MattR

Agreed. Pick the right smoker and the road tax is £30. Its not worth the risk of a warning about parking your car outside the pub, shop etc on trade plates after plod spots you or a nosy neighbour reports you. And register it to yourself. an extra owner doesnt normally make a difference to your ability to sell it, because none of us would run round in the '1 lady owner, low mileage' car where it might make a difference, would we?

My Butchers bacon is better than tescos. But thats just my opinion! Arthur, I want to see your results when yu get them in 3 months and think that you are doing the best you can to find out the best way to advertise efficiently. I'm jealous of your AT deal as many of us little independents will be, I've got a 12 car package (plus the banger bonuses) which costs me approx £100 per car,but it works better for me than other platforms. I'm not going to give you a load of abuse for your decision or your comments. Its your trainset, you play with it how you want. But please do keep us regularly updated with how it goes. Maybe you could post some weekly stats on here?

Yippee! time to dig my old toyota out of the lock up and blow the tyres up. and check if the engine works.

You must have your own website - it wont cost anywhere near what your ebay and AT bill will be and will give you credibility with your customers. you will lose more in lost business than the website will cost you without one. AT provide one which works well for me. It also helps customers who are looking for cars for sale nearby.

thats a customer being fraudulent - what a surprise. I just show the price I sold it for - thats what matters.

Hi Karlos I didnt think he could from your original post, but then you added a fuller description later. If you want the absolute legal answer, you may need someone like lawgistics. But if youre in a court of law, it may not go your way anyway

Physical will always give you a better opinion of the car. Ive seen appraisals which make it look like it need a full respray when its a few light scuffs and scratches which just need a bit of tlc. Ive also kicked back a car which was assured (although it was a physical auction i didnt hear the engine noise till i went to fetch it in the car park). I think with BCA you also pay extra for buying online? ( I am ready to be corrected on this, I'm not a BCA customer). It also depends on what youre buying. I would guess the newer, Higher value stuff is a safer online bet than 10 year old car group stock. Its down to you as to whats more important, and what else would you be doing with those 3 hours? We have all experienced the frustration of wasting time going to an auction and getting nothing but it pales into insignificance when you compare it to the time it takes to kick one back or fix a problem you would have identified if you were there.

Lemon. 117k on a 207 is more than enough. Hope you do get it fixed up, Hopefully you have a friendly mechanic who wont just play 'parts darts'! Then get rid

it does when you read it again! or may just be a trader who likes to drive round in a diesel auris as his smoker (maybe it had a load of fuel in when it came in....)

or just tax for 6/12 months and cash in when it sells, only downside being that you need to add an owner. but if you keep it for a few weeks anyway shouldnt be too much of an issue. cant see any good reason for them doing this though

Proper Diagnosis required I'd say. if it was the DPF, DPF light should be on?

Welcome and good luck!

Wow! and I thought I was a product knowledge geek in my VW days!

How do you define Good and Bad? Theyve all got potential to be either. If theyre not realistic with you such as flagging scratches, previous paint etc on an 8 year old car, then theyre not a good customer. But by the time theyve been to 3 or 4 other places and realised all used cars have had some work in the past (normally) and theyre fine when they see it, becoming a good customer for that garage. If youre cars are nice enough, they will all find a customer thats nice enough sooner rather than later. And just smile and wave at the others.

He didnt come back, but someone else has done, paid and its going tomorrow!

My pitch is half empty, waiting for 8 to get through MOT and bodyshop, just had a local who Ive sold 2 cars to stop me as I walked off to get my lunch ask if I'm closing down 'as they were all talking about it in the pub last night'. Think I'm flattered to be mentioned, better not sell anymore until I've filled the pitch back up!

No! he jumped on the 'be back' bus!

Fair enough, I dont want to start another AT discussion either, We all have differing opinions on that one! I had 3 Months with Motors a couple of years back, Didnt get me anything at all, so dropped it as soon as I could. Have used ebay too, tend to find it worked better with either cheap stuff or stock that was a little different.

Who do you use for advertising? Or do you have a good pitch for walk ons?

I've almost run out of prepared stock! 7 on the pitch when i usually have 16. even got an appointment this afternoon on a hyundai Amica, joe public must be getting desperate, I thought I'd have that for ages...

Better to stick with AT, it may cost £££££, but the return is there. I'd rather my AT bill go up a bit than try these other platforms. I've yet to find one that gets even close to it.

I bet they'll come screaming when theyre car breaks!

Cap prices are on all auction catalogues and some auction websites eg A4C, so no real need to pay for either IMO. I use autotrader valuations as a guideline, but most of these values are only a guess anyway - I'd not bother spending the subscription money myself.

I know of a dealer that did get taken to small claims on a misdescribed dealer auction car and ordered to pay out. so I would think its got to be worth a go - chances are they made a a bit of trader profit off you, theyll probably give you that back to avoid the hassle. I also agree with the idea you will get more for the car with a new DMF advertised, General public think its very expensive (I agree!) and are as likely to ask for evidence of replacement on a leggy car as they would a cambelt change

I remember reading somewhere that the tax classes are going to change soon for diesel cars. I use a 53 reg fiesta diesel as a dump car, its only redeeming feature being that its road tax is £30 (rfl band C) . Anyone know whats going on with the diesel tax classes?