Meanwhile over at Arthur Daley's car lot, Mr Chissum & Sgt Jones are checking out a white D reg Sierra Diesel that has the same number plate as the one getting a Valet at the Ford dealers, Jones spots a red B reg Cavalier & log book & says " hang on a mo Guv, something fishy 'ere boyo, these cars have have doppelgangers! ,me & the missus looked at similar cars at that posh Ford emporium at Hammersmith & could have sworn it was Pongo Harris working as a car valeted cum Handyman there, you don't suppose Guv"..... Chissum says" c' mon Jones ,I just knew there was more stink than fishy !I knew Daley & Pongo was behind the dodgy outfit there.
I was a car salesman back when this was filmed, and the bit about the couple wanting top book for their cavalier because that’s what vauxhall had offered them, brought back memories, it’s at that point in negotiations where a good salesman stood out from an average one. I’d have offered them less but pointed out to them the benefits of buying the Sierra over another cavalier, ie, the Sierra has better spec, doesn’t depreciate as much ,etc etc. I was good at it, happy memories.
I worked at a Mazda dealer in the late 80s - second hand cars would sit on the lot for over a year getting covered in dust and bird poo . Then the salesmen would complain about the lack of money coming in .
They actually had to make a video to point out that a car needs to be cleaned and shouldn’t have ashtrays full of cigarette buds in order to sell them quickly?! I guess they were pretty thick in the ‘80s...
@Bercilak de hautdesert funny thing is my uncle worked for BAE in the 80s and their company cars were from British Leyland. He had this montego, it was knackered in about 2 yes, really really crap build quality, and we wonder why the British car industry died lol!!!!
@@mancunianace8428 there was a Jeremy Clarkson documentary about the failures of the British car industry that can be found on UA-cam. Interviewed various BL employees who spoke about things like door trim falling out and being slapped back in with poly filler while on the production line
Another thing to consider whilst this training video shows an extreme situation played for comedy the car manufacturers were facing serious issues changing attitudes in their dealer networks, there were some real dinosaurs out there who were complacent about how customers could be treated especially when it came to used car sales. The special clients were the company car buyers who could choose what they wanted, people seeking a used car were very much treated in a manner of "beggars can't be choosey" considering for the average middle class family used was the only choice they had. Higher mileages, more than one previous owner and some rust were acceptable for many buyers as that was the only choice they had. There was no internet, so the customers couldn't shop around in the same way now and often your choice was down to what was available in the local area, buying a car from a Manufacturer main dealer was also seen as a safer choice rather than an independent. Both cars shown here the Cavalier and the Sierra would have been desirable choices for family buyers. The Sierra had a full main dealer service history and no obvious corrosion so even with 88,000 on the clock would have been snapped up by a family with two or three children...if it had been the estate even better! I should know my parents purchased a yellow ex BT Sierra estate from the local Branch of Caffyns in the early 90s, they were very fond of it as a family car and were rather upset when they were 'only' offered £800 when they part exchanged it for a Montego Estate another desirable family car back in the day.
This is why you should never under estimate the power of a good valeter/restorer, worth their weight in gold for a good one and bless them usually the lowest paid🥺
Yesterday's car salesmen and women watching this training video=parents of kids with possible OCD detailing their cars every weekend (I'm not quite full on, but my cars get very good products to shine when i start detailing)
It's very true. A scruffy untidy car with dirty body / paintwork, ashtrays full of cigarette butts and ash, and other maladies is a bad reflection on your car dealership.
Its on a false plate that' s an earlier sierra they face lifted them in 85 different grill headrests trim etc ( think richard briers advert ) although the wheel trims are right but off a different spec there 85 model GL trims
@@15kilkenny It did very well to last that long. It looked nice with all that colour coding. It was also a Radiant Red one, only the very last 1989 mk2's were ever sold in that colour. Cool number plate too.
@@deviantrider9309 Sierra 2.3 DL is definitely September '83 to September '84 spec. Anything older will have had vented trims/upside down mirrors. GL trims will have been added to the car at anytime in its life. Certainly, all L and GL PETROL models got the Ghia/XR4i grille from October '84, but only the Base models and DIESEL L and GL kept the earlier 2-lamp grille up to Feb '87 for some reason, according to Flickr Al Walter's brochure scans.
Fascinating example of a bygone era, for those asking why would they even try to sale cars without cleaning them first it is intentionally over the top due to it being a sales training video. We also need to consider how different the car market was at that time, the majority of middle class car buyers at the time could not afford to buy a new car. The used car market was huge at the time and it was essential for the dealerships to get the maximum return on part exchanges as that was a significant part of their business. A decade later the bottom fell out of the used car market and that was due to a major changes in the car market due to a couple of factors the consumer credit boom and increased taxation on company cars. With the introduction of easy consumer credit all of a sudden people could afford to buy via finance a new car, this came at the same time as a slew of excellent Renault, Peugeot, Citreon and Fiat cars that had very good corrosion protection. On top of that safety became a major factor for those domestic buyers now able to buy a new car, a car being Euro NCAP 5 became an important sales factor but also hindered used car sales due to them being seen as more dangerous. At the same time taxes on company cars shot up, this meant many company car drivers switched to a car allowance and again made their own buying choice. Company cars were a major source of cars for the used market. Now buyers are more concerned about the monthly payment than the overall price and the used cars for sale will be nearly new having come recently out of a finance plan usually with a service plan as well. Any really bad car that comes in goes for scrap these days and the dealers won't even bother with them when it comes to selling them on.
Worked as a workshop supervisor at a main dealer in the eighties and the salesmen had a hard life; no irony. New and used car prep always went to the back of the workshop loading queue and they used to beg to get their cars through on the date promised to the customer. Their sales manager often baulked at spending more than the absolute minimum necessary to get the cars out of the door and tight margins meant that sometimes their commission on a sale was minimal. When you add the long hours and unhealthy lifestyle it wasn't a great career choice.
Dealership training video so exaggerated for effect. The dealerships watching it are meant to laugh at how bad the people in the video are whilst at the same time picking up useful tips that they might implement like jet washing the engine bay for example.
@@adeh503 20 years ago l worked with an older single man, who bought one which came from the USA in a transparent showbox, and crate. He stored it on a farm locally where Porsche stored their new cars. The car had mileage in the teens, and cost him about as much as my Audi TTR at the time. I am in no doubt his car would be worth even more than this one advertised.
Quality vid, this showed what I already knew. Shame my local Ford dealer probably not watched this. My latest car , not a Ford , came with an iPad holder, dirty carpets , milk splashed on the back seats and windows and isofix caps missing. So I got it 2k under retail sold from a car supermarket , however not been through the books, spent £200 bingo mint car for less than trade.
Yeah, had the some issues with my Vauxhall dealer. Got a Corsa, they delivered it (covid times) took it out raining, wiper went straight across the a frame scratching all the paint work, no mats and parcel shelf was missing. Contacted them and told they would get someone round in two days time to pick it up. three days later I emailed them and told me that they couldn't get the parts so would have to wait a couple of weeks. Managed to get hold of the manager and he soon got onto it. Really is a piss poor impression of your business.
@@cambs0181 GM had a COVID-related floor mat shortage here in the US, so I wouldn't blame the dealer completely. However, they should have warned you in advance that the mats would be coming late and given you paperwork.
The motor trade in a nutshell. Over-paid ponces creaming bonus while everyone else actually does the work. Nothing has changed, there are no changes to see here! lol
How bad were dealerships back then that they had to produce a video to instruct them to clean their cars if they wanted to sell them? Other videos include, 'make sure you put petrol in it if you want to take it for test drives' and 'why its a bad idea to leave them unlocked with the keys in the ignition overnight'.
Salesman 1: "Oh noes, we can't sell these filthy cars" Salesman 2: "Have you tried, you know, washing the damn things?" Salesman 1: SurprisedPikachu.jpg
Unless it was a Jaguar, TVR or Reliant Scimitar, most would like the punters to see they get exotics in! Some Ford dealers would give these models a prime spot on the lot.
@@upsidedown4155 tractor dealers love to show off the fairly new different brands they've had in PX show off someone has seen the light and change their colours sort of thing
I vividly remember back in 2001, walking past a large Renault dealership in Liverpool, and at the very front, parked up high on ramps, was a bright yellow R reg mk6 Escort Cabriolet. It was £8795!
I'm no car salesman, but even I'd give a car a good wash & wax and a hoover out before I offered it for sale. Shows the mentality of car dealers for what they really are though.
I sell a few s/h cars from time to time and i,ll happily spend a day on one car to make it saleable,the extra money you get makes it well worth the effort.
Didn't realise it happened back then, I thought people paid the going rate for their new car and accepted whatever was offered for their part exchange. There was no way for the customer to check their p/x price in those days. This sales person selling a p/x to the sales manager is still a regular occurrence. 😅
You're right. No silly electronics, no cat converter, no stupid dpf. I'd buy the escort in the showroom, even today, over anything currently for sale. Oh for simple, reliable engineering.
& they would be a piece of cake to sort mechanically & maintain,buy a reasonably.rust free example & it would last for ages, The red MK2 Escort in the video next to the garage door is T reg & was 10 year old then.
@@mikemartin2957 It also looks well-looked-after. A rare Jupiter Red mk2 Escort too, maybe a GL or Ghia. The best thing about it is those early-'80s aftermarket wheel trims. Awesome car.
This is a training video!! . Bloody hell need to make a video to show you need to clean something before you put it up for sale . Just ask the man in the street , he will tell you want to do 😂 alot cheaper as well .
Am I living in a parallel world. The Manager should not be put in charge of a creche and the two useless salespeople would have been kicked up the road about a day after starting.
This is why I wont buy another Ford. Last one I bought in 2007, the salesman went round the other sales people giving high fives and shouting i've actually sold it
I literally can understand every third word I can govn’r. Face palm and what in the heck is Benidorm ??!! This is seriously like an alternative universe
I've always thought when you're asking more than £1000 for anything used, the very least you can do is give it a quick clean, and you would think this is the obvious thing to do. You don't look like a scrubber, and the car is better presented making it more desirable. Apparently nobody gave all of Facebook Market Place and Gumtree sellers that memo...
I went through this bollox for 30 plus years , The training vids made us all cringe , it was All so far away from reality , the key was to Take a chance on the deal , what people forget is that the trade- ins were dogs , 79 Viva' s , Marinas , shitty Princess' s .. full of rust and no history , But you try and tell that to your so called " Sales Manager " . Out comes the chalk pen and its " Sold as Seen " Before ya know it , Thank Christ I'm out of it , 200 Kid .
They do, but at least in those days they had a reputation of breaking aerials, wipers and leaving scratched paintwork. Hand car washes are still very popular today.
Guessing where they have had to entice the “punter” by giving top book part exchange knowing that they will hit target for registrations and get bonus from manufacturer and that the stand in value was too much to break even by just trading on or sending to auction
The level of contempt for the customer extant in the motor trade is quite staggering...imagine an opportunity shop selling blood stained clothes and dirty plates - they don't - yet they're only asking for a few 0.00p...not Grands!
Wait what salespeople didn’t actually realise they had to clean their used cars before putting them on the forecourt in the 80’s? Chuffs sake 🙄 did Ford actually make their staff watch this at some bloody Essex conference? Thank god for the XR, RS and cosworth models otherwise they’d have gone bust surely 😆
So the manager thought dirty ashtrays and filth left in the cars was okay? Possibly in the wrong job the mate? What sort of idiot would try and sell a used taxi still with signage on it, and unwashed? Omg this guy was in the wrong job.
So stupid. Dealers took in any old crap and then gave it a very good valet and cut the paint back. Average punter would just see it all shining and silicone shined interior. If you had a keen eye you could tell if a car had had a hard life.
Back in the day when a TV and VCR would be wheeled in to show this video. Simpler happier times
I'd watch this if it was a sitcom tbh.
Yes me too .
Meanwhile over at Arthur Daley's car lot, Mr Chissum & Sgt Jones are checking out a white D reg Sierra Diesel that has the same number plate as the one getting a Valet at the Ford dealers, Jones spots a red B reg Cavalier & log book & says " hang on a mo Guv, something fishy 'ere boyo, these cars have have doppelgangers! ,me & the missus looked at similar cars at that posh Ford emporium at Hammersmith & could have sworn it was Pongo Harris working as a car valeted cum Handyman there, you don't suppose Guv"..... Chissum says" c' mon Jones ,I just knew there was more stink than fishy !I knew Daley & Pongo was behind the dodgy outfit there.
Episode one: the penske file
That boggles the brain that a training video was required for that!!!! Absolutely class.
I was a car salesman back when this was filmed, and the bit about the couple wanting top book for their cavalier because that’s what vauxhall had offered them, brought back memories, it’s at that point in negotiations where a good salesman stood out from an average one. I’d have offered them less but pointed out to them the benefits of buying the Sierra over another cavalier, ie, the Sierra has better spec, doesn’t depreciate as much ,etc etc. I was good at it, happy memories.
Except Cavaliers had far better spec than Sierras. They also held good value second hand. Also more economical and better engines.
@@vistron888 possibly, but a Ford salesman wouldn’t point that out to a potential customer, he was trying to sell a Ford .
The cavvy was much better looking, was front wheel drive, nicer interiors.
Jeff went down for 15 years for strangling the rag-time pianist.
FFS I haven't sold a car since opening 2 years ago and all I needed to do was wash the cars I wish I watched this video 2 years ago!!!!!
How many you sold in the last year?
2, a B reg red Cavalier and a D reg white Sierra 🤣🤣
I worked at a Mazda dealer in the late 80s - second hand cars would sit on the lot for over a year getting covered in dust and bird poo . Then the salesmen would complain about the lack of money coming in .
They actually had to make a video to point out that a car needs to be cleaned and shouldn’t have ashtrays full of cigarette buds in order to sell them quickly?! I guess they were pretty thick in the ‘80s...
No just lazy, or on strike lol!!!!
@Bercilak de hautdesert funny thing is my uncle worked for BAE in the 80s and their company cars were from British Leyland. He had this montego, it was knackered in about 2 yes, really really crap build quality, and we wonder why the British car industry died lol!!!!
Both probably!
@@mancunianace8428 there was a Jeremy Clarkson documentary about the failures of the British car industry that can be found on UA-cam. Interviewed various BL employees who spoke about things like door trim falling out and being slapped back in with poly filler while on the production line
Majority are braindead
Another thing to consider whilst this training video shows an extreme situation played for comedy the car manufacturers were facing serious issues changing attitudes in their dealer networks, there were some real dinosaurs out there who were complacent about how customers could be treated especially when it came to used car sales. The special clients were the company car buyers who could choose what they wanted, people seeking a used car were very much treated in a manner of "beggars can't be choosey" considering for the average middle class family used was the only choice they had. Higher mileages, more than one previous owner and some rust were acceptable for many buyers as that was the only choice they had. There was no internet, so the customers couldn't shop around in the same way now and often your choice was down to what was available in the local area, buying a car from a Manufacturer main dealer was also seen as a safer choice rather than an independent. Both cars shown here the Cavalier and the Sierra would have been desirable choices for family buyers. The Sierra had a full main dealer service history and no obvious corrosion so even with 88,000 on the clock would have been snapped up by a family with two or three children...if it had been the estate even better! I should know my parents purchased a yellow ex BT Sierra estate from the local Branch of Caffyns in the early 90s, they were very fond of it as a family car and were rather upset when they were 'only' offered £800 when they part exchanged it for a Montego Estate another desirable family car back in the day.
If this is a Ford training video then god knows the quality of sales staff back then. Mind you, Fix Or Repair Daily comes to mind 😂
This is why you should never under estimate the power of a good valeter/restorer, worth their weight in gold for a good one and bless them usually the lowest paid🥺
Yesterday's car salesmen and women watching this training video=parents of kids with possible OCD detailing their cars every weekend (I'm not quite full on, but my cars get very good products to shine when i start detailing)
Remove taxi sign from old taxi, genius
It's very true. A scruffy untidy car with dirty body / paintwork, ashtrays full of cigarette butts and ash, and other maladies is a bad reflection on your car dealership.
The cavalier lasted until July 2001, However, Sierra's plate comes back to a different vehicle so its history is unknown.
Its on a false plate that' s an earlier sierra they face lifted them in 85 different grill headrests trim etc ( think richard briers advert ) although the wheel trims are right but off a different spec there 85 model GL trims
Might have ended up a donor for a Lotus Seven replica project, or something of the like. Quite sought after for their drive train, these Sierra's.
The red XR2 ran out 2003
@@15kilkenny It did very well to last that long. It looked nice with all that colour coding. It was also a Radiant Red one, only the very last 1989 mk2's were ever sold in that colour. Cool number plate too.
@@deviantrider9309 Sierra 2.3 DL is definitely September '83 to September '84 spec. Anything older will have had vented trims/upside down mirrors. GL trims will have been added to the car at anytime in its life. Certainly, all L and GL PETROL models got the Ghia/XR4i grille from October '84, but only the Base models and DIESEL L and GL kept the earlier 2-lamp grille up to Feb '87 for some reason, according to Flickr Al Walter's brochure scans.
Fascinating example of a bygone era, for those asking why would they even try to sale cars without cleaning them first it is intentionally over the top due to it being a sales training video.
We also need to consider how different the car market was at that time, the majority of middle class car buyers at the time could not afford to buy a new car. The used car market was huge at the time and it was essential for the dealerships to get the maximum return on part exchanges as that was a significant part of their business.
A decade later the bottom fell out of the used car market and that was due to a major changes in the car market due to a couple of factors the consumer credit boom and increased taxation on company cars. With the introduction of easy consumer credit all of a sudden people could afford to buy via finance a new car, this came at the same time as a slew of excellent Renault, Peugeot, Citreon and Fiat cars that had very good corrosion protection. On top of that safety became a major factor for those domestic buyers now able to buy a new car, a car being Euro NCAP 5 became an important sales factor but also hindered used car sales due to them being seen as more dangerous.
At the same time taxes on company cars shot up, this meant many company car drivers switched to a car allowance and again made their own buying choice. Company cars were a major source of cars for the used market.
Now buyers are more concerned about the monthly payment than the overall price and the used cars for sale will be nearly new having come recently out of a finance plan usually with a service plan as well. Any really bad car that comes in goes for scrap these days and the dealers won't even bother with them when it comes to selling them on.
Worked as a workshop supervisor at a main dealer in the eighties and the salesmen had a hard life; no irony. New and used car prep always went to the back of the workshop loading queue and they used to beg to get their cars through on the date promised to the customer. Their sales manager often baulked at spending more than the absolute minimum necessary to get the cars out of the door and tight margins meant that sometimes their commission on a sale was minimal. When you add the long hours and unhealthy lifestyle it wasn't a great career choice.
So hang on hang on.... it took them 3 weeks to realise that the cars needed a clean?!! WTF!!😂
Dealership training video so exaggerated for effect. The dealerships watching it are meant to laugh at how bad the people in the video are whilst at the same time picking up useful tips that they might implement like jet washing the engine bay for example.
The way they talk they all sound inbred to me.
Don’t think they had valeters in 1987 😆 not ones under 70 that is..
An unmolested RS500 went for sale today.....£105950.
That's almost kept up with the house appreciation, not bad for a Dagenham Dustbin.
KGM classic cars, saw that... Were the hell do they get these prices from now for these Ford's
@@adeh503 20 years ago l worked with an older single man, who bought one which came from the USA in a transparent showbox, and crate.
He stored it on a farm locally where Porsche stored their new cars.
The car had mileage in the teens, and cost him about as much as my Audi TTR at the time.
I am in no doubt his car would be worth even more than this one advertised.
And 2 years later one sold for £600k madness
Why would you even try to sell a car without at least washing it? Fantastic acting as well...
Sure are cheap when they don't want to wash or clean a car at a dealership
Quality vid, this showed what I already knew. Shame my local Ford dealer probably not watched this. My latest car , not a Ford , came with an iPad holder, dirty carpets , milk splashed on the back seats and windows and isofix caps missing. So I got it 2k under retail sold from a car supermarket , however not been through the books, spent £200 bingo mint car for less than trade.
Yeah, had the some issues with my Vauxhall dealer. Got a Corsa, they delivered it (covid times) took it out raining, wiper went straight across the a frame scratching all the paint work, no mats and parcel shelf was missing. Contacted them and told they would get someone round in two days time to pick it up. three days later I emailed them and told me that they couldn't get the parts so would have to wait a couple of weeks. Managed to get hold of the manager and he soon got onto it. Really is a piss poor impression of your business.
@@cambs0181 GM had a COVID-related floor mat shortage here in the US, so I wouldn't blame the dealer completely. However, they should have warned you in advance that the mats would be coming late and given you paperwork.
I can’t wait for the next episode!! 😀
yes, i feel this needs a sequel :)
‘Why checking the oil before selling a used car stops customers coming back with seized engines’
Or the favourite ‘sell the cars for more than you bought them for’
Next episode, when the taxi driver finds they have flogged him a cut and shut and Roger Cook tracks them down in Benidorm.
@@cambs0181 🤣🤣 love it!! And ol’ Rog ends up with a black eye when he closes in with his camera crew!! 👍🏼👍🏼🤣
Moral of the story - don’t give your boss a great idea even if it’s blindingly obvious,then take weekend off!
Presentation is all important. Great video😊😊
Great Video. Lots of nice things and positive things to take away from. Great reviews.
Mr. Derrius Branch
The motor trade in a nutshell. Over-paid ponces creaming bonus while everyone else actually does the work. Nothing has changed, there are no changes to see here! lol
Those door slam noises 😂 typical tin can Ford. Could have dubbed them over haha
And the people who get paid the least in the garage make a dog of a car into a shiny car that can sell.Some things in the trade wont ever change...
Enjoyed my Saturday sierra fix and the acting was above and beyond that of coronation st 👍
They were buzzing at selling two cars, at a main dealer? 😅
How bad were dealerships back then that they had to produce a video to instruct them to clean their cars if they wanted to sell them? Other videos include, 'make sure you put petrol in it if you want to take it for test drives' and 'why its a bad idea to leave them unlocked with the keys in the ignition overnight'.
So this is what Lynne did before working for Alan Partridge. Hope she got her Benidorm holiday.
this is fantastic. can anyone tell me the magic liquids they use to remove the stains off the outside of the car?
Almost expected Swiss Tony to appear.
Salesman 1: "Oh noes, we can't sell these filthy cars"
Salesman 2: "Have you tried, you know, washing the damn things?"
Salesman 1: SurprisedPikachu.jpg
I actually went to see a car at main dealer and it was in a complete state like those two cars. 😅😅
Many moons ago got offered a job at Ford at their Edgware dealer. Didn’t take it. Now I’ve seen what I missed.
In the past the ford dealerships like this hid all of there non ford products around the back, dont want to help the competitors brands lol
Unless it was a Jaguar, TVR or Reliant Scimitar, most would like the punters to see they get exotics in! Some Ford dealers would give these models a prime spot on the lot.
@@mikemartin2957 agreed the prestige stuff always got a good spot, and ALWAYS cleaned lol
@@upsidedown4155 tractor dealers love to show off the fairly new different brands they've had in PX show off someone has seen the light and change their colours sort of thing
I vividly remember back in 2001, walking past a large Renault dealership in Liverpool, and at the very front, parked up high on ramps, was a bright yellow R reg mk6 Escort Cabriolet. It was £8795!
On the other hand, it says to me: 'Vauxhall owners are jacking in their cars for new Fords!'
I'm no car salesman, but even I'd give a car a good wash & wax and a hoover out before I offered it for sale. Shows the mentality of car dealers for what they really are though.
You sound like they wouldn’t take your car in part ex
@@rich17279 I sell my cars privately Rich. You get the true value for them that way.
I actually wish the cars nowadays were like the ones in the 80s
The days when owning a BMW or Mercedes was actually quite special.
I sell a few s/h cars from time to time and i,ll happily spend a day on one car to make it saleable,the extra money you get makes it well worth the effort.
I loved watching that! Very....of it's time 😀
this made me smile
The car trade's 'Acorn Antiques'
In hindsight as long as the dealer was near a port then Lada trade ins would have been a nice profit
I love these old videos.... funny really, no way that would wash (pardon the pun) in 2021!
How ridiculous, I could’ve overcome all those minor issues in that red cavalier! TIRE DRESSING & DIM LIGHTING BABY
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Didn't realise it happened back then, I thought people paid the going rate for their new car and accepted whatever was offered for their part exchange. There was no way for the customer to check their p/x price in those days. This sales person selling a p/x to the sales manager is still a regular occurrence. 😅
There would be no problems selling those cars today
You're right. No silly electronics, no cat converter, no stupid dpf. I'd buy the escort in the showroom, even today, over anything currently for sale. Oh for simple, reliable engineering.
& they would be a piece of cake to sort mechanically & maintain,buy a reasonably.rust free example & it would last for ages, The red MK2 Escort in the video next to the garage door is T reg & was 10 year old then.
@@mikemartin2957 It also looks well-looked-after. A rare Jupiter Red mk2 Escort too, maybe a GL or Ghia. The best thing about it is those early-'80s aftermarket wheel trims. Awesome car.
This is a training video!! . Bloody hell need to make a video to show you need to clean something before you put it up for sale . Just ask the man in the street , he will tell you want to do 😂 alot cheaper as well .
Is the garage still there? Doesn't appear to be a Ford dealer any more if it is
God this is like a real life episode of white gold
It took the boss three weeks to decide to wash the px cars. He must have gone on to be the PM of the country
Did they really make salesmen sit through a 15 minute movie which basically said "wash your car before you sell it"? :-D
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Biggest mistake is to sell on price. Sell the product, show them what you can do, build desire.
That was fun to watch.... is there a series?
Im a simple man, i see a ford sierra, i click
They needed a training video to tell them it's a good idea to thoroughly wash cars before putting them out for sale?
Strike a light, it’s Gordon! 2:09
Sierra was awesome
Spraying the Sierra meant leaks into the interior and in the engine bay a refuse to start!
I can only infer from this painful episode that the calibre of 1980s Ford dealers wasn't very high.
Am I living in a parallel world. The Manager should not be put in charge of a creche and the two useless salespeople would have been kicked up the road about a day after starting.
A full valet and machine polish with a carpet shampoo would have the Cavalier looking better.
What size engine was the diesel?
Probably a 2.3
Sierra😍
Where there's muck there's brass!
This is why I wont buy another Ford. Last one I bought in 2007, the salesman went round the other sales people giving high fives and shouting i've actually sold it
I literally can understand every third word I can govn’r. Face palm and what in the heck is Benidorm ??!! This is seriously like an alternative universe
Hard to believe that a company felt the need to spend money on making a training film to explain what is blindingly obvious.
I've always thought when you're asking more than £1000 for anything used, the very least you can do is give it a quick clean, and you would think this is the obvious thing to do. You don't look like a scrubber, and the car is better presented making it more desirable.
Apparently nobody gave all of Facebook Market Place and Gumtree sellers that memo...
Car detailing in the 80's was apparently shocking, some old guy in Wellies and a dirty rag!
About standard around here
Has John at Forensic Details found this video yet, I wonder?
I went through this bollox for 30 plus years ,
The training vids made us all cringe , it was
All so far away from reality , the key was to
Take a chance on the deal , what people forget is that the trade- ins were dogs , 79 Viva' s ,
Marinas , shitty Princess' s .. full of rust and no history ,
But you try and tell that to your so called " Sales Manager " . Out comes the chalk pen and its " Sold as Seen " Before ya know it ,
Thank Christ I'm out of it ,
200 Kid .
Barn Find cars - worth a mint in today’s market, providing all the dirt and DogEnds are still there 🤪
Don’t they have automatic car washes in England?
They do, but at least in those days they had a reputation of breaking aerials, wipers and leaving scratched paintwork. Hand car washes are still very popular today.
In recent years, it’s been cheaper to pay people minimum wage, or less, than to operate an expensive, complicated machine.
No matter how good your automatic car wash is, it doesn't clean the engine bay, clean the interior and empty the ash trays.
those Cavaliers were real horse manure, even back then!
A primera vista... primera vista siempre engaña, si usted no sabe ver o no sabe que tiene delante...
SWITHLAND MOTORS IN 1996 AT LEAST EMPTIED THE ASHTRAY AFTER THE TILL😁❗❗
3:47.......MY 10TH BIRTHDAY!!!!! What exactly is a tight deal, anyway?!! I can't seem to find any definition of it anywhere.
Guessing where they have had to entice the “punter” by giving top book part exchange knowing that they will hit target for registrations and get bonus from manufacturer and that the stand in value was too much to break even by just trading on or sending to auction
They should at least valet those cars before trying to sell them :)
Absolutely! Just basic common sense really.
Yeah that was weird.
tl;dr - Just wash the bloody car before you sell it
The level of contempt for the customer extant in the motor trade is quite staggering...imagine an opportunity shop selling blood stained clothes and dirty plates - they don't - yet they're only asking for a few 0.00p...not Grands!
No tyre dressing🤔
... What am I watching!
Giggles at the taxi doing 80 thousand 😲❓ scrapper that 1 Dave ☝️ my vauxhall Van 😕 as JUST turned 188810. THING move on.
Cars are better these days
@@iainmclaughlan7415 Yep😁No body is regrinding valve seats on a Sunday afternoon in the kitchen ANYMORE!!
You can after all polish a Turd
Lol, I've sent 10 (exactly 10) cars for scrap and ALL of them were cleaner than these!
and they reduced the price over a full valet ... seriously
Bet that Sierra is worth a mint now 🤣
Wait what salespeople didn’t actually realise they had to clean their used cars before putting them on the forecourt in the 80’s? Chuffs sake 🙄 did Ford actually make their staff watch this at some bloody Essex conference? Thank god for the XR, RS and cosworth models otherwise they’d have gone bust surely 😆
How hairy is his right arm
Very
yes
Be quicker and cheaper if they just did a before and after video?🤣
"Pre conditioning" = Washing car.
= having the car valet (British English) or detailed (American/Australian/Canadian English)
So the manager thought dirty ashtrays and filth left in the cars was okay? Possibly in the wrong job the mate? What sort of idiot would try and sell a used taxi still with signage on it, and unwashed? Omg this guy was in the wrong job.
NSS
duh!..........................
and the award for world's worst sales manager goes to...
So stupid. Dealers took in any old crap and then gave it a very good valet and cut the paint back. Average punter would just see it all shining and silicone shined interior. If you had a keen eye you could tell if a car had had a hard life.