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buying year old car from dealer - do i need to check under hood

Jupiterx · 2008-01-27 22:45:13

Hello, i am about to purchase a one year old car from SEAT dealership. the car has a slight bruise on the inner door edge and Seat have promised to fix it. dont know much about cars, if i look under the bonnet, all i would be able to figure out is how to check the oil since it has done 2700 miles, it is probably a demo,…

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Jupiterx Posts: 74 Forumite

2 February 2008 at 6:44PM

thanks for the advice,

i negotiated an increase on the price of my trade in and a small decrease on the car to be sold.

i think i hit the price that they wanted at the end, but i am no good at negotiating and wanted the car and wanted to move on.

did a price check on parkers, and by their standards, i think i lost out on 200-300 pounds,

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