Buying a car from a dealer far from home

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Mon 2 May 2011 11:33
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - LittleBird

I've seen my perfect car but it's at a dealer 200 miles away.

If I buy it and have a problem with it does that mean I'd need to return it to the dealer to fix?

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Mon 2 May 2011 14:37
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - Falkirk Bairn

How much is the car? Age / Mileage?

My son lives near Aberdeeen, drove to Mansfield and bought a Golf at the weekend - 18 months old so he is covered by VW warranty.

7 hours each way but saved £2000 on Aberdeen Prices. Aberdeen prices for cars, builders etc are a lot more than the rest of Scotland. £22K instead of £24K and T/i was the same.

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Mon 2 May 2011 17:57
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - LittleBird

Thanks I've gone mad and bought it without seeing it! It's a year old so still has 2 years original warranty.

The dealer says it's immaculate. It's got less than 3,000 miles on the clock and is £2000 less than one which had 14,000 mile on the clock which I was offered by a London dealer yesteday.

Have even got them to agree to deliver it for a small charge.

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Mon 2 May 2011 18:47
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - fredthefifth

I buy my cars at about a year old and have always had to take them back for something that wasn't right. Ok they might say that you can take it to any dealership but in practice it isn't always that easy.

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Mon 2 May 2011 21:43
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - LittleBird

Too late to tell me that now Fred, I've bought it! Dealer did say I can take it to any Peugeot dealer so they'd better not be lying!

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Mon 2 May 2011 22:03
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - fredthefifth

For any serious warranty work you will probably be ok, in fact another dealership will probably lap it up. For me it has been non warranty issues, things that should have been sorted out when the car was prepared for sale that have been the problem.

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Tue 3 May 2011 13:13
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - daveyjp

If it's a main dealer car car with a manufacturers warranty you can take it to any main dealer for warranty issues.

Our Aygo was bought new through an internet broker and supplied by a dealer 200 miles away. Warranty repairs all done at local dealer,

My X type was from a dealer 50 miles away, my local main dealer did the warranty work.

Relax and enjoy the car!

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Thu 5 May 2011 07:52
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - oldroverboy

My son lives near Aberdeeen, drove to Mansfield. pont made superbly, Aberdeen like us in west wales is a long way from any big car centre so dealers will price wanted cars for a captive market. The local peugot main dealer charges full retail for the cars. not many deals here!

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Thu 5 May 2011 07:08
Buying a car from a dealer far from home - oldroverboy

Hi, bought my epica from sheffield, travelled from carmarthen, south wales to get it, was going to london to drop off my old car anyway, sold privately to friends son, train fare from London to Sheffield £22, saved £2050 against price at car supermarket up near merthyr tydfil but got my car from main dealer in sheffield. local dealer has been very good about warranty work on faults not dealt with by selling dealer. now done lots of miles and happy with car. only thing to check is was service book stamped, rest all ok. Happy motoring.

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