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Yeah, only three hours. I think, that if you park over the road behind the cinema complex you get longer (I think!)

Thank god Enfield have opened up the full customer car park again instead of using half of it for storage

Was talking to a mate last night about the auction yards awash with Mercs? I remember when these used to be luxury cars with exclusivity?

Yes, and already in a container and on its way to the far reaches of europe?

Blimey, that's going back a few years!

Am I the only one that's having issues logging on to the BCA website today. I just get 'error', or is it 'maintenance'?

I'll raise you a Focus 1.6 VCT with noisy tappets?

I'm looking at Blackbushe on Monday, about 940 cars in total, nearly half are UKCGR stuff? You can't really choose to ignore it? I wonder how many of those 107k returned a profit, or ended up in a skip? And can someone explain in 'real' terms the difference between 'premium', 'select', 'trade' and 'no reserve'?

"shrimp boat"?

I suppose it's an app now is it?

I can get from London Stratford to Colchester Town for £8, and if I'm lucky I'm on my own and there's a toilet!

Do they still even do the printed copy?

On this subject, you can get some cheap off peak tickets if you hunt around.

Sound pretty standard, Manheim Colchester can be picky about giving you a lift (although judging by the state of the minibus I'd rather walk). And they have almost gone out of their way to make it difficult to walk out into the far reaches of the compound on that strange grey stone that that turns to mud and gets everywhere in the car!

Don't let me put you off, the more old shitters you buy from WBAC the fewer decent cars you'll compete against with me

I stopped buying CAP when the auction houses started printing the prices in the catalogues. I never found CAP/Glasses retail pricing very 'realistic' in the first place, I still don't.

My 'gut feeling' is that all that crap is there because everyone else has tried to fix it and failed.

Might be ok for the odd 'banger', but i wouldn't want to spend any real money on someones old turd. There are two buyers for this wbac stuff, private buyers who don't know any better and traders who think they'll buy a car with a fault that's easily fixed? I've heard there are diamonds in the rough but i've never found one.

Don't Blackbushe run a shuttle from the station on sale days for trade?

As advisories go, "wheeltrim missing" still takes some beating!

I would be more annoyed with myself that I hadn't bothered to check the lights before the test?

Yes, same here

Watch out you'll catch the bug, I did exactly the same thing as you and ended up keeping one for 10yrs. It lasted longer than my last marriage. Drove everywhere in it, unstoppable. Tow anything. Fetch a washing machine back from Makro and still get five people in it. Fuel consumption gets tiring though

To which you reply "no, that's fine, I'm quite happy to pop over now while they are pdi'ing the car for you, be there in 10mins". Don't forget the idea is not to go to them but to 'encourage' them to come to you? Taking a car to a punter always puts you on the 'back foot' as far as negotiation is concerned

Tell them you will pop over and 'do the paperwork/collect payment' then have car delivered?