Just discovered you, great video. Couple of points. Would you not be safer just doing a cambelt if needed, as opposed to offering it on a deal basis? If buyer took the reduced price and belt subsequently broke within the warranty period not sure how you'd stand on that in court? Second point, personally I'd never buy a car again without a fresh Mot. We paid £7000 for a car recently. Asked for a new Mot, dealer refused as current one was 6 months old. Next Mot car failed on emissions, cost us £380 to fix. Lesson learnt. Good luck for the future, subscribed 👍
@@rogerkretzschmar8280 thanks for the feedback, good couple of points. If you go back and follow my videos from the start, when I started I was doing the cambelt and waterpump on all my cars before I advertised them. I prefer to have them done, and if I was buying a car, I would prefer to have it done. However, I realised I am being too generous and people were still expecting money off or thinking my cars were expensive compared to other cars that were £3-500 cheaper, but the cam belts were extra. So I've now decided to do it this way, as it makes it clear to the customer they are getting something done for the full asking price, and if you want money off then that's the bargaining tool. I feel it's better than advertising a car, and then saying we can do the cambelt for an extra £300 which is what most garages do. On the MOT - we do put all our cars through a 12 month MOT but again I've started to do this after the point of sale, rather than before advertising. The Ibiza for example has been MOT'd by us in April, but has then sat around longer than expected and now needs doing again. It also improves cashflow doing things after a sale has been agreed, so I can have £3000 sat in my bank rather than having 10 cars sat around with 10 new £300 cam belts on 👍 I'll cover all this again in my next video, thanks for the feedback 😊
£3995 sounds about right for the Altea XL. WBAC offer dreadful money for older cars especially, so I wouldn't worry too much about your px price. Easiest way is to reverse engineer your price...see what they sell for, take off your margin and that'll give you your approx px price, especially with such a well maintained example.
@@philh3409 thank you, that's what I did, looked at the autotrader value at 4200, he wanted 2500 which I thought was fair, leaves me a decent margin and hopefully doesn't need too much work. It's not a car I would have risked buying from auction, but having the chance to test drive it and see the MOT history I could see it looks like a good car. I agree with you, looks good value at £3995 👍
@@ecoplanetrewards3061 nah, he's a nice enough guy, he did actually look at the car 4 times for me so I can't fault that he wanted to help. I'm just glad it's sorted now and gone. That's all I wanted 🙏
Hello from Ireland, Daniel. I have just Subscribed bro. I do the same job as you but with Motorbikes, lol. You have some lovely Stock at the moment. That Fiat 500 looks very nice, great colour, How much is that? Lol. Beautiful Mini lol 🙏🙏👌👏👏👏👏 P.S Ah, now I see the price of the Fiat 500. Thanks, Wicked Channel. Great work 👏 👍 👌
@@mikenewbold1699 had a 12 plate clubman cooper D for over 2 years, never had a problem. Now this one, which is stunning to look at, great fun to drive, sounds fantastic and just makes me smile every time I drive it. Let's put some miles on it and test this theory of 'these cars are junk'.
@@DanielGallivan-qt3fz yes because the diesel engine is decent. don't ever touch the prince engine esepcialy at this age i tried 3 times as wanted one all were shit
@@DanielGallivan-qt3fz i was so sick of the complications i now drive a grandma vauxhall agila 03 plate 1.2 but it is extremely relable done nearly 10k in it in 3 months
Just discovered you, great video.
Couple of points. Would you not be safer just doing a cambelt if needed, as opposed to offering it on a deal basis? If buyer took the reduced price and belt subsequently broke within the warranty period not sure how you'd stand on that in court?
Second point, personally I'd never buy a car again without a fresh Mot. We paid £7000 for a car recently. Asked for a new Mot, dealer refused as current one was 6 months old. Next Mot car failed on emissions, cost us £380 to fix. Lesson learnt.
Good luck for the future, subscribed 👍
@@rogerkretzschmar8280 thanks for the feedback, good couple of points. If you go back and follow my videos from the start, when I started I was doing the cambelt and waterpump on all my cars before I advertised them. I prefer to have them done, and if I was buying a car, I would prefer to have it done. However, I realised I am being too generous and people were still expecting money off or thinking my cars were expensive compared to other cars that were £3-500 cheaper, but the cam belts were extra. So I've now decided to do it this way, as it makes it clear to the customer they are getting something done for the full asking price, and if you want money off then that's the bargaining tool. I feel it's better than advertising a car, and then saying we can do the cambelt for an extra £300 which is what most garages do. On the MOT - we do put all our cars through a 12 month MOT but again I've started to do this after the point of sale, rather than before advertising. The Ibiza for example has been MOT'd by us in April, but has then sat around longer than expected and now needs doing again. It also improves cashflow doing things after a sale has been agreed, so I can have £3000 sat in my bank rather than having 10 cars sat around with 10 new £300 cam belts on 👍 I'll cover all this again in my next video, thanks for the feedback 😊
Great stuff just started my own garage started with 15 cars. best off luck
@@raveedkhan3228 thanks Raveed, really appreciate it 🙏 started with 1 car from home just over 12 months ago. 10-15 cars is the target 🎯
Hi buddy are you based in Wakefield
@user-gz9xx4tn6w Hi, yes I am, Silcoates Street if you know it.
@@DanielGallivan-qt3fz yes buddy thought I knew it well I seen the video. Great content by the way. Where do you source your cars from?
£3995 sounds about right for the Altea XL. WBAC offer dreadful money for older cars especially, so I wouldn't worry too much about your px price. Easiest way is to reverse engineer your price...see what they sell for, take off your margin and that'll give you your approx px price, especially with such a well maintained example.
@@philh3409 thank you, that's what I did, looked at the autotrader value at 4200, he wanted 2500 which I thought was fair, leaves me a decent margin and hopefully doesn't need too much work. It's not a car I would have risked buying from auction, but having the chance to test drive it and see the MOT history I could see it looks like a good car. I agree with you, looks good value at £3995 👍
ive had a valuation from we buy any car they are a rip off
offer you a good price then when you arrive the price drops like a stone
@@marknucita8284 yes I was surprised when I saw £1800, thought that was very low
So what did he say once he reset it correctly....any apologies??
@@ecoplanetrewards3061 nah, he's a nice enough guy, he did actually look at the car 4 times for me so I can't fault that he wanted to help. I'm just glad it's sorted now and gone. That's all I wanted 🙏
Great to see the C-max gone!
@@TonyM444 yes I agree Tony 👍 I did like that car, almost kept it, but I was glad to see it go in the end.
Hello from Ireland, Daniel. I have just Subscribed bro. I do the same job as you but with Motorbikes, lol. You have some lovely Stock at the moment. That Fiat 500 looks very nice, great colour, How much is that? Lol. Beautiful Mini lol 🙏🙏👌👏👏👏👏 P.S Ah, now I see the price of the Fiat 500. Thanks, Wicked Channel. Great work 👏 👍 👌
@@liamegan4303 cheers mate, thank you, really appreciate it 🙏
@DanielGallivan-qt3fz Thanks Daniel. Respect Mate 💯 👌
don't ever touch these minis with a bargepole totally unrealiable
@@mikenewbold1699 had a 12 plate clubman cooper D for over 2 years, never had a problem. Now this one, which is stunning to look at, great fun to drive, sounds fantastic and just makes me smile every time I drive it. Let's put some miles on it and test this theory of 'these cars are junk'.
Electronics and cam belt and clutch nightmare.
Get rid of this car asap
May seem OK for a while. Then all shit breaks loose.
@thesolidsnakealpha cheers. Doesn't have a cam belt, has a chain which has been done. Fantastic little cars in my experience but we shall see.....
@@DanielGallivan-qt3fz yes because the diesel engine is decent. don't ever touch the prince engine esepcialy at this age i tried 3 times as wanted one all were shit
@@DanielGallivan-qt3fz i was so sick of the complications i now drive a grandma vauxhall agila 03 plate 1.2 but it is extremely relable done nearly 10k in it in 3 months