Dealership review.. topline motors Dublin 11 or O Regan motors Lucan

baegan

Hope ok to post this.

I'm buying a second hand car for the wife and have two places in mind that have what I'm looking for in Dublin.

1 - Top line motors, Dublin 11
2 - O Regan motors, Lucan

Anyone have any dealing with these guys and would you recommend them?

Cannon_fodder

Don't think your'e allowed discuss dealers by name only cars OP.

acronym Chilli

baegan wrote: »

Hope ok to post this.

I'm buying a second hand car for the wife and have two places in mind that have what I'm looking for in Dublin.

1 - Top line motors, Dublin 11
2 - O Regan motors, Lucan

Anyone have any dealing with these guys and would you recommend them?

I've no knowledge of either seller.
However, I'd more generally recommend focussing on the cars than the sellers. Inform yourself on makes/models, identify a couple of likely "solutions" (e.g. "Fiat Punto, '06/'07", or whatever, based on what car will be used for, budget, likes/dislikes, etc.,), and then start looking at examples of that car.

You'll get better informed, and be better able to judge cars by looking at same make/model from various sellers. If something seems a bit off about a car (e.g. a noise, whatever), google it and you'll be surprised how much you learn. You'll also get a good sense in a short while of prices and what's driving prices.
When you find a likely car you think you might buy, maybe try to sound out history on the dealer, but focus first and foremost on the car itself. The shabbiest dealer sells decent cars from time to time. The best dealer can have a lemon on the forecourt. If you walk onto a forecourt, just looking for "a car", I think you're at a disadvantage and you create the moral hazard for the dealer of encouraging him to try to sell you the "hardest to shift" machine he has.

Then get it checked by a mechanic before finally buying it. There's debates here all the time along lines of "I bought X yesterday, today I discover it's rusting/misfiring/haunted (delete as appropriate), I'm going to demand my money back but dealer says PFO, what do I do?" You do have rights as a buyer (from a dealer), but you should buy as if you don't expect to ever make reference to them. You may drive that car for years, you'll probably spend at most a couple of hours in the dealer's presence. The right car is the key.

DermotAC

I recently purchased a vehicle from ToplIne Motors and found the experience very positive. All queries were sorted. I dealt with Colin who was very helpful and fair.

bazz26

You forgot to mention what time you open Colin.


Lol, going to all this trouble of registering on boards to give a glowing recommendation of a company on a 3 year old thread is not a very subtle way of shilling your business.

User1998

DermotAC wrote: »

I recently purchased a vehicle from ToplIne Motors and found the experience very positive. All queries were sorted. I dealt with Colin who was very helpful and fair.

Fake news

For Forks Sake

DermotAC wrote: »

I recently purchased a vehicle from ToplIne Motors and found the experience very positive. All queries were sorted. I dealt with Colin who was very helpful and fair.

colm_mcm

What a cynical bunch you are

big dar

bazz26 wrote: »

You forgot to mention what time you open Colin.


Lol, going to all this trouble of registering on boards to give a glowing recommendation of a company on a 3 year old thread is not a very subtle way of shilling your business.

That first line is a killer :D