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This - speak to your insurance company to ensure that they will cover your total stock value stored in the unit. They will obviously want to know the address, security, alarm, possible window access (grills over etc), roof access and make sure that car keys are either in a locked steel cabinet or away from the premises out of hours.

Er - yes Ditto for sure!

Exactly - you can't be everything to everyone. It won't suit everybody. I've always had the policy of being open and honest but like Nick says listing repaired faults might backfire on me one day. If we get a car with lots of faults we trade it out rather than repair and risk it going bad.

It's a good valid point, however we have always marked down faults & repairs. We give customers copies of scans showing faults with dates and mileages as well as scans with dates & mileages with no faults after the repair with a copy of the PDI. I find customers like to see stuff which has been repaired rather than just a row of ticks saying everything is fine. If this policy backfires on me in the future I may reconsider but for now it works well for us showing "repaired warts & all".

Definitely good luck I would say. Better to sort the issue before the customer lays their hands on it. Best now to scan the car to find out what the code is, repair as necessary, clear the code and test drive before confirming error code has not re-appeared. I would personally write the issue on the PDI check sheet and mark it as repaired. Good luck with it.

I was actually sticking up for the newbie. Lots of them are just starting out and have made mistakes, are very green and don't know anything much at all. There will be newbies asking questions who have knowledge and of course who can contribute to the forum. The earlier post by EPV seemed to imply that if the newbie didn't hang around to help others they weren't welcome and I disagree with that. I was trying to make the point that if the newbie has no knowledge then they can't offer advice (yet) but may well be a great future member of the forum and able to offer advice when they have gained some knowledge.

The newbie has no knowledge, that's why they are asking for advice. Stick around to see if they can help others? They know bugger all and can't offer help or advice until they've gained some knowledge and experience. Let them get VAT registered and send their money to HMRC every quarter then they might have learnt something useful. Offering advice when they know bugger all is no use to anyone.

Gosh, you're harsh with newbies. Read your first post as a newbie from February 2018...

Interest rate rise = punters can't afford to swap their cars. Too many stock funders feeding the stupidity. Lots of cars went through auction this week from Nextgear - hopefully traders will realise soon that they need to make proper money.

I know that - just trying to help

SD10BVB 43,000 86/100 £2700 SP59OVB 20,000 63/100 £2769 SH12XGG 71,317 64/100 £3264 (no mileage listed on your website)

My thoughts too

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Possibly the gearbox neutral position sensor. Had a few Jeeps with this problem.

I agree totally. If it works for you that's great and exploit it 100%. What cheeses me off is we were on target for the year and they pulled the funding for three months worth of zero finance sales. To be fair they have increased the commission considerably since so I just take the commission now with no pressure to sell, and don't have the 90 day funding clock ticking away (not that we had many cars go to 90 days).

We had a stocking facility with Close Bros for 3 years up to 2 years ago. Didn't do any finance deals for three months and they pulled the funding. Every month the rep would come round and ask what are we doing to push sales with finance. If customers can get Santander loans for 3% APR they don't need your 9%+ APR HP Close Bros..... We fund our stock ourselves now but the new Close rep keeps offering stock funding again. No thanks - don't need the pressure to sell finance.

If you fill in the V62 with new keepers details and pay £25, they will receive the new V5 in their name. Or you can fill in the V62 in your name requesting a new V5. Once your customer or you have the new V5 (with a new keeper added) you can tax the car. The problem is waiting for the new V5 as it takes weeks (6-8) for DVLA to write to the old keeper and for the old keeper to respond. This is not the same as the old keeper requesting a replacement V5. A V62 requests a new V5 with a new keeper added.

Sorry, what I meant was you can’t request a replacement V5 with a V62 to allow you to tax the car. If the car is not in trade you can’t tax it at a post office. I’ve had this twice, once about 7 years ago and once last year. Spoke to DVLA both times and they confirmed while there is a keeper registered on the car you can’t tax it. If you fill in a V62 for a new keeper (buyer) they have to take the car untaxed (not possible) but they will receive a new V5 in their name once DVLA has written to the previous keeper to confirm they are no longer the keeper. What I did in both instances was fill out a V62 in my name to get a new V5 and then sell the car as normal. Now when I see a car advertised with no V5 I ring DVLA to confirm if in trade or not.

If the V5 has been lost and the car is not in trade, that means that there is still a keeper registered at DVLA. V62 at a post office won't tax the car or request a new V5. Obviously if you know who the keeper is they can request a new V5 from DVLA. If you don't know the keeper then it's a problem.

I just let Lawgistics deal with the claim via the administered service. We too sell very straight cars with no faults and have very few claims. I find most people want or like a warranty. Anything that helps to sell cars is a plus for me and I pay Lawgistics to take the flak.

But Lawgistics warranty specifically excludes "any claim arising as a result of gradual deterioration through wear and tear" as per their general exclusions.

We use VDI check https://trade.vdicheck.com/ £1.29 per check incl VAT.

I've just taken a red Up Move (Nav) in px 33,200 miles full service history https://www.pas-motors.co.uk/used-volkswagen-move-up-3-door-hatchback-for-sale-in-scunthorpe-lincolnshire/ £3200 no prep at all

Most of the V5's out there were printed before the DVLA on line system started. The new V5's all state on the yellow slip that the purchase should be notified on line, or post the slip. We always notify on line in front of customer. Print off the DVLA receipt and staple to V5 for filing. Customer gets an immediate email from DVLA confirming. Job done - next customer please...

Don't forget to feed the air fed mask from a separate compressor with 3-stage filters way outside the paint zone, otherwise you'll still be breathing in isocyanates from the paint area courtesy of the local compressor...