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I thought the Pilot Touring already had tinted windows, but, the one I'm doing an inquiry about has also had tint applied.........since I'm one of those who paid $$$ for glorified mop-n-glow before I joined Edmunds, I'm wondering what a reasonable price is for "tint" applied by the Dealership.
p.s. You done good!
Congrats for you new wheels, I am also in market for this vehical, will appricate if you could give me the breakup of OTD price along with the sale rep's name.
Thanks in advance.
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Congratulations for you new Pilot, I am also looking for this vehical, will appricate if you could give me the breakup of OTD price along with the sale rep's name.
Thanks in advance.
Anyone know when the 2010's will be in the showrooms?
I did an email barrage to all the local dealerships asking for their best price first on the trim and color we wanted. Then, I asked GO to beat it and they did. The first time I had ever stepped into the dealership was to buy the car. I used the: less time with salesman = more savings equation. This worked the best of all my car purchases so far (we have 3 hondas, currently). I appreciate the information on this forum, Consumer Reports, and the Motley Fool.
We paid $35,000 for our 2009 4WD Touring W/Res almost 10 days ago. I am assuming that included the $1500 manufacturer to dealer marketing support. I think others have gotten a better price, but we are happy since they had to do a dealer trade to get us the color we wanted.
I paid $26.4k (includes dest, includes $1500 incentive) for an '09 EX 4WD last week (PA).
I feel like it was a bit of a rip-off because although it is $3400 under invoice, $1500 of this is covered by American Honda. So it's really only $1900 under invoice. These vehicles were selling for $1k under back in November, and they sure have depreciated a hell of a lot more than $900 since then. I just couldn't bear to continue to mess around with these clowns, so I bit the bullet and bought it. You can definitely do better, probably get these for well under $26k.
My suggestion is to wait for the '10s. The dealers say they are coming in the fall, but I believe it will be this spring. Inventory on the Pilot (especially th EX-L) here in PA is staggering. You can check cars.com for your local area. There are 600 Pilots within a 30 mile radius of me. They'll never move that inventory at $3400 under. More like $6k under is required.
I bought this car because I needed it for work, but if you don't need one just wait. The '10s will sell at invoice (or lower) when they come out, that's a better deal than the '09s, and the '09s will be impossible to get rid of. That's the best time to make your deal.
Good luck.
As usual I got a terrific quote e-mailed from Bankston Honda Lewisville. Since Bankston didn't stock my vehicle of choice, I used their number for leverage across SEVERAL dealerships (visited Lute Riley, John Eagle, Honda Cars of McKinney, McDavid of Irving and priced others just through e-mail), The main difficulty was locating the car. I HATE negotiating a price on a vehicle they have to locate because they can't tell me what equipment will come on it.
Eventually Freeman Honda received my vehicle and I leveraged my Bankston price on them. I basically told them that I could order this vehicle through Bankston at this price and choose whatever OEM accessories I want from handaaccessories.com or bernardiparts.com for dirt cheap OR they could sell me the vehicle they had on the lot (including accessories and removing the ugly pin stripe) for the same price. I knew they could meet this price because another dealer came close without even having the car. Having the car, I knew Freeman could eat another $770 in holdback.
They huffed for a little bit but agreed to the deal. I got similar offers from other dealer but they did not have my car. Locating the car is the hardest part about getting the deal you want at this point - pricing shouldn't be much of a problem. There are 10 Honda dealerships within 45 minute driving distance of the Dallas area.
For whoever asked about tint, their line item was 299 for tint but obviously I didn't pay their line item price. I told them to politely eat it.
I received multiple quotes in the 32 even range and that's hopefully what you are seeing. The icing is convincing your dealership that you will not pay an extra dollar for "dealer-installed" options. You can order these items OEM from a number of locations so they need to take this opportunity to sell you this vehicle or you'll happily order elsewhere and kit it up just the way you want.
Again HUGE list of dealerships in/around DFW:
Rusty Wallis (635)
John Eagle (Lemon Av)
Lute Riley (75 in Richardson)
Honda Cars of McKinney (75)
David McDavid Honda Frisco
McDavid Honda (Irving)
Freeman Honda (Dallas)
Bankston (Lewisville)
McNatt (Denton)
Vandergriff (Arlington)
Take advantage of the # of dealerships
I live in NJ and have been told that the EX's will be back in stock in May or June.
Do you suppose tha these will be the 2010's or 2009's?
Also, if you can, please provide your zipcode in PA, as I may venture there to purchase a 2009 EX if I can't locate one in my NJ.
Best regards,
I called today and spoke with their internet salesman. I didn't say anything about the color - simply asked for the price. He quoted $36,439 + tax.
I told him that was about the same as the invoice price you find on the internet...and that there should be some additional room given the $1500 manuf incentive and the 2% holdback. The number I had in mind was around $34,500...which is only a couple hundred dollars lower than most of the prices I've seen listed on here. He said "nope, we see the prices paid in the Denver area and nothing is going for that low."
He then said the pricing will change on Saturday - could be better ("slightly better" were his words) - and that he'd call me then.
This isn't the first dealer I've talked to - and I'm having no luck at all getting numbers as low as I've seen posted in this forum.
I talked to GO Honda like youngfamily posted above. They had a white/gray Touring (w/ nav and res) demo with 5550 miles on it. The best price I could get on that was $34,580. That's similar to what many people here are paying for new ones.
Either Denver is some sort of localized exception....or I'm just a bad negotiator. Any ideas?
--Or people posting are flubbing there numbers, or the numbers are construed by trade-ins.
Send a very detailed Email to another 3-5 local dealers and provide them your name, contact phone number and tell them you will buy today for $34,500 if they have your color. So how they respond. That will be your best gauge of your local market.
A better method is to tell your local dealer that has a good reputation what is going on, i.e. what prices you are getting from other dealers. If one dealer can provide a price, a dealer with whom you have a relationship will match it. This is only true if the dealer believes you are qualified.
You won't generally get any quotes for anything other than their standard price in writing (right now that's generally their invoice price), but if a dealer tells you on the phone that they will provide that price, that's sufficient to shop it to your local dealer. If your local dealers believes that you aren't wasting their time they'll provide the vehicle at that price. The local dealer knows what the other dealer can and cannot sell the vehicle for.
You'll want to concentrate your time on the largest dealers. They can offer better prices than the rest and are usually more competitive. That's not to say that your local, smaller dealer won't match the price. If they have inventory (and they all do on the EX-L) they generally will match.
By September an '09 EX-L will be available for at least $6k under invoice. $1500 under invoice, which is what the dealers want right now is a serious rip-off for a vehicle which has massive inventory and for which there is minimal demand. Honda sales are down 40% on the year, but Pilot sales are down 55% on the year. Huge supply and minimal demand means that prices must drop, and substantially. Dealers who are holding out for $2k under invoice are in cloud coo-coo (i.e. fantasy) land. The 'we can't sell it for less than we paid for it' nonsense doesn't work in this environment as there are no buyers (not to mention the fact that they don't pay American Honda invoice anyway).
Good luck.
Hi, I have been following along with all the posts for a couple days because I am in the market for an '09 Pilot EX-L 4wd. Right now the MSRP is 35,900. So are you saying 6K off that price or the dealer invoice?
Here's my strategy... I guess we will see how it works. I sent out 73 letters to dealers within 150 miles of me. I live in Cincinnati. I just sent them out and I have 3 back already as of yesterday. Best offer so far is 30,600 not including tax and title.
So you are saying hold out for 29,900?? Or are you thinking even lower. I would love to buy this car for 28,000. I think that would be a steal!
My Toyota Takoma failed the frame inspection recall so right now I'm driving their loaner car and I'm supposed to get about a 10K check from them in the next couple weeks('97 Takoma 4x4 w/ 143K miles)!! So the most I can hold out is about a month or so. Thanks for your help.
Keep in mind that $28,500 is between $500 and $1000 too much, as of today, for an EX-L.
Good luck.
Does this same advice to wait awhile longer apply to the touring trim level as well?
I haven't done the mass email approach....have talked to dealers either in person or on the phone....and still cannot get them to budge below the internet invoice price.
On a different note: Are the door panels different from EXL to Touring? I have only been in an EXL.
Even if you drive 75 miles to get the car, they realize you won't bring there for service, so you may not see many replies from the out of town ones.
I have bought my last few cars via internet shopping and completed the deal through the phone. If you are a serious buyer, focus on the local dealers. You may find one 75 miles away who wants to push some metal or has your color and trim for the right price...
Is there any advantage to paying cash?
Just joined and have been overwhelmed w/all the info... great forum! I was considering the Toyota Highlander (2008), but swung over to a Honda dealership (Denver) and test drove both the old body style and the new one... fell in love w/the 09 EX 4WD Pilot (keeping that in check though and would prefer the EX-L). Sticker was $32 and change and the dealer offered $30 and change w/o me even asking so I'm assuming there's more room for negotiating as I'm willing to walk away.
I've looked on Ebay and have sent a few emails to dealerships out of state and have gotten the e-brochures, etc, etc... but no pricing like I requested - so I'll skip that path. I'm willing to wait til the '10's come out and get better pricing on the '09... I'm w/the guy who'd like to get one for $28. I just want to get the most bang for my buck (doesn't everybody).
Questions I have are... where can I find the "invoice" price that I hear/read so much about? Is there a website... do you have to pay?? Are they specific to the city of the dealer? I'd prefer to buy from my local dealer (south dakota) but he's the only "honda" dealer in town. Would I be better off shopping in a metropolitan area like Denver? Any and all suggestions are welcome!
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I would therefore hold off on buying an '09 Pilot until after Honda raises the incentive a lot (maybe to $3000).
I hope this helps.
32,400 for this car is excellent...good job
According to a source at San Diego dealer, there were only six 4WD Touring models in the entire SoCal market (spanning Santa Barbara to San Diego) - four were black/black (at least two of which did not have the RES,), one Sterling/blue (no RES), and one white/gray (w/RES - the one we bought.) Three, possibly, four, were at this particular dealer. In a call earlier in the day, the sales manager let it slip that their sales are down to 3-400, from a norm of 5-600, so grab them by the throat and squeeze. Hope this helps!
I contacted a few dealers via the internet, turned down some deals, and was turned down on others. I went 60 miles out to L.A. to Goudy's after coming to an internet agreement - and, making clear I didn't want any dealer add-ons, mop-n-glow, rust-proofing (I'm the one who has bought those in the past!), etc. The salesman was very professional and informative to my older sons (explaining the NAV, so they can re-explain it to me!) and sweet to my 5 year old who has to go where I go because she has continual IV's running - he let her sit in the display Odyssey watching "Ice Age" on the RES while we completed the paperwork. The Finance manager didn't try to sell me anything but the extended warranty. It was SO nice not to be or feel pressured! Thank you to this forum for showing me how to go at buying a car the right way......it was actually a fun experience!
Char in California (no longer "CalifLookieLoo"!)
BTW - did you notice the Verizon guy speaking Chinese on the big billboard in town? We tried to take a picture of it for my Asian DIL!
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Yeah, it really doesn't take much for that warranty to pay for itself. On my '03 Accord, three motor mount bushings needed to be replaced @ 98K miles - total cost: $1,800. Because of the warranty, I paid nothing.
As best I can tell, that's a good price. I've been talking to dealers for a couple of weeks now (in the Denver, CO metro area). The best I've been able to do for a new 4wd Touring with Nav & Res is $35,500....for white or dark cherry.
I can also get a sterling gray metallic demo with 5000 miles on it for $35,200...or a new sterling gray metallic w/o RES for $34,580. These prices include all dealer fees but don't include sales tax.
Denver seems to be in a Honda Pilot "bubble". I can't seem to get close the prices I've seen posted on here.
I am willing to travel and drive back with vehicle.
What I am looking for (MUST):
2008 Brand new Pilot, Leather, 4WD, Navigation System (preferred the preinstalled ones). Fully Loaded type..
Other Optional: RES, Color preference: Gray, Silver
Thank you.
2008 Honda Pilot EXL w/RES
Price $36,453
Condition New
Mileage 0
Trim 4WD 4dr EX-L w/RES
Exterior Color Silver
Interior Color Gray
Stock No. 580215
Vin 5FNYF18638B015329
Sloane Honda
Philadelphia, PA 19115