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    I am off on holiday for two weeks and I wanted to suspend my AutoTrader Account for the duration I've seen a few on here mention doing it. But they have told me I need to give 30 days notice which I'm really not happy about as I'm only suspending for 2 weeks of the month so there is still a charge there for July. 

    Has anyone else done this without giving 30 days notice? 

    Thanks 

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    13 hours ago, Grantlfc81 said:

    The firm is an absolute Pisstake with their pricing.

    was paying £1300 a month for their services.

    we are now doing eBay motors pro and car gurus amd marketplace and the enquiries are flowing in compared to auto trader.

    £650 compared to £1300 and the other 2 are giving us triple the leads.  Auto trader really need to bring their prices down as they are a joke

    good riddance! Will do 3 month trial without them and see how we are.

    Can I ask what sort of cars you stock as I've been thinking of doing the same thing but I find ebay works very well for certain cars and not so much for others I do a mix mainly German stuff £5-10k but often performance stuff which gets a lot of interest on ebay but so many time wasters where as autotrader I will get fewer calls and emails but normally leads to the one that counts. 

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    17 minutes ago, MattR said:

    Ive just had this on a beetle, lock jammed down on handover... Ended up spending last friday fetching it (an hour each way)and getting it repaired here so it didnt fall into the hands of someone elses labour charges or a 'health check'. I put a VW part on which was £140 but there seem loads of non gen around for around £20. Anyone ever had success with those or do they break in no time? I didnt want to do it on this one because the customer isnt local

    There the ones I buy they seem to work long enough for it not be your problem at least lol 

     

    For the ones that went on customers I ordered them of ebay to there address and sent them £50 for an hour labour at a garage there not that difficult to do you just have to take the door card off. 

    When there stuck on childlock and completely deadlocked which is what I have with the R32 I'm not sure how I'm going to do it.  Before you could open from the inside at least 

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    Ye it's one of those things we all get one every now and again Its probably the biggest issue I've had in a long time so I've been on a good run. 

    One thing with VAG cars recently iv had to pay out for four door locks most on cars that I've sold and they've gone on the customer and 1 on a A5 I have in stock. 

    And now one that's stuck shut on childlock on a mk5 R32 I just bought. 

    There made of shit 

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    On 12/03/2019 at 10:46 AM, Dave2302 said:

    Yeah plz do, I'm curious now (as ever) ;)

    It was the oil pump in the mechatronics sent it of to ECU testing for repair. 

    Not too expensive should still turn a small a profit but not really worth the agro. 

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    If your not making profit with probably little to no overheads then I would give up. 

    Wait until you have Vat bills rent and big expenses to pay out like most of us do. 

    Your probably relying on the CAP retail valuation too much unless you have a proper business and come across as such then you will never achieve any where near retail when selling a car especially the sort of cars your buying. 

     

     

     

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    27 minutes ago, Dave2302 said:

    I hate VW's, try not to do much with them these days, but ..........

    IIRC the flashing display is just telling that there is a problem somewhere in the Transmission Electronics, so could be a lot of less expensive things like maybe a speed sensor etc ;)

    HTH

     

    It's with my mechanic now so should find out soon enough. 

    Thanks for the advice everyone will post the outcome 

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    I've read it with a snapon diagnostic and there were a few codes all related to low pressure in the oil pump which is why I'm thinking it could be low oil. 

    Thinking about nearly every car that's caused me major aggro has been either a VW or an Audi yet I still buy them for some reason. 

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    I bought a scirroco 1.4 Tsi from Blackbushe the other day on collection everything was fine it was only half way home I noticed the gear indicator on the display was flashing. 

    It still drives fine goes into gear ect. But somthing is definitely not right. 

    I'm hoping it's not the mechatronics unit as its still driving OK. 

    Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? 

    First thing I'm going to try is a dsg oil and filter change as it had gearbox leak advisory on MOT a couple years ago so worth a shot. 

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    16 hours ago, Beautiful South Martin said:

    Has anyone got a supplier/contact for a swirl flap kit for an Audi A3 TDi 2.0 (170bhp), just checked with Audi and you have to buy the complete inlet manifold. Looked on ebay and can only find a kit for the 2.7 and 3.0 engine...any pointers please.

    I remove the the flaps and remap them off the ECU so you get no errors. Can help out if your local to East Sussex