Soldato
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- 9 Dec 2009
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Hi motors
We've recently moved house and our new next-door neighbour is something to do with the used car trade, he's always parking different cars, usually 10-15 years old, in the parking space outside his house and I've seen him jetwashing them, wiping wd40 on the black trim (which I didn't know was a thing) and taking photos of them, then next day it'll be a different car. He's friendly enough, English not 1st language and because he speaks very little English I've not had any actual conversations with him, though we say good morning etc.
After chatting with another neighbour it transpires that he's continously got about 4-5 cars on the go, he leaves them dotted about in other cul de sacs and moves them outside his house, presumably when he needs to prep them for sale.
Now, my OH and the neighbours think he's a used car salesman but I don't agree because his sales pitch to an English customer would be terrible. Furthermore I've seen him park the same 07 range rover in black outside, usually on a Friday, which he cleans, then this other multilingual (we had a chat about the weather and his English is excellent) guy appears later in the day, chats for ages with him on the doorstep and then drives off in the range rover.
I reckon the multilingual guy is the used car salesman, and he employs my neighbour to store and prep the cars, and a perk for the boss is getting his own car cleaned too.
Now, I don't want to get anyone in trouble, but I ran a few of these cars through ask mid and none of them are showing as insured. No doubt the boss has some sort of traders policy which may explain the ask mid situation but what about this other guy he uses? Surely it's an insurance condition that they should be stored in a yard or something rather than on the roadside? What if this guy bumped a neighbours car? How does this employee stand from an insurance perspective?
What would motors do?
We've recently moved house and our new next-door neighbour is something to do with the used car trade, he's always parking different cars, usually 10-15 years old, in the parking space outside his house and I've seen him jetwashing them, wiping wd40 on the black trim (which I didn't know was a thing) and taking photos of them, then next day it'll be a different car. He's friendly enough, English not 1st language and because he speaks very little English I've not had any actual conversations with him, though we say good morning etc.
After chatting with another neighbour it transpires that he's continously got about 4-5 cars on the go, he leaves them dotted about in other cul de sacs and moves them outside his house, presumably when he needs to prep them for sale.
Now, my OH and the neighbours think he's a used car salesman but I don't agree because his sales pitch to an English customer would be terrible. Furthermore I've seen him park the same 07 range rover in black outside, usually on a Friday, which he cleans, then this other multilingual (we had a chat about the weather and his English is excellent) guy appears later in the day, chats for ages with him on the doorstep and then drives off in the range rover.
I reckon the multilingual guy is the used car salesman, and he employs my neighbour to store and prep the cars, and a perk for the boss is getting his own car cleaned too.
Now, I don't want to get anyone in trouble, but I ran a few of these cars through ask mid and none of them are showing as insured. No doubt the boss has some sort of traders policy which may explain the ask mid situation but what about this other guy he uses? Surely it's an insurance condition that they should be stored in a yard or something rather than on the roadside? What if this guy bumped a neighbours car? How does this employee stand from an insurance perspective?
What would motors do?