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Happy New Beer Year!
Quick question guys, I’m looking to buy a car soon and plan to part exchange using the mrs car (registered in her name) but was just wondering if that’s possible and/or complicated? Obviously she’ll be there to sign...
...or in her words, to make sure I don’t buy anything stupid!
Cheers
Quick question guys, I’m looking to buy a car soon and plan to part exchange using the mrs car (registered in her name) but was just wondering if that’s possible and/or complicated? Obviously she’ll be there to sign...
...or in her words, to make sure I don’t buy anything stupid!
Cheers
stevemcs said:
Happy New year, how was the Christmas week.... dead ... everyone out to test drive the car right at the back of the forecourt or mental busy ?
PS where are all the Mondeo Ecoboost estates (mk4's)
Very quite last 3 weeks of December, some very strange folk out and about.PS where are all the Mondeo Ecoboost estates (mk4's)
Back on it yesterday, and was mentally busy again, just have to weed out the lonely and bored people on the pitch.
Seems to be plenty about at the moment lol.
Most of the email enquiries coming in at the moment are comical to say the least.!,
Edited by Mexman on Friday 3rd January 07:18
stevemcs said:
Happy New year, how was the Christmas week.... dead ... everyone out to test drive the car right at the back of the forecourt or mental busy ?
PS where are all the Mondeo Ecoboost estates (mk4's)
I'm fleet and November was really tough as was the start of December. Day after the elections it went manic and ended up having my best ever month in the motor trade. PS where are all the Mondeo Ecoboost estates (mk4's)
quinny100 said:
Could it have been bought by a taxi driver? It would have a local authority taxi test rather than an MOT. Some LA’s will issue an MOT certificate if requested at an extra charge but there is no requirement to have one.
I'd say that was unlikely, it was a 1.6T Qashqai - they'd have to be some kind of masochist to run that as a taxi! 
Still not MOT'd... whoops. Heigh ho.
Ste372 said:
Admin fees? What's the score here? What are they actually covering as its £149.
Car is bought on hp finance if it makes any difference. Last two purchases from dealer haven't included this. One last march from Toyota rrg & 7 years ago from kia rrg
Usually profit as people search by price on Auto Trader et al, and as demonstrated by many threads on PH, will travel hundreds of miles to save £2.37 on a car. Car is bought on hp finance if it makes any difference. Last two purchases from dealer haven't included this. One last march from Toyota rrg & 7 years ago from kia rrg
Coupled with Auto Traders unrealistic price markers, dealers are trying to build money back in to a deal.
I don't agree with it (we don't do it), but I have bought a car with an admin fee. It didn't bother me as I told them the price I wanted to pay for the car and it's up to then how they showed the final figure.
Fast Bug said:
Usually profit as people search by price on Auto Trader et al, and as demonstrated by many threads on PH, will travel hundreds of miles to save £2.37 on a car.
Coupled with Auto Traders unrealistic price markers, dealers are trying to build money back in to a deal.
I don't agree with it (we don't do it), but I have bought a car with an admin fee. It didn't bother me as I told them the price I wanted to pay for the car and it's up to then how they showed the final figure.
OK fair enough cheers Coupled with Auto Traders unrealistic price markers, dealers are trying to build money back in to a deal.
I don't agree with it (we don't do it), but I have bought a car with an admin fee. It didn't bother me as I told them the price I wanted to pay for the car and it's up to then how they showed the final figure.
Decided I'd like something sporty this year.
Well been fancying it for 3 or 4 months as I've managed to change almost all my work passwords over in that time to the new car.
Finally thought it was worth speaking to the two nearest decent dealers to get a rough estimate of costs. Gave them a quick call. Looks like it is doable and discovered Oakmere also have a handy PCP/HP calculator on their site so I can play about a bit.
For now, I've knocked up a spreadsheet with the handful of used cars there are for sale. Pretty small spread of prices so prob worth going for a better one. Will keep an eye on prices over the next few months. Saw one car had dropped £2k since the beginning of the week.
Want to run a few months putting what would be the HP amount o one side to make sure I'm happy forgoing a social life. Also need to check driveway space and speed humps scrapage. don't feel its right or likely I'll be able to get a car to check that (due to distance) and I'm not comfortable measuring it accurately. I'm hoping I can find a generous person over the spring that will let me try and crack their splitter or ding their doors on my brickwork.
Yes a long way off and i'm aware most sales seem very uninterested unless you're buying that day but I like to be sure what I am buying is right and hopefully can get a good deal along the way.
Well been fancying it for 3 or 4 months as I've managed to change almost all my work passwords over in that time to the new car.
Finally thought it was worth speaking to the two nearest decent dealers to get a rough estimate of costs. Gave them a quick call. Looks like it is doable and discovered Oakmere also have a handy PCP/HP calculator on their site so I can play about a bit.
For now, I've knocked up a spreadsheet with the handful of used cars there are for sale. Pretty small spread of prices so prob worth going for a better one. Will keep an eye on prices over the next few months. Saw one car had dropped £2k since the beginning of the week.
Want to run a few months putting what would be the HP amount o one side to make sure I'm happy forgoing a social life. Also need to check driveway space and speed humps scrapage. don't feel its right or likely I'll be able to get a car to check that (due to distance) and I'm not comfortable measuring it accurately. I'm hoping I can find a generous person over the spring that will let me try and crack their splitter or ding their doors on my brickwork.
Yes a long way off and i'm aware most sales seem very uninterested unless you're buying that day but I like to be sure what I am buying is right and hopefully can get a good deal along the way.
Fast Bug said:
... as demonstrated by many threads on PH, will travel hundreds of miles to save £2.37 on a car.
...and as demonstrated by the McLaren video linked above, where the guy had a 500 mile round trip to the dealership, and was financing the car on 10K miles p/a...(although TBF I expect more than £2.37 was involved, and McLaren dealers are rather thin on the ground)
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