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Hi AD, Something about the emissions when they are stationary doing business and still ticking over and also they are often parked near schools...........far more important to clamp down on ice cream vans than knife crime !

No good in London,Sadiq Khan has banned them !

Ha Ha Jason,I don’t think so,Uber dropped 8% on their opening day ! Meanwhile the original investors who risked many millions have made billions and Uber are still losing money !

AT stock are up 50%,yes 50% in 12 months @ 580p.I thought they were too expensive at £4 a year ago,so I know little.The company is now valued at a whopping £5.2 billion ! They net £200m on £300 t/o ! mostly thanks to us ! It’s just Sell in May and go away advice.When you consider Dealer groups doing £300m struggle to net £1m.Investing in BCA might be a better idea at the moment if they drop to 180p but I doubt they will,they are on my watchlist.

That’s the way to do it.Of course when company car tax was introduced I was doing 50,000 a year and my not cheap chartered accountant never told me to buy my own car and charge our company mileage expenses.I am still annoyed about that as both me and the company would have been thousands better off....Mistakes by accountants,they never own up to them.

“Lease a car personally through ltd company “,I am not sure what you mean,could you possibly explain,thank you.

Each auction seems to grade differently.We found this out long ago so at one sale we only buy Grade 5 because elsewhere it would be a 2 or 3.( note up to 5 year old stuff only).You get plenty of bonuses with on line buying.It is also beneficial to notice if there are strong hall bids when buying Grade 5’s online,that’s a bit of a giveaway.

Sorry,only know about ltd company stuff.

Are you a ltd company.

I am pleased you appear to have been refunded.On 3rd March you did refer to a retired woman and £10000 and how they felt.As someone who claims to be studying criminology,criminal justice and psychology you appear to be offering conflicting evidence. Good Luck in the future and never again pay for a car unseen unless it is from M&S.

Thank you Mark.As I work for ‘nothing now’,that would be an improvement !

Coil springs weren’t made in China then.What about Mk 1 Cortinas,the bonnet catch would not hold and it was normal for the bonnets to fly up against then screen.We just straightened them as best we could and filled them with bodge and sold them on .150% mark ups were not unusual.As a 17 year old,my basic was £8 and used to earn £150 per week ....no kidding....I can sense you guys cringeing .

Hi CRW Sounds like you have the job sorted.

I wouldn’t worry about losing that deal.Anyone paying in full on a credit card has got ‘nowt’ and you could be storing up future problems for yourself.We have always chased them.

You need a card machine especially to make it easier to get deposits from punters on the pitch.We use Worldpay which RBS recommended.So if you do 10 £5k debit card deals a month with the machine rental and their fees it might cost £200.It can take 3 or 4 days to show up in your bank even though it’s debit cards.Another downside to consider is tracking the money when it shows up because it can be in a lump sum which might include a full deal or a deposit or 2 which they told me specifically would not be the case.That was my main grouse from my old pitch which does a lot of business.We only take credit cards as a small deposit which cost a bit more than a debit card......I will be interested to see what the others say on this topic.

What we want to know is,have you repaid your grand parents yet for letting them down.?

My understanding is that you are expected to upload daily/weekly all your income and expenditure into ‘the cloud’ so HMRC can keep an eye on your business and probably compare VAT calculations with similar size businesses.

I hadn’t noticed the £4m ! The Bradford area might be a DMZ for local government trading standards officers,if anyone plays the race card etc I imagine careers could be in ruins.

Motorsure T/A Motorhub of Keighley

Not so sure Andy,the company Motorsure is worth £1.7m down from £2.5 a few years back.They got off lightly it seems.

Hi Mojo If you have ever rented property to DSS tenants you would know exactly what I mean regarding Universal Credit and giving them a lump sum every month.Most of them are incapable of managing there own affairs so getting paid is a problem.Regarding MTD,there will be 1000’s of non digital older generation self employed deregister for VAT.I think there will be lots more tax fraud because HMRC will be looking at purchases and sales on line rather than physically looking at your actual paperwork.The mind boggles what people might get up to in order to keep their VAT bill down by’ imputting errors’.

We are with Sage,£15 per month,but I am not doing it because I basically think MTD is crap and might turn out like Universal Credit.There is apparently a problem with margin scheme stock.It just seems to me that if you were into fraud ( not meaning car dealers ) it could be easy to scam HMRC with reclaims and apparently fraud is rarely prosecuted these days. It is interesting that something important like MTD is not discussed much on here,yet if someone posts what type of spanner do I need etc....it becomes a hot topic !

Ha Ha,when ECU’s were introduced you learned very quickly.If they got wet you we would take them off and place on top of a radiator for a week a so to dry them out.BTW Nick I don’t believe that any of your stock has stone chips on the bonnet.

Unless you are doing cheapies,if you skimp on valeting or any prep you will lose business.It was instilled in me when I worked on an open pitch when I was a boy that your stock had to look mint at all times,be off the button and smell nice.How often when you leave a stonechip on a bonnet thinking it will sell and it doesn’t.You then get it done and it sells quickly.I know a lot of punters don’t open the lid to inspect and listen before buying these days but for the time it takes,I think you have got to do it.

Hi Dave I was referring to car traders in general exagerating profit margins,it must have gone on forever.There cannot be many like you who can resurrect complicated ‘Fartherland’ stuff.I imagine if you factored in the hours involved you deserve/ need a big margin. Too many people enter this job after being badly influenced by flash traders who usually ‘ don’t have a pot to P in ‘.