14th July 25. Rewind!
- Feb 4
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 6
Being more busy than ever. Means I have been lacking time to go back to last year. My apologies.
Looking at my online diary for the 14th of July 25. It was the busiest day of last year. Having four jobs to do. Alone.
Quite a coincidence, as I write this I'm about to tell you about a day in January. That turned out to be the busiest ever. That is next.
If you remember I had collected a car on the Thursday 10th July. Today was the delivery day. It was going to a dealer in Ashington West Sussex. So I arrived there as early as possible and there was another driver, arrived shortly after me. We were both going to the station so I suggested we share a taxi. I had already summoned one to Pulbourgh the nearest station So it would have been only a few pounds for him. He declined saying he would find a bus. I'm guilty of not trying to find buses. For one they are never on time. If they come at all as the timetable says. It's just not worth the risk for me. As it turned out. There were no buses for miles. So his tight fisted attitude landed him in ..... well middle of nowhere. I tried.
From there I was going to Coulsdon South station. Which is one one change away at Horsham.
Which from there is only a few minutes walk to the dealership I had three further jobs to do for today.
Firstly I was collecting a 2023 Kia Xceed , from Kia Coulsdon going to Kia Maidstone.
As you can see. The car wasn't at the dealership. It was stored around 2 miles away. So. I wasn't the most popular visitor to Kia Coulsdon today as nobody fancied the trip to get the car.
However when I mentioned I was bringing one for them it seemed to help. A little.
The junior was summoned to take me to the car which was parked in an open carpark belonging to a golf club. Obviously they had an arrangement to put cars there. I wonder if they actually thought of the consequences. Having worked in so many dealership groups. I know that cars stored without being secured in locked premises are not covered by their insurance. Hopefully they won't learn the hard way.
Once I got the car and finished my appraisal. I drove the 40 minutes to Kia Maidstone. Where I dropped the car off got it signed for and arranged the collection of the car I was talking back to Coulsdon. This was a brand new Kia Niro. So appraisal carefully done. I headed back to Kia Coulsdon handed that car over, appraisal signed again. And collected a another Kia Niro. This time a 2022 model, going back to Maidstone. So three nice easy jobs. From Coulsdon to Maidstone and back. 40 minutes each way and we'll under my minimum 50 miles which attracts a higher price for the jobs than normal.
Once finished at Maidstone later than expected. Isn't it always? I walked to the station a mile away in beautiful sunshine again and had a very relaxing walk in the summer evening.
Knowing the train journey back was a good few hours long.
I probably wouldn't be back in Aylesbury until after 20.00.
A long, but enjoyable and very profitable day.
I walk past the BMW dealer next to Kia. Outside was this very brave purchase by the used car manager. Unless it was an ex demo, forced on him
A beautiful car. But limited buying audience in that colour . I remember well as used car manager at BMW. My new car sales manager taking a similar coloured Z4 for the showroom. Saying it would look good and brighten up the place.
It did for over a year. Until I offered to take it as a company car. The rule of the group was four cylinder cars only for staff. But I guess they were happy to sign this off.
I had the wheels powder coated black. And it transformed the cars look. I had that car for a long time. I loved it. Straight six, 2.5 litres . Manual gearbox in Atacama yellow it was called. One of my favourite company cars. Until the M235i came out.
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