It's me

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  1. I see they are starting afire sale I've just looked at the Longbenton site and there's lots of cars parked on grass in a field
  2. I can't help but can advise if I ever take a car into stock with no v5 I open a dvla chat to confirm its showing as in trade then mark the time and date the chat was made on my white board your car maybe not in trade
  3. I broken this rule this week purely because I've got an empty yard, yes I can sell it but it hurt to pay for it, to be honest I feel embarrassed selling cars at the sane prices as 3 years ago now I've bit the bullet I'm going to do the same again this week as I hate twirling my fingers and trying to find things to do
  4. latest news from James today nearly had me fall off my chair what a nice company to deal with had 2 cars back today, minor niggles both sorted as customers waited, no charge and off they went, how much new blood will that get me? lots I would think
  5. just read James article and I think the big bang is coming sooner than I thought thanks james
  6. got sent this today, ds mm I wouldn't want to sell one of those things, wires made out of cheese petrol head
  7. to be fair that's only 3 mill a week dear boy
  8. yes I found that interesting too reminds me of the game where the whack a moles aren't named because they might go on to other arcade games
  9. seasons greetings from me too to one and all,hope we have all have a great Christmas and 23 brings success and happiness
  10. as mentioned above they need a tom thumb on them for second lambda
  11. yes mine went down this year with covea thing is im very old though just been looking in 1987 there were only 2 companies doing motor trade and one wouldnt accept me so i had to go with norwich union at the grand sum of £40 per week every week,i see at your last price you are only paying £32.69 a week or if you prefer £4.67 a day or 19 new pence an hour,just think how much damage you can do in an hour for only 19p realistically though now you have proof of no accidents ????try another broker but not the fly by nights who offer cheap policies but dont cover your own vehicles,covea are only available via trusted brokers by the way hope that helps a bit
  12. not while they still have funds I see they still do the 90 warranty how fan doodi doozi or £379 a year to extend it,who wouldn't eh
  13. I once took a saxo push button start box with the ecu to a company advertising they could find the key code and everything would work (1111 didnt) so I pulled up at this ramshackle building and they wanted half up front before they would touch it, no refunds told them straight you could go round the back pick your nose and scratch your burrberries come out and say no guv we can't do this obe as elvis said I left the building never to return only to drive up to Durham to the name on the log book and get cursed and the door slammed in my face, think it was the same car but it must be what 15 years ago cars eh
  14. needed a vauxhall part the other week, not bought nowt from them in a long time as every corsa I buy comes back with the warm orange glowing light on, I got out the old trade card no we don't use them anymore, OK fair enough, the part I wanted needed to be ordered and it was £120, trade discount? no we don't do that anymore, what?? so went back to work went online found a company breaking the car I needed a bit off and got it for £2 as it was basically a gromit cum bushing so needed them again and this time rather than trailing into the town that has the dealer I contacted them online and got someone in a generic Call centre with a made up name, she was hopeless but wanted my feedback on that site for building rogues types where it is 100% positive feedback and not one negative so I turned the chat off and went to the dealer site for their phone number there's one to book a test drive there's one to book a service there's one to tell them you love them but no parts line I gave up and again got the part via ebay this time and told customer they would have to manage there all done and breath pathetic service
  15. your original module the eprom will have been corrupted and thus useless, your replacement would need the keys but a good mobile key man possibly could read your replacement eprom and provide keys, I bought a machine via a Ali express for Toyota but have to admit I failed to get it to work, this was via eibd rather than a chip reader
  16. went to buy an aygo last wed,lovely old dear done 150 miles in it this year,looked nice but it wouldn't start,she said last started 3 weeks ago m~mmmm anyway went back to work got a battery it still wouldn't start,after mucho head scratching we realised the alternator was seized,back to work again and a long socket Wrench and twenty minutes later one ratchet tooth at a time (its tight in there)it appeared to free off I had squirted lots of oil in it,anyway started it and there was a bit of smoke,ok there was a lot of smoke and I covered the street to the point I thought mm that's a lot of oil smoke so I turned it off,looked under bonnet and fanbelt on fire,mmmmm best put that out so knocked on door asking for a cup of water,would you like hot or cold she asked,just wet I said fire out pushed it back in its hole and promised to return next day with my car transporter got it to work but it baulked going into gear with engine running, it baulked a bit engine off too so guess the selected forks were bent by the ramming into gear effect took box off and the plate on diaphragm had dissattached on one side changed box too ho hum oldies eh,she should have bought a hundy 10 horto merry xmas
  17. wait till you buy a car with maggots in,now they are or were difficult to kill,you would think you had killed them all but next morning it was full of the things again,these days the ozone machine would do it in one good zapperoonie bladdy fishermen
  18. I really don't know either
  19. you should have told him to stick his 22 up his noddy holder
  20. everyone bar the king is tightening their belts and a big old lumpy diesel is not cutting it plus there are congestion zones now starting round the country too and the greens dont like smelly weisels do they
  21. interesting,i use a chinese one i bought in covid times for £100 and i sit this in the car for no more than 20 minutes doors shut on the timer,i then leave for 10 minutes then open all the doors wide and it rakes a while for that beautiful smell of lightning to go reason i mention it is when doing my homework it was suggested that too much ozone can break down wiring coverings in things like cars so dont over do it yes proper deep valet first
  22. ha ha, took the day off and went to chats worth Xmas Market and had a splendiferous day with not a tyre kicking folded armed miserable person to be seen, just happy shoppers
  23. having been to the small claims and won( I may add) it still leaves a very nasty taste and was nearly a year in the process, if this customer came back to me offering gifts of gold frankenstein and myrrh and begging me to sell him a horseless carriage of utmost splendour with all the extras like carvings I would still tell them to do one, maybe g3 feel the sane