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what a shame on these cars you cant lose a finger in the camshaft hole as punter sticks their dabs in the oil filler hole with engine running to show you that mayonnaise is a sure sign the head gasket has gone as the wife tuts with arms folded and the daughter plays with her white phone

my post office used to bend over to help but since it got ponsified up out of all recognition and they chucked the glass partitions they seem to have lost the will to help, plus i very rarely go there anymore after dvla's last grief so i just let customers do their own tax now prior to pickup,a great idea is to give them the 12 digit reference number on their invoice, this way they can insure and tax online at their pleasure and turn up to collect car all legal like and if they cock you still have new keeper supplement

thanks downloaded all 3

latest scam ive been tricked into twice this last month is p/x vehicles with much shorter tests than sellers told me about but on both occasions i offered peanuts anyway as i didnt really want them,i offered both of them on ebay and all of the scum of the world came out to bid me lower,they sold and i made profit but both left a bitter taste,best thing is i now have the upper hand in any warranty issues (i self warrant so they come to me)

to be fair the original poster goes on to say and here i quote Haha! Buy anything today? Funny thing is I know who's taken it, they have a penchant for S types it seems so its maybe the case that the buyer specialises in this brand and as i said further up this thread may well have a buyer waiting who cant do the auction legwork, hj on his old forum used to have someone i think called reg dwiar? who would often buy cars on behalf of customers for a small fee that was always saved in reduced auction costs

be wary car might have log book loan on it which is why only old style log book available be aware the identity number for taxing will also be wrong but post office might just tax and disc shows to old customer,i think it would need a new v62 filling in at the counter,not sure if you would have to pay the £25 but would be interested in the feedback as i have a car with old style only in stock too

it may be the case that 2 people needed the car to fill a customers request,ive had a customer come in again today to see if i can find him the car he wants and again ive had to say not yet,of course maybe they were buying via parkers guide anyway,or it is silly season august before a bank holidays maybe the buyer has finally flipped?

this months like pulling teeth seems to be getting worse not better, most of my sales these last 2 months have been distress purchases too due to customers unforeseen circumstances like rear ending the local bin wagon with their normal car

i wont offer anything until ive perused it checked it and got it mint,most customers cant see past a set of dirty rims and sweetie wrappers on the floor so first impressions are lasting impressions, so unless i know the customer and have the car well in the pipeline its a no no for me after many years of experience,good luck to you guys/gals that get it to work for yourselves though

read in the gospel maily dail today that the dvsa mot logging site is crashing,well who would have believed that an internal it system to save the govt money wouldn't crash ,my mot station had to stop testing last week due to failure of the system now dvsa are telling mot garages to write an mot pass on izal bog paper and give it to the customers until the system is working again and mot station can log the mot pass in reminds me of Guinness labels in the windows to fool the bobbies we were fully legal as we drove through unknown counties on the great north road back to civilisation

i give dents like that away for free

the ones that had the private plate i find,always out of their tree once youve bought and driven them,owners can peel an orange in their pocket cars

manheim dont cover the plates to protect the guilty though i checked out all coparts places via googly maps without googie withers and its not them,its deffo a salvage place but it could literally be anywhere

the best thing to do is sit down and write down all different ways to move the dog with associated costs retail trade on back to block ebay be realistic and once decided keep the ship on course good luck i think ive bought a bone im off to collect tommorrow

ok so its mid august and even the local rats have packed their meesers and gone off on a plaque hunt but one customer to kick the tyres all day and 10 coffees later i wents home

interesting as tineye says no, so where did the photo come from then?

just put trade plates on every test drive and never ever do unaccompanied drives unless you have cast iron insurance to cover it,you need to confirm driver also has a clean licence prior to them wanting to drive your car at 40 in a 30 like they all want to

used to buy a car from auction run it get bored of it and retail it,the smell of dirty lucra profit was too hard to resist,of course back then dealers who worked from home were nearly unheard of and getting trade plates was a great struggle as dvla were insisting i needed premises,i won and still have the original plates but had to repaint them last year in lovely ford radiant red as they were becoming unreadable,nothing wrong with home traders by the way if they do the job right as we all have to start somewhere, its the traders who put two fingers up and seem to get away with it that gnaws at me

having been on the wrong end of a car tax fiasco at xmas where dvla were sending refund cheques out like confetti and the new owners car then showed as untaxed its not a policy i would follow but then i like to sleep soundly in my bed

best thing is when they come back after thinking about it and you can tell them it sold just after they left,its such a nice feeling and in days gone by i would sometimes do it just for the gleefullnes of it even though it wasnt sold,oh the good ole days eh where there were more bums than seats

tell us about your journey to doverand how the frogs are ruining our country and how we should shut that dammed tunnel but only after sept when i need to use it,and wheres me rock

Always sorry to see someone go who does the job right ,round my way ive weathered more storms than Francis Chichester but they still keep coming and going and even offering customers the world then disappear to end up trading from home with clapped out ford ka's etc,glad to hear your going into the new business of discount tax disc holders anyway pecker up and all the best mate

when you get old like some of us who hated local newspapers and their working practises, autotrader came like a breath of fresh air, so, after something like 28 years its really hard to walk away, but im learning that places like ebay might be the new way forward and im surprised im saying this because im a proper stick in the mudder,,but autotrader really is losing its way because its not a monopoly anymore just like yellow pages was

im a 99 man but got to say the 50 is a good idea because i get sick of reading like odd figures in autotrader so they bump their cars up a page to appeal to the lazy customers who want to pay x and travel within a taxi ride

dvla computer cant digest so many changes in such a short time so rejects,i would either be looking for recompense from a higher source by finding who to write to at dvla towers by asking or write it off and take the medicine my insurer who is lv wont let me tax a car unless its registered in my name so slamming cars on the MID is not an option anymore for me and lets be honest here its going to be a right paper trail if you get a bumpsy whilst driving it or worse selling it within a short time and your paperwork isnt triplicated just tax a barge you will never sell if you arent bothered what you drive its really much easier in the long term and allows you to make it a pigsty too if you want