David Horgan

Worse ones in my view are the Volvo V70 handbrakes when its a manual box , Now that's just not been thought of at all for a manual box and was obviously designed to accompany the Auto . Wrong place all together

Costa do you know how much they charge . Wife makes real coffee that's delicious at a fraction of the cost

Autosmart is a good all rounder . We are also detail polishers , so don't get me going on polishes , beading water , application methods , time it stays on , how to prep surfaces before waxing or sealing or both or layering or what type and thickness of micro fibre to take it off is best . Then of course there's the inside too . Phew coffee time over , wow your lucky now , i gotta go get on with something

My dear wife buys ours , wouldn't have a clue myself . All this talk of shopping has given me the need for caffeine

Advertise the plates to the public , £20 +vat , we do 10/12 a week from a sign on the wall , takes two mins to do if they have the correct docs . Halfrauds charge £32 . £200 a year to lease the machine is a no brainer , pays for our stock to leave with shiny new plates

Nearly fell off my chair reading that , how very true though

There is a USE for a Zafira after all , never thought i'd ever hear they were useful God i hate those bloody things

I had wondered about Casper . That's funny but so nice too , What a nice thing to do for the old lady .

Stops at Dover , great deal well done Tony

Be same in my mind too Return to base at customer expense for warranty claims , Write it on invoice , explain it to them , get them to sign a PDI , and sign to the listed warranty parts covered . Sign against " Customer returns at own expense " The other thing is , if its popular , sell it to someone else cos if their main question is warranty their main thing will be to claim . Our warranty Stops at DOVER , that's what i tell them .

I would be on We buy any van , end of , far as I'm concerned . List like that at 134k for that money and I'm out . He's valuing the DAY VAN bit far to high , those types always think what they have is worth a fortune , , Camper van man near us says Transits don't sell that quick as day vans either . Trying VW money for a Ford I reckon . Expensive for a rock n roll bed But I know nothing about those things I must admit except "I wouldn't want one "

Bimbo Firstly Welcome We have all heard of the computer analytics trying to play a part in car sales . Auto trader have loads of that going on , telling us this that and the other , Web sites telling us when our busy times are , Autotrader telling us what sells in our area and what doesn't sell as fast . My opinion , its a load of tosh , pure and simply a load of rubbish . Just like all the car valuations from whoever you like to mention . CAP is useful for telling you how much you can get on a finance deal and that's about it . Because most finance Companies do 120% of retail and use CAP . The rest is a pure feeling in the fingers of many years experience and a very in depth knowledge of the trade , and a lot of mechanical experience too when buying . All the best Bimbo and I mean that , but don't rely on your computer background to help buy cars , it wont work my friend , EG : every POLO SE you will ever have in stock WILL be different Remember that , its where the feeling in the fingers are needed , One will tap , Another will Knock , one will leak , Another will boil up , one will misfire , one wont turn off , one wont start , and the list goes on , The computer says buy NOW , but the computer wont pay the repair bills

www.wellspek.co.uk The mans a genius , pure and simply a genius . Talks like a machine gun but a genius . Little village called Bilsthorpe in Notts .

This is a good one , Dent man came yesterday telling us he had spent the weekend in YORK celebrating his sons uni exam pass . Heavy drinking he said , " i turned round to hug my son and say well done , we went back to the hotel and it wasn't till then he found out it wasn't his son The mans not here for long

I think that's how car guru works Mark , all connected to the search process they use in my opinion , area by area , we have the same result , nothing nothing then 5 all at once and back to nothing again ,

Were lucky then . We only outsource the dent man ,any day except Mon and Friday Mon hes getting over being drunk , Friday he's to excited about being drunk . Tue/Thursday hes very good . Everything else is in house from pumping tyres up to gearbox rebuilds . Nothing challenges my lad at all , its freaky easy when you see him work . He's just done my XRF timing chains & tensioners and water pump WOW pure genius to watch , TT belts one and half .

Is it sold though ? Hope so

Might only have 15 cars on sale today , but i cant keep up with the stock more than half my sales don't hit the web site mind , I do have two sites as well . eg 6 deals today 4 on finance , one 24/7 finance to which i said NO , the customer then went and found me and the car online , I saved him £32 a month with Moto Novo and took a chunk on commission £32 x 60 months is £1,920 i saved him , He hates 24/7 more than me now . My conclusion is if we all pulled out of these leaches that want OUR and your Cars they wouldn't have a business would they and we and you would have heavier wallets . I must say to them 15 times a month NO and I always sell the cars very soon afterwards , usually on a finance quote too . I average 40 -45 cars a month if 10 went to 24/7 i would lose £2,500 a month commissions on average if i only sold half of the 10 on finance , 12 months of that and its 30 k , if i said yes and paid 24/7 their £180 + vat i would be £900 a month worse off for the same 5 cars 900 x 12 = £10,800 DOWN instead of £30,000 UP and remember thats only 5 cars not the 10 or even 15 i say no too . NO is my answer to 24/7 and always will be till they realise we want commission from the sale , simples Rory is right too , Thanks Rory , I ain't been smacked with the daft brush YET BUT we all ,do make different choices and do things different , of that i fully agree . NO offence Tadams by the way , I'm just very old school . Nothing offends me so long as I'm earning money to the max .

Never give us commission even after me asking why not , I spend my life converting customers to our finance firms . Probably annoys them somewhat but its my car i'm selling so i sell it how i like to who i like when i like . When they try and charge me its a dead deal for them as far as I'm concerned . Had some scarce types of low mileage stock and Zuto /24'7 have tried to deal their customers into them . Think I'm letting them sell them to their customers they have another think coming , Close , Blue and Moto Novo cars and nothing else , Zuto do squirm when i say no haha

If your not in the VAT club its not worth bothering is it ?, Not many deals in a year to stay under the threshold of VAT . Not that i agree with 20% , it should be 5% in my mind , and every one should be made to join . Rant over

ZUTO and 24/7 wont pay you commission , you need to find a good broker that does pay you a commission cheque at month end . Close and Moto Novo will deal with you when you get bigger , but a broker looks your best route Mallard , Euro Drive , Connected Car Finance , are a few brokers . but ring round them all .

Not a good thing to happen , Better happening to you than the customer though , least you can fix it , test it and sell it knowing it works .

I love this sort when they turn up with a shagged px ,

And i tell you now he will take it home , subject to anything he wants to look at or say , Never had one refuse yet and he wont be the first to walk away without his car , I'm a lot fussier than he is and I haven't met him yet , Tell you Thursday when 12 k spills out of the card terminal . My world a deposit is a sold item , its not refundable either on distance selling because hes coming to see us and I'm open the public . man enough to offer a deposit and expect its here when you want to come 5 days later , then its not refundable sir , they know that too no secret . No deposit i don't save it "period " But don't expect the service of taking it off sale and keeping safe for you without your side of the bargain sir . But i do know what they are looking for before they arrive and their expectations are always exceeded . Why no one leaves without their new car . There are many many many skills to this game that i would not post , its a life lesson , One is dont do owt for nowt unless its for thee sen . Or in English Make sure you take a profit that is proportional to the sale .

Well I'm certainly NOT moving towards the low profit model . Not being a silly busy fool , never done that in all the yrs I've been working for my self . Not selling cars has more to do with , location , quality of product , being in the price loop not below it , keeping up with what sells as each new generation come on board . Even where you advertise what model of car , all makes a difference between they ring me and not you . Its a changing type of job as new methods of selling and new generations come on board to buy cars . I've just sold a car to a customer 200 miles away and he liked my pictures , that was his criteria on looking for a car . " don't ask me either " Left me £500 bank transfer deposit and collecting Thursday , its priced above the others too