Cash Deal Discount Advice (Scrappage of €4000)

ForestFire

Would just like to get options from people and what to expect when buy a new car that has a scrappage offers, but I have no car qualified to trade in.

My situation is, that I have sold one of the two family cars privately and will buy a new second car again when my wife starts driving again.

As an example the new Qashqai 1.5D SV is listed at 28K with a scrappage of 4K.

Someone could bring in a 10year old small car worth €500 and get this 4K discount and the €500 car will sit in the yard and will require work and effort to sell.

With no trade in, what would you expect to get this car for offering a full cash deal? Or part cash, part finance deal?

Thanks

colm_mcm

Those deals are distributor backed and you need to meet certain terms and conditions ref-nct-insurance etc for the trade in.
It isn't as simple as buying some banger for €20 and getting €4k off.
It also isn't available as a straight deal.
I suppose it's a way of protecting residual values of the cars. ie the price is €28k.
They don't care if you're paying in cash, draft, finance.

Available on passenger models Micra, Note, Juke, Pulsar, Leaf, Qashqai, X-Trail models only
Available on commercial models NV400, Navara, Primastar, Qashqai Van and X-Trail Van.
Available at participating dealers only
Qualifying trade-in vehicles must be registered in the Republic of Ireland for at least 6 months previous to date of trade in
Qualifying vehicles must have valid NCT/DOE and road tax certificates.
Must be insured for use on the road for at least three months in the 18 months prior to trade-in.
This is a mutually exclusive offer and no other offer applies
This is a limited offer end date December 31st.

ForestFire

colm_mcm wrote: »

Those deals are distributor backed and you need to meet certain terms and conditions ref-nct-insurance etc for the trade in.
It isn't as simple as buying some banger for €20 and getting €4k off.
It also isn't available as a straight deal.
I suppose it's a way of protecting residual values of the cars. ie the price is €28k.
They don't care if you're paying in cash, draft, finance.

My point is I can buy a car now from carzone to meet all these conditions for 500euro (I have checked and they are available) Tax insure and drive it for 3 months (peugeot 5008 condition also) and get 4500 of the 5008, or 4k off the qashqai

They then have a crap car and I get 4500 discount.
At the end of the day they are getting the same money for the car without the hassle of trying to recoup the 500euro for a banger

So if I go in with straight cash should I not expect something similar ie 4k off?

Or should I just buy the banger now and be ready for the deals in 3 months time.

And the conditions are not always that strict. I got a previous scrappage deal before with my wifes car (girlfriend at the tim) with no current tax.

colm_mcm

I'd check with the dealer. sounds doable. check when car needs to be regged by as 3 months time (for proof of insuranfe) is middle of February. might need to be registered in january or whatever.

ForestFire

yes I believe it is possible to do as I would meet all the conditions in advance.

I am in no hurry to upgrade and these deals appear to be constant, so If i miss the January 2016 one, then the summer 2016 one will come, followed again by January 2017. I just need to prepare in advance

They seem to run these deals constantly and they keep getting extended also. The 5008 had 4500 off for most of the summer, it stopped for 1 month and now it is back again.

In fact I am starting to think that these deals are just built-in on top of the RRP price from day one and they are still making their normal profits even with the deals.

colm_mcm

I think this is the third time they've done this offer. I wouldn't take it as a given that theyd keep coming though.
Renault did this back in 2011/12, as part of their strategy for getting more of a foothold in Ireland. Once they did - the deals stopped.