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Pictures can give it away aswell. Pics with snow on the ground in the middle of summer or tree’s full of leaves in the middle of winter usually gives a clue.

I had one last year, Chevrolet Captiva. Customer turns up with “car friend” who instantly starts pointing out/making up every fault he can find. He opens the boot and spots a water mark on the interior trim, probably left from when the car was valeted. “Car friend” tells the customer it’s clearly been used off road and must of been under water. He then carries on to say it’s one to avoid and that I’ll never get the asking price in a million years. Sold it the next day to a dealer from London who was delighted with it.

Ahhh the old ZR, My bread and butter back in the day. Bought for peanuts with head gasket failure, couple of hours work then back up for sale and doubled my money. Had loads of them.

Had a few Clio’s but never done well with them. Some dealers rave about them others don’t. Always seam to fetch top money at the block around here but not for me.

I used to do well with Xsara Picasso’s, always flew out within days. Shame they’re getting to old to bother with now though

I wasn’t referring to having a licence I was thinking more weather I was going to be carjacked or not.

I don’t sell anything of any great value but it’s still always on the back of my mind when rough looking punters turn up. A local private seller had his Merc robbed at knifepoint whilst on test drive a couple of years back.

To be fair to them I’ve only ever had to return one assured car to them so far and they were great for me. Peugeot 207 hdi, oil pressure light illuminated on the way home and timing chain started rattling like mad. Rang them straight away, they said they’d send an AA technician out the following week. Bca rang me on the Monday saying due to the value of the vehicle they wouldn’t bother sending a technician out they would just recover the car and give me the money back. Took about three weeks for the cheque to arrive though.

Tried listing a couple on there in the past. Unless you want endless “dealers” offering you scrap money I wouldn’t bother. ok to shift a few rough p/x’s or auction lemons but that’s all it’s good for.

Bca Nottingham is like that. There’s a few there that have been in the customer car park for a few years now. Surely they have the buyers details so why not get them to pick it up.

I doubt police could ever lease motorway/panda cars. They are factory built to order in “special” spec with added fuse boxes/wiring/backup batteries, dash modifications etc. By the time they’ve ripped it all out when de-fleeted the resale value would be virtually nil for the lease company and the damage bill for the the police would be through the roof. Same with Royal Mail, all their vans are company owned. Thames valley police have their own fleet workshop and all parts used are oe. States that on their service print outs.

I do exactly as you did, de-stickered, mop and polish, any holed trim replaced and a new stereo. Some of these modern day “half the dash” stereos are getting expensive though. Prices have been the problem since xmas last year, even ex-pandas full of holes are fetching cap clean. God only knows who’s making a profit on them after all the work involved.

Make it well clear. We’ve even done a few ex panda cars. Sell well but need to be sold a lot cheaper than none police as no matter how much prep you do and regardless of how well mechanically maintained they are they still feel worn. Punters tend to overlook that when they see the 4 page long maintenance record though. I think some people like the novelty of owing an ex old bill car too. Thames Valley/West Mids from BCA/Birmingham.

We do a bit of ex-police stuff. All mega miles but highly maintained, customers like that, Ex fleet is probably the same. I’m weary of private high milers though unless it’s 1-2 owners and good history

I believe it was a dealer add-on and could also be purchased after sale so could of been added any time after it was registered.

Castle Brom closed to make way for HS2, it’s moved to Perry Barr now.

Agreed, unless you can pick them up stupidly cheap, trading bangers from auction is nigh on impossible nowadays. By the time you’ve added the few hundred quid buyers fee it’s wiped your profit. What can seam cheap on the hammer soon becomes retail price by the time you drive it out.

They probably don’t care, as long as they think they look like something out of The Only Way Is Essex.

So what’s March like for everybody at the block? The prices dropped towards the end of feb around here but the last couple of weeks they’ve shot back through the roof. Like Jan all over again.

The A-class is the car of choice for most young lads around here now.

Wouldn’t even bother with one of them, it’ll dissolve with a jet wash.

I beg to differ. The last and only 308 I’ll ever buy again with that engine was a one owner full service history car and it still bellowed out blue smoke when warm. Also a garage we use have had a customers 2009 Cooper S in for months now, 50k miles and shot a rod through the block. Can’t source another decent engine for it. The third time I’ve been stung with the 1.6 now. Never again.

Joint venture between Bmw and PSA

Well I probably worded that a bit wrong, I meant anyone, including me, that doesn’t sell/stock enough on a monthly basis to warrant paying £400 a month for Pro could list the same amount of cars on classified for a lot less. I was just curious as to what benefits the extra cost involved.

Yet a private seller could put ten classified ads on eBay for £140 a month? What so special about motorspro to be more than double the price?