MrC

Let me go to trading standards. I bet he doesn't!

Just to resurrect this post, John from Premier Insurance got in touch and came to see us at our premises. I do have to say John is very knowledgeable and seems well connected. What John doesn't know about the insurance industry and most importantly trade (Combined) policies isn't worth knowing. Long story short we have taken out a policy with Premier Insurance, the price came in slightly cheaper, but what is important to me is a really feel like we'll be looked after In a world where good service seems a bit thin on the ground is refreshing find a good business, John is definitely worth having a chat with.

Black Cars Matter

Happy to get a quote off you, ours is due 10th December. I'll PM you my number

Offer an item for free on Facebook market place! It's a whole subculture you never knew existed.

Is anyone else having problems loging in? Im just getting a Error

OMFG is that guy serious, Im lost for words. WTF does he expect from a 12 year old Range Rooney

That's the dream, I'd love one, till then I'll slum it in my C4S

Steady on now, we are not all horrible. That said there are some utter bell ends, usually at the anorak end of the spectrum. Fucking good cars 911's cant deny that.

Morning, is there anyway to view Cat N/S damage reports?

When someone rings us for a ready done camper or a conversion, my first question is what's your budget. Our conversions are around £17k and New campers start at £55k. If then only have £8k for a conversion or £25k for a done camper then it's a complete none starter. So lovely as they might be and as polite as I am it saves a lot of time from the getgo.

Interesting points

Last batch of Transporters I ordered in June where £33000 inc VAT.. Same vans today £39500 with an 8-12 month wait!!!! I had three quote from dealers and all where the same within £100 All discounts and dealer contributions have gone.

I'm not on my own any more, there are 3 of us now, 2020 and 2021 have been crazy busy for obvious reasons. It's been very hard work, stress levels have been high. Our biggest challenge has been the supply chain, really hit and miss with getting the bits in to do the jobs. Beds are a 10 week lead time and furniture 14 weeks poptop canvases are 6 to 8 weeks at the moment. So it's been a lot of long term planning and holding more stock than usual. Most of our customers have been fabulous and understanding with our challengers, but we have had one or two inpatient customers. The rest of this year is booked up than includes the vans we have on order. The idea of doing our own vans is to try to get back a decent work life balance and work just to our own dead lines. Also we can preplan 12 months in advance what we will need, this should simplify our ordering process. Standardise all our colour schemes etc. I started off 4 years ago buying, converting, advertising, selling then preselling vans before I even had them in. This turned in to converting customer owned vans, and that's the way its been for a while. Last year I bought a brand new van we threw the world at it and sold it within 10 days for £58k. Actually made twice as much as we would normally. As it stands we do have a dealer willing to take vans straight off us, needless to say we'll take a hit on the profit. But its good to know we could just punt them straight in to them if we need to turn the cash around quickly. I know the transition will be rocky and scary at times, you can soon tie a whole lump of dough up in couple of vans. We reallyy need to work smarter and these are the first steps.

Thanks guys

Looking to start the process of becoming FCA registered pretty soon as we are moving in to selling new campers, I have 5 new T6.1's due to land this year and will be ordering 20 vans for 2022 to be drip fed to us from VW though out the year. My question is which finance companies are worth working with and which are the ones to avoid? Thanks in advance

Facebook.. All the village idiots in one village.

Every transaction we do is BACS. Dont have any issues at all.

Very low stock of 6 month old and pre reg Transporters. Factory order is the way to go at the moment and even then they are delayed. My new van was supposed to be here last month, doubt I'll see it till March. As for older used vans, I sold our 2014 100k miles binged up caddy swb for £7500 Last week sold our 2012 95k T5.1 LWB day van/camper (no poptop, he's paying extra for me to fit that) for £23k it has a ton of spec and features coming out of its arse. I have a brand new T6.1 with a fresh high spec Conversion going to a main dealer this week on SOR at £55k. They have no factory campers in stock!

My most hilarious offer a few years ago was in a Spares or repairs Golf 1.4 TSI I had gotten buried in. I'll save the full story (I'm sure I posted it on here) the punter offered a good sum more than it was advertised for.... He wanted to pay using a couple of grands worth of Postage stamps. I've also been offered a Painting at one point

Does this work? Asking for a friend

There is one bonus to being VAT registered.... Said no one EVER

Yes and erm yes.

Boxing day is my favourite day of the year, simply because it's the furthest day away from the next Christmas.

Bloody hell got one I have been waiting for today. 16th August we bought the car!