
How we buy
The inspection happens before the photographs.
Most dealers photograph a car the day it lands and inspect it if a buyer asks. We do it the other way round. Every car goes to an independent specialist first, gets a paint depth survey, a bore scope where the engine warrants one, a full underside check and a diagnostic pull, and only then does it go anywhere near a camera.
The report comes to you unedited, including whatever it found. A stone chip on the nose of a car that has covered four thousand miles is not a problem. Finding out about it after you have paid is.
It means we turn down roughly a third of the cars we are offered, and it means our floor is smaller than the competition. Both of those are features, not bugs.