Nick M.K.

You absolutely have to advertise it for £3000, keep it there for a while and then drop gradually. Even if you paid £300 for it it doesn't mean you can not try and ask crazy money just in case there is a crazy person there. Or if our friends at Pistonheads are reading this: just in case it's a person who really knows the modern classic car market. Write in the advert: eligible for classic car insurance and that the one previous owner was an avid car collector. Let's face it, he kept it 25 years, he must've been. And let it rust in peace? Noooo. Let someone else enjoy that slice of Wolfsburg history... That particular model Golf has the distinction of being their worst of all time so some might say it is an "important" car.

The thing is, it wasn't cheap even with the mileage incorrect. My bid was almost Cap Clean. On Autotrader at just under £9K mine was the third cheapest 13 reg within 100 miles from me and in the last 18 months oldish Hybrid prices have risen nationally. How fast can you say Ultra Low Emissions Zone... Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant here.

Absolutely it would, as would the make, model and colour. Only the make was a match That's why I photoshopped-out the name of the garage in Luton that got it wrong. At some point they've spotted their error because the silver Prius does have a valid MOT with a different test number. But the station sure didn't call the DVSA to remove the wrong info from the system.

Next time I'll be all over anything entered as Mileage Incorrect but hopefully will have more than 50 seconds to investigate it before it enters the hall.

The ones that were thinking similar reg got it spot on. I played a bit with similar reg combos and found it! A Silver Prius reg LT63HCG (very similar admittedly) went for it's MOT in Luton and the tester entered the reg wrong. I called DVSA who will delete the wrong MOT information from the record of my car. I've never seen this before, the lady from DVSA says it happens every now and then. Biggest loser was the last registered keeper who did a new MOT, full main dealer service and 2000 miles later sold it to WBAC who picked up the discrepancy and presumably hit him hard on the price. In their defence they entered the car as "Mileage Incorrect" through Blackbushe. I paid £7K, just under Cap Clean, I am sure it would've made more in this condition and in white if it wasn't for the discrepancy.

The mileage is GENUINE, no clocking involved but this is what 50 other traders in the auction hall assumed on the day so I got it for decent money. Can anyone else venture a guess? Also, who would clock a car a day after a main dealer service and MOT only to then go and do another MOT?

The other Monday when I met EPV at Blackbushe I bought a very clean 2013 Toyota Auris Hybrid in White which was offered MILEAGE INCORRECT due to a MOT discrepancy. Mileage 90500 miles. I have published it here. My hunch was that it was a genuine car with genuine miles and I thought that both MOTs were done by the same garage, one two days after the other because they had wrong details on the system. But when I got the car and looked up the MOT locations online they are not the same. What do you think happened? The car comes with a full Toyota history, serviced on 8/8/2018 at 88064 miles and book stamped, copy of the receipt is present.

But you CAN apply for a new V5 surely??? You fill in the V62, you pay the £25 and eventually a book will arrive.

They won't. Now that they've seen you here they will prefer to stick to their usual source of cars: "My mate, who's had since it was 3 months old.."

Oh, someone has been watching Gone in 60 seconds and decided to make a re-enactment. To be honest if it was only one guy that managed to move all 15 cars so quickly I'd be looking for him to offer him a legitimate job.

He must've been on it for a while, then arrived here to troll us like I've heard some dealers do on various car owner's clubs Facebook pages. The idea to do such a thing myself has never crossed my mind of course...

Time to change insurers Dave. You should be able to tax any car you like.

Can they not change the word Piston to something more appropriate? Like KNOB for example.

eBay. BUT ALSO - EVERYWHERE.

Read my post above, we must've typed them at the same time.

In fairness I was going to attack you a bit but remembered how I had two of my cars impounded for unpaid tax in my early years (maybe 2004). A neighbour must've rang the DVLA who sent a recovery vehicle from a private company based in West Drayton and they lifted both cars from our road. One was an old Sienna red (dog d**k red) BMW 5 series 530i, E34, value around a grand maybe, the other a 5 year old Alfa 156, beautiful car, worth maybe four grand at the time, half my operating capital. It took me a couple of days to locate the cars, another day to arrange the tax for them and I worried they might just scrap the old BMW. I went there to collect my cars and there was my BMW, washed and polished to a complete shine, right outside the office of the proprietor Mr Odel or Odell. He was a huge bloke, rough as you like, absolutely hated foreigners and was not pleased to see me there. I think he had decided to keep the BMW for himself and run around locally in it, presumably he would inform the DVLA that he'd scrapped it and charge them! The Alfa 156 was on a forklift, ready to be scrapped and the forks had bent a couple of suspension arms at the rear. It was so much hassle trying to get it recovered back, repaired and chase compensation from Odell for the bent arms, less than £200 but I got it weeks later after telling them I am about to "request the DVLA to arrange a full review by the Department of Transport". He must've made all his staff and friends and family to vote Leave in 2016.

Chances are she'll be more careful than most trade platers out there

When I read your starting post it didn't sound like you've been trading full time. It just read like you are starting now. I did my own FCA, took under 2 hours, don't remember anthing about a business plan. Call a rep for Close Brothers motor finance, they are very helpful in setting you up if you are established. Free of charge. If you are not established the answer to your "is that anywhere near enough" question is of course NO.

Just pay the fine and pay attention to these things in the future. And whatever you do don't ring your local council to tell them "The car is in the trade because I trade cars from home, do I still have to pay this fine..."

Upload the video from your YouTube app instead of photos. Press the camera icon top RHS in the YouTube app and it shows you a list of the videos in your phone.

Next time get the train up, taxi to BCA, tax the Peugeot and on to the Lakes! Might be a bit brave and a bit boring (with no working ICE / NAV) but will only add to the adventure

Come on Benji, drop it off for James. It would be a real adventure. He'll compensate you adequately plus you can stop at our place (I am on your route) for a coffee and some priceless tips. If we manage to fix his broken Nav he might get us both a drink!

I edit just a little bit. Choosing takes forever. I take around 120 photos (in + out) of which 40-50 end up in my ads and on the website. Each photo is edited for a minute of two on iphoto (a basic Mac program, nothing like Photoshop or Lightroom) for contrast, white balance, shadows etc. From car wash to advert it takes two to four hours depending on how many times I look at this forum :-) One of the reasons I hide the number plates is that if tomorrow I get a car of the same colour and spec as one I already have in my huge library I will not go through the same photo routine. My record is 15 minutes from winning an online auction in Brighouse to live AT advert with 50 images .

The cir pol filter eliminates reflections and glare from shiny surfaces and glass. In the front Audi A6 photo without that filter the windscreen would be completely white, you would not see through it, the bonnet would be quite white also. The filter cuts these reflections off. A side effect from it is that it makes some vibrant colours to "pop", to appear even more vibrant that they are. Best shown on the modern blue metallics like BMW Le Mans Blue.