? all the above is with government advice of today regarding covid19 [13.4.2020] although it is believed strongly in the motor trade that none essential business will be one of the last "let loose" because there will be no "right, back to work chaps" in one fell swoop as can be seen re italy yesterday. so lets talk about "us" my general thoughts of the people on here run from either a pitch, with attached place of working, maybe for small repairs valeting etc or a unit with similar, all with neighbours , "all retail with notable exceptions are to close" is the clear law [ yes its law now] so, unless its , a, in stock, b valeted, c, mot, d pre delivery checked, and the rest, how can we go to work and supply online sales ? for one, the neighbour [business] will say, how come he is working and i cannot ? and it is a very fair point ? should the bodyshop be open ? is it a garage ? should you be running a sold car down for mot ? is it essential? why is it essential ? are you running a business that should be closed ? all very difficult !

From what I have seen there are plenty of dealers already open offering online sales only. We are closed but many appear to be selling!

Hi folks I wonder if you anyone will share password and account details pls for bid this car . Thanks anyway

Don't get confused, like much of the public is that "non Key workers" can't go to work. Thats not the case at all if following government guidelines. Most people can in fact go to work if that work can't be done from home - whether it's essential or not is irrelevant. As car dealers, we can still go into work, legitimately drive a car to an automated car wash, take it on a test run, picture it, fix it, etc etc. As with any other line of work. The restrictions are on opening retail outlets to members of the public which we are restricted from doing. And also restrictions on members of the general public from making non essential trips, for instance looking at a car. But its not against guidelines to deliver a sold car or do anything work related with a vehicle. There is though obviously a moral line to be drawn. But you can go to work if you can't work from home.

It’s a 2014 Range Rover sport one trouble code is J_14229_DTC_C1D21- I’ve just had all 4 changed with new genuine tpms from an indy and one that’s just developed but went away is U201F-87 I just want to disable it temporarily as it’s very annoying as it comes up every few seconds- would never sell a car with something like this disabled lol I’ve put in all new SEnsors from an independent Land Rover specialist and they aren’t working. Before I switched over the sensors I was able to do a tpms test on SDD which allowed me to read the values each tpms was relaying back to the car, it was only the driver front that showed as having 255 psi so I changed that one first but with no luck I then changed all of them and now I can’t even run a tpms test as it tells me to take it for a drive cycle and then return and retry, I’ve done 100+ miles on road testing and I’ve manually inputted the sensor identification numbers in SDD and it was accepted but I still have the warning light... oh and the tyre shop broke off the old sensors so I can’t put them back in lol

There should be a law against companies like this disgusting how people work there and sleep at night amazes me.

There timing is pretty good. Plenty of families will be feeling the pinch. Credit card racked up, bills to be paid. Universal credit doesn’t pay overtime? Didn’t take long for the vultures to start gathering.

Sales of duff are up