MarkTVS

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  6. Posted

    Just wondering if anywhere that offers diagnostic training for mechanics?

    One of my workshop mechanics is really good with diagnostic and very eager to learn, I’d like to be able to put him on a course to train him on stuff we don’t yet have like scopes etc? Was thinking of somewhere did a 2/3 week course, anyone know anywhere that offers this?

     

    thanks

    Mark

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, Row said:

    The one that gets me is, How long have you had it, I had a call this week and that was the very first thing he said !

    I had a friend who was a Muslim car dealer and it is against their religion to lie so he had to word his responses well which I found funny, on a car that had sat on his pitch 6 months he would say “well I’ve had it at least 2 weeks” as technically not a lie :lol:

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  8. Posted

    3 hours ago, tradegirl said:

    Yes but the people who usually ask that question, are people you'd see hanging around auction houses themselves. And there are plenty of great cars at auction, shame about the reputation. Unless it's something like the old SMA auction, what a shambles!

    Nick, you're a poet lol.

    Don’t slate the old sma auctions! I miss my free dinners and 7 days credit on purchases! 

  10. Posted

    I think the car is wrong and undesirable however the advert quality is good I would make sure though when taking photos for example from nearside rear that the front wheels are pointing to the nearside as opposed to the offside, makes the image look better IMO 

  11. Posted

    We Jetwash all engine bays, wheel arches, door shuts and window seals, 

    valet inside, shampoo where required, spare wheel well cleaned, 

    outside defatted and hand polished though send them out to get machine polished if they are really bad.

  13. Posted

    We charge an admin fee of £150 if the customer arranges there own finance, this covers the time spent required for new set ups when some companies want pictures of premises inside and out and proof of where the car came from etc etc, It’s designed to sway them more to use the finance we provide

     

    We also charge a £25 admin fee for any card payments (excluding deposits) this is to encourage customers to pay via bank transfer which means we get the money faster or good old fashioned kesh:)

     

    Not really had many people moan about it tbh.

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  14. Posted

    One of our stock cars a Vauxhall Vx220 was written off for very light panel damage, someone went into the side of it, and the insurance just paid us out as a Total loss as Vauxhall don’t make the clams for them anymore, in reality with a wee bit of fibreglass it will be an easy fix.

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  16. Posted

    Ive been with them for a few years now, the response from their website is poor, maybe one a month or so, usually they are good customers aswell but some always want to get an aa inspection done, and has anyone ever actually sold a 10 year old car after an aa inspection?

    I like them for the AA Branding, as we are a small company it reassures customers so I think that makes it worth the money as it isn't that expensive.

  22. Posted

    Called Gumtree today as we are currently paying £312 inc vat per month for 20 cars, I know other members are paying less for combined gumtree and ebay however I was told this was to get ebay customers over to gumtree and was a promotion that wont last. What they can offer me is an extra £165 per month for both gumtree and ebay which would total £477.60 per month for upto 20 or a total of £561.60 for upto 30.

    So what I want to know is who uses ebay and would you say it is worth the extra £165 a month?

     

    thanks

    Mark

  23. Posted

    Just curious of what everyone is paying? We are currently scumtree only for 20 cars per month at £300 odd but we are getting emails as we are closer to the 30 cars in stock.

    i remember recently hearing other people saying they were paying less for the combined eBay and gumtree so just curious to see where the benchmark is so I can push them a bit?

     

    thanks

    Mark

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    6 hours ago, Dave2302 said:

    Ive seen a 2011 MX5 fail test on terminal rot !!

    Lived on Skye all of its short miserable life ....................

    Arguably not a bad thing to happen to an MX5 :lol: 

    I didn’t realise the new shape ones suffered from rot same as the old ones! I currently have one up getting both rear sills welded! Schoolboy error for not checking!