AVON VALLEY

According to the law you can and may charge a usage charge,we have it on our invoices right at the top say If Applicable "THE USAGE CHARGE OR CAR HIRE WOULD BE £........ PER DAY. SIGNED........................... The have to have a good reason to reject not because they don't fancy it any more or want to drive for free.It works saved us a few times.Best of luck

We have recently had the need to try and claim on BCA assured scheme only to find out that it covers almost nothing,they have reworded the policy so that before it was a safety net for BCAs customers so they would bid a bit more to a good earn for BCA for example gearbox STATIC check ???????? Noise in engine bay now just pully belts i have the list here Old Wording (pre 11th January 2019) New Wording (11th Jan 2019 on) Oil contamination Oil / coolant contamination Engine bay noise Aux belt / pulley noise Brake test Brake efficiency test Clutch / autodrive take up Clutch slipping (static test) Steering Steering Noise Suspension noise / ride height Suspension ride height Aircon (excl. temp and gassing) Aircon receives power (ex. gassing) Sat nav operates (excl. functionality) S-Nav receives power (ex.functionality) ICE operates (excl. functionality) ICE receives power (ex.functionality) Roof Electrics Convertible / sunroof electrics I particularly like the clutch slipping static test ,Aircon s nav ICE to JUST receiving power and suspension.

Manheim surecheck "static gearbox check " whats that?

The Kid is terminally thick best off without him in your life.

You can sue him for loss of profit,unless the deal was subject to finance,if he was part exchanging a car thats yours as well.(specific performance i think its called) also a lot of firms out there will do no win no fee for this type of problem.

If the customer has put 5k on the car in 2 months it is unreasonable for him to expect to drive for free,you can charge him a usage charge.Get the car back in and have it checked out,it has to be a fundamental problem.you know what they say 'Their is no worst liar than a used car buyer" get the car back in and take control of the situation .

The best trick is, if you have a car that needs the clutch depressed to start the car,you need to tell the customer that it has a vocal immobiliser and they need to shout the name of the car out loud,when the car dosent start you take over push the clutch down and shout out,the car starts and they are baffled you can keep this up for quite a while.

Go for it Arthur!

AUTORAPER is what they should be called,back in 2012-2013 my friend and i started the "THE MOTOR TRADERS ADVERTISING UNION" I started this because at that time they were trying to get it to £15 per car per week,we beat them and the prise increase was canceled and only a moderate rise was implemented,this is a cruel and unnecessary rise,in our area (Bristol) garages are shutting down,4 so far this month,if you are with auto trader its about being the cheapest and they advertise on you pages finance shutting down another of our revenue streams, a race to the bottom i call it.I WILL be starting this up again but i am not going to pay for it all AGAIN the last time it cost my friend and I .If you car dealers want to start a sustained attack plenty of bad press for Autotrader join, we need to stick together the last time our membership was up to over a 1000,Car Dealer Magazine took up the story and so did the Times i only stopped last time as i had a personal tragedy,Iam back on my feet and ready to do this again, if any of you want to join please send your Details to email avg@avg123 "ITS TO EASY TO DO NOTHING AND THEN MOAN"My stats for last month for leads were 2800ish google leads 700ish direct to my website about 90ish auto trader gumtree about 80 ish FOR FRACTION OF THE COST OF AUTOTRADER then ebay then aa. DON'T MOAN LETS STICK TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just thinking it would be a fantastic idea it would be if the public could only buy cars off a licensed garage,it would give the customers peace of mind because they know the garages would have to work to a certain standard and it would stop the black economy car dealer skipping tax and VAT selling cars off pay as you go mobile phones and not giving warrantys,near our garage there is a roundabout with a car park next to it,with loads of cars for sale all with pay as you go mobile numbers,in the last six months we have had loads of people come to see us asking who sells the cars at the roundabout because the cars they have bought have serious problems write-offs etc.This is a area the government are not tackling at all.If this happened we could keep our margins in tact rather trying to compete on a playing field that favours the crooks i.e. auto traders average prices brought down by scumbags selling rubbish at knockdown prices and when your customer comes in a try to negotiate a deal using some heap of scrap as a comparison,they are only looking at the bottom line. Your thoughts?

If you do everything by the book,don't be scared to go to court,I've been a few times not lost one and the look on the punters face is priceless.

Not the old sick family member routine? Be nice but firm and explain he has entered into a contract and if your deposit forms say deposit NON refundable car to be picked up in x days,the ball is in his court wait for the date to come and go then readvertise the car no more contact needed.