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What’s my car worth? I’m often asked this question by drivers who have the option to buy the car that they have been driving for the last 2 or 3 years from the leasing company. I have to say there is no definitive answer, to think that you can simply open a book, check the model and year, adjust the value for a higher or lower mileage than average mileage Read more »

When my son changed his phone to enable him to gain access to the Internet he had the choice of two phones at the time (going back a few years). The first was considered a bit of a toy and was an iPhone. The other was a Blackberry. He asked lots of questions and did his own research. The iPhone certainly seemed popular and it had some clever apps on Read more »

This blog is now number one on Google search out of 103 million worldwide. This makes me the one that so called experts seek advice from. Accountants question me then charge customers to pass on the information that I provide. Dealers and F&I managers use this blog to answer questions from customers and the press come to me for comments whilst the press take the RSS Feed . It all adds to the feeling by many that I am the UK’s foremost car finance expert.  Read more »

Let me tell you a story about an accountant who used to introduce clients to me about 12 years ago. He was a Chartered Accountant and according to the charter he couldn’t be paid a fee for arranging anything financial for his client. In other words if he had recommended a client to a financial advisor, who in turn arranged a pension or a Read more »

Time for a car review. As you know I normally remain pretty much unenthusiastic when it comes to some of the cars I write about, probably because the cars I notice are the daft cars, but having owned an MGB sports car at the age of 21, I still look at the badge with a degree of fondness as it invokes many happy memories – I said memories! So when I heard Read more »

Something I’ve reported upon before is the increase in fuel theft but with the latest increase in cost at the pumps the number of thefts is increasing again. Farmers, heating oil and tankers have long been the targets of organised thieves but with an average family car holding around 60 litres of fuel this can represent about £80 (more if diesel) to regular Read more »

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There aren’t many components on a car that have pretty much stayed the same since its invention. Whilst a car still consists of a set of major components to make it work, engine, gearbox, differential, suspension, wheels etc. most have gone through some major developments to make them more reliable, safer, more efficient and so on, except a key Read more »

I reported recently on clocking, it would seem that others are reading my blogs as the Office of Fair Trading has issued a report that reveals there are more than 50 firms in the UK selling mileage correction (clocking) services. As a result they have called on the Government to act and close the loophole that enables these companies to quite legally reset a Read more »

You know I like to search out great deals for my customers and boy have I found a real Bobby Dazzler for you!! How would you like a car which comes with a free servicing package? Not for just 3 years or even 5 years but 7 years. That’s right, a whole 7 years. Before you look for the Vauxhall style lifetime warranty catch, ie. restricted to 100,000 miles Read more »

If you thought you were going to get a great deal on a Mercedes or a BMW you can pretty much forget it! Sales for both German manufacturers were up by more than 30% at the beginning of the year. Whilst most of this increase was into fleet buyers it has meant that the crazy deals that we saw in 2007/8 have not had to be repeated to increase sales. Read more »