I have been dealing with chaplins of bellevue for quite some time and the more in investigared into their white 94 FD I found a LOT OF PROBLEMS. Lets see, the vacume hoses are cracked, the rotary HASN'T been rebuilt, EVER. It leaks through the oil cap, oil pan is cracking as well. All the fluids are old in it. It is missing a small inerior part and exterior part. Has a crack in the wind sheild. The fog lights are cracked. Has 81,000 miles AND they expect to sell it for 15,000.

I have a few words for them, **** THEM and no one buy their car.

 

I might have to stop by and laugh.

If they drop the price by 5000 or more they may have some bites.

 

Dealers always charge way to much for cars, they claim they inspect them and that justify adding 5 or 6 thousand on the price.

 

You would think businesses would realize they should lose money instead of make it so they should just sell everything at or below cost. Especially dumb car dealerships where they have to pay 40% to their sales department, and it usually costs around $1000 in advertising and paperwork expenses per car. Not to mention the dealership likely took the car in on trade in which they possibly gave the person more for the car than it is actually worth (wholesale wise) in order to make them happy buying a new car because everyone expects to buy cars at invoice or wholesale value and trade in theirs for kelley blue book retail value.

 

In other words, don't buy a used car from a dealer, but buy a new one online after test driving at the dealer. Don't f'd in the a$$, kick them in the *****.

 

Nice words of Wisdom rrevin7

 

I thought this was the one you thought was all nice and a good deal?

CJG

 

yeah, key word "THOUGHT" but the story behind the car was that it accually came from North Carolina orginally. Then the 2nd owner had it for like 4 months then sold it to this women in washington. The car sales man tried to explain to me that women drives usally go easier on car, which I do agree, yet I tried to explain to him was that she was stupid and she didn't no how to maintain what she had. So after traveling more than 4000miles to get here this is where this car will rot.

RIP white FD we hardly knew yee

 

naw, the dealer will eventually find somone to pay the price that they are asking, or as they have the car for an extended time, the price will come down. most dealerships dont want used stuff on their lot for over 90 days, and will discount, or wholesale, or take the car to auction at around that time. Their purpose is to get the most the market will bear for any unit on the lot (it is called staying in business). If they get a good return on their investment, they will pick up more fd's, if they eat it on this car, they will be less likely to keep one on the lot. The trick is to be there right at the point that they decide to send it to auction, and have your financing set up somewhere else.

 

looks like they took it off auto trader, wounder why.

 

Yes, dealers do not want used cars on there lot for a long time. Old inventory is a bad sign for a dealership. Managers want cars gone in 90 days or less. Also, a big point here is that dealers will take less than they advertise. New or used, it doesn't matter. Used cars tipically have a larger profit margin for dealerships so they can afford to drop the price on them more than they can on new cars. So make an offer on the used car and see what they say.

 

Got my FD from a Mazda dealership in Puyallup (sp). It was originally listed at 17k, had 59k miles, reman, and in fairly good condition. It sat on their lot for 3 months, and I picked it up for 13.9k. Not the greatest deal, but decent, Id say.

 

I work at a Buick Pontiac GMC Truck dealership and sales dept can be good and bad. Personally I think all salespeople are pretty stupid people. They generally dont know much about their product. Just looking to make $400-600 off the top for selling the car. Now the actual cars that are on the lot depend onthe service dept. (which is where I am). They can pretty much determine if a car that is traded in is worthy of even fixing and if so to THUROUGHLY fix it. I have seen LOTS of dealerships overlook or not care about something that SHOULD have been fixed. We have guidelines we will not overlook or break. Brakes, accessories, appearance, etc.

 

lol I think its funny in those lists of things you won't over look doesn't include the engine it self. But man that Chaplins had no idea what they were selling and what they were getting traded. The lady that traded her FD totally riped them off.

 

Yeah i know exactly what your talking about... sales is EVIL

 

mountain mitsubishi in tacoma has a 94 Rx7 with 74K miles, the sticker says that book is $15.8K and they are asking $17.8... and it is an automatic.
They also had a '04 Rx8 for $27K (which is about what many people paid new). There was a lexus IS300 that didnt even have a sticker. I just walked of the lot laughing. So maybe Chaplins aint the worst in the area!

 

i rather buy from a private seller.. i allways have and always will. get a better deal by far.. i would not worry about a warrenty either, even if you pay for one the dealer can turn you away. just more money inthere pocket. and for new cars i hear online shopping is in these days, but i would not really know because i have not bought anything new my whole life lol

 

heh yah -.- and it will be a really long time before I ever buy a new daily driver car....

 

when i bought my car i got it for a good deal with only 119k on it at the time and only payed 1800 and its a GXL.. the dealer would pay me less than that telling me its JUNK and then they turn it around and sell it for 4 or 5 K... hell once i seen a dealer selling a first gen for 5k what a joke

 

we should organize a club meet to all go down and look interested at the car, then in unison once the salesman comes out, to erupt in laughter