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I would watch the Scottish BCA auctions and rarely saw much that made it worthwhile to transport 350 miles to the Midlands. Some cheap commercials mind.

£500/600 job But imagine if it was the door seal !

Yep - I remember a 1 year old Mk7 Golf with what I assumed was a leaky heater matrix (sympton: wet passenger carpet) Went 3.5K under CAP

Either Evans Halshaw or Paragon use the last digit to denote time left in inventory before it goes to auction

But the auction car was a White Fast Ford. Still dear, bearing in mind people only paid £14.5k new, and its 5 years old.

"VW Audi 'Less than Perfect' " ?? What I'm talking about was at BCA Walsall, they would have 2/3 newish Audi's on 'Direct Select' near the start of the auction and they always had a vague fishy history.

Those with courtesy cars, what do your customers do for insurance ? Day Insure is more than car hire these days

^ People forget to hang in there. You can still pick up some good buys if you watch online 5 x auctions and don't leave your seat, even on busy auctions when others in the hall aren't paying attention.

Anyone else remember 1-2 year old unrecorded but substantially damaged and rebuilt 'Direct from Main Dealer Audi' coming through BCA ? Often not in the catalogues

Andy - you seem to buy a lot of troubled cars

Facebook owners clubs and classifieds?

I know of a guy that always has 3-4 of the things. Dirt cheap at auction

ABS DSC pump requires refurb/replacement.

Im fairly sure that a lot of the refurb services are just supplying 2nd hand ones with the mileages adjusted

I blew up the clocks on a Mk1 Focus through a jumpstart. These days it is easier and cheaper to find clocks on ebay with a similar mileage for £20

I sometimes feel you could buy cars from BCA/Manheim and sell them for more on DA. You could probably tell them to collect from the auction centres too.

Can't stand Derby BCA, always very dear

Yes cars that used to generate GP of 20% are down to 10%

There is a lucrative market for one way European van hire

Food for thought: A friend paid £500 for 48 one way LHD van hire from Barcelona to Birmingham

The ones that I watch till seem to buy for 10% Gross at least, so not exactly peanuts.

At times, I have considered outsourcing listing and photo editing to one of those Eastern European freelancer / home workers for a few quid an hour...

£1295 !? Where in the country are you ?!

Leave it out ! Straight Mini cabs sell for -£500 CAP Clean at the BCA BMW open sales

The car supermarkets still hoover them up at the sales though