Edward Roots

Hello Mark Are you still after these? Sprinter: Clean: £8,600, Ave: £7,800, Below: £6,575, Retail: £10,550 - CAP ID 27530 (Sprinter 313CDI 3.5T Luton) Trafic: Clean: £9,125, Ave: £8,125, Below: £6,675, Retail: £10,495 - CAP ID 31587 (SWB SL27 ENERGY 120 Business +)

Good Afternoon Walsall I know I have popped up on here a few times, and mods please delete if not allowed. I work for CD Auction Group - which if you aren't using already, might be a platform for you to source vehicles from? My email is ed.roots@cdauctiongroup.com and number is 01536 409985, so if you want to discuss our site please let me know. Also if anyone else on here might be interested, please feel free to get in contact. I think we do have a few members on here already.

That's great thank you, I will give it a whirl and see if I can get confirmation.

Hello Just wondered if anyone can help, we have a 17 seat mini-bus, but there is no COIF for it. The vendor suspects it has one but cannot be certain. Is there any where I could contact to confirm if it does or doesn't have one? It is a 64 Plate Factory 17 Seat Transit Mini-Bus. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think if you can turn around 2/3's of your stock per month is a good benchmark, although it completely depends on what section of the market you deal in. TD if you don't mind me asking what vehicle was it that was in stock for 612 days?, one of the dealers I know had a 6 series in stock for just over a year and managed to get it sold and still keep a margin in it.

Thanks James, I have messaged him now. This one is slightly more expensive but the one we viewed was older with higher mileage, no proof of cambelt etc and not very clean. So this one looks better value and he will spend the difference getting the other up to scratch.

James have you got the detail of the 1.6 Zetec S Anni ? I've got a friend looking for one, although we did go and view one on Sunday so not sure if has bought that or not. But I will run this one past him. When I worked in retail the time wasters where unbelievable, people coming in test driving used cars that don't want to change for 6 months etc. People travelling for miles to view a car, then shocked that you can't give them what parkers say their car is worth, whilst knocking £1500 of your one. It's all just swings and round about's as long as there is a good ratio of time wasters to level headed people then it's all good.

Looks interesting Umesh, if only my current computer had speakers. Looks like I may need to give this a watch tonight.

Regarding Fees Etc, Please send me an email and I can respond ed.roots@cdauctiongroup.com. We do try and be competitive in terms of buying fees, and only operate on two tiers, we only require 10 vehicles per year to be put on our top rate.

Thanks for the kind words Econimotor, sometimes we do get forgotten about due to being one of the 'smaller' auction companies. Although we have seen rapid growth in the past 12 months or so. If anyone else is looking to expand their stock sourcing options please bare us in mind. I'm in the office most days so feel free to call/email any questions.

Wheelerdealer1 we require proofs of address and proofs of a motor traders policy. Our main vehicles are 10 plate on wards so it wouldn't take long for someone to reach the VAT threshold.

CD Auction Group, don't require VAT registration, we do require a motor traders policy though. I currently work for them, so if you need a hand with anything send me a message.

I've contacted a main dealer and the price isn't to scary, only £75 + Vat. So i'm going to go down that route. Luckily I can get trade prices through my work, which I didn't know. Although I don't have the key number so this will bump the price up by around £20, but it's still not the end of the world for a good quality key.

S and B sorry to sound stupid but what is a 'clone' compared to a replacement? Thanks Johnhartleycars I will give him a call in the next few days. Thanks for the replies guys

Good Afternoon I need to get a new key for a 59 reg fiesta (Mk7), I am based in Kettering. Does anyone know of the best company to use? and what sort of price I would be looking at (I would be classed as a retail customer.) I don't need to use the car until early next year, so I can always post the key to a company to get a replacement sorted. Any views would be appreciated.

Thanks for the replies, not snobbish about anything newish. Just want/need something that will be fairly reliable doing 25k a year

Sparky that's not a bad idea! I've just looked at reviews and they seem quite good. Are all the engines FAP? I don't really want a FAP one just in-case it has had the wrong oil in the past. I used to be a technician for Renault and remember the engines being quite good, they fit well within my budget as well. Any views on the 1.4 Diesel Skoda Fabia (09 ish model year) or 1.2 (2010 ish year) Diesel Seat Ibiza? These are others that I am considering.

Mondeo is a little bit too big and pricey for what I'm needing. I just need a cheap to run car that can rack up a few miles. Planning on buying something around the £5k mark running it for 3 years at around 25k a year and hopefully not loosing much more than £100 a month on depreciation. Although I am in the trade, I work at a small auction which doesn't tend to get cars that fit my criteria in, so I would be looking to buy privately or from a trader.

The one in particular has been serviced 3 times in the 20 odd thou that it has covered , all of this servicing was done in house by BT which not sure if a good or bad thing? I've heard that the paper oil filters can cause problems on these. Although this would be an easy purchase as no travelling would be involved in collecting the car, I think I may expand my search and look for a 1.4 TDCI Fiesta instead.

looks like I may steer clear, appreciate the feedback, I had read about ECU's causing problems and we have had a few Doblo's with I presume the same engines that have had issues. my other suggestion for a car is the 1.4 Fiesta (2009-onwards model), any shock horror stories about these?

Okay thanks for the reply, probably justifies why it is cheap. Whats the major problems with them? the mileage doesn't bother me at the moment but if i'm going to be doing some high mileage I would want to know that it would be reliable.

Good Afternoon What are peoples views on Corsa D 1.3 CDTI's [95], the reason I ask is i'm looking for a run around and have been offered one at a reasonable price. The vehicle has only done 22k on a 61 plate - is this an issue being such low annual mileage for the age? my plan would be to do around 25k a year in it and run it to around 95,000 miles after 3 years. As i'm thinking long term I just want peoples views on the durability on these? the vendor is BT which I believe to be a good source? Any views would be appreciated

I spoke to a guy last week, he just specialises in selling late plate VAG group stuff. He said that before the scandal he had managed to retail 4 in the previous week, which isn't bad considering he only stocks around 10 and works on appointment only. Now his phone hasn't rang for a few days, I know this could just be coincidence but he seemed quite worried. If used VAG prices drop it will also end up pulling the margins out the cars he has in stock.

Unfortunately I have no advice to offer, but I can wish you the best of luck. It would be interesting if you could do a weekly update with the progress of starting up alone. Like yourself I graduated from University a little over a year ago, and have worked in various motor trade jobs before during and after my studies. Out of interest what stock profile of vehicles are you looking to retail?

I don't know if this is the case with Q3's but A3's there seems to be alot of them coming into the used car market at the moment, The dealer may just be trying to 'get rid' of the car in question before the market floods?, I maybe completely wrong my answer is a bit of a stab in the dark.