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Christ Rory, he’s worse than me! Even I couldn’t ‘ban’ all of those punters Tbh I attract lots of imbeciles, dreamers, tyrekickers & messers - at least when I feel my blood pressure going through the roof I know I’m still alive!

Strange cos XC90 buyers are normally the most sensible/realistic out there.

PAYE men do not understand how to earn money. I’ve written on this forum before about how easy the self employed are to deal with. It’s the PAYE men or benefits cheats, sorry I mean those in receipt of welfare benefits, who piss about & then try to bid you in the knackers.

Perhaps his mother has been passed around the trade like a rag doll

One that’s half-fucked

Say fuck all & bin any invoice/paperwork.

Haha, I was waiting for you to comment. Anyhow the answer is simple; to identify the faulty injector. You SHOULD be correct but Ford’s management system doesn’t realise the injector’s knackered. The solenoid’s clicking but the injector’s not firing so I guess that’s why the software thinks everything’s ok. Sometimes you have to revert to the old ways.

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Why is this a surprise? I’d of said it’s obvious many companies manipulate the review process. I stopped taking reviews seriously many years ago.

The trouble is with selling low mileage SMALL HATCHBACKS at 14yrs old around the £2000 mark is you’re bound to attract numpties. Anyone even considering dropping that sort of money into an old Fiesta clearly isn’t of sound mind anyway. It’ll sell because the miles will sell it but I’d say dealing with the ‘odd’ comes with that market - tbh aren’t small hatchback buyers the fussiest, greediest, skintest bastards anyway?

99% of the time the EML is your friend but sometimes you have to revert to pulling off wires here & there or, God forbid, playing parts darts. So much for modern computing power - funnily enough in all my years I’ve never had to remove a diesel injector (the occasional bottle of plop on a mega mileage turd but that’s all) but I've currently got a 2010 Mondeo who’s management software doesn’t even recognise it’s on 3 pots - anyone with the gift of hearing can tell it’s not right from 10 feet away.

Saturday teatime & the phone starts. As is the norm at this time of day they all want to meander down “Sometime tomorrow, for a look”. “Sorry, I’m closed”, which is another way of saying NO FUCKING CHANCE!! My blood pressure dealing with Sunday tyrekickers would be through the roof - we’ll see how keen they are to visit on the other 6 days of the week.

Nowt wrong with that. Half of the ad’s on Facebook & Gumtree also say this

Don’t underestimate it. It can’t perform miracles but I once stuffed 4 bottles of Wynn’s & a gallon of diesel into a 160,000 mile 2.2 diesel Rav 4 that was smokey as f*** & kept going into limp mode. After a 25 mile Italian tune-up no more limp mode & slightly less smokey. I know it won’t rebuild 160K mile injectors but it was enough to move it on to its next greedy owner.

Hi Akhtar, as you want to improve your earnings yet you’ve earned little over the last two years you won’t go far wrong if you forget everything you’ve been doing & start afresh. You've received some good advice above from many, you’d be wise to read all posts (including the ones you don’t like!) and have a good think whether or not this industry is for you.

Doesn’t everyone charge their business 40p per mile of personal car usage? You can do so with £200’s worth of Corsa if you want. Anyhow, the family car is an old CRV but the days of me giving a toss about cars has long gone. Any one of my heaps of shit with the red n white plates thrown in the window does me. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, for God’s sake lets not start another debate about the usage of trade plates because; A) I don’t care & B) It’s all bollocks cos I’ve been doing it for well over a decade without issue.

........but there’s a bullshitter on Facebook with a few photos (carefully avoiding the registration plate) outside a shithole compound selling on behalf of his friend offering the earth (“my friend will send the FSH”) and he tells me the car’s absolutely split mint and it’s cheaper than yours and xxxxxx and xxxxxx and xxxxxx (the claims go on & on). You can’t compete unless you’re scum, I know of a Facebook trader - he sells absolutely anything & just hopes it doesn’t come back. Tbh most don’t return & he gets away with all sorts, I wouldn’t be able to sleep selling the death traps he does. Recent sales include a Vx with intermittent power steering failure sold to a young mother (that one actually came back) & a French gem that his favourable MOT tester helpfully cast an eye over without logging on & condemned so that was sold with the remaining MOT. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you his former occupation (and no, I won’t be disclosing it either!).

As this chap says you arrive for 10am, the judge decides the running order & you sit in the waiting room for as long as it takes to be called. Assuming the judge is happy that all information is present the case will proceed & take as long as it takes - it could be 20 minutes, it could be 2 hours. Also see TV’s post above. Assume it’ll be an all day job, assume nothing else (your opposition might pull a rabbit out of the hat) & expect to lose then you won’t be disappointed at the outcome. PS as you’re a secondhand car dealer defendant don’t expect to win. The only person I know of who claims to have won is Arfur Dealy of this forum - I don’t personally know a single motor trader who’s been the defendant & won! Best of luck anyway.

They’ve come & gone - well, priced themselves out of the ‘Aldi’ market. The latest is Dacia but funnily enough a couple of days ago I was handed one of their brochures. The bottom Sandera £6995 & tops out at £11395 and the Duster starts at £9995 & tops out at £18695 - hardly Romanian peasant money.

Remember when diesels were cheap, low powered, simple plodders? The more dealings I have with diesels at 100K+ the more it reinforces why I wouldn’t recommend one to most folk - they’re ok if thrashed regularly but chugging about at 2000rpm invites long term problems.

Bulk buying of lubricants I nearly fell of my chair when I read this!! Filthy perverts.

Aren’t Berlingo clutches ALWAYS high? That’s how they are & you can tell when they’re well worn cos the pedal goes heavy. I’m assuming it’s not slipping in which case sack them off - I couldn’t give a toss whether or not a customer prefers a different biting point or pedal weighting. There’s a vast difference between NEEDS and WANTS.

The clutch will be knackered - or more accurately the pressure plate fingers will be weakened. I used to flog a few Kias/Hyundais & they go through clutches for fun. Cheap to replace but put in a quality make like LUK, don’t be tempted to save £20 on a ‘National’ clutch (or similar) because new they feel as bad as the one you’ve taken out.