David Horgan

We did have a run of Cooper S and JCW Minis over last two years , must have rebuilt at least 10 of the bloody things , piston rings stick , timing chain and tensioners , Turbo feed pipes , Gummed up with Carbon ,New plugs just to name a few problems Bloody things are a pain in the arse , but We've always made money out of them , Too high in the miles and to cheap now though to spend money on , Shame .

Wow , they must have seen where you parked the px cars and thought i know , Cheeky twats . Bet you still cant believe you fell for that trick , He would have had a visit from my reclaim adjustment team

£50 is all I will take on the phone Casper . just shows commitment from customer, Come and see it and then leave the other £450 on Chip & Pin is my rule .

If you took £7,750 over the phone you will lose the lot if its a stolen card . If he paid chip and pin on the card at your premises your safe . Its what the pin number is for , shows customer contact . its that simple really . Only take the amount of money on the phone that you are prepared to lose was what I was always told . had two old dears once try and buy a Megane R26 once and wanted to pay on the phone , i took the details of the card but didn't take the money and reported it , it was a stolen card in the end . I feel for you if you do lose the £7,750 and the car of course ,

Had a guy bring an Audi in for px , We priced it up , did the deal and he said I'll pick it up next week . Ok Next week comes and the Audi he bought was looking like a different car Parcel shelf GONE Brake Discs Changed from the new ones to Knackered ones back and front , Continental Tyres were now Ling Long Chinese Ditch finders Head Rests GONE , Spare Wheel GONE Engine Cover Gone . Floor Mats GONE He had sold them to his mate he said, because it was being part exchanged . I kept his £1,000 deposit and sent him home , never saw him again Thieving Twat

Brisk from Auto Smart is a 98% fix we find . We run it through a wet vac with hot water , BUT ; Stubborn stains i spray Brisk on the seat nearly Neat then apply steam while rubbing with a Brush or use the steamers own brush if its part of the kit , we have a high pressure steamer , while its still boiling hot wet Vac it out , works a treat . As Casper says steam on the head lining brings it up like new .

Trade insurance is a mine field , find a Broker is best advice , one that suits me wont suit you . You dont have to warrant a car at all if you dont want , various companies exist fro 3rd party to self funded CAP To buy and Glasses to Sell , that's an interesting concept . never heard that one .

You gave away a whole car to a customer because of a court case , What on gods earth was the claim for that needed the whole car giving away ?

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You don't actually deserve to sell a car to anyone with that attitude pal , Taking money for a potential death is worth a good slap in my opinion . Every car we have bought needs something doing , and it gets done as well . People like you give us all a bad name . So i think you might be better looking for a shelf stacking job at Asda .

Hi Jordan This guy is trying to pull a scam on you my friend , Found fault fixed it , found fault fixed , now found faults and wants you to pay . You offered money back and now he wants more than he paid you for unknown fixes , Scammer that's what my head tells me . Reply from me would be , BRING IT BACK NOW , BRING PROOF OF FAULTS FOUND AND HOW YOU FIXED THEM . Don't answer texts as hes winding you up and texts achieve NOTHING . face to face end of , these types need a conclusion as all they want is MONEY out of your wallet ,

I have heard that one as well . , You didn't tell me i had a lump to pay at the end .

soon be claiming they were dying of food poisoning on holiday , getting pay outs for that next

Finance was on fire June , July & August but so far Sept is debit card only deals , think its everywhere , we had the BLUE Rep in giving me all sorts of deals to play with . He said it was dead on the finance front .

6 out the building 5 on autotrader 1 today Car guru

Nah gotta be raspberry for me . Only like healthy ones

Saw similar car, Ibiza 1.4 sport 12 plate go through Notts , sounded terrible , tapping its nuts off and hobbling , cam shaft issues for sure , went in hall and made CAP average which was far to strong , then online took off like Saturn 5 and went to silly figures, Makes me wonder why cos its not as its a rare car is it , bet they got a surprise when it turned up

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Trade only

Very very true , putting the large amounts of money into the hands of those who cant manage it is a very dangerous thing . Watched some swap from buying trade UKT cars to high end stuff and fall on their swords very quickly . We know one trader who started 4 yrs ago , been through the lots of the funders , now has other traders cars to sell on commission a few of his own , 50 k into finance with a finance company who tell him its 2% if they get reciprocal business when he sells . If not the interest is much higher . Two units full of cars that are not his , the rest dont belong to him and he swears hes doing well .

Hind sight , Could of done , Should of done As i said hindsight is a wonderful thing if only we had a crystal ball Hey

Old scheme You bought car for 5k and sold it for 6 k , margin vat on £1000 New scheme You bought the car now for £5,072 and sold it for 6 k margin vat now is on £928 and not the 1,000 So instead of paying the vat and claiming it back , you dont pay it , but you pay less vat on less gross profit

Means the 5k car you bought is effectively £5,072 now so the margin VAT scheme takes care of it . You don't pay margin VAT on the £72 BCA do it as well .

Watched BCA BMW Sale this morning and xdrive 330d and 335d 64/66 plates were average £1,500/£2,000 over CAP Clean and same price as Autotrader Retail cars on sale , Madness pure madness . Watched one two months ago , needed two front tyres , MOT and wheel refurb . Nice thing was at £13,500 really max and that was well over CAP , I know this model are rare and make more than book but you still need a profit margin in that sort of stuff . The bloody thing sold at £16,000 on the hammer , Gold card fees and assured report + plus online fee would be £16,500 out the door , local place to us bought it . Put £18,495 on it , it didn't sell surprise surprise and today its on sale at less than they paid for it still wants refurb wheels and two tyres , So the dopes who do this are not helping prices are they , probably forgot what they bought it for . watched a 3.0 litre petrol BMW last month fetch £12,500 on the hammer + fees " I had a strong £11,000 for it max ", found it online for sale at £13,295 , who can work on £300 on 13k . Even if its finance its not worth doing it for . Daft times for sure , oh well onwards and upwards ,

This year Been like it for ages now in my opinion Reports are not worth a thought either now days