Mojo121

You have to collect it, unless you have a return to base clause, and inspect it. If it is not a major issue then fix it and then they have no entitlement to a refund. Job done.

Go to auctions. Buy. Talk to people. Bad guess.

Jags are like that, especially the petrols. Buy, run for 1,000 miles, polish every sunday, tick the box of owning one and sell next year.

I’ve been running a car for a year like this.

Keep us posted

Ordered a Chinese part from one ebayer last week, knackered. Ordered what turned out to be the same part, probably same factory, from a different ebayer and it’s absolutely fine. Chinese quality control is shit so you do toss a coin but if you’re not up against it in terms of time you should try. If it’s supplied faulty eBay have a good returns policy (pay on PayPal) and we all know the good old CRA.

Hmm. Think again. It's often 3 months from exchange to completion and try waiting that long and dealing with people losing their minds day in day out for a £2k fee. Cars are the second most important thing in people's lives!

BIG LOL. I'm siding on the Parrot solution. Don't forget - minus usage

Show us your photos and we'll tell you.

With all due respect mate if she’s whacked it, phoned up ranting and made me take it back she can fuck off and have it fixed at full retail.

There's no denying that's a lovely car!

Hateful cars. 5 door, blue, makes it stand half a chance. It's £1795-£1995. We had a red five door with all the history for ages. Eventually got £1995 for it with 90k on it.

I fancy an e92 M3 4.0, but I think i’d just be throwing money away/ at it considering I don’t want to pay much north of £14-15k

I would retail anything with airbags deployed or nasty structural stuff as I don’t know whether it’s been thrown back together properly. So I’m probably in the Cat N only camp. But that’s only if I can see photos of the car smashed. Maybe I’m too fussy but these are big things to me.

I'm going to buy one of these as a run around at some point and I want Auto. Looking at all the YouTube channels where they're growing in popularity they all recommend the 8 speed auto. I think white is a no on these, personally. I think Grey, Black or Blue are more popular... but again, that's just from what I've seen people driving, what I've seen for sale and how long it's stayed and what these ''influencers'' are saying.

That was my take on it. (And I was bang on with the Rover 75 on another thread so I consider myself an expert and everything now)

It should be no different to buying anything else online EXCEPT sharks swim in our waters and cars are just about the most faulty, complicated consumer products in the world with 100’s of variables! Not to mention scratches or minor marks - you have to see the car... good luck!

A good point. Makes me think as well of the ripples or waves it causes in the markets and how you can profit...

The £ will crash? According to Mark Carney... give over. The sooner we're out of The Fourth Reich the better. A formal proposal for a second referendum should incite violence and rioting.

If you don’t enjoy it when you do well when do you? When you’re retired, too ill and knackered from years of work? I imagine you do well, Nick. Make better money than I do. You probably have to, every now and again, give yourself a bit of a break. It helps me sometimes if I look back a year or two and go, wow, look how far we’ve come. The ones I feel really sorry for are the old timers who were raking it in in days gone by (maybe never saw the writing on the wall) and are working for, relatively, pennies now. The ones you always hear at auctions “bloody shit job” “the job is quiet at the minute”. No. That’s just how it is now. I can excuse them not being happy. Long post - sorry! It’s raining here!

Honestly... I don't know. Surely by doing that you ruin your USP/ theory of disruption? I'd start small as you suggest, find a niche, build a brand and see where you go. That's the most original thinking I've heard of in car sales advertising in a while. Get known for something and get used to defending your ideas and selling the benefits. I asked you two questions and unless I mis-read your response you began to upend part of your plan. Your question seems to be around "what is the average budget a new driver has for a car?" perhaps do some questionnaires on that to the buying public? As dealers we have a very limited view on this, only what we sell and see. HTH

I think this is a manageable way to take a slice of the pie, before scaling to a platforms true potential. A wolf in sheep’s clothing type approach. I suppose I would question how you would brand a business aiming at advertising cheap small which in the future would scale up? The two can’t have much synergy. My other query would be around getting the right dealers onboard. Many have a range of stock and the idea of paying to only be able to advertise certain cars maybe a bit alien to them.

You lot do wonders for the reputation of car dealers amongst the general public My only advice is if they did indeed insure the car on their Motor Insurance Database (MID) system and their insurer took a while uploading it so it didn’t reach the MID or the MID didn’t update do they have any information/ logs from that system? I was pulled a while back, I had taken a new personal policy on the car at the time,although the new policy was “live” it hadn’t updated on the MID. I was lucky enough to have a phone that had email access to show them the policy. Aside from what I’ve said I can’t think of anything else so it maybe worth speaking to a solicitor. There maybe a case for negligence on the garage’s side. Whether the fact it’s a courtesy car would imply it is okay for you to use? Did you sign anything when taking the car?

£1500 all day, that.

Or stick a diesel generator in the back... ?