Kylemore cars?

Bride to be

Hi there, could anyone tell me if they have purchased a vehicle from Kylemore Cars recently? Just wondering if you've had a good experience? Thinking of purchasing a car from them at the moment. Thanks in advance!

biko

Previous mentions https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?subforums=1&forum=1625&query=Kylemore
Note that there is more than one place with this name so if you could specify address it would help.

Bride to be

biko wrote: »

Previous mentions https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?subforums=1&forum=1625&query=Kylemore
Note that there is more than one place with this name so if you could specify address it would help.

It is Kylemore Cars Royal Liver Business Park

colm_mcm

There’s just Kylemore trade cars and Kylemore Cars to mix up really.

Bride to be

colm_mcm wrote: »

There’s just Kylemore trade cars and Kylemore Cars to mix up really.

It's Kylemore Cars not Kylemore Trade Cars

colm_mcm

Kylemore cars are grand anyway AFAIK. They used to be years ago anyway. Same guy owned the car company down the road. Family long established in the trade. They used to underwrite and then buy stuff directly off certain main dealerships, don’t know if they still do that but they got a lot of good stuff that main dealers didn’t want to retail because of space/franchise restrictions/policy on selling cars over x years old.

Vego

Lads looking at getting a car from these lads, Are they fairly honorable with the warranty etc And the tag line is they dont haggle ....but do they :pac:

cheers

I always get the impression that indy dealers (ie not branded, like Ford, Toyota etc) it's a bit of a mixed bag in regards to what after sales service you'll get, and what the car will be like.

These lads, especially the bigger ones, will be going through looooads of cars, and many will have issues that they won't know about, and many will be absolutely perfect. The lads selling them will have that many cars coming and going that they won't know what's-what with each individual car and it'll be up to you to figure it out on the test drive.

If you come back after buying it and say "look, the XYZ needs replacing" and it's a quick and easy job, they'll likely do it. But if you say "the ABC is giving an intermittent fault" and it's a needle in a haystack job, they'll likely fob you off.


Mind you, a friend mine bought a Focus off a Ford Garage. It was an 07 and he bought it in 2013 I think. They gave him a 6 month 'bumper to bumper' warranty. He had issues after about 5 months (just before the warranty expired) of water getting into the car and saturating and pooling in the passenger foot well. He got the runaround and although they took it off him to look at it, they didn't fix it and just kind of shrugged their shoulders at it. Which put me off ever buying off them, as I'd have assumed a main dealer would go above and beyond on their warranty to keep you happy (seen as you pay so much extra) but apparently not (or at least in that instance anyway).


So anyway, the gist of it is just treat it like it's a private sale, and take any after-sales service as a gesture of goodwill that many won't extend to you.

(though I bought a car recently off a, quite literal, back alley dealer in walkinstown, and he's so far been great with me in terms of potential things needing doing, which i wasn't really anticipating, so there are some genuine fellas out there, regardless of the size of their operation).