Don’t Pay Over The Odds For Factory Options

Wednesday, 9. September 2009

If you aren’t going to be sensible and take a car on lease through me don’t get conned by a dealer when negotiating the purchase price of a new car if you are specing it up with a pile of factory options. According to What Car, dealers receive exactly the same discounts from the manufacturer on the factory fitted options as they do on the car, so if your dealer is offering you 10% discount on the car don’t let him try to con you out of full price for the options, particularly important when negotiating on a new German car as they still seem to come with least creature comforts as standard. You may not be able to be quite so tough when it comes to dealer fit options as they may not carry the same mark up. By Graham Hill