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The high price indicator is deeply unpopular with most of the trade. Autotrader biting the hand that feeds them yet again. If you can be arsed there is a complaint section on Autotrader. I shall be complaining and I know a few others have. If a high enough percentage of dealers complain they may listen? It has to be worth 5 mins of your time ladies and gents

I may have missed this but how much did you sell the car for?

August I had a month free trial on CG. Just one lead in the month. I didn't take up the offer afterwards Monday just gone I sold one off the free package! The only sale ever to come from a CG lead. i questioned the lady as normally the email replies go into customer spam. She told me there was a notification from CG and she had to log in to read my reply.

I use Payment Sense 0.3% Debit 0.7% Credit £15 per month wired terminal I wouldn't be without it With my stock profile I have quite a few elderly customers who can not/wiil not do bank transfer Preference is £200 deposit on card and bank transfer before/on collection Don't bank it spend it. I use any cash taken to pay for tyres and other expenses. Although it can take a while to get rid of sometimes!

I think the forthcoming ban on DCI is a great thing. In theory this should create a more level playing field for us all. Car Supermarkets with little or no chassis profit are earning upto 2k a car on finance commission. The only reason they earn huge amounts is by legging customers up with high rates of interest. The supermarkets will have to alter their business model and return to earning something out the chassis. This should help with auction prices...

I'm with you. But we are old school. The new way is to use debt because money is so cheap. Which is fine when the good times are rolling. However I remember vividly the 2008 recession. Banks pulled the plug on lending almost overnight and it will happen again. The banks sent a good mate of mine down because he borrowed to the hilt. Outwardly he appeared to be a millionaire.

I've just started Season 1. I'm with you.It is really well done. Now added to watch list Narcos and Breaking Bad are the best ever for me

I left school at 18 after A Levels. I should have gone to Uni but I was never committed enough to education. Not knowing what to do as my father would not let me join the family business I worked for a bank for 10 years. Loved banking to start with, great social scene as banks had lots of staff in those days. I took voluntary redundancy in 1997 as by that time it felt like working in a prison and the banks wanted hard sell of any products. I sold plenty of loans with PPI attached! Joined the family business with my father(now retired) and been here ever since. Car trade is in my blood and always has been. But it's sooooo much harder to turn a good profit these days for many reasons

Apologies James Guess I got carried away with the gossip I have deleted post but it's too late now John

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Get yourselves into the Private Members Lounge and search posts. You will understand

Exactly this. I hope the OP hasn't been including re con in the purchase price to calculate VAT? We get the VAT back on recon costs!

I blew £1500 fixing a £3995 Zafira a few years back. It was one of those where I wish I never started but your in so deep you have to keep going. It ended up fixed and the patient customer was happy in the end

It's useful for part exchanges. Using the VW part exchange facility(free for those that don't know) I give the punters a nice printout with the figures. Punters seem to go for it every time Although I do cut the VW logo off the top first

It's a very odd market at the moment. The general consensus is it's quiet out there(it is for me) However if you need to replace stock it's a fortune to buy The normal rules of supply and demand just don't seem to apply Can't get my head around it really!

Good luck! I hope it goes your way and restores your confidence in what you do

20min job to clear the scuttle. Take of wiper arms etc and completely remove the cover to get all the debris out. The mutiplug in question is located under the carpet passenger side. There are about 50 wires and pins. If your lucky you will see a green pin which can be cleaned with contact cleaner. If your unlucky like I once was the pins will be rotten. My auto electrician spent a good few hours soldering!

Check it's not full of water under the passenger front carpet. Rots the multiplug pins I've had a couple of Clio's do very strange things where water ingress in the multiplug is the cause. The water ingress is caused by blocked scuttle drain. Crap design on a Clio and prone to blocking

2009 Mini Cooper Cabriolet 1.6 Petrol Pepper Pack, 1/2 Leather, Heated/Sports seats 95k Miles with good history Drives well but engine smokes/burning oil. A pretty car with no major body damage £2000 Should retail for around £3995 Email on john@albertabbottmotors.com or call during working hours on 01604 713599

I can recommend the Sealey VMA914 if your looking for a proper valeting machine. Good value and pretty robust. Remote control for spray and suck. Must of had ours about 4 years. Still going strong and only a few small parts replaced in that time.

So to all those that have been pulled for 'no keeper' was there any consequences? Just asking for a friend

I've got an 09 Cabriolet Cooper that smokes. Going cheap if anyone wants to take it on

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Quiet start to the month but i'm not going to start giving them away. Looking back it was the same last year...

I have the same model and colour in stock, low mileage etc. Hardly any enquiries. My brother thinks its the colour and I think it's the spec thats making it stick Sick of the sight of it!