are there any dealers out there offering any discounts for the GTI??

[daviescotland]

Hello.... I had posted this in the mkivs forum and was directed over here, must say there loads of information on here.

I am in the market for a new Golf GTI but would probably have a trade in, i would be looking for a march 2010 onwards delivery (new plate). So far dealers have been a bit slow to mention any discounts. Even 5% would be a start.

Was thinking about the broker route, but as i have a trade in, i'm not sure if i can be bothered selling my car privately.

Any suggestions welcome. I am from Central Scotland but am willing to travel to pick the car up.

[Radek]

Hello
It's been a while since I was looking for a good deal but right now I don't think you would get any discounts at all. Dealers are fully booked with this year's orders they will try to meet well into the new year. I don't see why would they want to share their profit with you...

BTW - you could probably be better off selling privately w/o discount then the other way round... Well, in 5 out of 6 cases anyway.

[VWKev]

Check with broadspeed, they will give you around 10% and I'm sure their waiting list for the dealers they use is up till around march 2010, give them a call.

[LIVERLEGEND]

Try Brokers4Cars as well, they offer about 10% discount.

[daviescotland]

That was my thinking also. I'll have a look around and take it from there.

Cheers

[Rolfe]

I got mine from Verve at Bogside (near Wishaw) and I got a very good discount.  You could give it a try anyway.  The salesman whom I dealt with was Graeme Alexander.

I have no complaints at all about the service - excellent discount, and the car turned up when they said it would, 10 weeks after I placed the order.

Rolfe.

[daviescotland]

rolfe

thanks for that, i had been in there, an they threw in a couple of bits and bobs, not adding up to much, but weren't talking about discounts at all. seemed a good bunch though. i may pop in again.

thanks

[jonnydrama]

Discount seems to be around 1k max at the moment, which is a bit of a joke. I'm not that desperate for one!

[Rolfe]

rolfe

thanks for that, i had been in there, an they threw in a couple of bits and bobs, not adding up to much, but weren't talking about discounts at all. seemed a good bunch though. i may pop in again.

thanks

I went in clutching a set of figures from the DealDrivers web site, showing all the options I'd decided on, and what DealDrivers had been offering until that very day.  I had discovered that DealDrivers were about to remove that offer as the dealer in question had sold his quota, and I told Verve that.  I said I wasn't expecting them to match the DealDrivers quote, but I was shopping around with that as a benchmark.

They came within £500 of the DealDrivers figure.  Which was a discount of about £2000 ON TOP OF THE SCRAPPAGE DEAL.  I bit their hand off.

I think there were simply better discounts going in July, across the board.  But I also think that going in with my mind obviously made up, and obviously comparing prices and looking for a keen deal, helped a lot.

Rolfe.

[avalon]

rolfe

thanks for that, i had been in there, an they threw in a couple of bits and bobs, not adding up to much, but weren't talking about discounts at all. seemed a good bunch though. i may pop in again.

thanks

I went in clutching a set of figures from the DealDrivers web site, showing all the options I'd decided on, and what DealDrivers had been offering until that very day.  I had discovered that DealDrivers were about to remove that offer as the dealer in question had sold his quota, and I told Verve that.  I said I wasn't expecting them to match the DealDrivers quote, but I was shopping around with that as a benchmark.

They came within £500 of the DealDrivers figure.  Which was a discount of about £2000 ON TOP OF THE SCRAPPAGE DEAL.  I bit their hand off.

I think there were simply better discounts going in July, across the board.  But I also think that going in with my mind obviously made up, and obviously comparing prices and looking for a keen deal, helped a lot.

Rolfe.

You're probably right about the timing, Rolfe.

I've said previously, it took me some doing trying to get a dealer to actually engage never mind get down to brass tacks.


Ava