Now if you are looking for a car you must be a very picky person if you dont find one here! The place itself is huge and they stock many varieties of the same car - whether its by year or colour.
I had one thing in mind - finding myself a gorgeous little peugeot 206 in blue. I had looked everywhere but was having no luck so we tried here.
Now be warned, like any other car place you have your typical pouncing salesmen! Its as though they are taught to spot you enter within a mile radius, and once one has found you theres no getting away. Although friendly they are very persuasive so go in with a fixed idea of what you want and how much you want to pay -and stick to it!
Now you will be spoilt for choice when looking around and i instantly spotted a whole group of 206's. The great thing about this place is that you can get in and out of the cars, touching things to find out if it has what your looking for. If you can get to the car without being poached by a salesman all the better, as you can then have a look without there being any pressure to buy.
They even provide umbrellas so if its raining outside you can go to see the cars without getting drenched in the process.
The cars are all in great condition and vary in age. You can get older ones for a cheaper price or newer ones for a bit more.
Now - prices! Be warned that the cost of the cars is very high so be prepared, and willing, to haggle.
Now of course if you want to take a test drive they are more than willing to oblige and pretty much let you take your desired car wherever you want to go in order for you to decide you love it.
Having spotted, or should i say been taken to!, my perfect peugeot, there was nothing left to do but cost it up. Now the price across the windscreen was £8200 and the car was three years old with 15000 miles.
Now excuse me but if im not wrong a brand new peugeot of the same standard only costs £8500!!! Therfore there was no way i was going to pay the price advertised. So we took a shot and went for £6500 which seemed a lot fairer for the car we wanted. This was settled upon and i had my new car... or so i thought.
Unfortunatly the process of buying does take a lot longer than you would expect and we ended up being there for at least 6hours!!!
Everytime you think you have signed the final paper somthing else turns up and you begin again. Of course paying for your car is one of the first steps!
When you have payed and signed for it you are then taken through to a little room, not much different from the interagation rooms you see on tv, where you are asked to purchase insurance for the parts of your car. Be warned that it is a little confusin when they get talking nd you may not realise that you have agreed until the papers are thrust in your face to sign.
From this point you are then taken into a back room where you are left to wait for your papers in order to prove the car is now officially yours. This takes a while but it is the last stage and from here you are free to go - with your new car of course!
Now it may seem that there are a lot of problems with the buying process but if you are willing to haggle and have a good half a day the process actually goes quite smoothly. My dad actually went back to buy a car the week after and, once again after taking a while, he got his car. Good to buy from if your not sure what you want and prefer to browse through different models and styles first.
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Expensive, hard selling and 6 Hours !!!!!!!!!! I think I'd have given up and gone elsewhere by then. Av xx
tractor-boy 08.03.2005 13:13
I have heard that they are expensive. S x
tomhughes 08.03.2005 13:11
Ugh I hate high-pressure sales places, very uncomfortable. Why can't someone come up with a car dealer that doesn't use that technique?! Good review, cheers, Tom.
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