Dealer lowered £500 off £4500 car , Hmmmm

Wayne3765

On Friday I saw a 2006 56 reg Focus for sale at £4500 on Auto Trader , I checked the ad again earlier and noticed the price has now droped to £4000.

Obviously dealers reduce prices if they want to get a bit more interest in a car but I was suprised at the amount it's been dropped.

Seems strange to me as He has an older 2005 05 reg Focus ( same spec ) slightly higher milage for sale at £4800 , both have full service history.

I appreciate there must be a difference in condition of the two cars but would you think dropping £500 off a £4500 car is enough to set alarm bells off or is this something that happens in the motor trade ?.

lesalanos

He probably has a margin over over a grand to start so reduced it a bit to get interest. He may have had it for a while to so wants to get rid of it.

s_b

its obviously a sticker and drives like a trolley jack with a wheel missing
sell sell sell
get the money back in the till
who buys death blue cars anyway? i dont

forgotmyname

£2500 - £3000 at auction depending on condition? Maybe they found a fault and want shut quickly?

interstellaflyer

Hmm, £4000 sounds about right, maybe £4500 is a bit over priced, people are soo suspicious, if there is a fault the dealer will be responsible for sorting it anyway. I 2009 I bought my 06 Astra CDTi Estate, it was £4500 but they reduced it to £4000 for me I think because they had it on the books a while and I was leaning towards an 55 reg Focus Deisel estate that was the same money and had a few more toys, anyways no regrets, the Astra has been a very good car, cheap to run, cheap to tax, last years MOT all that was needed was new rear discs and pads, this year I put 2 new front tyres on and it sailed through the MOT, from what I've been told it was a lucky escape as that model Focus has a very troublesome particle filter fitted and they ain't cheap to replace.

Strider590

Maybe the car is no longer with them, but they're using it to drag customers out to view the rest of their cars. One of the biggest problems with Autotrader ad's.

You "hello is the XYZ still for sale?"
Dealer "yes it is"
You drive 80 mile to see it
Dealer "sorry it's been sold, but we have all these others cars you might be interested in"

s_b

Strider590 wrote: »

Maybe the car is no longer with them, but they're using it to drag customers out to view the rest of their cars. One of the biggest problems with Autotrader ad's.

You "hello is the XYZ still for sale?"
Dealer "yes it is"
You drive 80 mile to see it
Dealer "sorry it's been sold, but we have all these others cars you might be interested in"

you must have just passed it down the road as they only just bought it 2 minutes ago, i would have phoned you but your number came up unknown number

useless_git_requires_wife

Strider590 wrote: »

Maybe the car is no longer with them, but they're using it to drag customers out to view the rest of their cars. One of the biggest problems with Autotrader ad's.

You "hello is the XYZ still for sale?"
Dealer "yes it is"
You drive 80 mile to see it
Dealer "sorry it's been sold, but we have all these others cars you might be interested in"

Know what you mean.

My policy is not to ring before turning up (unless it's absolutely miles away). The percentage of 'let-downs' is about the same and I kind of prefer to see where a car is positioned on the lot, how many cobwebs it's got on it, etc.

Wayne3765

Value according to Parkers website

Franchised Dealer £5,280 Independent Dealer £4,865 Private Good £4,430 Private Poor £3,500 Part Exchange £3,940

I might have a look at it later , not too far away from me so no problem if it's gone.

Know what you mean useless git , looked at one last week at a Ford dealer , was told it'd just come in and when I went into office to get price on part ex off mine noticed on his screen - Time on forecourt 170 days, lying *******.

Wayne3765

Didn't drive the car but it had an engine management light on ( claimed crank sensor and would be fixed ) and the full service history was 3 stamps on a 5 year old 57,000 mile car with a 12500 / 1 year service interval :laugh: , 1 at 18k nothing then until 2 years later at 45k and another at 55 k.

auroan

I had similar with a polo on just shy of 60K miles, I was looking at for my GF. Dealer said it had full service history in the advert. Went to look and asked the dealer for the service book. The book had 1 stamp !!!! I asked where the rest of the "full" service history was and he proceeded to print of the MOT history from the DVLA site. I explained to him why in my opinon it didn't even warrent saying it had partial history let alone full, and said on that basis alone the top wack price he wanted for the car was way to much. Thanked him sarcastaly for wasting my time and started to wonder off.

Shockingly he turned round and ask what would I be willing to pay and would I do a deal !?! ..... No chance.