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Tony, if you're going to do this business, make my GTR faster?

Birds, PM me price for wash n wax if you don't mind.

Definitely, your car needs more powah

No risk ey tony? Who's money you spending?

Not spending anyone's, just looking after it :P

Ah k. Well good luck with it and I hope it is successful, I just see a lot (and I mean a lot) of people wanting to get out of it these days, but they can't because they have too much invested or it's the only thing they know how to do. Customers are pulling in their belts with all the financial worry, putting off servicing and repairs to their cars etc. Most workshops are only breaking even at best (terrible cash flow, they take forever to pay their oil accounts with me), many have closed down and the only ones really getting ahead in terms of profit either A. have their own little niche market, B. are at the top of their game reputation wise, or C. they are ripping customers off. You'd want to be going into it because you love being around cars, but the irony is that, it can and does make you hate cars! Just food for thought.

Yup definitely food for thought, will be discussing the viability of it tomorrow night.

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