EPV

Cheers mate. No smoke, no smells of fumes. I’ll mention your suggestions to my garage and see what they can do. Fast running out of enthusiasm for it to be honest and will give it up as a bad job and learn an expensive lesson that I should basically give people £200 for a banger and not be frightened that they may cop the ‘ump and look elsewhere.

Believe me I would be happy to be shot of it. As said, I had a great margin in the car I sold him.

Yes I have definitely been caught napping on this one I think. Lesson learned etc. I think i’ll give it a brush up and write a brutally honest advert and eBay it. When it arrived it looked and sounded fine. The intention was to give it a good valet, put a years ticket on it and get £1k for it and sell it to the right buyer. I’ve definitely been tucked up. I’ll put it down to paying my dues to the game

Indeed. I just see a pile of metal that joe public knew was a lemon so they offed it for whatever they could get. I know they aren’t all like that but I find if I treat them all the same i’m not disappointed! Someone else can pay silly money for joe public’s lemons.

Took one of these in chop reluctantly but I had a good margin in the sale so even if the chop fell off the face of the earth i’m still ahead. The previous owner had the fuel injectors replaced at a cost of £900 6 weeks before he approached me with it so I knew I wasn’t in for plain sailing. I took it into my usual garage as it was idling like a bag of shit, hunting. The garage have said it idles smoothly when it’s hot but rough as when cold. They suggest the fuel pump may need replacing but they can’t say for sure it will remedy it and I don’t want to play parts darts with it. As if only owes me £700 and will retail for £1500 I don’t mind ploughing £300 max in it to nick a few quid and get my money back but I don’t want it to turn into a hole in which I just keep pushing more money down. Anyone got any experience of something similar with this year/Make/model?

Agreed. I push all my mechanical work on one garage and as a consequence I expect to be looked after. Nothing illegal of course I just don’t expect to have advisories that can be resolved with a wire brush and some hammerite.

I may have been whooshed

It’s a petrol

Thanks everyone, I'm putting it through a fresh MOT at the weekend so will get the garage to take a look at what sort of back box it is and whether it's worth messing around changing it over.

Quite frankly because I can’t be arsed.

I’ve just picked up a nice clean A3 Black Ed, and there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever it’s had a remap done. I’ve driven my fair share of hot hatches and M cars to know a 2.0 TFSI doesn’t drive this fast. It’s also had an aftermarket back box put on which sounds a bit droney at high speeds so not my thing but it will float plenty of boats. Question is, how should I advertise this “feature”? Clearly I can’t say it’s been remapped and now puts out xyz BHP as i’m sure some anal fucker will demand proof or worse trading standards will have an easy target on my back. Should I make no mention of it and tell the customer over the phone?

Ha ha ha

It's the smallest things with some people..

Yep, sounds like a whole load of fuck all to me.

Don’t say that! I’ve just picked up a 3.2 Quattro A3! Oh and i’m Collecting a 2.0 Black Edition A3 TFSI tomorrow!

He’s **** all to do with me mush

But that is ENTIRELY the point. Used correctly, it works. The fees are what they are. Are AT the only way of advertising a car? Far from it. Do you have to use them? Definitely not. They are a business and entitled to charge what they like.

Turn it in. If you don’t want to pay AT’s fees, don’t use them. It’s a business and not a public service.

https://www.gov.uk/car-tax-disc-without-v11-reminder

The post office should do it. The DVLA website even states this.

What sort of a man let’s his wife tell him what’s wrong with a fuckin car? Or worse, believes her?

I don’t think she needs a car, a fucking straight jacket more like.

Out of curiosity, what was the story behind the stroppy one?

I’ve noticed that almost every assured report on BCA that pertains to a Mini or a certain age/mileage contains the comment under “Engine Running” as being a warning.

Waiting? My birds parents house is in Totnes, not far from you, and their dog has been rolling around in 2 inches of the stuff. has Exeter moved to the moon?