MarkTVS

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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, Rory RSC said:

    Whats the story with that place?  Did they make big money doing a tax scam back in the day ?

     

    @trade vet  is that what a lot of these import places were doing? Was there a lot of them making a lot of money out of it in years gone by?

    I’m sure they were formerly the Keighly trade centre back in the day and sold hundreds of imports, I’m sure they had a terrible reputation also. Motor hub removed their google page as they were getting bad reviews every week :lol: they do have some lovely stock though!

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    1 hour ago, trade vet said:

    I remember when in the 90’s,pitches advertising in AT mag were cropping up and making serious money selling imported Evos and Impreza crap to Riff Raff.They had some way of evading the import duty but by advertising them they alerted the authorities and most of these guys got wiped out financially.......BTW I was a big fan of Zafiras and most 7 seaters,we did good business with them.

    Do they not still exist and are called motor hub now :lol:

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    46 minutes ago, BHM said:

    :lol: I was thinking exactly the same when I read your comment. Horrid things, and by the time they get to 10yrs old (when I’ve occasionally had the misfortune of experiencing them) they’re usually absolutely knackered & ALWAYS have issues - they’re on my ‘Don’t buy list’. I think the last half-decent car they made was the Galant but no fucker wanted them.

    You missed the evo 9 there! The 10 was nowhere near as good!

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    47 minutes ago, David Horgan said:

    Another one , this time contact at once on Autotrader 

    " Hello hope your not being to affected by the world problems of Covid , " To help you sell a car I'm in a position to take a look at your Fiesta Edge that would be the most perfect car for my daughters first car , Please text me back when you've made arrangements to bring it along so i can test drive its suitability for her . 

    She lives 300 miles away from us , :lol: the car is £4,195 

    What in blue blazes is this world of silly expectations coming too ? 

    I answered "I cant bring along my dear as its too far to walk home at my age  " 

    You seem to attract all the basket case customers :lol:

  12. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Mercftw said:

    No it’s a different program that I have on my laptop easy stuff 

    mileage 

    number of things service 

    what serviced and boom it’s done 

    Would you mind sending me pmwith some information on program etc?

    thanks

    mark

  13. Posted

    10 hours ago, Mercftw said:

    To write service history to the idrive isn’t hard at all tbh 

    all you need is a £10 Enet cable and the ability to convert from KM to miles 

    only downside is when it goes in for a software update it gets deleted

    Is it ista p that gets used?

  14. Posted

    2 hours ago, New year revolutions...... said:

    whilst i wouldnt know how to flash an update on a bm i can advise if this is what you are trying be very very careful because flashing involves updating everything so before you flash you take a copy of what you have first just in case so you can hopefully put everything back as it was if it all goes t*ts

    the other most important thing is you must have a stable power supply whilst doing a flash ie a quality battery maintainer not something thats not smooth that was ok for old cars pre ecu

    Yeah you need something that can supply a constant 12v minimum. Diagnostic won’t let you wind back Range Rover rear callipers without it which is a royal pita.

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    3 hours ago, Nick M.K. said:

    Yes I should've made it clear that this is for the main dealer servicing. I also have the ability to record servicing there but not on idrive. Nice little portal this BMW AOS

    I bought all the bimmer cables to try flash it onto the I drive but it’s a pig to work, can’t get to the bottom of it.

  16. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Nick M.K. said:

    Only just saw this. 

    On these cars the history information is stored on the idrive. From main menu go to Vehicle Information, then Vehicle status and on the top it should say Service History. 

    Not always Nick, in our workshop we can update the dsr online but we can’t flash it through to the I drive 

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, New year revolutions...... said:

    I would expect a longer experience than one hour if I paid €12.49 for it

    how much are hookers these days?

    Hookers mate you pay a minimum of an hour generally which I find a bit unfair as I only need about 4 minutes on a good day and that includes getting dressed after :lol:

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  25. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Casper said:

    What was the first auction you ever went to ? Think mines was bca from memory 

    Mine was central, my mate took me as he’d written off his car, I was a mechanic so he wanted me to check things out for him, he liked the look of a saxo vts, it seemed a decent car and I told him to put his hand up for it as it seemed cheap, he didn’t so I did and that’s probably where the bug started :) I still love a tidy Saxo Vts, such a brilliant little car to drive! They don’t make them like that any more! 

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