The Used Car market can become an increasingly frustrating place to be buying your vehicles from. I have almost lost count of the amount of times I have been sold a dummy, or a car that has almost failed the second I get it off the dealership forecourt. It is with this in mind that I reluctantly began my search for a Used Car for my wife last weekend. From the outset a few particular things didn’t exactly encourage me that this Used Car shopping trip was going to be any different to the usual disappointing cavalcade of pushy salesmen and clapped out cars.
Firstly, my wife couldn’t decide what car she wanted;
“I’m not sure if I want a BMW, a Lexus or a Mercedes." She kept saying as if it was some mantra designed solely to anger me.
Every Used Car dealership we visited yielded the same collections of rusty cars that would fail to inspire even the most dense of car buyers. The salesmen who populated these horrible dealerships were also the very paean of annoying smarm that has become a cliché of the used car trade. Every solitary time one came near in their cheap suits and late seventies aftershave I could feel the hairs on my neck bristle.
This trend of visiting one disastrous dealership after another came to an end when I suggested my wife may like a Used Audi TT. She seemed not particularly adverse to the idea (I blame this entirely on the fact that she probably didn’t even recognise the brand name Audi) so we visited out local Used Audi Dealership.
Everything was a lot different from all the other less reputable dealerships and I immediately suspected we had found the location of my wife's next great car. The place was clean, the staff were friendly and the selection of cars were absolutely phenomenal.
The lesson of the story is not to give up on the used car market because of what you have heard in the past. If you look carefully, there are some very good dealerships around who will provide you excellent used cars at great prices.