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  1. Posted

    they always did private as I remember, my beaf was it was a cheaper advert than a trade advert and we went to the office and supplied our own photos or used the stock photos auto trader had in the office

    then we got bigger and an agent came with her Polaroid, she was always late and even when every word and everything was in place we still found errors, this caused us to be given a credit but credits don't sell metal,, then we went super super posh and used a block advert where we just had all the cars and no photos, that worked really well as people liked to have choice

    I've always specialised

    thanks TV I agree it was much better back then getting to the newsagent to buy the trader as it was dropped and ringing private buyers up before 7.00am saying you wanted to buy their car because unbeknown to them it was too cheap

    now it's Facebook marketplace for bargains, not for me though I hate dealing with people still in their Jim jams on an afternoon

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  3. Posted

    20 hours ago, TRADE SURVIVOR said:

    Two bank holidays on the back of Easter peoples heads and wallets are in another place, relax and mint your stock it will come back. As for red if it's mega cheap at wholesale price, take a punt. Polish it within an inch of it's life and you may get a result. Works for us particularly sub 5k retail money :)

    I put chrome number plate surrounds on them often just to give them a bit of magpie bling,surprising how  dog nob red can sell if its priced right:D

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    20 hours ago, TRADE SURVIVOR said:

    Always thought a Cazoo was something you blew hot air into to produce a sound like a duck farting or perhaps the cry in it's last throws of life. 

    I couldn't afford a cazoo as a kid so I used my comb and a sheet of izal:D

  5. Posted

    52 minutes ago, metcars said:

    There is some ‘customer resistance’ to red. I remember a punters wife once saying “I’m not driving around in a fooking fire engine!” :lol:

    yes I had a lady yesterday refusing to get in a green car, she called it a big bogey:(:D

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  7. Posted

    20 hours ago, trade vet said:

    That’s right but what I remember is you can always shift nice stock if it is priced right no matter what colour it is.Never mind bright red or DC as we used to call it,what about some of the trendy colours today that appear similar to public toilet brick light blue on various Porsche models and also urine gold used by several manufacturers.You couldn’t replicate those in Tekaloid ( that’s a distant past joke ! ) when a full shoot was £55 ……..no kidding.

    it's the greys that get me, I used to ask people when they were taking them back for the top coat to be added

    not used tekaloid but we used to use sadolin with white spirit boil the paint bang it in the gun and shoot, if you didn't get any snots the finish was superb

    used to roller mk2 transits

    young uns of today don't believe:D

    I once rollered a mk 2 granny

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  8. Posted

    41 minutes ago, samuel welwyn said:

     

    Hi all,

    Hope you are all well.

    Been very slow this May, anyone experiencing the same?

    Random other questions. Are red cars hard to sell?

    TIA

     

    slow is an understatement

    red always difficult, reason being in the distant past they always faded and this theory still stands in the minds of many 

  9. Posted

    there's a video on u tube regarding fires in China, quite frightening once they get thermal runaway, apparently in London they drop them into a skip of water as the only way to put the things out

    the electric viking on the same channel is also worth listening to with regards the future

  11. Posted

    9 minutes ago, slademotors said:

    How am on the wrong side? I done everything in my power to make that car was fit and proper and roadworthy. There was no pre existing faults with the car. He signed the PDI and took for test drive so onus is on him to prove there was an existing fault when I sold it. 

    he signed the PDI 40 minutes prior and drove away

    best of luck with that one

     

  14. Posted

    what a brilliant idea, buy an ex car dealership fill it with motors and let customers view them, once purchased they can be delivered, a great great idea well done Peter vardys doing the job just like me and thousands of others selling used cars (sorry formerly owned horseless carriages) and putting the customer first

    thanks james great update

  16. Posted

    48 minutes ago, metcars said:

    Savage wheel trims! :D

    what about those ‘universal fit’ centre consoles with cassette storage you got from Halfords? And those cheap mats that always ended up wedged behind the peddles!

    I still buy those cheap mats off ebay:lol:

    They make photos look mint but you nearly crack a bone when you get in car and they slide

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  17. Posted

    20 hours ago, trade vet said:

    Ha Ha never had a Samurai but did plenty of Estelles ,they were cheap .Another blast from the past or distant past,I tried to advertise a Moskvich Van in the local rag in the early 70’s when the unions were causing havoc.The advert was refused because I described it as “will carry 50,000 strike leaflets “.

    Never owned a moskvich van but in 73/74 I was working with a bloke who bought a brand new one in battleship grey (trends eh,they always come back:lol:) anyway he had had it 2 days and we were sat in it and the screen exploded,we both jumped and thought we had been shot,memory says it was a 2 stroke but I'm not sure

  18. Posted

    I had the dubious pleasure of blowing a big lump of money on a samurai aptly name I was taking it to the auctions to sell as no interest from the autotrader advert,it dropped a big end on the way there and engines weren't available,sold it from the back pages the following week underscores or repairs,he's probably still got it:lol:

    Bought a 2 year 11month skoda estelle as it had a scrape on a wheel arch,with it being that new no paint available in a rattlecan so I went to the main dealer big place even then,they basically said go away we don't do that old crap anymore we are selling the felicia models now

    OK they were better cars but they rotted like wet kellogs cornflakes boxes left out in the rain,still not sure how to take a battery out of one

  19. Posted

    11 hours ago, SAC said:

    hi

    why not ask the previous owner to get a duplicate online takes 5 days

    under gdpr this information will never be forwarded. 

    if car came from customer direct I always electronically transfer it into my trade before I allow them to leave my premises and give them a paper copy of all details, sorted then

    if no v5 offered unless there's a definitive trail I won't take it because its even needed if I weigh it in as we get paid direct into account, too many baddies out there these days

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, metcars said:

    My memory’s not what it was, but weren’t  the importers concerned about low spec and dressed them up with wheel trims, stickers and radios. 

    savage 500 wheel trims on lada before they were named rivas

    when we got the samara they came with a full bodykit

  22. Posted

    just pulled this out of one of the lockups, been there since 1988,its got new plugs new leads and fresh duckhans 20/50 and a new quinton Hazel oil filter all sourced as original when this lada was imported new in 87,i wonder if I put it in auction if it will attain the same price as 4 tomatoes are down sainsbobs