BHM

+1.

My phone is most definitely OFF tomorrow. I’m sure some of you will make a sale but the great British public is bored and are looking for various forms of entertainment. It won’t be at the expense of my time.

One half-price less than perfect German p/x shitter sold this week. Plenty of emails from arseholes, a couple of plastic trade vermin trying to rape me over the phone and two visitors today - usual Saturday tyrekickers not at all ready to buy so both politely brushed off rather than waste my time sitting in cars with the unwashed.

.......and after you’ve presented that to the prospective customer don’t expect to hear from them again. If only the public understood, however many will use it as an opportunity to back a car.

That Dude’s an arse.

Fucking hell. Section 4

Too much Diesel in the oil? Turbo seals gone? Although when they go they normally over-rev every time you start & give it a few revs. Good luck, I hope permanent damage hasn’t been done to the engine.

I think you two have both summed things up nicely. Anyone thinking AT is doing this out the goodness of their heart must be smoking a crack pipe.

Give them a week & I think reality will sink in. I think on any longer-termers I’ve got advertised I’ll consider half-reasonable offers to move them on for fresh stock.

Appraisals might work well enough on 2 - 3 year old stock but they don’t cover 25% of what I check (in 90 - 120 seconds so it’s not exactly rocket science). Someone wrote earlier they believe Manheim may try to revisit this in the future, I agree, but it will not work on cheaper/older stock given the current wholly lacking appraisals.

I’d rather take my chances with DA than pay up at a Manheim cash desk, be directed to a handover point only to see the yard lads pushing out my latest purchase with a knocking engine cos the clutch had just packed-up halfway across the yard.....and that’s before I stuck my head inside to be greeted with the stench of cigarettes, a non working blower fan & faulty electric windows. Bid online? No fucking chance whatsoever.

Good luck. There is absolutely no chance of me bidding online for cars up to £3K based on their absolutely pisspoor non-descriptions. I’d be bankrupt within weeks of buying blind from them shysters.

What do you mean MORE problems? He didn’t seem to have a problem shagging that young chap & he also never had a problem with his reputation by shagging that same young chap behind his Mrs’s back. He should be advertising Teflon.

Plenty on Dealer Auction though for the trade. I guess the main dealers are doing nowt so they’ve had time to upload all of their accurately described gems.

Absolutely. They can f.o. & traipse around for hours looking at the pure shit, burning off their petrol, for all I care.

I’ve NEVER had a customer walk from a car with a clean engine bay. In fact it’s only very rarely I hear negative comments about clean engines - most don’t know what goes on under the bonnet anyway. Also, on my sub-£3K cars if they’ve been to view anything prior to me from what I hear half of it’s dirty & misdescribed.

How much do you pay for Finish? I buy a 25ltr drum at a time & was recently charged £100+VAT which was more than usual. It was a different lad on the van & admittedly that’s all I buy from them though.

At least his loo roll should come in handy.

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

Since when has ‘good value’ meant ‘a twat’?

VAG man alert!

What a bellend.

Can’t you get pissed & fornicate with a prostitute without going to America?

Here’s an opportunity for any of you lads who own a truck & are saying business is quiet. Make hay etc. etc.