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More car, same payment, no problem............ Posted by Mike Lynch [Email]  (#81) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Mike Lynch) on Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:57:55
In Reply to: Engine and car replacement, Bmax SAAB, Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:34:41 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
At least that's what I would tell you to get you in. Then once you were here and in love with the new car I would show you the substantially higher payment, you didn't honestly expect to pay the same for a more expensive car did you? How would that be possible?
I'd have customers lined up down the street if I could sell people more car for the same payment, but that's seldom possible. Think about it, your payment would have to go up to cover buying your own car back. The difference between wholesale trade in and the selling price or in other words the dealers profit, added to the tax and license again, that's almost $5k added to your balance on a $25k car for buying the same car! Even if I extend out the term again all the way back to 60 months you're still looking at a payment increase.
You are correct in that it will never be cheaper than today to upgrade. If moving up a year and 28k miles is gonna' cost you $10k or whatever, that number isn't going down by you waiting and making more payments.
For $300ish payments on a '02 9-5 Aero purchased only 5 months ago you musta' put a lot of dough down, say $6-8-10k? If you had a similar chunk of dough to throw down again, your payments would still go up.
I don't think you can force a dealers hand, they aren't gonna' lose money for you because of a service issue.
I've always found that once fixed right cars stay fixed. I wouldn't tout the new engine as a benefit when selling your car whenever you do. It's supposed to have a good engine in it and if the old engine blew up once keep it to yourself.
, Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:57:55 <-- Viewing This Message, Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:34:32
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