First of all I have never purchased a new car ( apart from my new Up!) but I think my dealer , a main VW dealer in Ireland may have pulled a fast one. I rang them today because I have yet to receive the registration cert for my car and am unable to tax it. During the conversation the issue arose of my car being pre-registered to which I honestly replied that I didn't know that. Now it should have been obvious as the plates were already on the car but as I say I'm not familiar with dealers methods of creating car sales.Having gone over the paperwork it appears the the ‚¬2,250 agreed for my old Mondeo trade-in turns out to be ‚¬750 after some type of "discount" of ‚¬1500 being applied. It's all a bit confusing but the simple maths indicate I got ‚¬2,250 off the FULL LIST PRICE of a brand new car, not a second hand, pre-registered one as it actually is.
I spoke to the sales agent again and he is trying to persuade me I got an ‚¬800 discount for a pre-registered car but if I did I simply can't see it and my maths are not all that bad.
At the end of the conversation he agreed to speak to his manager and get back to me. I feel I have fallen into a bit of a trap here, the car is financed through VW's own bank and I'm already tied into a 3 yr hire purchase deal. My insurance company have told me that should my car be written off I won't get the car replaced as I would if I were the first owner, as I genuinely believed I was. If they really want to dig in my signature is all over the paperwork so I may be stuck with this situation.
Can anyone offer some advice apart from not being so naive in the future?
Edited by: aob9
I spoke to the sales agent again and he is trying to persuade me I got an ‚¬800 discount for a pre-registered car but if I did I simply can't see it and my maths are not all that bad.
At the end of the conversation he agreed to speak to his manager and get back to me. I feel I have fallen into a bit of a trap here, the car is financed through VW's own bank and I'm already tied into a 3 yr hire purchase deal. My insurance company have told me that should my car be written off I won't get the car replaced as I would if I were the first owner, as I genuinely believed I was. If they really want to dig in my signature is all over the paperwork so I may be stuck with this situation.
Can anyone offer some advice apart from not being so naive in the future?
Edited by: aob9