Anyone have Experience with Drive The Deal?

[jonny996]

btcc123 said:

Hi,Could you tell me what Mercedes dealer you bought your car from.

It was Western MB Edinburgh

[btcc123]

jonny996 said:

It was Western MB Edinburgh

Thanks,I have given them a ring with my quotes from Broadspeed and Drive the deal and they will get back to me by E-mail with a cash price but may take the finance deal as if I borrow £3000 on finance will get an extra £2111 off the price so seams the best option.

Once I get the prices I will pop along to my local dealer in Cardiff to see if they can get near it,match it or better it and will buy from the dealer that gives me the best price bearing in mind cost to pick the car up.

Thanks again.

[ED209]

btcc123 said:

jonny996 said:

It was Western MB Edinburgh

Thanks,I have given them a ring with my quotes from Broadspeed and Drive the deal and they will get back to me by E-mail with a cash price but may take the finance deal as if I borrow £3000 on finance will get an extra £2111 off the price so seams the best option.

Once I get the prices I will pop along to my local dealer in Cardiff to see if they can get near it,match it or better it and will buy from the dealer that gives me the best price bearing in mind cost to pick the car up.

Thanks again.

I would be interested if that was the case however isn't the discount for a PCP purchase that will need a lot more to be borrowed?

Post on here how you get on please.

[jonny996]

ED209 said:

btcc123 said:

jonny996 said:

It was Western MB Edinburgh

Thanks,I have given them a ring with my quotes from Broadspeed and Drive the deal and they will get back to me by E-mail with a cash price but may take the finance deal as if I borrow £3000 on finance will get an extra £2111 off the price so seams the best option.

Once I get the prices I will pop along to my local dealer in Cardiff to see if they can get near it,match it or better it and will buy from the dealer that gives me the best price bearing in mind cost to pick the car up.

Thanks again.

I would be interested if that was the case however isn't the discount for a PCP purchase that will need a lot more to be borrowed?

Post on here how you get on please.

Even if it does require a larger amount to be borrowed it is at 4.9 APR so a competitive rate

[btcc123]

ED209 said:

I would be interested if that was the case however isn't the discount for a PCP purchase that will need a lot more to be borrowed?

Post on here how you get on please.

The sales department have not got back to me with a E-mail quote yet but the price I gave him to beat was Broadspeed quote at £25454 for a C Class c200 AMG line,petrol,manual,white with no options.

He gave me the impression that he could beat this deal for a cash purchase but also mentioned that if I took out the required minimum £3000 finance at 4.9% I would get an extra £2111 contribution from MB.The finance could be normal finance so for example if the car cost £24,000 I could pay a deposit of £21,000 and finance the remaining £3,000 and even pay it off early after a year if I wanted.

I will let you know how I get on.

When I get the quote from the MB dealer I will go to my local MB dealer in cardiff to see if they will match it.

[btcc123]

I have just checked with Broadspeed the price of £25454 for the car includes the dealer contribution that is not clear on their website.

The best two deals I can find is £24976 from Drive the deal and the Broadspeed price.When I told Broadspeed of the Drive the Deal price they said they dont like being beaten so would try to match it.

The dealer has not got back to me yet but will ring him on Monday if that is still the case.Hopefully he can trim a bit off to make it cheaper so I am expectng a deal around the £24900 to £24500 mark which equates to about 19% off the list price taking £3000 finace and the rest in cash, that I would be very happy with.

Edited by btcc123 on Friday 13th February 12:32

[ED209]

btcc123 said:

ED209 said:

I would be interested if that was the case however isn't the discount for a PCP purchase that will need a lot more to be borrowed?

Post on here how you get on please.

The sales department have not got back to me with a E-mail quote yet but the price I gave him to beat was Broadspeed quote at £25454 for a C Class c200 AMG line,petrol,manual,white with no options.

He gave me the impression that he could beat this deal for a cash purchase but also mentioned that if I took out the required minimum £3000 finance at 4.9% I would get an extra £2111 contribution from MB.The finance could be normal finance so for example if the car cost £24,000 I could pay a deposit of £21,000 and finance the remaining £3,000 and even pay it off early after a year if I wanted.

I will let you know how I get on.

When I get the quote from the MB dealer I will go to my local MB dealer in cardiff to see if they will match it.

That sounds good because thats what i would probably want to do, I normally buy cars cash but a small loan to get the discount would be ok with me. When i bought my current car I financed 50% and then paid it off after a couple of weeks, this enabled me to get an extra £500 deposit contribution on a deal i was already happy with and 3 years free servicing for taking out the finance. Cost me £21 in interest to score over £1000 in freebies!

My top budget for a car will be about 25k so it would be nice to see if a diesel c class estate in sport trim would be achievable for that, I think the list is about 32k so would be a tall order i think. Alternatively if the c200 petrol got anywhere near its quoted combined figure for mpg then that would be an option.

[btcc123]

[quote=ED209]


That sounds good because thats what i would probably want to do, I normally buy cars cash but a small loan to get the discount would be ok with me. When i bought my current car I financed 50% and then paid it off after a couple of weeks, this enabled me to get an extra £500 deposit contribution on a deal i was already happy with and 3 years free servicing for taking out the finance. Cost me £21 in interest to score over £1000 in freebies!

My top budget for a car will be about 25k so it would be nice to see if a diesel c class estate in sport trim would be achievable for that, I think the list is about 32k so would be a tall order i think. Alternatively if the c200 petrol got anywhere near its quoted combined figure for mpg then that would be an option.


My budget is around 25k as well and never financed a car before but its a no brainer to save over 2k to have the minimum finance of 3k.With MB you can pay it off after a year if you want.

I think the cheapest you will get a deisel C Class estate in sport trim would be about 27k for the C220 with 170 BHP,dont buy the 1.6 136 BHP one as its a Renault engine and undepowered.

The reason that I am going for a petrol is that before Xmas I had one as a hire car for 10 days.really loved everything about it,lovely looking car inside and out.The equevelent deisel is about 2.2k more,has a noisy engine that is way behind Audi and BMW for refinement where as the petrol is virtually silent,had plenty of power.

The petrol will achieve the stated MPG figures as I used the hire car mainly around Cardiff and it achieved over 40 MPG and convinced it will do at least 50-55 on a motorway run.I personally will not buy a deisel as there is too much going on with deisel cars,look whats happening in France now and that will be happening all over Europe soon.80% of the cars Mercedes sells at present are deisels but think that will be 20% in 6-10 years time.

[jonny996]

btcc123 said:

The sales department have not got back to me with a E-mail quote yet but the price I gave him to beat was Broadspeed quote at £25454 for a C Class c200 AMG line,petrol,manual,white with no options.

You haven't said if that £25454 was for saloon or estate but anyway I would say they should be able to beat it as I got estate with auto and metallic for £26012. I should have pushed him for £13 more. It would have been nice to have said I got a brand new AMG Line auto estate in silver for £25999.00.

[lsp]

ED209 said:

That sounds good because thats what i would probably want to do, I normally buy cars cash but a small loan to get the discount would be ok with me. When i bought my current car I financed 50% and then paid it off after a couple of weeks, this enabled me to get an extra £500 deposit contribution on a deal i was already happy with and 3 years free servicing for taking out the finance. Cost me £21 in interest to score over £1000 in freebies!

My top budget for a car will be about 25k so it would be nice to see if a diesel c class estate in sport trim would be achievable for that, I think the list is about 32k so would be a tall order i think. Alternatively if the c200 petrol got anywhere near its quoted combined figure for mpg then that would be an option.

Clearly calling around to get a decent deal is part of life, but wasting lots of peoples time in Edinburgh in pursuit of a sale they will never get is pathetic. Is it any wonder the motor sale business is so cynical in the face of this kind of behaviour.

[btcc123]

jonny996 said:

You haven't said if that £25454 was for saloon or estate but anyway I would say they should be able to beat it as I got estate with auto and metallic for £26012. I should have pushed him for £13 more. It would have been nice to have said I got a brand new AMG Line auto estate in silver for £25999.00.

Just to clarify the car I am after is a C Class C200 saloon AMG Line,Petrol,manual,white with no extras.

The best deal I have come up with is Drive the Deal at £24976 and Broadspeed at £25454 but they said they could probably match the DTD price.

In theory if you bought a estate,metallic and auto that is extra to what I want,these extras with say 19% discount would cost approx £2815 extra so the MB dealer should be able to quote me around the £23197 mark.So it will be interesting what he comes up with.

I see on the end of your name is 996,I also have a 996,2003 Porsche Carrera C2 and hope to get a good price for the Mercedes so I can keep it.

[btcc123]

lsp said:

Clearly calling around to get a decent deal is part of life, but wasting lots of peoples time in Edinburgh in pursuit of a sale they will never get is pathetic. Is it any wonder the motor sale business is so cynical in the face of this kind of behaviour.

Yes calling around to get the best price is for many people is a way of life these days as the prices vary so much.My point of view is that I had 2 internet quotes that I was happy with and then looking at the deal Jonny996 had from Edinburgh MB I thought I would get a quote from them as a bench mark as it looked like they would be able to beat the quotes I already had.

As I live in Cardiff it is natural to get a quote from them to see how they compare and as all dealer groups vary in price Cardiff my get within a couple of hundred pounds and I would buy from them or they may not give me a competitive price and I would be happy to order and collect from Edinburgh.

For you to say that I am wasting Edinburghs time by asking for a quote on a new car is I believe pathetic on your part as there is a good chance I may buy from them.At leaset I am asking on the phone for a E-Mail that I would have thought would take not much of their time.

The last 2 brand new cars I have bought for myself and my wife by shopping around getting quotes I saved 10k off a BMW and 6k off a Toyota

When you buy a car what do you do pay full list price at your local dealers.

[jonny996]

Christ I just checked and you can get a 1 way flight from Cardiff to edinburgh for £36. The MB dealer is next to airport in edinburgh and I know they will pick you up, so why not get it from edinburgh. Keeping the water in the flowers might be tricky on the way home

As for the 996 part of name that is a fond memory, kids and a cayenne have past since then

[btcc123]

jonny996 said:

Christ I just checked and you can get a 1 way flight from Cardiff to edinburgh for £36. The MB dealer is next to airport in edinburgh and I know they will pick you up, so why not get it from edinburgh. Keeping the water in the flowers might be tricky on the way home

As for the 996 part of name that is a fond memory, kids and a cayenne have past since then

Thats surprising the price of flights from Cardiff to Edinburgh and looked at the Airport website so thats good.Returning to Cardiff in the car looks about 400 miles so whats that about a tank of petrol.I think it would be a great day out,trip in a plane,collect a new car,leasurely trip home and never been to Scotland before so part of me wants the cheapest quote from Edinburgh MB.

Perhaps I will have to ask for chocolates instead of flowers.

The 996 does not need to be a distant memory as I have 4 children aged 23,21,18 and 6 all living at home but does help the wife having a 7 seater S-Max.

[ED209]

lsp said:

Clearly calling around to get a decent deal is part of life, but wasting lots of peoples time in Edinburgh in pursuit of a sale they will never get is pathetic. Is it any wonder the motor sale business is so cynical in the face of this kind of behaviour.

What sort of behaviour? The behaviour the salesman i dealt with advised me to do? An option that i was personally unaware of until he told me about it?

[ED209]

Stuck a metallic c200 estate in sport trim with metallic paint and manual box in car wow and the offers coming back with 17.9% off by taking a cpp deal or about £25500 for the car which doesn't seem too bad.

Problem is i don't want a bloody pcp. The offers are about 2k more for a straight cash price.

[va1o]

Could you take the PCP then pay it off within the 14 day cooling period? Dealer won't like it but you should keep the saving

[btcc123]

va1o said:

Could you take the PCP then pay it off within the 14 day cooling period? Dealer won't like it but you should keep the saving

I am pretty sure that if you cancelled a PCP in the 14 day cooling off period you would lose the Mercedes dealer contribution and be asked to pay a further 2k.

You could keep the 2k saving if you took out a HP agreement with Mercedes financing a minimum of 3k and pay it off anytime you like after a year.Pay the rest of the car in cash.

Edited by btcc123 on Sunday 15th February 22:54

[Sheepshanks]

btcc123 said:

I am pretty sure that if you cancelled a PCP in the 14 day cooling off period you would lose the Mercedes dealer contribution and be asked to pay a further 2k.

You'd think that, and I've never seen anyone do it with MB so don't know. However I have seen a few people do it with VAG (VW and Audi) and they haven't been asked to pay back the contribution and have kept other benefits.

ETA: I've just looked on the MB website and it seems pretty clear on this:

"If I withdraw from my agreement, what will I need to pay?"

"You will be asked to pay the balance financed which you can do either by Direct Debit or Debit Card. You need to make this payment within 30 days of notifying us. We reserve the right to charge interest on a daily rate until such time as full settlement has been received."

http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedking...

I read this as not having to repay the deposit contribution.

btcc123 said:

You could keep the 2k saving if you took out a HP agreement with Mercedes financing a minimum of 3k and pay it off anytime you like after a year.Pay the rest of the car in cash.

You can settle the finance at any time - maximum penalty in law is 2mths interest, which would be a tiny amount. The issue of the doc and purchase fees is a bit unclear but should be a couple of hundred pounds max. I've seen people say they didn't have to pay the option to purchase fee.

Edited by Sheepshanks on Sunday 15th February 23:17

[btcc123]

It looks like the mercedes link you put up relates to existing finance customers that have already driven there cars.I still believe that if you were at the ordering stage of a new vehicle and you cancelled Mercedes own finance you would lose the contribution.You get the Mercedes dealer contribution if you take out finance so logic says if you dont take out finance you lose the contribution.

The Mercedes dealer told me that to get the £2111 Mercedes contribution I could take out a mimimum of £3000 HP finance but could only pay it off after a year.

I will be speaking to them tomorrow so will find out about these two finance queries.