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[Marks DTM Calib]

What is the oil spec, cant see the Dexos2 not being good enough for this application

[TheBoy]

CAF, well that's a 10 min drive, I've always found them expensive really 

I meant to reply to this ages ago.  According to my contact there, they've been taken over by ECP and basically selling crap ECP stock at high prices (to public - trade still get trade perks)

Another once good factors becomes another to avoid 

[Shackeng]

CAF, well that's a 10 min drive, I've always found them expensive really 

I meant to reply to this ages ago.  According to my contact there, they've been taken over by ECP and basically selling crap ECP stock at high prices (to public - trade still get trade perks)

Another once good factors becomes another to avoid 

Thats interesting. Is Andrew Page just a cover name, or has ECP bought it from AP?

[Shackeng]

CAF, well that's a 10 min drive, I've always found them expensive really 

I meant to reply to this ages ago.  According to my contact there, they've been taken over by ECP and basically selling crap ECP stock at high prices (to public - trade still get trade perks)

Another once good factors becomes another to avoid 

Thats interesting. Is Andrew Page just a cover name, or has ECP bought it from AP?

Anyone know the answer to this?

[Doctor Gollum]

http://www.andrewpage.com/content/2/about_us/company_history

http://www.phoenix-equity.com/companies/

http://www.am-online.com/news/supplier-news/2016/10/04/euro-car-part

http://corporate.eurocarparts.com/about/heritage

So there you have it...

Euro car Parts own Unipart, and, as of October, Andrew Page

[Andy B]

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Euro car Parts own Unipart, and, as of October, Andrew Page

I wonder if they'll employ more staff to man the desk as well as the phones. Last time I went into AP, I stood at the front desk for 5 mins or so waiting. The room to my right (behind glass) was full of people on phones, but it seemed that nobody was available to speak to the bloke that had actually come into the shop to buy something. So I walked out! And have never been in there again.

[TheBoy]

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Euro car Parts own Unipart, and, as of October, Andrew Page

I wonder if they'll employ more staff to man the desk as well as the phones. Last time I went into AP, I stood at the front desk for 5 mins or so waiting. The room to my right (behind glass) was full of people on phones, but it seemed that nobody was available to speak to the bloke that had actually come into the shop to buy something. So I walked out! And have never been in there again.

Much like any other Eurocrapparts counter then

[Shackeng]

Very sad, as that leaves very few competitors in this area.

[Andy B]

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Much like any other Eurocrapparts counter then

Is it? 

[Andy B]

A mate had owned his own motorfactors for years. The year before last, AN Other motorfactors from around just outside the area approached Nick and told him that they were moving into the area, he had the choice of being bought out or they'd outsell him & close him down that way. He chose to be bought out. Trouble is, he now spends a lot of his time on the phone rather than buying & selling as he'd done before.

[Doctor Gollum]

A mate had owned his own motorfactors for years. The year before last, AN Other motorfactors from around just outside the area approached Nick and told him that they were moving into the area, he had the choice of being bought out or they'd outsell him & close him down that way. He chose to be bought out. Trouble is, he now spends a lot of his time on the phone rather than buying & selling as he'd done before.

Probably less stressful than being driven into the ground

[biggriffin]

http://www.andrewpage.com/content/2/about_us/company_history

http://www.phoenix-equity.com/companies/

http://www.am-online.com/news/supplier-news/2016/10/04/euro-car-part

http://corporate.eurocarparts.com/about/heritage

So there you have it...

Euro car Parts own Unipart, and, as of October, Andrew Page

 

Ecp ultimate goal is to have the whole market, a monopoly, then push the prices up, at the moment, the only winners at the moment are garages, spares prices are dropping, and ecp will send a van out to deliver a gasket.

[TheBoy]

and ecp will send a van out to deliver a gasket.

As will any factor servicing the trade

[biggriffin]

and ecp will send a van out to deliver a gasket.

As will any factor servicing the trade

.

Which is wrong, too many factors are running at a loss trying to compete for every scrap, transport is one of there biggest cost.  Ecp have deep pockets,

[TheBoy]

and ecp will send a van out to deliver a gasket.

As will any factor servicing the trade

.

Which is wrong, too many factors are running at a loss trying to compete for every scrap, transport is one of there biggest cost.  Ecp have deep pockets,

No, it's what the trade insist on, and has always been the case since long before euroshiteparts had a national network.

A garage isn't going to waste an hour every time they need a part.