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Tim Bearder

Position: Black Book Editor

Number: 07764 145 345

Tim is one of the Editors of CAP’s Black Book, which includes Black Book Live. He works to ensure that all used values accurately reflect the current market, regularly attending vehicle auctions and customer sites to gather intelligence. A big part of Tim’s role also involves supporting customer requests and enhancing manufacturer and client relationships at all levels. Tim has been in the motor industry for 27 years and in the future he is keen to get into classic car restoration.

11/08/2014

Part exchanges geared up to be higher than normal

At this time of year the pre-occupation of most franchised dealers focus is on new car achievement whilst attempting to gain as many retail worthy part exchanges as possible for resale in September. The auction scene, despite still being overrun with “run of the mill” average condition examples, is seeing an increase in demand and conversion rates, with any CAP clean car that is unusual, or of a...

16/05/2014

Downward SUV movements

As things slowly start to return to some normality after the Easter holidays the number of cars for sale at auction halls is still at a yearly high as most dealers are only buying cars to replace a sold one. Anything in CAP clean condition with good specification is still tending to sell at top money and any car that has high mileage and is in poor condition continues to struggle to find a home...