At another dealer the same car, same year, more miles, worse condition is £900 more!

This is my problem, it's a nice car at the right money!

Edited by pinheadplanet on 19/12/2012 at 22:02

It's far from a terrible car but you get what you pay for. The Kia Magentis is cheap and it has to be cheap, it looks better than it goes. It hasn't got the quietness, subtlety or intuition (particularly in its autobox) as something like a 5 Series, S-Type, C-Class or even a Ford but they're not supposed to at that price.

On the good side they're from the barn door school of vehicle engineering and as a result they rarely go wrong. They depreciate so heavily if you buy a 5 year old one today it's probably sunk as low as it can in terms of value so it'll cost you peanuts.

It's a 57plate, 43k miles FSH Advertised at £2995, agreed on £2850 with a service and fixing the broken sun visor. Looks like it was garaged, good condition. (it had been on sale for £3995, they've had it since september)

I only got turned on to the Kia Magentis after seeing another one locally for £3750 50k worse condition. The guy in the salesroom told me it was really cheap and to go and research the car which is what I did and found the other one I agreed to buy (albeit 70 miles away)

The warranty is Peugeot gold warranty 6 months which I've been speking to another dealer about, looks like it IS worth the paper it's written on.

The dealer phoned me yesterday but I didn't manage to take the call, I'm assuming he wants to tell me the car is now ready. I'm also guessing all they've done is spray it with oil/belt quietener as opposed to replacing any pulley that needs to be replaced.

Do I call him, i'm really torn as to what to do? I wrote to the Head of the Group yesterday (it's a big group too with about 10 manufacturer dealerships) but I've heard nothing in reply.