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I haven't gone yet, they're open until 10pm and I'm stuck doing an Operations Plan and Budget.
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In addition to the possible laundry of drugs cash etc. may be a local Bylaw in force?.
Dealers in secondhand goods, and that includes motors, in North Yorkshire, by law, have to be registered with Trading Standards.
Dealers are also, under said law, required to keep records of transactions over £100. Name and address to whom the goods are sold is recorded in a Register that is open to inspection by TS and Plod. Dealers have to take care that they do not record false names and addresses.
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Oh well, I bought it. A Landcruiser Colorado. 176 bhp 3.4 litre V6
I decided that it drove better than the diesel. Its 23 months old. no tow bar, warranted 19,000 miles, auto, electric everything, leather everything else, its the 7 seater and I paid 17k for it. Its quite clearly been a school run vehicle and nothing else.
That seems like a good deal to me, but its certainly a deal I can live with.
As for the documents, the story changed a little bit. I didn't need any documents to buy it, but I will need two forms of ID and proof of address to collect it.
Their story was that this was to ensure that the person who collected it was the person who paid for it. However, I think its exactly as was suggested, and it was to ensure that I had everything I needed to arrange finance if they could sell it to me.
They offered me a warranty with a single claim limit of 500 quid or 1000 quid at a cost of about 350 and 650 respectively for one year. I don't remember the figures for 2 or 3 years, but I declined anyway.
Anything happens in the first year and I'll sue their butt, and after that I'll take my chances = its a low mileage toyota for goodness sakes. I did read the warranty quickly, seemed somewhat naff to me.
All in all a very pleasant buying experience, lots of helpful, willing staff with virtually no pressure. I'd buy from them again.
However, if you do go there to look, then its probably better to know what you want before you go. There are *so* many cars that its difficult to stay focussed and Adriana damn near ended up with a rather nice 740i. She rang and interrupted my progress and then gently (i.e. no brick) refocussed me.
The cars are all set out, there are about 4,000 at the moment I think, into a categories. Sometimes by type - 4x4, MPV etc.; sometimes by value - prestige, bargain etc.; and sometimes by manufacturer.
You wander around as you wish, write down the licence plate of the cars you are interested in, go back to the sales office and swap your own car keys for the relevant car keys and go and crawl all over it. As normal if you want a test drive, which was very willingly given on three cars, then a Salesman comes with you.
Pretty normal rules about payments, but no credit cards are accepted, not even for the deposit should you be getting it on finance.
Anyway it was the Great Trade Centre, Hythe Road, White City and I'd recommend them quite highly.
As an aside, I did ask them how much the finance would be out of interest and with just example figures, it was from the Bank of Scotland and 10,000 quid over 2 years would have been a total payable of 11,342 which sounded reasonable to me except that I didn't want finance.
Even that wasn't a pressure job.
Now, all I have to do is arrange picking the car up tomorrow.
M.
p.s. they had *loads* of Freelanders for sale, but I decided to be generous and went in anyway.
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BTW, it is a UK supplied Colorado. And HJ's CBCB was very useful.
Thanks everybody for their help.
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Ah...so it should have 13 months Toyota warranty left - can always take out an extended warranty with Toyota after that...
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Mark - please don't tell us you got it for the School Run !
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I'm you're worst nightmare Andrew !
I bought it for one reason only - I like the space, I like the bulk and I like driving them.
To be fair I do live in a very rural farming area and do frequently have to deal with mud, and quite a lot of it. But nothing I couldn't handle or avoid in a normal car.
Not like the last few years when I've been bashing them around the Andes every week.
On the other hand, two large dogs and a child with pushchair etc does take up a lot of room. Also it will egt a tow bar and I do tow from time to time.
I even spend a fair amount of time on the beach surfing or windsurfing.
But honestly, I just like them.
M.
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The warranty sounds extortionately expensive, especially as it's still covered by the manufacturer's warranty. I think you got a good deal there though.
I was up there on Sunday, having a look round with no intention to buy, and as ever with the GTC, there are some peaches and some dogs. (I noticed a particularly nice 00W, 60k BMW 520i Touring for £11k. Unfortunately it was poverty spec, solid red with no alloys, but I could have been tempted if I wanted a big estate).
Will the Toyota replace the Omega? Or have I misunderstood?Incidentally, the GTC will do finance for you without ID, but you can't collect without it.
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Incidentally, the GTC will do finance for you without ID, but you can't collect without it.
Is that so? I took the good lady there a couple of weeks back, looking at Mondeo Ghia's and Ghia X's up to 4 grand, we have a Pug 405 that's worth £800 on a good day as px, the rest would be on finance.
But in my job the majority of income is in pound notes, so I just dish them out to her and she goes to pay gas bill, phone bill, do shopping etc with them. At the moment I don't even have a bank account, we write out cheques from her account as and when needed.
So I have very little proof of income on paper, but the money she gets from a couple of cleaning jobs is pretty much all surplus cash to be saved for car, holiday etc. How do I convince the GTC (or anywhere else, for that matter) that we can afford it? Surely any personal credit rating would be much less influential if the finance is secured on the car anyway?
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>>Will the Toyota replace the Omega?
Well, we haven't completely decided yet. That was the first thought, but if I end up driving the Landcruiser a lot then we may use it to replace my company car (with tax it just isn't worth having).
The thing is, the Omega is an outstanding vehicle and Adriana loves it. She isn't all that struck on the idea of us replacing it at all. But I will replace it some time this year if not with the Landcruiser, it was only a supposed to be a stop gap I bought for her before she got into the UK (I traveled a month before her)..
We've been very lucky with cars in the last of couple of years and have managed to buy some good ones at good prices. (touching wood madly)
I guess we'll wait and see....
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The thing is, the Omega is an outstanding vehicle...
Now you won't hear that too many time on this site
Chad.R
(A Very Happy Omega Owner)
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Well, I'm happy to say so! Took an 02 plate 2.2cdx auto out on Saturday: very smooth, very comfortable and much better than the old model. Only problem is, that is the battery goes flat, there is no way to get into the boot. Seemed a good price actually: 9 months old, 10k on the clock and £11995. Or am I horribly out of touch?
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Doesn't the boot release inside the car work ? I am presuming that you know that you have to press the button and hold it in for about 5 seconds or so before it will release the boot ?
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Doesn't the boot release inside the car work ? I am presuming that you know that you have to press the button and hold it in for about 5 seconds or so before it will release the boot ?
I think Orson's question was "how would you open the boot if the battery went flat" Unless of course the boot release is cable operated and not electrically operated.
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Oh IF the battery goes flat. I see.
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Good luck with the new car Mark - OPEC will love you won't they :-)
Any idea why they wouldn't accept credit card payment - even for the deposit. I try to use cards for all my purchases over £100 just for the extra consumer protection it's supposed to give. It's often advised to try and pay at least the deposit for an item by credit card so that the credit card company is jointly liable with the supplier. Why wouldn't the dealer want you to do that ? Seems odd to me - any thoughts anyone ?
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