Grantlfc81

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  3. Posted

    Ok I’m confused with this too. Just bought this Audi TT for £4900 plus fees and delivery from BCA.

    https://www.villagecarsessex.co.uk/single-car.php?ID=13987

    Everything was going way over book.  This capped at £5300. Grade 4 no condition report. No mechanical report. Just said engine smoking / rough running on the screen.

    this car in my eyes is mechanically perfect, the bodywork is grade 1/2 - it drives like a dream, it has 11 stamps..... yes 11..... and only 2 owners. bridgestone tyres all round with 5mm tread on all of them and been meticulously looked after.

    thank you very much, Best Buy of the the day by miles.

     

     

  6. Posted

    So found out today after a heated arguement regarding price markers that all their trade and retail prices are worked out by dealer auction and Aston Barclay lol.

    I asked them why they are Not using BCA prices And they couldn’t answer me.

    i also asked them if anyone had been to an auction recently from auto trader and by going on their prices we will be running on £200 per car after prep lol 

    so basically they are basing their pricing from 2 of the worst places ever....

    absolute clowns

  9. Posted

    I try to not sell anything higher than fair. Which is yellow. I have sold a couple on high price but they are normally with really stunning alloys or white in colour as white seems To command much more money in Essex. Especially in Audi TTs or a nice c class.

    On 2/5/2020 at 8:29 PM, CCC said:

    Surely the price markers will drive down market prices in a spiral? Dealers lower prices to get to market valuation and so the average price continues to fall, so dealers lose prices, etc.?

    (though hopefully not all would engage in such madness though I’m sure many will).

    Thus margins lower and companies go out of business decreasing Autotraders client base (as dealers pay their wages, not buyers).

    At best they are making AT a less attractive option than EBay, FB, etc?

    It can’t drive prices down if cap prices are expensive! You’ll be selling stuff for what you pay for it otherwise.   Auto trader prices are about £700 too cheap at the minute. Rediculous Price gap between cap and auto trader 

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    I absolutely guarantee it’s a mount. And I’m almost certain it’s the gearbox mount. Costs about £70 to fix.  I’ve had this loadS of times and it’s 99% always the gearbox mount

    18 hours ago, Jay187 said:

    To be honest i don’t think they are the best technicians as the first time they looked at it, they said all mounts are fine and they don’t know what the problem is, second time they said the sound is coming from back of engine meeting with gearbox so it must be the gearbox they said!!! Third time now and they reckon its to do with timing chain but I don’t think they’ve opened much of the engine up to verify this

    The gearbox mount looks fine but you can’t check it until it’s off and normally there is a tiny split on the inner rubber part of it. It’s extremely common.

  25. Posted

    There is a huge issue with dragon 2000 if you are planning sending stock to auto trader.

    when you add a car to autotrader it adds all the standard spec.  If you add via dragon it wipes it all off every time a new feed is sent. I have had lots of arguements about it. It’s a brilliant system if you are using it to integrate into sage accounts also