Welp bit the bullet today. My first non Ford car ever. My first auto/non manual car ever. Here's the breakdown:
2017 GTI S DSG White
Sale price: $20,066.45
Freight-Included
Doc fee-$300
Tax-$300 (That is wrong and I told them the tax would be $500. But they charged $300 anyway)
Tags-$83.00
Total-$20,749.45
This included the $500 Partner Program certificate.
My taxes are $500 and NOT $300 so they goofed. Our agreed upon price when I told them my taxes were $500 was $20,750. Not sure what to do here. No way I'm paying them $200 more after the deal. They will have to adjust on their end. I can't imagine them coming after me. Not going to happen getting water out of this stone.
Car did have 80 miles on it and was at the dealer for many months. I wasn't thrilled with the 80 miles, but I won't be keeping the car much over 2 years so no biggie. They had a second 2017 with lower miles that had been on the lot for 289 days but the battery was dead so they couldn't unlock to see the actual miles. The service center was closed.
While I was at the dealer, another dealer called and left a message saying they need 2 deals by 6pm and would beat any price for sure. By then it was too late for me to leave. Of course I'm curious as to how low they would go. But this deal seems OK.
The deal was painless but did take longer than I was expecting. We agreed on the price within 10 minutes. Just a lot of sitting around and stuff and it ended up being 3 hours. ZERO pressure for extended warranty or maintenance which was nice. ZERO pressure for trading in my Ford. In and out of the finance office in 15 minutes. Sweet. They did say they could probably beat my PenFed 2.99/60 month loan by .5%. I declined, but since PenFed will send me a check this week I may ask again to see what they can do before the PenFed check arrives. Yes, I left without paying for the vehicle and just an email from PenFed say the loan was approved is all it took. BTW I applied to PenFed on the phone in the dealership while I was sitting there. That took 10 minutes.
My best email quote before I went shopping today for a 2017 GTI S DSG was $21,600 OTD so I beat that.
While waiting for the car to be ready, I hung out at the front desk with a bunch of other people. Talking with some and eavesdropping on others. They were getting nervous as they needed just 4 more deals to get done TODAY. I guess there is some pressure to hit the numbers at the end of the month if it's been slow.
Car is still at dealership as I drove my Ford home. Will pick up tomorrow. Overall great experience! Now if I only would have answered that other dealer that called who knows what that deal would have been............haha!