Thread: Negotiating in a Used Car

In and out that's the name of the game when it comes to rental. A quick wash and quick vacuum of the interior and bam out the door it goes to the next owner. Most of the time they do a sorry job of doing those 2 things especially when it comes to cloth seats you can tell when they been abused.

Uhauls you can usually get the front end of the ground on the older ones if you do it right. If anyone wanted to know.

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Originally Posted by Russosaur

Uhauls you can usually get the front end of the ground on the older ones if you do it right. If anyone wanted to know.

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only if its old with blown springs and a manual shift with a low creeper gear. lol those are some of the worst trucks ive ever driven.

not wheelie, but hop the front wheels off the ground lol you know the old floor it and time the bounce with the next flooring of the gas, by the 3 rd time the wheels should lift a few inches, or feel real light lol

I might be able to help you here, especially considering that unlike most people that commented I own and operate a used car dealership. First let me start by saying you'll always want a Carfax history report. Don't expect the Carfax to have everything on there but it's a good place to start narrowing down cars. If a car has an accident depending on what/where it is and how well the repair was documented I would fee 100% confident buying a car that was hit taking those points into consideration.

Also I saw that you mentioned that the vehicle was a rental. Back to the Carfax like I said because I HIGHLY doubt that almost any rental place would have a GXP on their lot. Also contrary to popular belief rental companies do actually maintain their vehicles very well. They have a lot of liability if something happens to you because the vehicle wasn't kept up properly so they do fluid changes, brake changes, and tire changes A LOT more often then me or you as a consumer would.

I agree with the point someone made to ask to take the vehicle to be inspected by someone local to the dealership and if they don't allow that I agree that you should walk right out. If you do take a vehicle to a mechanic please remember that just like any other business they're there to make money, so a lot of times they will tell you stuff "will need to be replaced eventually" which means that they'll charge you to do it even though it's not necessary at that time.

Also keep in mind that KBB and NADA are reference points and 9 times out of 10 are VERY inaccurate. I would also suggest getting a vehicle from a used car dealership that has no affiliation with a new car dealership because typically they're more willing to haggle and have quite a bit less mark-up than new car dealers have. Usually if you want to get a fair price I would suggest going on Autotrader or Cars.com and search for comparable vehicles within 100-200 miles to see what they are going for.

Someone also mentioned that a dealership's markup is $3,000-4,000 and that is completely untrue. Most dealerships markup is 15-20% and on a $10,000 that is about half of what that person said. Also keep in mind that dealerships are in business to make money, so if you go in expecting to pay what they paid for the vehicle or less you are going to be let down. Not sure if this was mentioned but if you need to get financing I would HIGHLY suggest you do so before even going to look at any vehicles because that gives you a bit of an upper hand.

If I missed anything I will post it later and if you have any other questions just ask!

My dad's car was a previous rental. 06 GP he bought it in 06 with 27k on the odometer.

I was worried about it being a rental car that got abused, I was really worried about the transmission...

But now with 160k on the clock it runs great and has had no major problems.


But that's completely different from a GXP rental... I can imagine those were beat on even more than base model cars

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

I like to bring the King with me

Cash

Gas monkey only deals in cash!!

The thing is mods actually diminish the value of the car depending on whos looking at it and whats been done.

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