New member looking for some advice

[mcmaddy]

Cheeky Barstewards!! All GTi's from the factory come standard with mats so tell them you want the standard ones that came with the car. Considering they are giving dataplugs away free tell them to take it off, they are crap anyway. Tell them you want a full tank of fuel and not 17 quids worth! Don't let the dealer apply any paint coatings because they generally make an a4se of it. If they won't do any of above walk away and find another car.

[fredgroves]

Don't pay for the dataplug!!!

Cheeky buggers.

You don't need that, its just a way of VW spying on you and trying to sell you more services.

[Watts]

And what the bloody bu@@ery bo!!ocks is a £99 admin fee for? Name and shame and move on. If they are going to be that arsey at the point of purchase who knows how much of a pain in the arse they would be if god forbid something went wrong post purchase...

[kmpowell]

And what the bloody bu@@ery bo!!ocks is a £99 admin fee for?

It's pretty common practice now for some of the bigger named franchises. My nearest dealer's network (Motorline) charges £139+VAT on all their used vehicles.

The salesman I spoke to there when I was looking was very embarrassed with it, especially when I asked the simple question "why don't you just build that cost into the price?".

[Watts]

And what the bloody bu@@ery bo!!ocks is a £99 admin fee for?

It's pretty common practice now for some of the bigger named franchises. My nearest dealer's network (Motorline) charges £139+VAT on all their used vehicles.

The salesman I spoke to there when I was looking was very embarrassed with it, especially when I asked the simple question "why don't you just build that cost into the price?".

I've heard it all now, being charged to buy something! And how much "admin" is there anyway? I'd walk away.

[wolly440]

They want to charge you £99 to buy a car from them  Isn't that what your paying for anyway.

It's like McDonalds charging you a £1 burger flipping fee for someone to flip your burgers for you 

[Ryan90GTI]

Hahahaaaaaa. The absolute cheek of that! Stick two fingers up at them and tell them to do one.

My mate is a car salesman and he says you don't have to pay the admin fee.

Name and shame the dealership so we can avoid them.

[2007GTI]

When I looked at a GTI at a main dealer, I turned up and it had £239 admin fee sticker on the window, at a main VW dealer, I was shocked! I protested and said it wasn't in the Autotrader Advert, dealer said yes it was, it's our policy, blah blah. I showed him the ad on my phone and it wasn't there, still wouldn't budge. So I went and bought a car somewhere else, lesson learnt.

[kmpowell]

Name and shame the dealership so we can avoid them.

As I pointed out it's not a dealership thing, it's a franchise group policy. So for example https://www.motorline.co.uk who have many approved dealer brands in their group (including VW) charge an admin fee on all their used cars.

It's now common practice.

[Jim_mk7.5]

Cheeky Barstewards!! All GTi's from the factory come standard with mats so tell them you want the standard ones that came with the car. Considering they are giving dataplugs away free tell them to take it off, they are crap anyway. Tell them you want a full tank of fuel and not 17 quids worth! Don't let the dealer apply any paint coatings because they generally make an a4se of it. If they won't do any of above walk away and find another car.

So there's a reason for the mat thing. If they leave mats in a 2nd hand car and they aren't in perfect condition, if for instance the mat didn't fit as well as it should and caused an accident, they would be liable. So all these car supermarkets pull them out and more often than not don't supply them.

But a main dealer should supply some proper mats as part of retailing an approved car. We had this issue with a 3 year old Auris from a main dealer that we got for the missus and had to stipulate we wanted mats which they reluctantly did do.