justina3

if they cant afford to run the vehicle you can bet your last rolo that it hasnt been looked after, there is quite a few of them going through our local auction at the moment and they bring not far of a decent main dealer part x confuses the life out of me why someone would bother

Got to love a bit of Paul Hard castle remember when that song came out all the do gooders where having a right old moan about the video. Anyway it’s my 25th year in business this year, not always been selling cars but certainly involved in cars started back in the day with a car audio franchise and that soon expanded massively and so did the location we purchased a second hand car sales for us to have room to store all the cars we where working on, with the modern age of cars turning into a mobile pc and almost every car coming with something decent for audio the car audio business took a nose dive so we started to sell the odd banger here and there almost 7 years ago and now that’s the main income for the business. We still dabble and install phone kits reverse sensors and the like for the trade which is a handy source to pick up car stock, but mostly the engineers are fixing window regs and other faults getting the cars prepped for sale these days. As already mentioned you have to keep going and take what ever knocks on your door, my son has just started in the business and is as keen as mustard so I might take a bit of a back seat and carry on building my property portfolio.

Agreed that is a great feeling, i often rub it in a little just for smug factor had a customer look a fiesta last week and she wasnt sure her expert boyfriend thought the pads on the back where a little low ! hmm there drums madam no pads there and as for your expert i would part x him in.

as steve said the product isnt all that anyway. so another vote for no from me

one today but that was from a drive yesterday, there does seem to be more people about this week than the last few weeks thats for sure.

I had a caution last time but in bold letters said they would not let me off again.

Bread and butter isnt flying of the shelf either as the first time buyers are scared of losing there jobs one told me this morning, that plonker Osborn talking of tax rises isnt what i would call calming the waters either, i would call it smug throwing fuel on the fire.

first gut feeling is lets let the storm cloud settle and go from there, however i feel George Osborn should be booted out on his backside for the scare tactics he employed last week which i feel put the nail in the coffin for his side

so much spin around i am still 50/50

auction4cars.com havent used them for a while but they where decent enough when we used to

I had three test drives today two of the customers went back to planet mars and the third bought a car so cant complain

What a cracking job i would leave to go do that as well. all the best

Firstly I would say the industry is very mixed some dealers are doing well some are not, ourselves this month has been the worst month on month for several years so might be just bad timing. Have you viewed your car prices against what is available in your area are your prices keen? also I would have though the high value cars certainly in my area the big dealers are throwing very good finance deals at people so we tend to stick to the sub 4k bracket which people pay on card or cash ect but as in life what works for us wont work for everyone. There are to many factors for anyone to give you a definite answer sadly, I would look at the basics such as pricing and where you advertise them first. But do feel your pain hope it gets better for you soon.

its so quiet down here i rang the phone lines to see if they where working, cant fit any more stock in and not a customer in sight, the joys

i remember the good old days scraping cars was not bad news £100-150 now you be lucky to get £20 soz i know thats not much help

local gumtree we use for this kind of thing, whilst its owned by ebay it appears to attract the local price hunter in our area anyway

I had one on facebook last week do the same thing, sign of the electronic times we all now live in sadly

Like the Sale of Goods Act that preceded it, the Consumer Rights Actstates 01 oct 2015 that products must be: of satisfactory quality fit for purpose, and as described my understanding is that even if you ask someone to sign a disclaimer you are unable to remove there rights under the above act, therefore even if they sign what ever you ask it can not be enforced by you. similar rules apply to sold as seen no warranty ect comments on invoices

I presume he is throwing the car is not fit for purpose at you, had that last year its a right pain in the backside

What a nightmare, I would call his bluff trading standards are stretched to almost braking so cant seem them getting overly involved in this, as regards him contacting a solicitor that’s the oldest line in the book and with all the recent changes to the small claims courts ect it will costs him to pursue it with only the costs of repairs at the end of it even if he did win.

Do you not have any local auctions ? we are quite lucky here as we have a very good auction house and local to me within 15miles good range of stock and fees are no where near the big houses

Dont they think that once this gets out to all the dealers over the country it will hit there on line sales as you no longer have any faith in there "assured quality " ? brave move

I had a guy drive 2 hours to see a little arosa this morning, one owner car with 28k car has been garaged all its life when i say its spotless it is 100% out of the box spotless, anyway its £1750 the guy drives 2 hours and then going over it for another hour plus he says he is going to see another one tomorrow which is £1700 done tripple the miles and in faded yellow mine is jet black and says thanks for showing it to me and heads off !!

what sort of costs are involved ?