Opinions on motorpoint peterborough

jase1

Kilty wrote: »

...and so has no warranty?

No. Not true. A manufacturer will not invalidate a warranty over 500 miles.

You made an assertion about the variance in price that I was able to counter without even having to look. SG Petch's prices are relatively competitive and always have been. I realise that you don't like Motorpoint, you make that quite clear, but you're dead wrong on this one -- their prices are typically much cheaper than main dealers and in fact if we extend this particular example to the one-year-old cars originally mentioned, rather than the <4 month old one I highlighted it is very easy to get hold of a car that is not even due its service yet.

Kilty_2

I don't like hire cars, I have nothing against Motorpoint. Some of their deals are good.

Oh and FYI.... http://www.arnoldclark.com/used-cars/hyundai/i30/1.6-crdi-comfort-auto/2010-%2810%29/ref/arnem-533760/

jase1

Is it not the case though that Arnold Clark are themselves a discounter (albeit one that sells new cars as well)?

You will not find such deals at the typical local friendly family-run place.

Kilty_2

Yeah Arnold Clark sell LOTS of ex hire crap too. They're a used car business that needs to sell new cars in order to have franchises. That's a direct quote from a senior manager.

(saying that, they have good deals on new cars too because they buy in bulk - my Picanto was built in Oct 2010 so it's obviously been sitting in their compound for quite a while along with the other 100 they bought :rotfl:)

jase1

At the end of the day, you're buying a car not a dealer. If the car seems OK, go with your gut. I bought from Autoquake, and despite one or two problems I accept that because it was a cheap car I wasn't buying a Rolls Royce. You have to be realistic.

And as long as a car has the warranty I wouldn't be too bothered about initial condition over and above cosmetics -- it's all fixable, especially with 4 years to play with. And a car with 10000 miles on the clock hasn't had chance to get knackered yet IMO.

Kilty_2

jase1 wrote: »

At the end of the day, you're buying a car not a dealer.

Agree with this

jase1 wrote: »

And a car with 10000 miles on the clock hasn't had chance to get knackered yet IMO.

But not that - you've not seen some of that tat Europcar give me

Flyboy152

photome wrote: »

Thats not a problem to me as long as the car looks ok, and it has the remaining 4 years ish of the hyundai warranty.

Why should it be a problem

It will, if it hasn't been serviced according to the schedule.

Flyboy152

jase1 wrote: »

Missing service history? It's one year old with 10000 miles or so on the clock!!!

When you are looking at a year old car, for often the same price as the main dealers are charging for 2 or 3 year old examples, I'm sorry but warranty+age+lower miles trumps any concerns about how it's been looked after IMO.

It was/is the same story with the online places that sell high-mileage fleet cars for £3000. Yes they may have been thrown around, yes the seller might not prepare the cars as well, but next to a car that might be 3 or 4 years older for the same price? All that stuff ceases to apply.

If the car looks pristine (as most of them do) don't worry about it.

Can you see what I did there?

jase1

negated by the second sentence. If a car has not done enough miles to need a service it does not have "missing service history" by definition.

Must try harder. C-.