BHM

I agree with your second point but you’d seriously ask a person for their ID?

Very true, hindsight’s a wonderful thing. Assuming there’s no other issue then simply a full DPF = strip & clean OR replace DPF.

+1. Here’s my take on it; 1. Scrap the pure scrap (or more likely sell it to one of the scruffy lads who’ll break it down & then scrap it). 2. The Ok but not worth f***ing about with cars sell Spares/Repair, Trailered Away with a savage advert & a savage attitude to any stupid questions on the phone. IF IT’S A SMALL CAR, Corsa, Clio, Micra etc. DONT BOTHER WITH THIS CATEGORY, relegate the car to the paragraph above because the punters aren’t on this planet. 3. MOT & fix as appropriate, do most advisories, possible a valet & sell as normal TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE (i.e. chase away the unrealistic fussy scum who want to bid you in the bollocks anyway).

Possibly but DPFs do not last forever & regens don’t clear them 100%.

Mark I know this isn’t a help now but don’t mess about selling cars with full DPFs. Replacements for D5s start at about £130+VAT depending upon the model. For most run of the mill stuff nowadays if it’s got a few miles on it & the DPF is full just replace it.

I’d rather have ‘underseal’ along with undertrays rather than corrosion. It’s the death knell for most car sales.

Snap. I went to a local auction yesterday & saw much going at retail prices. As for online bidders, Manheim are going to send a couple of them some right old scrap with knackered engines. Strong bids, but what online can’t hear are knocking engines etc.

Try telling that to a punter on a £1295 Astra.

I remember as a youngster looking at a Mk2 Escort. It was a 1.3 on the log book “But it’s got a 1.6 in it. It f***in flies lads, 1.3 insurance, get the f***er bought”. That honestly was the sales patter Happy days.

Oil leak & corrosion - two killers in my experience.

FFS

Is this a wind-up.....that’s exactly the town it came from! It’s the other end of the country from us but it was something he wanted & assumed it’d be issue free. Drove it back, the next day had it on the ramp, phoned the dealer, someone said take it to a local branch. All sorted but the local branch billed Southampton for over £2000 just to bring it up to MOT standard. You couldn’t make it up.

Absolutely 100% true.

Honest John is wrong to make such a sweeping statement but there is an element of truth in it; a fellow trader bought, RETAIL, a 4 year old Merc from a Merc Dealer & that had a couple of knackered tyres, a welded-up alloy (yes, really) AND a crack in the windscreen. To make matters worse they’d MOT’d it the day before collection. When was this? Less than 3 months ago. And here’s me the other week, MOT’d a £999 VW which got advisories on tyres but they were so close to the limit I replaced them.

I’ve just looked online - one of the sellers titles includes “CHOOSE HOW MANY STAMPS YOU NEED” FFS and the average Johnny Scumbag Punter says WE are the dodgy ones.

Tbh the sight of that self-righteous Matt fella would boil my piss anyway.

Autoaid for me. I’ve not used them in a couple of years but tomorrow I’m collecting a DA purchase so who knows?

Correction: in all businesses!

I don’t think you’re helping!

Just watched the last 5 minutes. Personally if I’d driven up to their property and saw what worked there I wouldn’t of got out of my car. Anyone who did so may as well have “I deal with anything, I’m as thick as pig shit, please rip me off” tattooed on their heads.

Christ! Good luck Mark. I think I’d go out on the piss today if I were you.

Of course they do. I’ve not watched 20-odd minutes of video but such bollocks as social network reviews have not made trading ‘safer’. There will ALWAYS be traders with sharp practices, just like there’ll ALWAYS be twatful punters. Social media, or any other bullshit, will not change this because this is human nature. A few posts by a few dickheads amongst their friends amounts to sweet f.a.

Here! Here! Some of the trade phoning for a car are the greediest scum out there. 50% of them are a complete waste of time & expect retail ready for scrap money and then want more off for a drink. When making a purchase, be it a something from shop or once in a blue moon a car from a private, I treat the seller with respect & deal upfront & go there anticipating to buy at full money. If it’s not as described then fair enough, but I hear the Gumtree lads at the block bragging about their latest ‘private’ they’ve raped (allegedly - talk is cheap at the block) & it’s nothing to be proud about. Traders who whinge about punters haggling then take the piss with a private are the worst type of person. Tbh if some of you came around here working your tickets you’d get a rude awakening.

Hmmmm, I treat others with the same courtesy I’d like to experience. Prices got superheated recently and there are now a LOT of overpriced ones out there - I’ve not bought one in about 2 months & funnily enough I’m sat on a diesel, the first time I’ve had a ‘newer’ shape CRV longer than a fortnight - a couple of viewings but not Honda men, just Peugeot men fancying a slice of Japanese quality but wanting to pay French-dross prices. Tbh though, EVERYTHING seems to be dead for the last fortnight up here in the grim north.

I’m with both of you but as hard as I am are you two saying you NEVER discount? I don’t often but sometimes to get a sticky car away, or a scruffy shitter, the only way seems to be to give in & get it gone. I NEVER get into monetary discussions over the phone or via email - I think most of those types of enquiries are just fishing or simply don’t have the money; the “I’ve got money coming in next week” punters. How come so many can afford a car next week when some miraculous payment gets to them? It puzzles me because it’s taken 35/40/50/whatever years so far & they haven’t got a ha’penny to scratch their arses with!