Highlinev8

Government will be looking to end furlough as soon as it possibly can, put bill paying back into the hands of the employer. Then the real fun will start.

Its been hard to replace stock because theres nothing out there to buy. BCA are selling 100 crappers a day, Mostly grade 3-5 stock that was clogging up their yards. Manheim effectively closed, Aston Barclay and Flag running the odd small sale. Most of the big fleet sellers have sat on their hands and decided to sit it out, cant buy anything out of VWFS or Mercedes for example. They will crawl out of their shell eventually and flood the market. Pretty sure your fiesta/astra/mondeo stock will still be fine but above 15K there is going to be excess supply and stuff will be cheap. Thats before we even consider the amount of dealers that are 6-8 weeks away from going belly up. Not saying its panic stations but cant see any benefit in holding back current stock.

I've a big box of keys under my desk, surely I qualify ?

Europart site will give you every available fitment for that car so usually give you two or three options which is not great. Blueprint usually will display only the right part and give you all the possible oe part numbers. Best way to be 100% certain is find what looks like the right part off one of the big warehouse ebay sellers. send them an email with your reg and they will confirm the parts they have are correct or direct you to the correct listing. You can then buy off them or use the part number that you now have to find the best value.

check by reg on the blueprint site. https://partsfinder.bilsteingroup.com/ usually accurate

Lotus is Chinese(owned by Geely). Think the biggest British owned producer of cars is Metrocabs. Dont know if we all want to be driving cabs to be honest.

I changed from Apple and went for a Huawei P20 Mate Pro. Mainly for the camera. Had it a year and the battery still lasts forever, Camera is better than my Canon slr. Its basically a handheld laptop. Would highly recommend despite what you hear about Chinese phones. Found the best deals on uswitch, and phone deals change every few days so worth tracking it for a week before you buy.

I buy a lot online. I'm fussy about what I buy and I only buy grade 1 stock off Mercedes/VWFS etc. Takes big balls to be buying old crap to be honest. I send in my own driver to collect who inspects and photographs the car before he leaves site. Any problems are notified and I will discuss with BCA before he drives off. In the ideal world I would get to inspect every car personally but thats not possible when you are bidding in multiple sites. There is very little advantage to actually visiting auctions for me. Back in the day I could open a car and give it a good check over, now cars are mostly locked until 20 seconds before they run in to the hall, doesnt exactly give you much of a chance particularly when theres four or five bodies all trying to get into the car at the same time.

I'm sure BCA would hand out login credentials to anyone that sends them an email at the moment. They had a few sales last week, another three tomorrow, Mostly UK Car stuff and a lot of no reserve crap they are trying to clear out. I'm still after stock but its hard to find, A lot of the nice fresh stuff on BCA is on Buynow above Cap clean which is a joke. Aston Barclay have been running the best online sales so far and stock is on sale at realistic prices.

I'd love to hear lawgistics take on their T&Cs. As far as I was aware it doesn't matter what I get them to sign or how I phrase the ad, Joe Public is always Joe Public and I am always a car dealer so consumer rights apply. The only way this could stand was if the website was only accessible by the trade who had proven their trade credentials to be a member. This is a website that anyone can jump on. Anyway if they run a good business and customers are happy well and good but I wouldn't like to be testing the model in court.

Theres plenty of used stock out there but the trade sellers are in a period of indecision re pricing so not much stock is selling. Things were not helped by the majority of Cap Clean prices going up in value on the 1st of April. Realistically sales managers need to be looking at Cap and projecting future values to at least six months time if they want to sell to the trade today.

Pick up the phone, speak to my salesman and make a genuine enquiry. I tend to ignore/long finger email enquiries as experience has proved most of them to be time wasters. Don't be a dreamer and only look at cars that you are very close to on budget. If I have a car advertised at £8995 and you only have £8500 to spend then depending on days in stock and general stock profile of the business at the moment we should be able to do something. If you are ringing around thinking you are getting £1000 off a car you are wasting everyones time. A lot of dealers just don't do discount, some get offended at the suggestion, Personally once I have a car in stock prepped and ready to go I am already bored of it.

You are perfectly entitled to sell cars once you stick to government guidelines and make sure the entire process is contactless. Lots of garages still open, as are the main auctions. Trade platers are mostly on lock down but ones that work for the hire industry are still operating. As Noacross mentioned above, Low loaders and transporters that work in recovery are still operating as usual.

They used to start off anyone that asked nicely with a Gold card. Now they will only hand out Silvers. At least with a silver card they are guaranteed a deposit, Gold card holders dont have to leave a dipper,

You have to buy 10-12 ? cars to get a Gold car though. How are you collecting and selling the cars without insurance ?

Its not that easy to reclaim VRT, you can obviously get a quote from Rosslare but it would be up to the dealer to book it in for test and reclaim. Whats with the Paddy comments lads ? are we back in the 70s

This is what you bought and this is what you want. Much wider vent from 2010 onwards. Stayed that way for a few year but you need to be checking exact models and vin numbers etc when buying used body parts.

When I say "New", I mean New to them, so all car purchases. Of course people that are in need of a replacement car will still be buying. I tend to sell high spec-low miles German, that kind of stock could get sticky. Anyway I hope you are right but I'm looking at the economic picture, stock market and currencies are fluctuating to this degree is a bad sign. I'm not going into panic mode but I expect it to slow down, next couple of weeks are key.

I dont think the thread is about how as a country we are going to survive. Obviously we will make it through as usual. The thread is about disruption of business. Lets be honest buying a new car is not going to be on peoples priority lists right now. We are about a week behind Italy statistically and they are closing borders and cancelling flights right now. I'm not in a position to go into semi retirement for a few months so I will be out buying cars again tomorrow as usual...but its going to get messy. I suppose this time next week we will see a truer lay of the land.

You'll have to fill out a V62 form and post off an application for a V5. If she was never listed as an owner that could take 6 weeks to produce a document. What part of the original V5 do you have ?

Even if you are not worried about getting sick, this is going to be a business killer for a few months. Anyone thats not seeing that has their head in the sand.

As above, Breakers are covered by environmental licenses to buy the brakers and to break and recycle used parts. Not something easy to get into. Also Breaking takes up a huge amount of space, you can always sell 40% of a car but will sit on the rest of it for years. I'm up in the Northwest and know St Helens, What sort of traffic goes past , is it main road ? Presuming its an old canopy forecourt how secure is it ?

https://checkmyreg.com/ Works with 50%ish of cars

The product you are looking for is "Barkeepers Friend" They sell it in Range. Two minutes of rubbing and you rear chuff will shine like a tap.

You dont have to do it panel by panel but the longer you leave it on the more you will have to dig it off. I tend to do side/side/bonnet&boot/roof when I'm applying a wax. Any Wax like Collinite/Fuso/Dodo Juice etc is a final coating. You would want to make sure the car is well polished before you apply a wax. It will seal in any tar or imperfections if it hasnt been properly cleaned first.