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  1. Posted

    3 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    You are not obliged to pay your rent.Burger King just announced the same and their leases cannot be forfeited.

    I think burger king got a bit more persuasive powerful than I. I haven't seen anything about you not being obliged to pay your rent. Just they have froze the evictions for 3 months. Unfortunately my landlord loves money too much and although he has a mortgage free industrial estate with less overheads than i, which much net him a couple of million per annum. No green eyed monster in me as you can see!

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    I think it will be the business folding option for me. I'm sure there's a few on here that think they will be selling cars in 2 or 3 weeks and fair play to you. I am not as optimistic as that, and I'm not interested in paying my landlord's bills for the next 3 to 4 months, whilst I have zero income. It is what it is is there's a lot worse in the world right now and me being able to pay my bills. Good luck all.

  3. Posted

    From reading of many different sites my interpretation is single company directors will be eligible to "furlough" however will not be able to carry on with any running of the busiess. No emails, calls, tax returns, nothing related to the business and obviously no sales (not that I'm expecting any). Obviously this isn't official, but that's my interpretation.

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    1 hour ago, SouthernTrader said:

    Also doesn’t apply if you are a director or a Ltd company unfortunately which I guess applies to a lot of us. My hope is we can be trading in 8 weeks again but what will business be like when we go back?

    I haven't seen this confirmed yet?

  5. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Nick M.K. said:

    By the way, there is a great little app called TransferWise. Extremely simple, transfers from one country's account (and currency) to another with minimal fees and very low margin conversion. Much cheaper than him using his bank to send his Euros to my Sterling account. 

    The problem is that it takes at least 1 working day, it is not instant.

     

    I took a payment on revoult last month. Fantastic app. Irish girl who had just moved from Dubai to London and couldn't get a UK bank account for 30 days. Money received in milliseconds.........

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  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, keyboardwarrior said:

    second rate used car dealer? 

    Spoken like a true left winged hatred filled Corbyn loving progressive who just love to attack others.  You can shove it fella.

    Elon Musk - the man who single-handedly destroyed the internal combustion engine, gave the super elites the chance to enforce there agenda on 'climate change' while brain-washing millenials and now as his last party trick... he has killed the used car industry.

     

    wish you well in whatever you do, it clearly won't be selling used cars....

  7. Posted

    Give it a rest will you. Adapt or do something else. Shall we bring back the steam train and reopen the pit? Elon musk is a nut case. Tesla have not turned a profit and they may never. However people like him are to be celebrated, not moaned because he's made it hard for some second rate USED car dealer can't keep flogging old technology. Keep moaning and blaming others......

  9. Posted

    chrome trim is going to be a pain

    Just now, EPV said:

    My smart repairers paint plastic trim/diffusers. Bumpers are plastic of some sort of another, i can’t see why it can’t be painted. As for the “chrome” trim it’s probably plastic not chrome and will be best replaced. 

    or repair and paint the chrome black...........

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  10. Posted

    Just had my very first claim using surecheck and to be honest couldn't have gone smoother. Got the car back, the report stated that the engine ran smoothly. Started in the next morning ran like a bag of nails. Had car scanned and it revealed super knock. Diagnosed HPFP, they asked me to send over a video and pictures of the fault code via Whatsapp! Did that, they agreed to the claim, asked if I wanted the money myself or sent to the garage. I made the invoice out to them and 2 days later they sent me £600. Maybe its because its the first time I have had to claim after hundreds of report bought cars, but it could not have been easier. 

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    1 hour ago, Axiom said:

    I tried A1 on Mark101's recommendation, but wasn't called back after two people took messages for my area manager to contact me, and was concerned that the freefone number on their own website wasn't working as of about 3 weeks ago. Ended up going with Lawgistics self-administered as everything seems fairly self explanatory. 

    I'm putting between 150 and 200 aside for each warranty and am leaving it in a separate business account for one year on a rolling basis.

    So you are going to have thousand in the bank without using it for stock?

  12. Posted

    3 hours ago, SL2390 said:

    I did all my research and everything came up legit. Yes I was stupid but I also think that the banks should have more in place to stop these. Apparently the accounts the scammers use were known to the police but they were not closed and my bank account gave no warning when transferring a large sum of money which they should have done.

    Paying for a car in full before you had seen it? Who does that. Justify it however you want to yourself, however the fault lies with you and not the bank.

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    4 hours ago, SL2390 said:

    Been doing a lot of searching and found out the two people running the whole thing are actually on the FBI most wanted list for money laundering amongst plenty of other things! The website was made in Russia but when tracing get the ip addresses on the emails it looks likely they're using an IP blocker to hide their location. Still waiting to hear from the bank, they've got another couple of days and if it's not the outcome I want it's going further to the financial ombudsman with all the proof that I took care when making sure this company was "legit" and hopefully get the money back that way plus some compensation! Then it's off to a dealership by me!

    Compensation? To be honest I can't see why you should get any money back from the bank. It's not fair that scammers like this exist in the world, but equally it's not right for other people to pay for your stupidity. I hope you get your situation resolved, but if you get compensation for this error of your own making, then it really shows how far humanity has fallen.

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    Ok, Maybe your invoice is different to mine, but they have an Irish vat number on my invoice and use the vat reverse charge scheme which means effectively I can't claim Vat off the amount charged.

  17. Posted

    9 hours ago, MarkTVS said:

    My better half overhead me on the phone the other day talking about a dodge part exchange and started excitedly asking me about the car, her assuming it was something special like a charger :lol: 

    Unlucky for her an me the trade in was a Dodge Journey, gave well below bottom book as a trade in, it’s a 09 2.0 auto 7 seater with 100k miles, was going dispose of it by trading it till I realised they use the 2.0 tdi vw engine, so it is currently undergoing prep to be retailed as there seems to be a brilliant mark up for it! 

    The autos have the shocking powershift gearbox.

  19. Posted

    On 16/10/2018 at 7:11 AM, Barclaywoodmotorco said:

    Really nasty, I feel your pain. I had a really nasty experience, very similar to yours. I sold a seat (180bhp) with dsg. 1 hour after I sold, the customer called to say the engine had blown up. when I got to the car, it was a horrible mess, piston had let go. So cracked on and replaced the engine, got the car sold a second time, only to be informed by the second buyer that there was an issue with the gearbox. Whenever the car was used in tiptronic mode and the car was driven hard, it would always drop down to 2nd. So if you had the car in 7th gear at 70mph and you boosted in tip tronic it would drop to 2nd. putting 2+2 together, id imagine thats why the engine let go.

    I did manage to get the car fixed after taking to a dsg specialist. The software had got corrupt, so he replaced this and it ran perfectly. It did take a long time to fix and the specialist advised that most places would just change the mechatronic unit. If you want his details then let me know, but he's based in harrow. This is also the simplified version as its still very traumatic for me to go into too much detail! Never again though.

     

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  20. Posted

    6 minutes ago, EPV said:

    A 14 year old car and 120,000 miles?

    Sorry, with due respect, your mention earlier about how you’d fix a car within 3 months cos that’s how long your warranty is shows that you don’t have quite the grasp of this subject as you think you might. 

    16 minutes ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Would you.

    With a stinking attitude like that you would be told to take responsibility and ownership for the maintenance and repairs of your own car. 

    That's how long my warranty is. I'm well aware of the CRA and what it entails I have a firm grasp on this subject and have many years of experience and don't  need any advice from someone who probably hasn't even paid a vat return. But you carry on.

     

  21. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    The point is I cover the warranty and the CRA in that discussion, I say the car is freshly motd, independently inspected and accurately described which I guarantee. Customer signs to agree. I few minutes educating goes a long way.

    If I bought a car from you and the box failed within 2 months, I'd tell you to poke your accuracy and Fix my gearbox. Regardless of the prep/PDI/video, if the punters car isn't fit for purpose after 2 months how is that fair? 

  22. Posted

    4 minutes ago, mike101 said:

     

    There is no definitive legal answer - that’s the problem. Most of it is subject to the test of ‘reasonableness’. 

    If it went to Court the question would be ‘Would you expect the x on a car worth y to last z?’

    The answer would depend on a huge amount of variables but ultimately the consumer is there to be protected so will prob win!

    This

  23. Posted

    13 minutes ago, MOTORS said:

    So not a moot point

    If the mechatronic unit fails 2 months into a customer's ownership and you turn round and say sorry buddy, no faults present at point of sale, then I think that's a load of shit. One, the valve may not be registered as faulty on your tool, but it has obviously been exposed to excessive wear. I have had many of these fail and it's a fucking pain, however I've never turned round to a customer and said. "Sorry, but you're on your own". I can't see maybe people buying a 6k-10k car, owning it for a few months, then paying 3k at a main dealer to have their gearbox fixed.

    Legally.....it's mainly subjective!

  24. Posted

    I like it, you do some basic checks before the car gets sold. A quick scan and test drive is about all you can do. However, to suggest these basic checks absolve you from and warranty from a failed gearbox is ludicrous. The customer signature to say there was no issues at POS, again is pointless. 

    Just imagine suggesting to a judge that the reason you didn't help the customer was because you scanned the car 3 months previous and the customer signed for it!

    I'd suggest what you are doing is just the norm. You get a car in, inspect for faults, fix the faults then sell on?