BUYING OLD LOW MILEAGE CARS (SEPTEMBER UPDATE) 

This is definitely my favourite car/dealer channel. Just really down to earth, honest and interesting 😊

Well done Lee. Good to watch your videos. What sets you apart from a lot of other dealers is your honesty and you go the extra mile to do the small jobs on cars which would irritate a lot of buyers.

My dad ran a garage and car sales business in Birmingham in the 60s. He always told me not to waste money on cars. Keep the old uns maintained and they will last. Corrosion was the biggest killer then. I have done this and maintained my cars and motorbikes. I have had several 200k petrols of all marques except expensive ones. Citroens Renaults fords Vauxhalls and Toyotas. Had a vw t4 2.4d with 330k and drove perfect but was very rusty. My favourite cars were sierras and Carlton’s. Even at 190k if you blanked out the mileage you couldn’t tell. Of course there’s a time to get rid, but love finding some bangers. Have had a 17 yr old berlingo petrol for 7 yrs and its a brilliant car. Never on my radar but was right price/ mileage. Runs beautifully. No rot. Totally reliable but regularly serviced. When brakes/antifreeze and oils are done, a car feels good. Also keen on suspension rubber refresh at 100k makes huge difference. Do my own so econimallyviable. I think people get rid of their cars far too early. Love watching your channel

Well done Lee, some great cars that will sell soon. People look for these cars. My old boss always said, "never mind how old, mind the mileage".

Love this channel Lee , it’s straight forward talking, down to earth , telling it like it is . Your a true gent , a genuine honest trader , wishing your channel and business all the success it deserves 👍👍

This is part of why I'm a petrolhead because you learn something new every day, cars for me are never a boring subject and this channel really helps to fill my appetite, thanks Lee, keep them videos coming yum yum 🤣

As an owner of a 2010 Focus, I don’t blame the new potential owner for loving it straight away, they are great cars. I agree the 1.6 zetec is the sweet spot of the range. They just do everything well.

nice one Lee. another great warts-n-all video. I like the fact you go through everything from the lowly buying price through to the sales price and the work necessary to get there. your audience are your customers (in more ways than one) and many will realise the real cost of having all that work done themselves to bring the car up to scratch. looking forward to the next installment 🙂

Lee I knew you'd smash this out of the water m8 when u took "The Car Pitch" over...Your honesty, integrity and quality of your cars and workmanship speaks 4 itself buddy...I'm so happy 4 u seeing everything going so well...Looking forward to seeing your follow up videos on the cars you've done work on b4 they sell...Well done Lee m8 and keep up the great work and content 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This is just a great channel, I have a smile on my face from start to finish, I just live to learn from everyone about everything, just brilliant. If I didn't live in Essex I would have been very tempted with the Ford. Well done mate,great vids,Bill.

Thank you for the update Lee. You have a great variety of stock, glad to hear that your business is doing well😊.

The kind of cars you are selling are a mirror image of what I used to sell when I had my sales site. Always a great watch, thanks!

I absolutely love this!! And we are all getting free advice as to what to buy.. And not to buy!!! Love car uk!

Mother in law just put deposit on the polo it was as good as it looks in video nice buying experience straight talking guys best of luck with the pitch.

Renault YC60OGE I think French female singer, Years back .. Yes Cir I can booge Booge all night long ... Can hear the song ,but trouble recalling her name !

I work in IT and definitely am not a Mechanic, but I can really appreciate that TopDon Kit, the new one is a great gadget!! A must for a garage!

If I wasn’t in Bromley I would buy a car here myself at 65 got COPD so walking is getting difficult plus I am not wealthy! Love this channel - love the honesty!

Love the videos, the auction vids take me back to when I used to go with my old man ... love the honesty but the integrity is class, never see enough of this, keep it up and continued success

Lee, hard word is paying off, well done, great selection of cars.

I'm certain the little dealers I walk past most days near me has most of the same cars on sale as you Lee, but up here in Ayrshire he wants about double the price lol. Thanks again for the tour fella. Cheers!

Brilliant video as always Lee. By far the best car youtube channel going 👍🙂👍

Loving the content fella good to see money coming through the door it takes me back to when l was dealing motor's cheers jerry

Another great video Lee, you really do have some cracking cars on there and the prices are unreal. 2200 for that Corsa with 39kmiles! Looks cheap to me, but I'm quickly finding out, as you have said in this video and previous videos, people would rather have a cheap older/higher miles car than a good car. Struggling to move 2 nice cars on at the minute and going to change tactics once I do move them on and manage to go car shopping again.

You talk so quickly its clear your an honest chap , your you tube future is very bright , and so is your future . Stay real and you will have an acre of cars for sale ....Nice

I do really like a Ford Focus but the instrument cluster has a well known fault on them. Sooner or later it will more than likely break. That's because the tracks on the motherboard break so needs to be taken out and sent off to be fixed. Also on the MK1 Focus the high idle revs can be a MOT failure. I actually took mine to a Ford dealership, after trying everything I could think of, and the guys there said they've seen plenty of them like it so know it's down to the onboard computer. Apparently it's another known problem. They said because MK1s are old now it would cost too much to reprogramme considering the worth of the car. Lastly always check underneath when you go to look at one. A couple of years ago I was going to buy one. It drove fine and bodywork was really good. Lucky after the test drive and even though it started raining I got down on the floor and I was so glad I did. It wasn't just rusty... it was made of rust from front to back. A miracle it didn't fall apart. The guy knew as well because before I said anything he said no worries some idiot will buy it without looking underneath.

Sounds like business is going good, really enjoy the update and looking forward to the next 👍

Excellent video Lee, The pitch looks really good,really pleased for you , going to order that top don , BMW ,I'd get shot of it mate .

Nice one Lee. Always look forward to your uploads. Watching now 😁

Those ford/mazda 1.8 lumps are oiloholics, so its important to check oil level every 2 weeks. The dip stick can also be tricky to read the level which doesnt help. No low oil warning sensor either. So a lot end up running too low on oil. You will know it burning oil if you run your finger inside the exhaust when its cold. The soot in the exhaust will look like a diesel due to the burnt oil. Once you keep your eye on the oil level and run a cat cleaner additive in the petrol tank every few months to keep cat from blocking it will be fine. I have the same 1.8 engine in an 08 mazda6. Sure the 1.6 dont have the same oil burning issue but they are gutless and have awful gearing.

Yea the fiat 500 its becoming a must have first car after passing driving test

Love your channel,been selling cars as long as you with all the ups and downs...basically for a first car get a c1/Aygo/107. Small family car Focus mk2 or mk3. Sports saloon Lexus. Executive car 5 series (i normally deal in those]

Great video Lee, love your channel,good car dealer and very Honest, that new Topdon looks good

Really enjoy your videos Lee. I’m a retired car trader so I feel your pain ! 😂 Your style of being completely open and honest is great in my humble opinion. However…I feel you should explain and include the Vat margin on all sales. You obviously include paint, mechanical and cleaning but leave out the Vat cost ? I feel it would be useful to inform the public of this outrageously unfair and hugely expensive cost that honest dealers like yourself have to suffer ! All the best mate.

Great video mate, I've just bought a cheapie volvo from Abs as it was an auto, plenty of interest in the corsa auto last week, any auto is good news.

enjoyed the video Lee great to see the pitch is doing well !

That 3 series looks pretty nice actually, I like the interior. I'd love to see that old 75, it would be like a random oddball on the channel 😊

Another storming video Lee I noticed the silver Ford Fiesta zetec-s on your pitch what’s the story on that? Great work really enjoying your channel 👏

The ABS sensor is the worrying one that will make it go in to limp mode on this bmw believe me, cost me a 1000 pound for two new drive shafts in the trade, its a commen fault my friend, the drive shafts rust and make the ABS rings rise contacting the ABS sensors, no way around it mate, really expensive job, just helping you out 👍 love your vidios 👍 and like my own experiences the nut on the end of the drive shafts won't exist anymore they will be rusty as hell, just a heads up mate 👍

im 19 year old been driving just shy of 2 years got insured on a 1.5tdci 2015 focus for a reasonable price bearing in mind i had a claim in my first 2 weeks driving so these focuses are surprisingly insureable

Be a bonus if that Toyota Aygo had real good service history,even if it missed a couple of services it'll be great reliable car! Those tyre balancers can go many thousands more just for the all singing all dancing stuff but,you just need to do what the machine is for...basic balancing. Good advice on the diagnostic machines fella, both are real good value & worth getting!

Really enjoy your videos Lee...You sell cars in the price range i go for £500 to £2000 .

Love the content and video. Got some great stock and the BMW will clean up nicely once you fix the issues you will make some money off it, just a shame it is an auto

Great video. Would be good if you did a video purely on fixing (or not) the BMW.

now I'd like to see a video called "buying new high mileage cars" :) I always think it's good value for money buying a newish car with a lot of mileage as long as it has full service history and longer interval components like the cambelt have already been replaced. it also means they probably have been doing motorway miles.

Great content matey so down to earth and honest trying to help people out with the links for the equipment keep it up.

I was a commercial Loss Adjuster and a few years ago did a claim for a classic car restorer who had broken a Krypton Tune machine ( remember them? He had reversed a car without disconnecting it and it fell into his inspection pit ) there were no parts to fix the thing and in the end we sourced a replacement from a garage in the Netherlands which was closing down and selling off. The stuff he fixed was too old for a OBD port so your wheel balancing machine story struck a chord with me

The Topdon stuff is amazing, using it all the time.

Interesting video as usual Lee…love em.

Ah hey lee welcome always great info from you mind you scabrous skoda got through its mot again ,cant believe it

love the channel, the back of house needs a really good clean, doesn't look good when showing around.

18:21 would definitely rather have a focus than a KA of the same age for the same price and actually lower mileage - I guess city cars are more in demand so drives up the price

Things are looking good mate.....pleased for you👍👍when your free can you pop to Wales and sort this stupid 20mph limit out,you'd be the man for the job😂😂

The Aygo would be the perfect first car for my daughter...

Lee, got the topdon 820bt myself, great bit of kit and you got it at a better price then I paid last year.

Low mileage older motors are bargains, sure it'd be nice to run the latest cars but I'm not laying out 10k+ to get to work. Just picked up a Focus cc 2.0tdci 74k, two owners, 12 stamps in the service book for £1190. Didn't want a convertible but bought it based on price and mileage. Cheap motoring.

What the heck happened to BMW? Have a 3.3 Alpina E39 with a lovely six and peerless build,not really gone wrong either,that 3 might as well be a Mondeo.Agree the mk2 facelift Focus is a top car,ahead of the Golf Megane and Astra,used to sell the 1.6 to fleets and plenty going strong at 200,000 miles and just so nice to drive.

Great update video. Topdon looks top quality! Good to see your knowledge of your stock and their issues. As always you look to send the cars out ‘right’. Not many dealers would do that. Looks like you need to get to it over the next week to sort out them cars and get them generating cash. Good luck. Dave Birmingham

You'll probably find the corsa will run better with a new chain, as you'll know a stretched chain alters the crank cam timing, they tend to surge when chain is stretched, maybe as valves aren't opening right that's affecting the mixture and ecu is trying to compansate, any issues ecu with always go rich to protect the engine.

Great update Lee. Many thanks

BMW X5 has hit it about 60mph in my opinion. Looking forward to more videos on this one.

Great to see your new pitch doing well Lee 😉. Nice to see a couple of nice looking ford focuses on your pitch looking so good for there age. The 2008 C max I have is the 1.8 petrol it's ultra reliable and very economical, I know you don't rate the 1.8 as much as the 1.6. Not keen on the old tractor sounding air polluting smelly diesel's though 😉. Keep up the good work Lee look forward to see how you get on with the BMW also looking forward to your next car auction video.

the colour of the blue focus is avalon blue same as mine

There's a whole video on that dead bmer. Please!

The colour of the Focus is called Avalon, used to sell them back in 07/08!

We have an apprentice at work, he wrote off his Corsa. Now bought that shape Focus, his is a diesel. He’s only 18, don’t know what he pays in insurance.

Great channel Lee, normal cars for normal people! Loving it 👍

Really enjoyable channel. Just good honest talking.

Love your new vids they are very informative.

Love the channel Lee, keep the vids coming

Enjoy these videos, honest and review affordable cars. Btw, how do transport some of these cars back? Im from Crewe myself and often transport cars from Prees in my truck.

The 50k focus the pain colour is Avalon blue had one when new for sure was a marmite colour you either loved it or hated it

fantastic channel just a question will either of the Topdon, either the 600S or the 800BT scanners work on a Saab 9-3, further on I subscribed to your channel find it very interesting

I bought a low mileage Ford Fiesta, 33000 miles , formerly owned by a 91 year old man, after the first week the engine blew up, it could not stand the stress of my 600 mile a week commute, sadly the perfect condition car went to the scrapyard

some scan tools show mileage in KM . I've also had a shock moment when I scanned my BM, then realized it was KM not Miles :) divide / multiply by about 1.6

Nice One Lee ,, Keep em coming 👌

Also by coincidence i was just talking about the 1 litre Ecoboost Focus they are rapid for a 1 litre 9 secs to 60 and 125mph top speed as my friend she has one but £3 grand is too much for me sadly

Good update mate. If anyone deserves success :)

Lee, top video as usuall. What happens October, November, December. Do you find colder temperatures a darker nights affects your sales?

you need a catchphrase at the start of each video. i have some suggestions below. 1. Ow Doo punters 2. pop dazlin views, hows tricks ? 3. get a grip man, 4. feast your eye stalks on this.

Your better off with older low mileage tackle mate, people lap em up, got 4200 for a 09 hyundai i110 with 18k on but can't get 5495 for a 19 plate c3 with 108 k on, daft thing is hyundais clutch went (!) and some brake pipes were rotten, while the c3 is like new, you'll not alter peoples ideas tho.

Seen a few of your vids , this i really enjoyed. The bmw especially, the problem finding. Just subscribed

Great job Lee. That BMW would make a nice car

Great videos as usual. Just a quick question, where do you find book prices for cars?

Great video

I think the Focus colour was Jeans because I had a Tonic blue Fiesta? 🤔

Great content Lee 😊

Always look forward to your vids. Another great one.

Enjoy these videos, you need to get a website. 👍🏼

Up and up lee ,great video pal cheers great channel 👍

Great Lee,the aygo looks smart npw. Whats your exterior lighting going to be like for the winter being round the corner

Looking forward to ECOboom part II.

You breaking that 500 I can see with the wheels off? I'm only up the road

hi love the videos and the cars you keep up the good work😀😀

If you come across a decent Yaris T Sport Lee I might be interested, Stew

Great video, really interesting.

Little tip for you buddy, blue Toyota Aygo or any of your cars. First impressions from a buyers point of view, a set of new number plates would look better, rusty screw on front plate on Aygo. Not good

I have the 800BT, great tool, you forgot to mention free updates for life and if you tap the red fault code and are connected to wifi, it loads up a page showing what to do to fix it, with pictures and.... when are you investing in a sweeping brush?

Nice video

What would you say about a 2017 diesel car with 38thou on the clock. It's a euro6, so I worry about the DPF if doing shorter trips. Also have you ever used ZX1 to quieten down noisy diesels?

Avlon Blue Ford