Screenman

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  1. Posted

    As somebody from the dark side, I am the guy that helps ease your problems. No dealer waits more that 48 hours, my dealers never question my price if they do they get dropped. If it is urgent like the call that came in from 911 Sport at 7pm yesterday is done and finished ready for delivery at 10am this morning, if they tried that one to often they would be dropped. No £35 a car for dents, make it that a panel and I will prove I can keep cars out of the body shop that the cheaper dent guys will not.

    Glass repairs, if most repairs and up liking more than a dried raindrop when finished find another repairer.

    Find an ex car dealer who does the job for fun and who knows the pain you lot feel and things will be easier.

    Keep smiling, you are earning a fortune, as anyone who has never done the job or worked for themselves will tell you.

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    35 minutes ago, Autolink100 said:

    I remember Brentford. I used to go there occasionally in the mid to late 80s when I first started working with my father. What I most remember is what a ball ache it was to get there from from Croydon.

    Has anyone mentioned Wandsworth Bridge Auction yet? Is it still there?

     

    Do you remember Broad Green Service Station, just down from Sinatra's in Croydon, I had cars on there in the early eighties, or Balham Car sales the Total petrol station in Balham was another place. Along with a few more, all a long time ago.

    Mitcham auction, that was a place I found shall we say different. Can I remember going to a Bracknell auction as well?

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    31 minutes ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Try being as car dealer, you have a very very simple life.....

    I was for 15 years before moving up north for an easier life 30 years ago. The idea was to find something that looked after us for only 3 or 4 days a week instead of the 7 I was doing.

    Anyone around from Twickenham, Sunbury in the Seventies and Eighties.

     

    1 hour ago, s and b said:

    hi 

    have you tried a miniductor to remove hail dents and if you have what do you think of it?

    thanks

    I have seen it demonstrated close up several times, I was not impressed.

    1 hour ago, trade vet said:

    I imagine you will have some good stories about traders excuses.......slow or non  paying,confusing invoices and trying to chip your  prices etc

    Not at all, all my customers are perfect in every way. :D

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    Can you do that hail damaged roof this afternoon ( they told me about it at 4pm) we want to show it to somebody in the morning. Dealers, I love them all.

    Just got home to two dealers cars parked up the driveway, luckily they do not want them back until the morning, screen damage in one and dents in another. Of course this nearly 62 year old who leaves home at 6.30 am just loves to come home after a day at work and do more, if only the word no! had been included in my vocabulary I would not be working so hard.

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    20 hours ago, trade vet said:

     Card machines/processors....I am out of touch,can any of you guys tell me if you have a system where every card payment you receive can be individually referenced to make accounting easier ?

     

    Yes it can, I just go online and login to Worldpay to see any transactions listed.

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    Go way back to 1986,

    You never told us,

    Never told you what?

    That the steering wheel is on the wrong side.

    Yep! honest one that, we sold a VW camper to a couple of sisters (maybe) from Richmond Surrey they viewed it 3 times they sat in it for hours and we delivered it a week after purchase, they were in it again during handover and did not want to take up the offer of a drive at any time. They called a couple of hours after my salesman got back to the site and I was the one who took the call.

    I did offer money back straight away but they decided to keep it as they were going off too Europe with it.

    Those were the days when you were retailing VW campers for a couple of grand and less. If I remember correctly that one was bought for about £500 and went out at £1495. Happy days.

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    3 hours ago, FHP11 said:

    Hi Guys,

     

    A bit of advice, especially if anyone has been through the same issue.

    We received a penalty from the DVLA for driving an unlicenced vehicle from a roadside DVLA road tax van. Fair enough, the vehicle was not taxed, however, trade plates were on display.

    We wrote back stating as such. They wrote back stating that they would like us to pay £135.

    We wrote back again stating that we have paid up trade plates which were on display. They wrote back with a picture of the front section of the vehicle, basically just showing the grille and bumper  (noway near the entire car) stating that no trade plate was on display.

    I called up telling them that you state trade plates cannot obscure the number plate. She told me that's right, they must be mounted next to the number plate!!

    When I asked how that was possible, she just said we cannot advise about that. Do they want us to drill or stick trade plates to each vehicle we drive?

    They just stated that they cannot be inside the vehicle and cannot obscure the front plate. So Frustrated that they waste my time and theirs on these things when we fully pay for the facility of trade plates and make every effort to abide by their use. Fair enough people who drive without tax but not business that pay their way.

    What an outdated piece of legislation that requires us to show these plates but gives no way for this to be reasonably possible and in many cases completely impossible.

     

    In any case, I'm half tempted to ask them to set a court date for the matter to be heard, but just wanted to hear if anyone else had any experience or luck with these issues.

    I thought that trade plates had to go over the existing plate now.

  20. Posted · Edited by Screenman
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    I welcome a visit from anyone you wish to nominate Arfur, pictures will prove nothing.

    1 hour ago, tradex said:

    The dealership works van -south coast division- has a nasty screen chip so invested 4 quid on one of those cheap kits, if only to see why we pay our screen man to have holidays in top Venice hotels:)

    Did you work it out?

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    Arfur, sorry I misunderstood you, I though that you wanted to see if you were getting good value for money from your repair guy as many are not. For sure I could post some pictures up but not sure what that would prove as they could belong to somebody else, or as in the video above show artistic manipulation.

    With a bit of google I doubt it would be hard to find out a bit about myself, nothing to hide here and I am not after any more work. I just see people being ripped off daily and have spent years trying to improve our industry standards, bit odd I know coming from a background as a South West London car dealer in the eighties.

     

     

  22. Posted

    Bit of artistic license going on with that video. He seems to have missed the very importatnt moisture removal process that we all need to use over here.

    Super glue has a much different expansion scale compared with glass when heated or cooled, this can create stresses within the glass. Common one was people trying to stick rear view mirrors back on Maetro's and Mondeo's back in the day.

    Arfur, I would like to see any pictures that you have and will comment on them honestly.

  25. Posted

    Not spam, I have been repairing screens for 30 years and re-educating poorly trained techs and new techs for the last 20 years. I have received the industries highest award in the USA  a country I have never even been too. I meet dealers and sales people every working day who cannot tell if a repair has been poorly filled like this one has, people who believe what they are told when the replacement guy who has no interest or skill at repairing says it is not repairable or that is the best that can be done. 

    If it looks like any more than a dried raindrop when finished the repair was not carried out correctly.

    Please ask any questions, even post pictures, I am happy to discuss. I am on a mission to try and improve the standard in my industry and you guys can help.

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