got an evo 9, traded in evo 8 experience
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From: NJ
Originally Posted by bvliz
go back and get gap insurance on it.you want gap insurance.if you totalled the car without gap you screwed.the gap pays the difference bewteen what your insurance didnt pay and what you owe.if you totalled the today,you would be out big time.with gap the car would be paid off.its a great investment.
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From: Tampa
Some lenders provide the gap insurance free of charge, they now call it total loss coverage. I would always try to sell your vehicle first yourself because the dealership
will get you on one end or the other most of the times.
I will be likely selling my 03 Evo this year and upgrading to a ix also, and like you have
not had any problems at all. Again like yourself, I hope the new owner will take good
care of her......
will get you on one end or the other most of the times.
I will be likely selling my 03 Evo this year and upgrading to a ix also, and like you have
not had any problems at all. Again like yourself, I hope the new owner will take good
care of her......
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From: Palmdale, California
Originally Posted by CICreations
Yea I guess I only feel bad because another dealership called me after I had bought it and told me that I was a dumbass and that I got ripped off big time. They, and Im talking the owner of this mitsu dealership, told me they were going to give me $23,500 for my trade and match the price of $27,800 for the IX. The funny thing is that before I went and picked up the IX I emailed this other place and asked them what I would be looking at OTD and all he told me was to come down and we would talke it over....never gave me a price. Yet after I had already bought from somewhere else this guy has all kinds of bottom line prices and keeps emailing me about how much I got screwed and how he can't believe I fell for their trick. It really bumed me out but I figure he must be lying....if not then why didn't he offer me those figures BEFORE I bought from the other guys? I think he's full of crap. But these 2 dealerships are rivals so I expect as much.
yea, when i bought my 05 they tryed charging me for the pinstripe also and those cheap plastic clear pieces by the bottom of the door. i was like hell no. so they ended up throwing in that stuff. car dealerships are nothing but crooks when it comes to trading in or buying a new whip
Originally Posted by CICreations
Yea I guess I only feel bad because another dealership called me after I had bought it and told me that I was a dumbass and that I got ripped off big time. They, and Im talking the owner of this mitsu dealership, told me they were going to give me $23,500 for my trade and match the price of $27,800 for the IX. The funny thing is that before I went and picked up the IX I emailed this other place and asked them what I would be looking at OTD and all he told me was to come down and we would talke it over....never gave me a price. Yet after I had already bought from somewhere else this guy has all kinds of bottom line prices and keeps emailing me about how much I got screwed and how he can't believe I fell for their trick. It really bumed me out but I figure he must be lying....if not then why didn't he offer me those figures BEFORE I bought from the other guys? I think he's full of crap. But these 2 dealerships are rivals so I expect as much.
If you only missed by $500, you did fine. These thing aren't exactly falling out of the sky. You got a hell of a car in color (hopefully) and trim package that you like. I know guys that "settled" for a color that they didn;t really like, but wanted an Evo.
You did fine. I always figure that if the dealer only knew what I would have paid to get the car, they'd be the ones kicking themselves for the money that they "left on the table".
Wish I had a IX :-)
Last edited by nirvevo; Mar 14, 2006 at 11:26 PM.