What would motors do?

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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?
 
Don't you need trade plates for traders insurance to be valid?

Stick some of the reg plates into Cazana, it sometimes brings up any for sale ads.
 
I probably wouldn't care as long as his stuff didn't affect me really. Seems like he's actually being considerate by moving his cars onto other streets so I'd just leave him do his thing personally.
 
Don't you need trade plates for traders insurance to be valid?

Stick some of the reg plates into Cazana, it sometimes brings up any for sale ads.

Cheers, I'll wait until he's doing his final wd40 detailing and run it through cazana, it might be useful to know where they operate from.
 
I probably wouldn't care as long as his stuff didn't affect me really. Seems like he's actually being considerate by moving his cars onto other streets so I'd just leave him do his thing personally.

Granted, he's not caused me any grief, but even so I'm curious as to whether it's above board.
 
Sounds a bit weird but doesn't seem to be causing any harm. Would defo check the insurance side out though.
 
My bros a trader and has 20-30 cars at a time in stock and all show up on ask mid. He has trade policy and he adds and removes the regs online as the cars are bought and sold.
 
sounds like hes doing valeting for a car sales probably a guy selling used cars from his house getting his mate , the valeter to prep them. unless you see customers actually turning up to purchase them from him.
playing devils advocate.
if he isnt doing you any harm maybe not bother .

however having vehicles parked all over the area someone will probably be getting annoyed by the extra parking. reminds me of the cant pay take it away program , where they turn up and the trader wont pay so they go around the local streets looking for cars hes selling....oh look audi a4 , aha next street bmw 3 series ..that will do siezed lol. but there not my cars so prove it. besides i always thought if they were parked on roads they needed tax, unlikely from a few traders i used to know that they will be taxed until sold. maybe wrong been some years.:)

btw on that episode they pulled up some adds the guy had on facebook and got the regs for the cars.
 
I'm kind of curious on the tax/insurance side of it - where I got my truck from which a VW authorised commercial dealer and not some dodgy backstreet place when I was looking at vehicles had all kinds of discrepancies in that regard and I could only assume it was all above board as a trader.
 
Lets says he's been doing this for a while and everything and all other neighbours have been fine.

You show up, then all of a sudden there's an issue.
I know the first place i'd come looking if i was him. If its not making your life hassle, you can still park your car, its not loud etc.......then leave him be.
 
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