Because they overpaid and in most cases they're either at a loss or have no profit. The market isn't great at the moment, next year hopefully will be better.
The interest rates on loans and finance are crazy too...
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The interest rates on loans and finance are crazy too...
When I spoke to a BMW dealer they offered finance on new cars at 2.9% (obviously because the markup is huge…) but 14.9% on used. Seemed like a crazy difference.
Even the used car salesman recommended getting a bank loan rather than taking out finance with them.
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Owning a 2016 F06 it looks like I’ll be losing the connected services when 3g is switched off. I'm guessing lots of people with be affected by this.
Is it possible to negotiate based on finance .. or do they rapidly want that formalised with credit checks or what not ?
with the intention of finally saying ok here is the cash instead, or even cancelling the finance, the latter being a strategy I've seen discussed here for pcp's.
I'll be doing this dance imminently.
i've done this for my last two car purchases
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The switch off started early last year and in areas where it had been switched off I found that realtime traffic information still worked on my 2015 530d. The data transfer rate is much slower but for the traffic information this doesn't really make too much difference.
The only connected services that are of any real value on your car are the traffic information and remote services and it is my understanding these still work without a 3g connection.
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Soldato
2G (GSM) is going too, but after 3G.
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can't wait to see fox's response
i only have 2 aftermarket items, which are the front kidney grilles and the rear diffuser, both bought from ebay (£18 for the grilles and £34 for the diffuser) and both fit like a charm and cannot be differentiated from the bmw oem kit
of course being ebay, ymmv
Halfords? Overnight parts from Japan? Gumtree?
Soldato
Hectors cousin, Helmut.
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IMO if you’re gonna go black, needs to be satin as supposed to gloss.
I think it looks more premium
I think it looks more premium
Don
Each to their own and all that, but I can't see anything wrong with the "before" picture.Got one of these coming in a couple of days.
and looking to turn it into this.
