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twerp
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£500/600 job
But imagine if it was the door seal !
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Yep - I remember a 1 year old Mk7 Golf with what I assumed was a leaky heater matrix (sympton: wet passenger carpet)
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55 minutes ago, tradex said:
Where do they get these strange sticker prices from...£10,291???
Ahh, I know, they have spent a fortune on consultants, and the general public 'figure' this means it's been reduced to the bare bones.
Always one to embrace new ideas so we will change all the prices to end in £X,291 'n see them fly away.
Either Evans Halshaw or Paragon use the last digit to denote time left in inventory before it goes to auction
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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.-
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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
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Andy - you seem to buy a lot of troubled cars
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Facebook owners clubs and classifieds?
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24 minutes ago, AutoJacob said:Your daughter is bang on the hyundai coupes having a big following, they have the biggest Hyundai owners club in the UK.
I know of a guy that always has 3-4 of the things. Dirt cheap at auction
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1 hour ago, Arfur Dealy said:Fluid leak ?
ABS DSC pump requires refurb/replacement.
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Im fairly sure that a lot of the refurb services are just supplying 2nd hand ones with the mileages adjusted
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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
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I sometimes feel you could buy cars from BCA/Manheim and sell them for more on DA.
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8 minutes ago, Earunder said:100 %
Another day, another 6 pages of A4 made worthless. Not even 1 provisional today and I had around 40+ vehicles watched and bid upon.
The double hall bid was out in force today. How can the auctioneer see my 2 bids on the bounce while seeing 2 people in the hall? If he's watching the screen for my bid he's not watching the hall., it's impossible.
Derby and Nottingham were unreal today.
Can't stand Derby BCA, always very dear
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2 hours ago, Earunder said:Today has been one of the most expensive, well "run" days, I've ever seen.
Was watching BB, PeterB, Bedford and all made silly crazy. Over CAP clean without fees.
Only had 7 vehicles on my lists today but didn't even get second bidder on one of them! Wouldn't mind so much, but now I have about 25 spaces. Been a crazy start to the year with some of these prices. Don't particularly want to go back to Manheim but it's looking more and more likely.
Jag XF - 2011, 35k, White, V6 Premium Lux, CAP £12,200 - Made £12,750 - Retails on AT @ £14,260...
It's a crazy game right now.
Yes cars that used to generate GP of 20% are down to 10%
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There is a lucrative market for one way European van hire
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Food for thought:
A friend paid £500 for 48 one way LHD van hire from Barcelona to Birmingham
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42 minutes ago, justina3 said:Most of the big boys will not be looking at the car price but the bolt on's to make there margin, huge commissions for gap ppi superguard the list does go on.
The ones that I watch till seem to buy for 10% Gross at least, so not exactly peanuts.
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37 minutes ago, Arfur Dealy said:Wow Rory result !! I'm plodding along with 9 sold so far, but very busy trying to get my unit usable
Ive only got 9 listed with 11 to put on......There's not enough time in the day...
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...
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1 hour ago, Mojo121 said:Depending on the quality of your pitch I’d stick it up at £1295. £995 would have the phone going barmy.
I know it’s old but it’s a reliable Skoda auto which is worth something to people.
£1295 !? Where in the country are you ?!
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22 minutes ago, Jon said:Just returned from Mannheim empty handed again!
2011 Mini Cooper d cab, cap clean £5700 sold for £6800 plus fees ????
Leave it out !
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8 minutes ago, DHill said:I've always struggled with Skodas, last one I had for 6 months before I cut my losses back in September and sold it to a trader in Ireland, he's still got it.
The car supermarkets still hoover them up at the sales though
Auction prices.
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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.