Ford Warranty and Servicing

[cobra kid]

I'm finally looking at a car that still has a manufacturers warranty left.

A 2014 1.0 Fiesta. Not exciting but ok as a second car.

To maintain the balance of the warranty, will it need to be serviced at a particular quality of garage?

Also, if the dealer selling it says "we don't reduce our prices at all", are there any particular tactics for getting it reduced???

[Sir Bagalot]

Needs to be serviced at a VAT registered garage using OEM parts.

If you don't name the garage then we can't tell you chances of discount, Is car fairly priced?

[cobra kid]

The Car Megastore in Sheffield

[ScoobyChris]

cobra kid said:

Also, if the dealer selling it says "we don't reduce our prices at all", are there any particular tactics for getting it reduced???

If you have a part ex, you can play around with the numbers on that and focus on the cost to change rather than the absolute prices. Otherwise, if you consider it too expensive just walk - it's not a rare or exotic car and there will be plenty of others out there. You might even get a phone call a couple of days later with a better price. FWIW, when we were negotiating, the dealer decided to bring up the Autotrader website to prove how competitive his car was. Ironically, we ended up going to another dealer and buying one of the better value cars his search turned up

Chris

[ScoobyChris]

cobra kid said:

The Car Megastore in Sheffield

My experience of car supermarkets is that there is no room for movement on the price and it's largely take it or leave it (there will be another customer along shortly who will pay what they're looking for)...

Chris

[cobra kid]

ScoobyChris said:

My experience of car supermarkets is that there is no room for movement on the price and it's largely take it or leave it (there will be another customer along shortly who will pay what they're looking for)...

Chris

Don't be fooled by the name. There's only about 30 cars there.

http://users.autoexposure.co.uk/vehicle.cfm?Accoun...

[Jim AK]

I expect it's the usual 'Car Supermarket' business model.

Screen price + admin fee + this + that.

Fwiw & I've posted this before. I went to one of these places looked at a car that appeared a bit cheaper than other places but by the time the car had the Specialist dealer service it was almost due & I paid for warranty etc I ended up going to a franchised dealer & buying from them.

Ok I was looking at a Merc E class but it was about 4K short of a routine service, they agreed to do at at the correct time/mileage interval at no extra cost & I got a Merc backed warranty too. Think it was about £500 more than the 'Supermarket' car.

[datum77]

The law states - "You do NOT have to take ANY vehicle by ANY manufacturer back to the franchised dealer for servicing". That is the law throughout Europe. You can take your brand new WHATEVERITSMOBILE to whoever you like, Fred Bloggs Motors around the corner if you like. There are 2 criteria for this. The garage concerned MUST adhere to the manufacturers servicing schedule AND use original manufacturers parts.
NONE of the above will invalidate the warranty in any way, shape or form. (When you take your vehicle in for warranty work the dealer will point out to you that you have invalidated the warranty by taking this course of action). This is out and out b*llo*ks. No manufacturer has EVER taken this to court because they know full well that they would lose.
Within the owners handbook pack it will keep on and on stressing that you HAVE to take your vehicle to the franchised dealer for servicing in order to maintain the warranty. Yet again this is b**ls*it of the highest order.

So long as you maintain the servicing schedule by someone, it WILL NOT invalidate the warranty.

[bitchstewie]

Concentrate on cost to change not the price of the "new" car.

On the servicing, as said so long as you're sticking to the manufacturers schedule and using OEM equivalent parts it shouldn't matter.

What I would say is whether saving £50/year on a service is worth the possibility of voiding any goodwill should you need it from the dealership.

[shake n bake]

Surely if it's a 14 plate vehicle it'll have less than a year of warranty remaining, so if it's supplied serviced then you won't have to worry about additional services? Unless you're covering big miles of course.