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  1. Posted

    Some cars just won’t shift no matter what you do & sometimes you just have to sit it out. I’ve got one vehicle (small Shitron) and I’ve moved the price from between £2200 & £3999 and can I bollocks get any interest in it.

    Tbh I’m not interested in the fucking thing so why should I expect a member of the public to show interest in such a peasant conveyance? The only fuckers who’ve been interested couldn’t rustle up a ha’penny to scratch their arses. It’s just a reminder to me why I don’t ‘do’ small cars - give me an old 4x4 any day of the week with a proper profit that sells within a week or two.

  3. Posted

    10 hours ago, Lakeside said:

    Anyone else noticed an influx in people asking for delivery all over the country since the likes of Cazoo and Cinch have joined the market?

    All aware they have a week or so “to try it out”. I’ll leave that sort of customer to the big boys (like I’ll be doing free delivery, free trials etc. on my older cars :rolleyes:). 

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    19 hours ago, Holmfirth Cars said:

    We are very busy with a stream of retarded E MAIL WARRIORS

    I can feel the pain in your writing. Just ignore the daft cnuts, in the unlikely event one of them is semi-serious they’ll phone when they don’t get an email.

  5. Posted

    Go to a main dealer & I think most will stamp the book as long as it gets only oil & a filter.

    Also I’ve noticed with fleet/lease cars they only instruct to do the bare minimum. Cambelt due but only 3 months left of the lease? They’ll happily leave it (tbh I’d do the same).

  7. Posted

    Upon reading the CDM article I gather he lashed out on social media then removed it - a poor show really, showing he’s not even prepared to stand by what he says.

    From the video it looks like he’s gone to square-up the kids thinking he’s the big gaffer, failing to realise he has no authority over them, or gain any respect from them.

    At the end of the day it’s a planning issue that has turned into poor PR for his business. However it’ll soon blow over.

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    9 hours ago, Row said:

    Scrap it forget it and move on is my advice.

    Scrap it? The OP claims the work will cost £400 (it must need an awful lot of welding for £400) but the car is also worth £1500. Although tbh it all sounds like bollocks to me.

    Anyhow I certainly wouldn’t be chucking £1100 onto the scrap pile!

  9. Posted

    10 hours ago, Halfpenny said:

    As a former MoT inspector I can assure that's not a 'massive list'! In fact if the car is an average mass-market traffic-jammer its not too bad at all for 137k and 16-17 years old.

    Thank fuck for a bit of common sense.

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, DCS01 said:

    I was fully expecting some work.

    That’s all it needs so I’m unsure why you’re unhappy.

    1 hour ago, TRADE SURVIVOR said:

    However, point DCS01 made was that the test in January was 100 percent clean sheet no advisories. 

    So what? Advisories are a pass.

    Sorry but I don’t understand what you & DCS01 think is so wrong. It’s a 17yr old car that’s only failed on 2 bits of welding almost 5 months, 700 miles & the season of WINTER. Tbh without knowing the type of car, reg etc. we’re all in the dark anyway.

    16 minutes ago, DCS01 said:

    I was going to have a go with it as long as the spend wasn’t much.

    Do you really class a bit of welding & a splash of Underseal as too much of a spend? 
     

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    1 hour ago, DCS01 said:

    Should I just let this go or is reporting doing the right thing?

    I differ totally to TRADE SURVIVOR. MOT complaints are heard for the first month, or 3 months for corrosion. Something like almost 5 months have now passed, don’t waste your phone call because they will not be interested. 

    We all know there are MOTs & there are MOTs, sometimes looking at the mileage since MOT, tax end date can give you a clue there’s a tale, sometimes not.

    All it’s failed on are a couple of bits of welding. The rest are advisories so all you are really complaining about are the failures & I’m afraid holes in end-of-life cars can, and do, appear in the space of 4 to 5 months.

    Expecting a 16/17year old car to fly through an MOT suggests your a ‘glass half full’ type of person. I repeatedly hear the trade say ‘it passed its last MOT with flying colours so it should be ok this time’ :rolleyes:. I deal in a bit of old shite & old cars do NOT fly through MOT after MOT without a bit of hand/wallet interaction.

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  12. Posted · Edited by BHM

    Old story I’m afraid. I’ve never had an XC90 leak but XC60s must use the same windscreen adhesive as Ford (being the Ford years it makes sense), stand beside the A-post & a gentle push in the top corner from below will show most screens move.

    The remedy is to either remove & reglue the screen (risking a broken screen) or simply slice out the top gasket & use windscreen glue along the top gap & down the sides up against the decorative trim.

    The big hassle is removing the interior - you need to remove all seats, the three carpet pieces, suck out the water but you’ll never dry out the foam so just rip it off the carpet back & replace with loads of house carpet underlay or old towels (the height of professionalism). Replace carpets after drying out on the Mrs’s radiator.

    FOR OBVIOUS REASONS THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME PROCEDURE AS FOR FORD KUGAS, although they also piss in on the body seams under the roof rails & ESPECIALLY those body seams you can see when the boot is open.

    ALSO, for Ford Focuses see the italicised writing in the paragraph above.

    If I sound like an old hand at this it’s because I am - through bitter experience. 

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  15. Posted

    A number of large employers are already working their staff harder than before - a visit to almost any supermarket will see staff working like dogs.

    I also suspect there’ll be a number of companies who realise that up to a third of their staff are deadwood & will act accordingly once the furlough cheques stop.

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  16. Posted

    4 hours ago, David Horgan said:

    Place called CARTAKEBACK 

    www.cartakeback.com 

    www.cartakeback.com 

    What i thought . put reg in , price comes up and bingo collected and paid up . 

    Thank you very much, you’ve just made me very happy. I used them a couple of years ago & but had forgotten all about them. 

    I’ve got a shite p/x that I was going to nail back together - I punched in the reg. & have been offered £505! I couldn’t fucking believe it! Guess where it’s going :lol:

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    34 minutes ago, David Horgan said:

    he was insured as well , lucky me .

    You should be grateful it wasn’t one of my customers on their way home. The number who leave here saying they’ll sort their insurance when they get home astounds me. It’s not restricted to banger buyers either.

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    1 hour ago, Frank Cannon said:

    Probably more saddening is that the lady owner, drove it from over an hour away with canvas for front tyres, a brake pedal that felt more like a clutch it was so long and, dropping more oil on the front pipe than the Amoco Cadiz....

    .....all with her precious toddler in the back

    These are often the same punters who ask questions like “Is it safe?”, “Any advisories?” & “What are the tyres like?”, because they like to make out they’re fussy about roadworthiness.

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    I’ve never understood the remapping ‘thing’ as putting additional stresses on old & worn components doesn’t make any sense to me.

    41 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    Any punters talking about remapps is not a good signal.

    I’ve found it’s the punters who own a German ‘prestige’ cars that offer up this sort of dross. Too many owners, not enough history, knackered tyres & a smokey exhaust.

    When you get to the truth of the matter they’re usually chopping it in cos they’ve had a bellyful of issues. Just like old Range Rover or Sport owners - I get offered one a month from some punter who eventually admits its half-fucked.

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    The idiots are out in force.

    I’ve had a barrage of idiotic phone calls, a pensioner expecting my £4000 car to be like their 2 week old Motability car that “we’ve just bought” :rolleyes: (I’d call it rented with benefits money) but thankfully his leeks won’t fit in the back so I didn’t even get to refuse a test drive and walk-in from another pensioner, this time carrying a plastic bag on his way to the shops who’s just rejected an Internet-purchase car & now has money burning a hole in his pocket. For his money he wants something with plenty of spec, a nice shape (eh?), sensible miles, leather would be nice and AUTOMATIC!!!! His budget is £1500, possibly £2000. After starting to politely sack him off I changed tack & just let rip & told him a few truths. I suspect he won’t be returning. He honestly thinks £1500 buys the Earth! What fucking medication are these imbeciles on?

    16 minutes ago, MattR said:

    Bollocks. Absolute Bollocks. Selling sub 5k involves a new MOT and a service, thats enough to keep most punters happy. As for 'paying by credit card and knowing all about CRA 15', thats shit.

    I’m more or less with you on this. I prep hard, above MOT standards, & get next to no comebacks. I’ve only put my hand in my pocket (for comebacks) twice in the last two years - once for £50 & the other a tenner. Admittedly being a one man band & only selling a handful a month helps keep the screamers away.

    However I don’t deal with credit punters, I talk straight, don’t over promise & simply will not deal with those expecting the red carpet treatment or if I smell the scent of Eau de Fussy Bastard.

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    1 hour ago, Frank Cannon said:

    Also and, very importantly why just running the px 50 yards to the valeting bay is no substitute for an hours drive to check the quality of the chopper.....no 6th gear in a Focus made me laugh. 

    You’re 100% correct but would the typical salesperson, or any MA employee, know a bad car from a good one? Personally I doubt it, the majority are simply ‘in sales’ and could as easily be selling phones, sofas or beds. It would be akin to me appraising the latest smart phone - it switches on so it must be alright :lol:.

    As for the workshop staff, I can’t ever see a MA paying for an hours wage & a couple of gallons of fuel to go & kick a cars arse for 50-60 miles, which in my experience is what’s needed to show an old banger’s true character.

  23. Posted

    Answer: probably like most other internet businesses (in my experience of small items I’ve had problems with that means ignoring calls & emails, eventually blaming Covid & just generally being fucked about either by the supplier or by their courier who hasn’t made any attempt whatsoever to deliver).

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    10 hours ago, David Horgan said:

    Any public reading this , the MORAL is RING US , email is too slow in this sales environment. YOU will MISS the CAR  YOU are Looking at  

    As always, customers call, messers mail.

    I’m not saying a customer may not of initially emailed but a SERIOUS buyer picks up the phone sharpish. Two cars nailed by yesterday lunchtime both to people able to use a telephone. The email buffoons, circling like vultures, are still umming & arrring, pondering their next move or making pitiful attempts of haggling by email. Some of these digital ditherers (a.k.a. fucking morons) even get shirty when they’re informed the car has sold - I had one the other week on a Smart telling me I shouldn’t be allowed to sell cars “because we’d agreed a deal” (Eh?), he’s already taken out insurance & he is reporting me to Trading Standards. Mental.

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