7 Top Tips Let You Buy A Cheap Car Directly From A Main Dealer

Not everyone wants to buy a 'cheap' car, but no-one wants to pay too much, right? We all want to think that we've got a bargain, even if we've just bought a 50,000+ Range Rover. But finding bargains at any level when it comes to cars isn't always easy - but it can be!

For a large part of my time in the motor trade my job was to buy cars at 'trade' prices, that we would then stick on the forecourt with sometimes as little as 1,000 on top of the price I paid, and occasionally as much as 10,000!

Knowing the right time to buy a car can be worth hundred, possible even thousands of pounds, because four times a year, like clockwork, almost every manufacturer gets desperate for business. The last week of March, June, September and December they all fight to get a higher placing on the published lists of best selling cars, and give hundreds or even thousands of pounds extra - buy that week and you bag a bargain!

You can also cash in on the salesman's ego to get a bargain. One of their 'perks' is a company car, which is often a higher spec than standard. Most salesmen wants the latest 'plate, but they have to sell their car first, so when the new plate is out, or the model changes, they'' often sell their own car for little or no profit just to change their own car.

Consider buying a pre-registered car. These are cars that have been registered in someone else's name, either a dealer or a leasing company, in order to get extra discount. You would appear as the second owner, but the car is brand new with delivery mileage, and you will have saved hundreds - maybe even more - into the bargain.

You can save money when you use the dealers finance. Most dealers will go out of their way to undercut the banks in order to make their offer look better, so make sure that you've done your homework. As well as the millions of leaflets that are stuck inside every magazine you buy, all banks have leaflets on display with their rates for you to compare. Find the cheapest, then ask the dealer to beat it - if he can't use the bank, but take my word for it, he'll beat them 95% of the time.

Most people when they buy a new car have one to put in part exchange, but very few people get the best price for it, even though you already know how - you just don't know that you know it. When you go to buy a car, you expect it to be clean, smelling nice, without any scuffs or scratches, right? Well if your car is clean, smelling nice and well polished a dealer will fall for your car the same way that you fall for theirs - just make it look the best you can, and you'll get the best offers!

In recent years, car dealers have started to buy fleets of late model, low mileage cars from leasing companies and other sources. Because of the huge levels of discounts that these companies command, their fleets are incredibly cheap - you can often get them at almost half price, even though they're only a few months old and have only covered a few thousand miles. They're still under warranty, probably haven't even covered enough miles to need a first service, but you will make massive savings just because your name isn't the first one in the log book - but if you've just saved 5,000, do you really care??

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