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    Late to the party as you have fixed it. I’ve said before. Just get it back. Reduces the chances of another bellend telling them they shouldn’t have brought the car. I had someone last week that said it was EML. Turned out I was tyre pressure light. I got them to come up and ended up just putting air in the tyres. I also put £10 quid of fuel in for the journey. Not ideal but will be asking them for a 5 star review next week.

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    1 minute ago, David Horgan said:

    MX5 Owners :) cant stand em 

    Just slightly worse than Porsche Owners in my view .

    Both send shivers down my spine , and i really have to sharpen my tongue if we are unfortunate to take one PX just to get my own back , PX questions spin the owners head out and get em wriggling with their lies about its condition and service when I get going :) .

    OMG £14 better off without him I reckon 

    Haha. Alarm bells going left right and centre 

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    9 hours ago, stockedup! said:

    Well said EPV. The job is a bit patchy but that is how the job is and always has been. There are a few that are absolutely flying this month, good luck to them....we all get our turn.

    In my day job we missed budget by quite a bit in September 32 from a target of 39. This month 45 with a target of 42. Haven’t done much different. Just the way it goes sometimes. 

    My 1st sales manager told me its like a wheel....sometimes you are at the top, sometimes you are at the bottom. You just need to remember when you at either end you could be at the other the next month!

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    4 hours ago, Dave2302 said:

    Up here we often find that the "Advise Front Lower Swivel" etc from 3 years ago still hasn't been done, it was just taken to a different, (mates) Test Station for it's Test !!

    I have a friend of mine up in London that his guy MOT’s his car with heavy privacy on the front windows. Makes you wonder how many cars are out there that shouldn’t be on the road!

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    My pictures aren’t of the quality as the cars above (although different demographic)

    I really don’t think you can beat I Phone 10. Point and click with great quality. Plus I already have it in my hand and can upload them speedily.  There are also courses on getting even better quality if you need

  10. Posted

    48 minutes ago, grant8064 said:

    Travel aside if workload and money are stressful then it's worth giving it the serious consideration you are. I reckon I spend 70% of my working day behind a laptop and doing admin...there's a high workload away from the car side of things and always something waiting to catch you out.

    That’s the key point. I am getting stressed at the second as I am working my nuts off, I am getting paid off the bottom line which due to buy backs and things out of my control means I am down each month, then combine that with staffing issues and areas of the business I know I can’t change that are doing my head in. I think I might as well see if my energies will see me through, I already work late most evenings! When I earned 60k as a salesman the difference was too much. Now as controller I have got more experience and the difference in pay will make the jump lessz

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    17 minutes ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    I think you might struggle to earn 45/48k with the above pot. 

    I was taking it that the 1st year would not be that figure. But would be more achievable when the business grows.

    I am also thinking I am paying 40% tax at the second so I would technically not have to earn as much to take home the same

  12. Posted

    4 hours ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    If you don’t try you will always regret it, you will be a “nearly man”. 

    You have to go for it, if you are determined enough you will make it work.

    There’s is nothing like making your own money, it gives you immense satisfaction. 

    How much money do you have to buy stock ??

    I currently have £8500 currently in 4 cars. I was aiming to try and raise 30k and invest another 21k in another 8 and leave a 9k contingency. 

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    31 minutes ago, MrC said:

    Expect to work twice as hard for half as much, you will also age several years in a short time.

     

    But at least I will have control over my own destiny. I didn’t see a pay plan for 6 months. Then it turned out my ote included being 120% of target. Then I had my basic increased because I said I wouldn’t earn enough only to find out some of my bonuses had been taken away without telling me which mean I was in the same position. I have low prep times and cars are advertised promptly, I work full days and often till past closing. 

    It will not be plain sailing but I have had a gut full of being taken the piss out of

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    10 minutes ago, stockedup! said:

    If you are at a point where you can't take it anymore where you are then fair enough but please don't think that you won't have to really put the hours in when you set up on your own ...you will. The failure rate is pretty high for start ups....though you do have a  good start being able to piggy back onto the existing business.

    I have a friend who earns decent money in a full time job and sells a few on the side. He had a decent run and was all for packing his full time job in. I told him to just give it a bit of time, he has had a quiet couple of months and can't thank me enough for keeping his feet on the ground.

    The 48k you are currently earning, does this include the cars you are selling on the side?

    The 48k is based on me earning a 3k customer service bonus at the end of the year. Which isn’t nailed on. Anything that is earned in the cars is re invested or held back for issues.

    there is a number of factors making me want the move. Workload, money, travel. Just all adding up

    28 minutes ago, BHM said:

    As for taking advice from ‘er indoors, a lifetime of experience tells me the fairer sex is always keen on volunteering men to do the graft & keep their nests feathered - anything they perceive as a threat to this is automatically shot down in flames. And yes, I’ve a few failed relationships behind me :lol:

    To be fair buddy, she was still the main earner even when I was earning 60k selling cars

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    10 minutes ago, grant8064 said:

    Guys, stupid question but i'm having a brain freeze.

    Sold a carfew days ago, taxed, driven off etc. Backed it two days later which was all fine.

    We've kept the v5 and green slip but now i've just sold it to someone else and am wondering how we can tax it for them given that the doc ref number has already been used?

    Is there an easy way other than filling in a v62 at the post office?

     

    I am pretty sure that the car will still be taxed until you put the next owner change. Best to do change of owner and tax at the same time at the post offic 

  17. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Dave2302 said:

    Hi,

    I wish you all the luck in the world, you have a nice set up there at your disposal already, you have experience of the game, so you just need to work at it and get what you want from it !!

    Some others will slate me but if I were you I wouldn't fuck around with the old shit that you can only earn £500 out of, I will not buy a Car if I can't steal it and have at least a bag out of it, and most of the stuff I buy and retail earns at least £2k.

    I would rather sell less, but better quality Cars, than have all the cheaper stuff that gives you a bunch of aggro together with the sort of neds who buy £1500 - 4k Cars and think they have bought a brand new Car.

    Trouble with that is, in more populated areas you have much more competition and therefore buying, (for the right money), later sub 70k mile stock that needs a bit of TLC is hard.

     

    I do try and keep at least £1000 marginbefore costs. Because it’s my Dad and my future reputation I try and keep away from old tut.  

    I just think at the minute I am pretty comfortable looking after 30 to 40 cars prep wise at work and I’m working my bollocks off I would rather try and see if that will translate into my own success. 

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    It is scary some of the techs I have worked with in main dealers.

    In the last 6 months (in a main prestige) franchise I have had a set of pads put in the wrong way in a car and a car brought up to display that the tech missed the under bonnet sound proofing.

    Plus a couple of trade losses on buy backs that couldn’t be fixed

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    8 minutes ago, David Ayers said:

    Tell her 45 days to turn around your stock.

    I think you'll need to be selling 10 a month to get a reasonable wage.

    How many of those 10 spaces is your Dad happy to let you use? Even if you have 10 for sale you'll need a couple more being prepped to replace sold stock. Probably another 1 or 2 waitng to be collected. The odd bit of crud px that you need to dispose of somehow.

     

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    Pretty much all of them to be fair.  I was aiming to work with 12 or so that kind of works with what I was thinking. 3/4 are already mine and the rest are local customer’s and a couple of non runners from the garage.

     

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    11 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    I see now,I think I can recall the last time we discussed this.I think most of us told you to have a go last time.Your Dads garage is an up and running established business with probably a good customer base so why do need a business plan.Is he going to charge you £25k rent ?.Forget your wife’s money,go to the bank and personally borrow what you need and get on with it.

    Yes, sorry I didn’t want to go trough old ground. After the last conversations I have pretty much made my mind up. Just wanted some ideas of stock turn so I can give this plan to the wife, the plan is to leave at the end of the year.

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    14 minutes ago, David Ayers said:

    How much do you expect to retain per unit after costs, Vat etc?

    £500 Ave at the second. As I said I am in a lucky position as I have the forecourt space and the insurance covered. 

    At the second I am under the VAT threshold, that is maybe a conversation for another day as I think I need to speak to the accountant as might be better to put through the VAT reg’d garage and pay myself a commission 

  22. Posted

    2 minutes ago, tradex said:

    Snap, can I have your job when you leave? :P

    Haha. You are welcome to it. Have been told 55k to 58k ote. We haven’t underachieved but I will be lucky to hit 48k. 

     

    1 minute ago, tradex said:

    Jesus, what are you selling, Fezza GTO's? 

    Haha. 4k

  23. Posted

    22 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    I had not realised you were already in the trade.However,I am with your wife on this one.If you are doing 2 or 3 per month on top of what you are earning now,there will be a lot of people on here dreaming of having that situation.If you think packing in your day job and running your own business funded by your wife will be easier and make you more money,think again.

    She is right to ask for your business plan under the circumstances.Incidently what do you intend to do,be a home trader or work from premises,how many will you stock,who will supply you and how much do you intend to invest.I would imagine she will want you to incorporate as a limited company and she will know what the average returns are.

    Thanks, I don’t want to go over old ground if people have read it before. Full disclosure I am somewhat in a lucky position as my Dad owns a garage, 4 ramps, MOTs, 2 fuel pumps. Has space for 10 cars which are used by customers and for parking cars at the second. This will make things easier obviously.

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    Just now, met said:

    The mrs probably has concerns about you giving up the 'day job'? 

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    100%. I truly think I can make it work. I have been a used car controller for the last year and a half. Selling cars for 20, My customer service skills are good and although was never top buy was always up there. 

    I just feel I am working my arse off for someone else when I could at least see if it will work on my own.