Nick M.K.

I've given up trying years ago.

DON'T DO THAT! The police should check your trade plates on the MID and those need to be on it. The car can be off MID if untaxed, that's not a huge deal and if you get pulled over so be it. Carry your trade ins certificate with you, they'll look at it, they'll let you go. BUT If you put a car on MID and sell it and the new owner has an accident without proper insurance the other insurer will come after YOUR INSURER as the last party that had insured interest in that vehicle. This is my broker's advice and he is very very clued up about trade insurance.

https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax At the very bottom of the page: "You may be able to tax this vehicle at a Post Office Branch that deals with vehicle tax without the V5C registration certificate"

Phishing email comes from Car Gurus in the form of a DocuSign document, beware.

Faulty battery, faulty gear selector, faulty ignition switch module or (highly unlikely) a faulty gearbox. Dave would surely want to know if the car has been on SDS and what the fault codes are? I will add that if fault codes are completely absent it could indeed point to a mechanical fault in the gear selector. £80 used and easy to replace.

Isn't enabling Best Offer an almost certain guarantee that you won't get full price when they turn up?

Doesn't work on a Mac! Because when they started developing it 20 years ago there weren't many Macs :-) They offered a workaround but I'll be ringing Autosales next. If theirs works on a Mac that's what I'll take.

Motors at £100 pm (20 cars) is also very cheap for the leads and sales it produces. They list the stock on a dozen other websites as well.

Everybody.

I remember when I was using Gumtree in 2006-2010ish, crazy amount of response for sub-£2000 cars, dozens of calls per ad! What’s your last price boss!!! Now a friend uses it for cheapies and gets no more than 2 or 3 calls or texts, it’s just quieter. Last price still on their mind though.

I’ve never used Facebook enough to make it work and I imagine at lower price points Marketplace is great but if it gives such a high decline rate I will leave it for a couple of years. Had 2 customers today, both from AT, both approved including one on a 55 reg car.

Have you got actual sales figures Grant? I get MANY leads from eBay for example and MANY emails from CarGurus but very few actual sales that I can attribute to them. The more popular a marketplace becomes among sellers the fewer leads per seller are generated. Happened with eBay, happened with Gumtree (big time), it’s happening with Facebook and 80% of my paying customers come from AutoTrader while other dealers are leaving it. Quality not quantity as David Brent would say...

I think I'll give that a go. As long as it works on Mac

https://used-carslancs.co.uk/about I love this staff photo on the about page. Who knows what tech company or a university this was and the two cars in the background look photoshopped. Stoled images on all their car listing as well. Good work.

I will switch mostly to petrol buying in the next few months simply to capitalise on this craze for petrols in the Greater London area but diesel part exchanges will be most welcome for very sensible money. And my daily driver remains a Merc CDI of course.

Only Kia or Suzuki would be more suitable.

That's an ideal location for a whole retirement village.

Shall we all call him this evening? With the same question: Has the cambelt been replaced as my friend that works as a Trading Standards vehicle inspector said it was due at 72K miles...

Property prices in that area. An offer someone couldn't refuse...

I disagree, they could've cashed in in December, this way I paid less overdraft interest while still using my plates during this period.

Does anyone else think the poppy in the front bumper is his way of subtly suggesting the owner was mature and careful...

The ABS light still on with the engine idling. Happened just out of the auction gates probably hence the private advert :-) You can't say he didn't leave enough clues.

You'll even trip me with that one...Coates? Seriously TV, what made you doubtful? Was it the 2 year bumming around or the unwillingness to stock petrol XFs?

I was thinking this exact same thing, to keep the account but remove the £89 pm fixed fee products (checks basically) and only pay for CAP valuations and Spec Checks as I go. It was about time they started making these smart moves. Share price up 28.8% year on year.

Can I just reduce my HPI contract package instead of cancelling completely?