BMW garages up north taking trade ins

gofaster_s13

Are any of the BMW garages up north taking trade ins of southern cars and doing all the paper work to allow you drive the new car out on southern plates??

Padraig Mor

On the remote chance a garage will take a Southern tradein, the price they would offer would likely be insultingly low. Sell it privately and buy for cash.

furtzy

What they were doing was taking the details of your sounthern trade-in and then ringing up garages in the South to see if they'd buy them....cheeky gits. I'm sure they got told to piss off a lot

gofaster_s13

furtzy wrote: »

What they were doing was taking the details of your sounthern trade-in and then ringing up garages in the South to see if they'd buy them....cheeky gits. I'm sure they got told to piss off a lot

All garages do that, not just the northern ones, garages buy and sell between themselves depending on what their customers want(ie you ring a garage looking for a BMW 325 sport salesman will tell you he has one coming in next week and he'll ring you when it arrives when you hang up he'll ring around to see who has one in stock ready to go). Its common for northern garages to take southern trade ins and give good prices, I'm looking for recommendations for garages that people have dealt with

Saab Ed

A million Billion monies says you'll buy a a car down here from a Southern BMW dealer cheaper now anyway......;)

furtzy

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

All garages do that, not just the northern ones, garages buy and sell between themselves depending on what their customers want(ie you ring a garage looking for a BMW 325 sport salesman will tell you he has one coming in next week and he'll ring you when it arrives when you hang up he'll ring around to see who has one in stock ready to go). Its common for northern garages to take southern trade ins and give good prices, I'm looking for recommendations for garages that people have dealt with

Just pointing out how the northern garages deal with proposed southern trade-ins and how they derive their price. Have a cousin who works in Hursts in Belfast who pointed this out to me

Dan_B

As far as I know, some of the northern garages opened down here to sell southern reg cars they took as trade ins.

Think east coast cars in Dundalk is affiliated with hursts?

Most of them probaby end up sold to trade or in auctions.

On the remote chance a garage will take a Southern tradein, the price they would offer would likely be insultingly low.

So they have at least one thing in common with the dealers down here then!

celticbest

As cars are far cheaper up north it's only common sense that the trade in value of your current car will be far lower than down south.

I say try to sell your car privately for just a few quid less than the going rate of a dealership.

Saab Ed

celticbest wrote: »

As cars are far cheaper up north it's only common sense that the trade in value of your current car will be far lower than down south.

Thats it ....FAAAAR cheaper Up North ....I thought people had forgotten that line.