Brunswick

Thanks Guys, I share your thoughts regarding SOMEBODY'S new car. The amount of times I kick myself for over prepping a car like this when you see a total wreck of a px only fit for scrap role in, I wonder if I could have saved a few hundred £'s as they're not that fussy.

Hi folks, We have in the last few years been supplying nearly new - 3 year old cars which of course come to us requiring minimal preparation. We are finding that this market has been becoming fruitless in terms of margin in the past 18 months or so due to main dealers focusing their efforts on used cars rather than the new market. We do get some nice retail part exchanges however which we would otherwise struggle to buy at sensible money and my question is how fussy to you think I need to be with preparation older stock? The reason I ask is the reaction I get from our paint and workshop guys when I present a job to them sometimes. An example would be a 61 plate BMW 320d, 58k miles, leather, park assist, xenons etc with FBMWSH very tidy inside and out apart from 3 wheel edges all similar to the one pictured and a scuff on the front bumper which has all polished out except for what can be seen in the second picture. Do you think I'm fussy painting all the wheels and the bumper corner or is this now expected with a 7 year old car. I hate the term "..its a used car Sir" but I'm being told that I'm trying to make every car like a 12 month old one but not convinced. My reason for asking is that on numerous occasions I have sold an immaculate 5 -6 year old car and 6 months later seen it parked with all 4 wheels mullered, a dings in the doors and or a cracked bumper etc. Would you touch up or spend the money? Interested in your thoughts...

Have a look at aacarsdna.com

A friend of mine went on a course regarding MOT's or something or other a few weeks back, anyway he got talking to a service manager of a Audi main dealer based somewhere in the midlands who said that his dealership were replacing 7, 2.0Tfsi engines a week due to excessive oil use. Cars up to 7 years old with service history, not necessarily with Audi with 100% parts and labour contribution. I was always lead to believe that this issue had been solved on cars post 2012 but apparently not. For once I'm glad I have only Tdi's in stock.

I saved this link some time ago highlighting exactly this situation. Worth a read. http://www.lawgistics.co.uk/read-news/947#sthash.LPmrSkaw.dpbs

I noted this on another site...made me chuckle.