New Car - Factory Fitted Options question

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Been having a discussion at work and no one seems to know the definitive answer, so I thought I'd ask here.

Suppose you purchase a new vehicle and request an upgrade via a dealer-fitted option. (E.g. You request a 6-disc multi-changer instead of the bog-standard cd/radio).

Are you entitled to ask for the bog-standard cd/radio when you collect your vehicle as, in effect, you have already bought that?

If not, why not?

For example :

New Car costs £10,000
Upgraded Stereo £ 500
Total £10,500

You receive a new car with upgraded stereo.

However...

New Car costs £10,000
Standard Stereo £ 0
Total £10,000

Return car to dealer for retro-fit upgraded stereo (cost £500)

For the same cost (£10,500) you receive your car, your new upgraded stereo PLUS your original stereo (which can be sold on e-bay etc.)

Interested to hear thoughts on this, especially from anyone who has actually done something similar to this.

Cheers dudes....:D
 
AFAIK said options are usually cheaper to get when you buy the car, and cost you more to be retro-fitted. They were like that when I worked at Vauxhall.

Also, change of stereo I wouldn't have thought would be a dealer fit option on a lot of new cars, they'll come like that - you'll actually get a different new car, not one that the dealer has swapped the stereo in.

You are entitled to ask for any parts the dealer removes from your vehicle once you have taken delivery of it. This can be for any purpose, to resell, or in the instance of maintenance parts, to check that the dealer really did do the work, and that it needed doing.

As for asking for the old one when you get an upgrade on a new car.. dunno, they'll probably either laugh or say no but you ain't lost anything.. dunno if you are entitled to it.. ask
 
GinG said:
what about alloy wheel options?

Say you go for a 18" upgrade, do you get to keep the original 17" alloys?
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Generally, no. That's why it's usually only an extra couple of hundred pounds.

On an Audi TT you get a choice of 17" wheels as standard and the 19" 20-spokes are a £1200 option. If you go for the same model S-line TT, it comes with 18" wheels as standard and the 20" option is only £750.

What does happen is that a manufacturer will have a promotion and will upgrade the standard specification on a car that is already built and may even be at a dealer from 16" to 17" wheels. If the changes are very small, and largely cosmetic, the manufacturers have been known to send out a fresh set of wheels to be swapped at the dealership. VW commonly do this with their Match models, which are usually just a headunit, stripes and wheel upgrade. The car you buy as a Match would have been an S or SE when it left the factory, but slap in a new headunit, some bigger wheels and a couple of badges and you have a special edition voila!

In that case you see teh mechanics heave in and buy all the old wheels at a huge discount, then there's a glut on ebay:)
 
The price difference isn't the entire cost of the upgrade option, just how much more the price is than the standard option.

The upgrade alloys on my fiesta were £150 option. I'm sure they would cost more than that if I were to buy them on their own.

The uprated head unit has an different wiring loom, so I can't see this being a dealer option.
 
If you are that bothered about making £100 flogging on a boggo stereo on Ebay that you'd go to all that hassle you probably need to ask whether you are in the right position to be spending £10,000 on a brand new car.
 
Hi, I upgraded my Fiesta order from 1.25 to a 1.6. Do you think I should still get the 1.25 engine because I paid for it lol.
 
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