Help with negotiating with a car dealer

JRZMom
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:35:38 +0000

You have been given great advice. We boyght a new Kia 2 years ago and spent several months in advance doing research on the Net—as to type of car, models, prices, dealers, etc. Nowadays you can go to the mfrs website and get details on list prices of everything, whether various options are single or must be in pakcages, etc (with Hondas there will be packages). And you can use the mfrs’ sites to steer you to local dealers and learn exactly what they have in their inventories, how they are equipped, etc.

I practically lived on the Edmunds site.

You can also go to the forums for the individual models and see what kind of repair histories they have.

The best way to finance is to bring in your own. We used DH’s credit union. We did not allow the dealers to start talking about financing. We found the car through the internet dept.

We also did not trade the old car. We gave it to the high school for the auto mechanic teacher to use. We got a tax break on it & we did not have to go through the ridiculous haggling over a couple hundred dollars, and we did not have to listen to that c…p at the dealer.