justina3

Not for me had the RAC offer a similar scheme last week.

Totally Agree with Rory each for there, there is no right or wrong what ever works for you. Seen a lot of friends pass away the last few years with cancer ect no way am i going to work myself into the ground.

Five holidays a year for me, why else would i put all these hours in if not to enjoy them, I think if my business is that fragile that a week away will make it crash and burn then i would be looking at doing something else.

Cant see why you would risk the court route even if you win you will still have to repair the car and pay your own legal costs, loss of time stress the list kind of goes on. Bet you a fiver even if you repair it next week something else will go wrong call me mystic meg but once there at this stage 9.9 times out of 10 nothing will be good enough, you will get phone call after phone call.

Long winded fight and possibly a court case all depends how far they want to take it, as advised i would get it back asap and send them on there way, he shouldnt have taken it to a third party but its all to common these days.

thats traders talk for = bend you over backwards, shaft you, dump you some right lemons, off load the crap no one else wants and make you think there hot news, the list does go on but i am sure you get the picture.

"I have an inherent love for cars " that will fade quickly. But good luck

Lots of different views here some surprising to see how over people think

white streaks sounds like a cheap rubber product that is running.

Guess a lot of it depends on how much polish and what quality is put on during your first clean, if you use a good polish then you should be able to get away with a quick wipe down with a quick detailer or something like autosmart cobolt thats cheap and works well. Avoid a harsh shampoo that will strip the car of any polish seen a lot of people do that over the years.

yep this for me also, i even arranged some mot work this week for a customer from last year and had a drink out of it and a big thank you text, that said she did get a quote for brakes from kwik fit not to hard to half there price

Bet it wasnt from M&S

I am helping out a friend with a building company one of his reps comes around with Pizza for all the office staff his spend is less than mine in the auction and all i get is a discounted coffee well something that looks like a coffee ish

Maybe one for trading standards rather than this kind of forum as (i am sure) most of us dont pull those kind of stunts so i have no idea where you stand.

Its quite common as any forum grows, new people come on board some nice some not so nice. Its also hard to tell if someone is being serious or having a laugh these days thank god for smiley faces

My personal experience with RBS would be taken down in an instant if i posted it, however my thoughts on Global Restructuring = bend everyone over who has equity in an attempt to balance our books no matter how well they have traded over many decades.

I am more amazed its gone on for two pages, People must be bored

Barclays get my vote, however I think most of the big banks are very cautious with overdrafts these days

SVA is like an mot, mostly used for kit cars to become road legal or imports that kind of thing, a lot of insurance companies are clamping down hard on the campa conversion industry, i would follow the top advise from above remove them and note it on the invoice you gave them the seats free of charge to do with what ever they liked.

dont want to tell you how to suck eggs, but what ever you do make sure the timing is spot on there murder for timing up correctly.

Polo 3 cylinder no doubt there shocking engines, there on ebay from £275 up if you have a local mechanic who could swap it for you i would swap the engine and go again. I have done two this year avoid them big time, the 1.4ltr engine doesnt suffer this common fault.

And what happens if he stops paying 8 months down the line, who do the finance company go back to ? Sounds messy to me, one of my major rules is family and friends stay that as i do not do business with them.

god you know how to pick hard industries i have spent the last 5 years trying to get out of the rental market as the costs and rights now levied against a landlord is nothing short of insane. If i had my time again i would be working for a big company in the city, self employed is nothing but an uphill struggle these days.

Just for fun here are a few cars that sold this week over in Birmingham. HV56WAA - £1400 including the fee's KY58KZA - £1950 inc fees BP55BGZ - £1050 in fees VE55VHJ - £2100 in fees FD57BHV - £1100 in fees BK55ZVT - £1650 in fees VF04TVM - £500 in fees C17CPL - £2450 in fees Sorry mate those reg's mean nothing to me and inc fees also confuses me as everyone is on different rates or do you mean those are the rates that would apply to you? Its a very hard industry to get into i cant think of an easy way to learn it like say you took up mechanics or painting its a school of hard knocks.

Big tick from me