haggling with a used car dealer

s_b

iltisman wrote: »

Ebay your car and turn up with a tesco bag with £8.5 K.

if you were a golfer you would have two carriers in case you got a hole in one

snowmen

Dear goodness - looks like I opened a can of worms!

Went to see the car again today with another person who would know a lot more about cars than me.

Will ring tomorrow to arrange a test drive - and no I wouldn't buy a car without taking it out on one first. It is more for peace of mind than anything but once I did have a car that broke down a mile down the road during a test drive. I do it mainly to see if I actually like driving it or not.

I am trying to not look to eager throughout the whole process.

Just out of interest, I take it most, if not all, dealers use the glass's guide to price cars (they showed me this when giving me a price for my trade-in). Would it be a good idea to get a quote off the Glass website for the exact same car and mileage and print this out to use as a bargaining tool - or am I wasting my time?

fivetide

I'd say better off getting cars that are exact same spec and miles or better and using those.

Of course the dealer could just tell you to go buy them instead so you need to meet somewhere between what they want and what the others are up for ideally.

5t.

DKLS

I recently got 2k off a car with a sticker price of 12k for the wife, I had haggled him down 1k then I spotted the car was wearing Linglong chinese ditch finders, he wouldn't replace the tyres so I got another 1k off and managed to get the tyres changes for £600.

Linglongs on a sports car :eek::mad:

Hoof_Hearted

Re: test drives -- I was astonished when I bought the wife's car that the dealer gave me the keys and told me to take it as far as I liked. I bought the car....

s_b

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

Re: test drives -- I was astonished when I bought the wife's car that the dealer gave me the keys and told me to take it as far as I liked. I bought the car....

trader i know did this he got the nip 3 weeks later and had to swallow it
did you ring your insurer to confirm you was insured
did you run it on traders plates or was there tax in the window

seriously consider carefully before taking the keys off anyone and jumping in a car it could be life changing for you

did i mention accidents on test drives?
maybe next time eh

Weird_Nev

You sound so painful to deal with s b.
Its a wonder you sell anything what with all the time you spend on here.

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s_b wrote: »

did you ring your insurer to confirm you was insured

My insurance has the DOC extension.

s_b

Weird_Nev wrote: »

You sound so painful to deal with s b.
Its a wonder you sell anything what with all the time you spend on here.

been poorly this last 3 weeks
still not right

s_b

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

My insurance has the DOC extension.

3rd party of course
i know someone still paying for a hire car they didnt collision waver on