Nick M.K.

The CTEK needing a recharge? You just plug it in the wall, it doesn’t need a recharge. Starting up cars in the unit? What do you mean? Leave the battery to drain and die, then jump start?

The previous private plate that now shows finance was on my Mini from Feb to Nov 2007! And the AA Check explains that quite well. The car is too old for my stocking plan but if it was on it they would see it on their AA Check and run for dear life...

I am on my phone so will struggle with an image upload but in a nutshell: they want to view a £2850 2007 Mini on Sat and I have of course offered to reserve it with a small deposit. Their AA Check shows that a private plate that was on the Mini 12 years ago (for 7 months!) now has finance against it on a 2018 Discovery. They are very rattled by this to my complete amusement :-) i have explained everything and they are transferring the deposit after I sent them a WhatsApp video to show them some kerbing on the alloys.

You are like me, an easy decisive buyer. Imagine a world where all punters buy cars like that :-) Meanwhile: “Hi Nick, thank you for the close up video. We are ready to pay a deposit to hold the car but we have done an AA car check (which we always do when buying a used car) and an alert has come up regarding a previous plate and outstanding finance ??. Are you able to provide the VIN chassis number, V5 serial number and V5 document issue date as these have been asked for the additional checks by the AA Car Check. Many thanks.”

A 30 car site will save the money by not running the engines in the first month alone :-)

Modern batteries like to be charged slowly. This charger / maintainer will need good 4-5 hours if not longer to charge a battery fully but does it so slowly that it doesn't wear it as it charges it. With your stock inside a unit the charger will be in use all the time, shifted from car to car every day. If you have one with an old battery it can actually revive and improve it using one of the charging modes. It uses pulsating current which removes layers of sulphur (or sulphate, not sure) from the battery plates. You absolutely need to have one.

My guy will do it for slightly less but with so much damage I will probably take this to B Trim in Enfield. They will remove the piece(s) and replace it with brand new material. Around £120 depending how many pieces need replacing. The downside: they'll need the seat or the car for 2 days.

CTEK MXS 5.0 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FC42HAA/ref=asc_df_B00FC42HAA58582951/?tag=googshopuk-21&creative=22110&creativeASIN=B00FC42HAA&linkCode=df0&hvadid=226613731662&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11445807865684957321&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006611&hvtargid=pla-303286758601&th=1&psc=1

Can't increase the VED on a car that is already registered and allocated a car tax band. It stays in that tax band. Forever. The band price is only adjusted for inflation every two years. That is the reason some high CO2 cars registered after 26/3/2006 have £500+ tax and some identical cars registered 2 days before have it at £305. Can't increase the diesel fuel duty drastically as this will affect all vans, lorries, tractors, farm, plant machinery and whatever else runs on diesel... My guess... After the focus moves away from Brexit and someone finally pays some attention to what happens in the automotive industry the government will come back and say, sorry, we got you all confused, you can of course keep your diesels or we will offer a scrappage scheme which pays market price for your car. Remember 2009? Any shed with a valid MOT was suddenly worth two grand and the cheap usable sub-£1000 cars disappeared from the market.

David Ayers, this car was actually sold before the email and I just used the opportunity to see what the potential reply might be. There was nothing further from him after that.

What Grant is saying is that the dealer reduces his sold out price by £400 saying that the £400 is not part of his margin but the cost of his warranty (which is an insurance product). Insurance products are exempt from VAT but: "something is insurance for VAT purposes if it’s an activity that requires the provider to be authorised as an insurer under the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA)." So if that dealer is not authorised as an insurer under FSMA he is in trouble.

There is a tool / brush which is used to remove hairs from coats, looks like a hand held roller with a tear-off sticky tape. Does a great job if the hairs are not very thick and not very deep in the carpet. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Clothes-Dust-Hair-Removal-Brush-Sticker-Sticky-Lint-Roller-Cleaning-Tool/223310974591?hash=item33fe5f0e7f:rk:5:pf:1&var&checksum=223310974591b6a929da626e4df0ba4b12aea1e95a06&enc=AQADAAADAFjVrDbVsZ8oH%2F8PNHtt9VX4%2Fw7FZcmMuqsX8uaFEduVluw7J7BTpF5zwRxTQU5NAjaxNXM%2FESTcHhMR5PFXHjj86lT%2BEcgTPTTxOpWSLjFP3q09JHnRbOEIAFzHuj%2F1%2BSzkClQjmj0G0d01m9JfdP7BQwbcTp13HYVjHui7Gkz9Ws8zkY4Unr%2F3FfZaQj%2B7IlX2Vccmpt0p8ny9l3AhnrYPqpNx6L0XEbF58XQJmYlGAVoFb1dZcbR80mLuxq7NWfk9N0qTFmYRZlM2SmsNfskCwFWmftiBpm8i%2B8SXa8Vy53UhpDl1G1FjMPzXIaCkcNBk2zA1yAX%2FDP%2BBrGSBAzKA8W7FjWD2TKRbFl9z64%2BiRVMkOZ5i%2BFg4x5Kh%2BSFjlhJ%2F2cIMdL9EYClOPkkg8JnbV%2B5ABu1IyfkEfV9lazELsdewEZJvNplmCfsxgU1M1ia0IK3%2FknATI8WCf54ZVxrDAUOGkGLOyBVzdbuMq%2BkHv6HbhrbOfwTCGjxVorH%2FHIW6XyGFlgVvxlOsbS%2BaxNDEChwHm4qqInThNfCN6dvMeigte0845K0erFYwueiGaJGFwVNYHw7TnlMDKux12VCd650QP2GYhrXI%2BaPqqqE7DBFxUZdwkODcyJdLUj1j1zboOBu79%2BUJIgoEX56Hv9BTmp%2FMKIWmfvS0OjZCs8R9OdMUinrnfkNnZ9v5fQ3j1TZKNsWAaAiIMV5fkAQi3UFW0V66lYEuj9Kz%2BrCpyc0vOqEGgrbuB6yQdfGyqc6kHCJy1BKnmxgWp6r%2FbzmJCyzCOwyQKoq4z%2FtTfR2MQhBZNQs7dTdtsht9WPF3blPVLvAIAR9U2fNBnA499t2BAmJ1NJ2gtfLwe3pRk9AGN23hZcOpSaMERj3uNL79mAzdetdNfwPd9QUSEk3Ge0VKCZMGn62c8KQ4Tx58QspvuCSFyFk9%2F7YDFeHa2WEnqYfylcg%2B9sZJirxAKBXlR%2BvOTeK2PHWqeuD2xA57Rxiu69lbHvHzMdG9h4wck%2FbV87Hucw%3D%3D&frcectupt=true

This is where me and you differ, the thought of that £ fiver that left the petrol tank as soon as you pressed the start button would depress me :-)

I need to come and work for you (free of course) for a weekend David, I think it will make a real difference to my dealer education :-)

Deposit contribution yes. It also reduces your Vat bill as HMRC sees it as a discount. The problem then is my 6 months clawback which means no comission if the buyer settles their finance in the first 6.

If it was a straightforward decision with no IFs I would do it across the board immediately without asking for thoughts here :-)

Imagine this: someone pays you the full whack, the car is gone. That same week you get 3 more enquires for it and they are all for finance. Only you haven’t another car like this to offer and miss out on the comission. Which on a £9000 car would be 14% if the buyer puts down a£1K deposit. So that’s £1120 of missed income. Or 11 grand over a month if you sold average numbers to the cash buyers only.

I've checked with Lawgistics and you can sell only to finance buyers if this is what you want to do. Mark, how do you have a LIKE button? I have the Edit back but no Like.

In times when good stock is hard to find and I struggle to keep up with the prep I am keen to try a finance only strategy for a month. My worry is that I'll pick up some bad reviews along the way, especially from the eBay last price warriors...

Some of them are and when you have something that looks a bit different the phones go wild :-)

Very busy just outside London and looking at all the optimism and sky high prices at BCA Blackbushe today I'd guess it's not just me.

5 out of 16.

8 sales this month, Southern Buckinghamshire (within sight of the M25) MINI Countryman 2.0 Diesel AUDI A5 3.0TDI Diesel BMW 118D Sport+ Diesel Golf Bluemotion TSI Petrol Mercedes E300 Bluetec Hybrid Diesel (64 reg so NOT compliant with the new London ULEZ!) Mercedes C250D AMG Line Diesel (66 reg, compliant with the new London ULEZ) Mercedes S350 Bluetec Diesel Volvo C30 R-Design Petrol Also spent the whole day at Blackbushe (and the sale still going on now on my live online 16:20), most prestige diesels in nice condition were selling around CAP Clean, some way over! 50% of buyers out there (including me) still demand a diesel for their daily driver.

Lucas are you kidding?

Advert live to deposit paid. But I’ve stopped counting years ago. I used to be a busy fool trying to turn over cars really quickly but eventually understood that one car sold for £1500 gross is much better than two for £750 because of all the little added costs of multiple sales. Also having cheap stocking facility has reduced the pressure to have to be paid quickly so I can buy new stock.