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Surely this goes completely against block exemption??

I didn't either! No joke, I thought early on it could have been that someone had put a can of diesel in at BCA, but sniffing the filler it smelt so much of unleaded I ruled it out! Swapped loads of parts with another car we had in stock, but kept thinking "it's just like it's running on rubbish fuel" , bit the bullet and pulled the tank out (took about 5 mins) , then put the petrol in a clear glass and it was so much darker than fresh!!

We had an Aygo with same engine a while ago, running rough, smoking (but no fault codes), did compression test, swapped temp sensor, coil packs, plugs from another car we had here, then checked the tank.... The fuel smelt stronger of unleaded then fresh unleaded! Whipped the tank out and it had been missfuelled! Ran great on just unleaded!!

Merry Christmas and a (hopefully warranty claim less) Happy New Year everyone here, thanks for all the great posts, dunno how much more I could have achieved if I didn't spend so much time checking the forum but I'm sure the lessons learned have saved us a fortune!!

Brilliant!!

George here too, Henry for the dry jobs, they make a great team, parts when eventually needed aren't dear

We did one at the post office last week, they took the completed v5c from us and sent it off.

So sad , here's hoping to as quick and full recovery as possible. As someone who has been at PW week in week out for years now I really feel for all involved, it's just so busy over there now, volume has increased massively, and staff numbers have never been so low it seems, also a high turnover of staff, I really hope the driver wasn't feeling under undue pressure.

Make all correspondence by letter, email or if you have to text, has the car been mot'd in their ownership? If so check the mot history, will indicate the miles covered.

I take it the customer can still tax cars online if the cars not on the mid? We've always added them once the cars here, but am considering stopping this due to the above advise.

We've used this from: https://www.autojoy.co.uk/dressings-autojoy-super-sleek-tyre-dressing-litre-p-385.html for years, always lasts ages and looks great, dunno if anyone else uses Autojoy but we find them great, use them for all our polishes, glass polish etc, etc, find them well priced and quick delivery, great if working from home.

Every home should have one, well two, or three or.....

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Lol, I'll get up then!! Entered it into the latest box, first time it came up with an error, the second time all the stations came up , que panic when we buy cars all serviced at the main dealer on the same day as MOT only to find they've been MOT'd here, there and every flippin' where!

Just spotted this too, have you tried one? Do you have to enter v5c number to view each years test station? Would get proper tedious very quickly!

Well that was a full day! Decided to blank Preston, managed to nurse the lovely little 34k Yaris to Bedford with a badly slipping clutch and no a/c, luckily managed to buy another one there, got the first one recovered from the car park, and drove the second one back with a lovely clutch and ice cold a/c, 5.00am start, home at 7.40pm all good fun!!

Thanks Trade Vet I'm heading down to Bedford as soon as I've picked this car up, as it's (almost) on the way back, I'll maybe give Preston a call and see about leaving a lowish bid, if I drove up to Preston I wouldn't make it to Bedford in time Always the way!! Cheers

Morning everyone, I've never been to BCA Preston, I'm considering leaving a proxy bid on a car in the Hadwins VW Audi section, it's a 57 plate, so too old for a proper appraisal, it's grade 4 which can be near enough a write off at Paddock Wood or Enfield. I'm on the train to collect a car and can't bid online as I don't use an Apple device. Just wondered if anyone who buys regularly from Preston has an opinion on the grading and also how the pricing is. Thanks in advance

On the bigger zetec they're inside the channel between the two cams where the plugs live, I imagine the 1.25 and 1.4 are the same?? I've changed them on a 1.6 before but not yet on the smaller engines.

I'm sorry but I couldn't give a mechanic a cambelt job if he's not capable of replacing two piss easy core plugs! Any one who can pick up a hammer could be shown how to replace them, a cambelt is one of the most important jobs too do right!

Just imagine his face if you'd have walked up, brazen as anything and started snapping away!!

When we get a car with full main dealer history we fit a genuine oil filter and assess the air filter, replace with genuine if necessary, then our ad reads "full main dealer service history and just serviced by us at xx miles using genuine parts"

We had this with a Hyundai Getz (08 '58 from memory), a few years ago, Googled the fault, on the Getz it was the two wire multiplug to the immobilizer antenna, we just had to cut out the multiplug and solder the wires and heat shrink them to get rid of the resistance of the plug.

George, Henry (and Henry mk2 as backup!), and even Hetty all work really hard here, great machines and we've found them easy to maintain/cheap. Numatic customer support are really helpful on the phone, even recommended a cheap spares shop (in Bristol from memory). Recently we've used mostly APC on most water marks/stains and only use George to dry seats after APC, or for really grubby cars. So I guess we could get away with just a cheap wet vac. Bought a cheap Tornador copy the other week after reading about them here, typically haven't needed to try it out yet, shouldn't complain I'm sure we'll get lots of opportunity sooner or later!!

Service as necessary, so always oil and filter, check air filter and plugs (unless car comes with an itemised bill for recent servicing from a main dealer or reputable independent), strip, clean and adjust brakes always! Can't believe how many older low mileage cars we get in with full main dealer history where the back brake drums have clearly never been off! The same goes for spare tyre pressure, Toyota spares are nearly always low! Check lights, wipers etc. Mot if less than 9 months left, although we're probably going to mot every car soon.