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  1. Posted

    9 hours ago, betginge said:

    You don't need to open the bonnet on BCA cars, The amazing BCA assured scheme will mean the car is mint and there is no need to check or inspect the vehicle. Rest assured its been checked by fully trained professional who has detailed every defect on a comprehensive report for you to read at your leisure.

      I am so glad I do not buy from BCA. :D

    I'm not a fan of BCA either, but I think you'll find its the vendors that insist on the resrictions with 'revving' and 'bonnets' rather than the auction themselves as such.

  5. Posted

    On 18/05/2017 at 9:42 AM, Rory RSC said:

    I have just done an SOR deal for a family member on a car with manufacturer warranty on it never again for family as it has caused me far more hassle than it was worth, when I was actually trying to do them a favour. 

    Sometimes you can't win <_<

    It's funny how ordinary people that no nothing about how the motor trade works still have very strong ideas about how they 'think' it works?

  6. Posted

    9 hours ago, NoMargin said:

    I remember going up to a trader doing exactly that. I was  shaking my head saying 'gearbox knackered', him agreeing. Know and behold 5 minutes later he sees me out bidding him on the same car. Let's just say he wasn't amused. :)

    Although, I was sitting in a car last week getting the feel of a clutch and a guy stuck his head in the window and asked "how was the clutch". I thought the bite was right at the top and I told him. I got out and he jumped in, I asked him if he agreed and he didn't, each to their own I guess. It's interesting to see what some guys think is acceptable?

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    7 hours ago, NoMargin said:

    If I can't  jump in and have a feel of the clutch, rev and see if electrics working inside, I usually don't bother bidding. Manheim Wimbledon use to have about 10 cars idling with no driver so was easy. I ain't been there in a while though because of the prices of the shite they sell there.  

    I dropped in last week and it appears you can jump in again when they are first started. They used to be quite strict about not letting you in them.

    It has to be said that the vendors do have a point, I remember being at BCA Enfield on a Saturday morning when a bunch of young guys were "red lining" every BMW there, if they were my cars I'd be mightly pissed off...?

    I also know one particularly trader that, on a saturday when the auction is full of mostly private punters, deliberately 'crunches' the gears when trying the clutch to make the cars appear to have a problem:D

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    Dropping your wife at the station while she listens for a noisy wheelbearing, or dropping your kids at school because its 'on the way to the MOT garage' are lame excuses.  I do feel that trade plates are one of the small privileges they offer us in the motor trade, and as we all know privileges can be removed? Don't make it easy for them?

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    1 hour ago, MGM said:

    g. PASSENGERS may be carried in a vehicle using a trade licence, unless the vehicle can carry only one person, provided they are carried in connection with a purpose for which the licence was issued.
    Note:- Trade plates should not be used on a vehicle which is carrying passengers for hire and reward. The purposes for which a trade licence can be issued do not allow passengers to be carried on a commercial basis.

    Sorry it's in large font, I copied and pasted from the road traffic act!

    So I take it that as I'm taking my car from one business premises to an auction say, it is clearly for motor trade purposes, I'm insured for motor trade use obviously so I can carry passengers i.e. My daughter. 

    I guess that's ok if you take your daughter to auctions? Or if she has some other connection with 'motor trade'.

    As said above, it's all very well for 'barrack room' lawyers, but I wouldn't like to have to explain myself at the side of the road? You may get away with it once, but two strikes and you're out!

  17. Posted

    The Cmax has gone. Couldn't stand the hard seats and having to peep around the a pillar. Replaced with a 'chancy' '02 Focus tdci estate (I know:rolleyes:). It's done a few hundred miles already. Got a little noise when cranking over wihch I'm hoping is just an old auxiliary belt. I don't normally bother with older diesels to sell on. I tend to think that a diesel estate that is serviceable and able to pass an MOT will be run into the ground, only a terminal issue will see it at auction, but so far so good.

  23. Posted · Edited by metcars

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    Lady Drivers.......

    Some car dealers might try to overwhelm their customers with technical terms they may not understand"

    Straight out of the 1950s! At least you didn't mention the little lady :D

    I showed this to my daughter who immediately started organising some angry women ready to chain themselves to your fence!:D

  25. Posted

    This has been mentioned before but they usually do turn up, just after you sell the car. :D

    Seriously, hopefully it will be the next thing that they get rid of. It's all done electronically, private punters can inform DVLA of keeper change, just more dead wood. Dealers don't need them and private punters can get a note through the letter box to say they are the new keeper the same as the little note that tells them they are no longer the keeper?