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In the customer reviews, Sam says: "More of a novelty toy and the plastic is pitted. Cheap , nasty and too big to be practical."

Why not have a private + area for those with the highest security rating? Lol

Yeah, i need the vin before i buy the car Manheim give you the vin in the vehicle description. I suppose BCA will make you pay for it if you ask?

Are vin numbers included in the vehicle descriptions? If so, can some kind soul give me a pointer as to whereabouts!

Well, Unless you are investing, in which case a tanking economy is good! There are many sinister characters (rees mogg) waiting in the wings to pick the bones clean. Not forgetting that these same sinister characters believe that wIth working conditions are a barrier to trade! Interestingly these same sinister characters were telling us how easy leaving would be and how great it would be? I wonder why?

Yes. Happy, confident punters spend money on cars, anxious punters keep it in the bank.

What branches do they do all this? I've never seen them do it at Enfield, they wouldn't have the room. Maybe they road test them?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-7476857/Hundreds-jobs-axed-Car-Store-owner-Pendragon-vows-close-22-sites-amid-stinging-losses.html

Maybe you could help Pendragon, stratstone, Evans halshaw and car store know what the secret to success is, because their industry experts are failing them?

Thats how you 'encourage' buyers to use it apparently?

Dont you hate it when that happens? Manheim are the masters of selling you 'bolt ons' and extras that are of no value to trade buyers and that have no value when sold on. That new thing they started where you have to pay £2 to check the mot history for you? Does anyone not check mot history themselves? Lol

i enjoy looking at original spec classic cars. sadly a lot of early fords end up as rolling test beds for guys chasing horsepower at the expense of everything else. originality will always win the race! what would i have done different? starting in the 60s would have given me 20yrs of the golden age?

But plenty of them have careers outside of politics. Which i feel is a good thing. Nothing wrong with living in the real world like the rest of us. Apart from that very odd 'rees-mogg', who is like a character from a Dickens novel, and sits on a £100millon fortune?

Andy you cheapskate, buy a proper sensor! Lol

But the buyer will show the 'independent' assessors the health report from the main dealer surely. They might find some bits the main dealer missed? Lol

Tell him FB and scumtree are full of £300 bangers, but there's a reason why?

because she wanted me to buy it?

Give or receive?

No I completely believe it. They 'could' be astonishing value, and because the uneducated thought that all ex-police cars are ratty old rubbish the prices were down. I remember driving them home after the evening sale at WOMA in a convoy back to London including the ex Mrs MET! Keep fit windows and no radio, but they ran like a swiss watch. Interestingly the guy that Autocar ran the article on back in 1996 was called Paul Mimmack, a trader from Blackpool, who had quite a stock back in the day, mostly high-end stuff though it has to be said. I used to have some success with the Astra's, and Omega's (which had to have working air, even back in those days they would not sell without it). I just had a little look through the old books and the last ex police cars I bought was three '96 Astra 5drs from Leeds in 1998. I wanted to get into the ex MOD stuff but it never happened sadly? I did find that towards the end of my time doing ex-police we were noticing that the cars were being 'traded out' just before big jobs were due like any other fleet, which was a bore. I expected to spend my time sorting paint and rebuilding interiors/radios, but sort of expected the mechanicals to be spot on. I remember selling a couple of Senators to coppers back then?

Back in the day they were OK. Used to buy from WOMA and Leeds. The unmarked/CID/covert/posh uniformed stuff was ok. But I shudder to think what it's like putting together a 'modern' police car interior? Plus most manufacturers nowadays supply 'police spec' vehicles from new, same as 'taxi spec'. I seem to remember in the '90s Autocar magazine doing an article on a dealer that specialised in ex police. I've still got a couple of Astra 3 roof linings with sunroof delete if anyone is interested!

todays advisory 'classic' spare tyre missing on an 09 fiesta that never had a spare wheel from the factory?

didnt they come with a little crayon?

Hey!

As much as i agree with you about 'enthusiastic amateurs' driving up prices, the auctions love them for obvious reasons. Sadly highest bidder wins is the business model. And dont forget auctions dont see themselves as moral arbiters? Anyone can buy, if you have the money?

Sorry if i missed this bit, but if the police were in attendance at the crash, wouldnt they have run him through the system there and then to establish whether he was appropriately insured to drive the car. I'm guessing that the PoPo will need to satisfy themselves that either the driver is insured or the driver is not, in which case is it TWOC?