Nick M.K.

I spend a couple of hours a day contributing to this forum. I also got all my stock through all their outstanding recalls from BMW. I go skiing every other weekend so I am not tempted to reduce prices just because it's cold and slow :-)

I have a CTEK MXS 5.0 and it always starts the cycle, no matter how low the voltage. I've had it for years, I highly recommend it to anyone that doesn't have one yet.

Mercedes are very easy to get the history out of. Just email a copy of the trade purchase invoice, front page of the V5 and a short covering letter requesting the service history to cs.uk@cac.mercedes-benz.com. They will email it back within a day or two. No GDPR issues as you have a logitimate interest in the vehicle.

Switch & bait :-) Trading Standards absolutely love this. EPV, I think I might be the only Bulgarian that understands the expression gullable div :-) My English teacher would’ve been proud of me :-) Bait & Switch rather.

That makes no sense. A lot of people use the word Sold when the list the things they’ve done to it before sale. Will be Sold with new MOT for example.

Mine are started in Portal and get auto exported ftom there

+1. I went to a really good car dealer masterclass where one of the tips was to advertise SOLD vehicles. Called "The syndrom of the busy pub" in marketing (where you walk along a street of restaurants and you naturally want to go in the one which is full of customers or even has a queue to get in) Will have to think of another text: Thank you, no longer available Thank you, found a great new home Thank you, you just missed out :-)

I have no less than 4 active ads with SOLD in the attention grabber, no issues. Just double checked them all now. Maybe if it's in the attention grabber the AT "police" can't see it :-) https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201810121426442

A lot of that at auction is a buyer who is planning on exporting it. 250K miles turn into 75K and the car is sold abroad with no service or MOT records. A newish Audi A8 with almost 200K on the clock and book value of 8000 recently made £13000 at Brighouse. I bet a proud new owner in Malaysia or similar paid over £25K and regard it as the bargain of a lifetime :-)

All yours SIR

I would consider over 15K miles a year high. Would sell them with no hesitation though.

And if they all look like models and don’t haggle they are Bulgarian. The easiest customers ever. Very difficult to please if they are car dealers though.

Never bid at Paddock Wood, have bought one online, grade 3 that should’ve been a grade 7 (if it existed)

At BCA what you are describing has always been the norm.

It demonstrates how effective an EDIT button can be when you have one :-)

I wasn’t complaining. When more people turn up there is often pressure on the decision maker to buy and that never comes from me.

They go everywhere together. What I have found is that Pakistani customers always come in threes and they are all brothers. Wifes don’t have to approve the purchase. I usually leave one of the three to do my job convincing the other two that they should buy.

They start 4 days after winning. IF you pay during these 4 days you get another 3 days free

I used to happily pay them when stock was difficult to find. See a very cheap car, buy it without having the ££££ to pay it, wait a week or two, pay it + £60-70 storage and watch how the same car sells for £1500 more :-) Now though it's easier. I will pay them by transfer 3 days after winning them, this gives me extra 4 days of FREE storage so I have until end of play on TUE to pick them up. Free. I call it a turnaround when sold and I need another few days for that. Off skiing this weekend so will sell zero.

I can't see that. I went to Blackbushe on Monday. Was dropped off there by 11:00 (30 min drive). Bought 5, all very nice stock at very sensible prices. My last invoice was emailed around 13:20 so I was bidding in the halls for no more than 2 hours. By 4pm the first car I came back in (the black Volvo I texted you a video of) was washed, cleaned, photographed, video'd and ready for advert. I am just finishing the advert for No 3 of the 5, the last two I will get early next week.

I sent mine very late in December when I saw I post by David reminding me. I had completely forgotten:-) Should get them by April.

David, the OP

I’ve never even looked at Dealer Auction. Is it fun?

MOT garages get randomly inspected by DVSA and there are certain statistics about their pass rate. A garage stands out with a pass rate too high or too low or if no advisory items are issued. The owner of a garage I use will often fail his own car (brake discs for example) just before he replaces them anyway. That is the probably the best maintained Cayenne with a fail on each of it's MOTs since 2015. Newer and eager testers will slap on advisory items even for minor things or every plastic cover that the car has :-)

Hi, welcome, thanks for the intro. If one of my NI customers (they are all around Ballymena) needs recovery I will keep you in mind. If that’s near your area of course!