Appointment only specialist dealers

[dieseluser07]

Has anyone any experience with an appointment only dealer who sells a lot of a popular model?

Looking at a new car to go alongside my company octavia and i quite like ep3's.

This dealer sells a lot of that particular model, is there anything i should be aware of with this?

http://www.airedalecars.co.uk

I was planning on going next month to look at a few, its a long drive though as i live in birmingham.

[dieseluser07]

They all seem to be sports models

[dieseluser07]

Is bradford a bad area to buy from?

[dieseluser07]

With leeds being close to bradford is that just as bad? Or is it just bradford generally.

[dieseluser07]

GOG440 said:

dieseluser07 said:

With leeds being close to bradford is that just as bad? Or is it just bradford generally.

There are a number of dodgy dealers in the Bradford area, one particularly notorious one in keighley.

As I live in West yorkshire I do tend to buy around here but as long as you are sensible and avoid that particular dealer or any of its other incarnations you should be ok

Theres a couple of cars id like to see, in leeds both at garages that arent by appointment and ive rang both to discuss the cars and they were both honest with regards to the cars condition etc and were happy to provide me with the v5 registration number and so on. Only thing is neither have any reviews online.

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ctrph said:

Can you not find any decent examples around birmingham/west midlands?

These guys always seem to find low mileage examples:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/r-performance-1/m.html?_...

Is leeds bad for used cars?

[dieseluser07]

MDMA . said:

Keighley is.

Im asking for leeds not keighley or bradford

[dieseluser07]

silentbrown said:

Domain only registered last November. I'd steer well clear...

http://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=airedalecars.co...

Aww bugger does this mean when the business was open? The other garage im looking at only opened in november

[dieseluser07]

silentbrown said:

Well, that's just when the "airedalecars.co.uk" domain name was registered. The "business" could have been running before that with no website, or started after that date.

It's not a limited company, so just a couple of guys flogging cars - "By appointment" could even mean its part-time. The premises were advertised for rent in September last year.

Hmm, so avoid anywhere thats only made their website recently?

[dieseluser07]

dieseluser07 said:

Hmm, so avoid anywhere thats only made their website recently?

Further research into this other car company i found and it was another car garage before this one it changed its name or owner

[dieseluser07]

Anyone who lives in leeds heard of mps motors? Only registered the website last august but have a large stock inventory.