justina3

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    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

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    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.

     

     

     

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    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.  

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    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.

     

     

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    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

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    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.

     

     

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    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 !!

     

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