• HPI urges dealers to protect themselves

    • 20 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    As a Birmingham independent car dealer is jailed for five years and six months for clocking more than 4 million miles off cars, vehicle history check expert, HPI, highlights this case to serve as a warning to used car dealers, who aren’t conducting regular mileage checks on their vehicles Believed to be the [...]
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  • BCA report reveals dealer values rise

    • 15 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    According to the 25th edition of the Used Car Market Report, published by BCA in association with the Centre for Automotive Management, University of Buckingham, the value of used car sales in 2014 reached £451 billion – a year on year increase of 56% and an all-time high for the sector Dealers account for £343 [...]
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  • Car firms urged to review customer contracts

    • 9 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Law firm Moore Blatch is warning car dealerships and any other consumer-facing businesses to review their customer sales contracts and check compliance ahead of the Consumer Rights Act, which comes into force on 1st October 2015 and will give consumers new rights in respect of faulty or not as described goods, [...]
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  • Dealers want mileage correction firms outlawed

    • 5 August 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Automotive technology solutions provider, HPI, reports that dealers firmly back proposals by the EU to introduce legislation to outlaw mileage correction firms by May 2018 The findings of a survey to HPI’s dealer community reported that 71% support the EU decision A further 92% of those surveyed went on [...]
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  • VW UK sign DMS agreement

    • 13 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Volkswagen Group UK and CDK Global, the world’s largest provider of integrated IT and digital marketing to the automotive retail industry, have signed the largest ever DMS (dealer management system) dealer-supplier agreement ever seen in the UK Placing Volkswagen Group retailers at the forefront of dealer operations [...]
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