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Car Flip Academy UK

A community on Skool, run by Kieran at Kiers Garage, for people in the UK learning to buy, fix and sell used cars. It's free to join. The paid plans add the full course and personal checks on the cars you're looking at.

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What it is

Car Flip Academy UK is a community on Skool. Inside there's a course that follows real flips from the first look at a listing to handing over the keys, tools that check a car and work out the most to bid, and a live deal review every Thursday. It's all about doing it in the UK: IAA UK and Copart auctions, Facebook Marketplace, write-off categories, MOT history and the rules for selling cars here.

  • Free to joinThe Standard plan: the community, the free tools, the Thursday live and the first modules
  • Thursday, 7pmLive deal review, UK time, on Skool and YouTube
  • About £1,000The budget the first flip is planned around, sometimes less
  • UK onlyUK auctions, paperwork and law

Who it's for

It's for you if

  • You're in the UK and want to flip your first car, or your second.
  • You've got about £1,000 for the first car, sometimes less.
  • You're hands-on, or happy to learn the checks and the simple jobs.
  • You want to do it properly: register with HMRC once you're trading, insure properly and tell buyers everything in writing.

It's not for you if

  • You want a guaranteed income or a number per month. Some flips lose money, and the course shows those too.
  • You want to hide a Cat N marker or sell a known fault to a stranger.
  • You want to start on Cat S, structural repairs or airbag work.
  • You're outside the UK. The auctions, paperwork and law here are UK only.

What's free and what's paid

There are three plans. You start on Standard, which is free, and can move up inside Skool whenever you like.

Standard

Free
  • The community: ask questions, post cars and see how other members price them.
  • The free tools: the IAA and Marketplace pre-checks and the max bid calculator.
  • The Thursday 7pm live deal review.
  • Start Here, and modules 1 and 2 of the course.

Premium

$39 a month
  • Everything in Standard.
  • The full course: modules 3 to 15, added as they're filmed.

VIP

$150 a month
  • Everything in Premium.
  • The Deal Desk: send up to 4 cars a month and get a verdict within 24 hours, with the checks, likely repair costs, a max bid and a straight answer: buy it, bid up to a set figure, or walk away.
  • A 1:1 call with Kieran every month.

Prices are in US dollars because Skool charges in dollars. Your bank converts the payment, so the amount in pounds moves with the exchange rate, and some banks add a fee for paying in another currency. A Deal Desk verdict is Kieran's read of the listing, the photos and the free checks. It isn't an inspection or a guarantee.

The course

Fifteen modules in three parts, in the order you'd do a flip. Start Here and modules 1 and 2 are free. The rest come with Premium and VIP, and they're added as they're filmed, mostly on real cars as they go through each stage.

Part 1: the system

  1. How flipping actually works Free
  2. Set up properly Free
  3. Sourcing: where the cars are
  4. Read the listing, run the checks
  5. The numbers: resale ceiling and max bid
  6. Bid, pay, collect

Part 2: the deal

  1. Triage and diagnostics
  2. Repair decisions
  3. Prep and detailing
  4. The advert
  5. Enquiries, viewings, negotiation
  6. Handover and after the sale

Part 3: the business

  1. The business: track the real margin
  2. The mindset: losses and discipline
  3. From one car to three

The Thursday live deal review

Every Thursday at 7pm UK time, live on Skool and YouTube. Members bring listings from IAA, Copart or Facebook Marketplace, and Kieran goes through them on the call: the MOT history, the likely repairs, what the car will sell for and the most he'd pay. It's open to every member, free plan included.

The free tools

No sign-in

Max bid calculator

Works back from the sale price to the most you can bid, on IAA UK's buyer and admin fee bands, the £50 retrieval fee and VAT. Open to anyone on this site.

Sign in with your email

Member tools

The IAA pre-check, the Marketplace pre-check and the max bid calculator, with walk-away rules built in for Cat S, no keys, outstanding finance and over 125,000 miles. You sign in with your email and a code, and your phone or laptop is remembered after that.

Who runs it

Kieran, who trades as Kiers Garage. He buys, fixes and sells cars himself, mostly Cat N cars from IAA UK and Copart plus Facebook Marketplace, and runs a mobile car diagnostics service in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. The flips in the course are his own cars, with the numbers shown, losses included.

You can watch the flips and the fixes on YouTube and TikTok.

How to join

  1. Open the Car Flip Academy page on Skool: skool.com/car-flip-challenge-2893.
  2. Join on the free Standard plan. You need a Skool account, which is free.
  3. Start with Start Here and module 1, and bring a car to Thursday's live when you've found one.
  4. If you want the full course or the Deal Desk, upgrade to Premium or VIP inside Skool.