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Is this a reasonable offer or am I way out of line?
Location:NYC
Model: 2009 FWD Sienna CE or LE
thanks!
Sienna drives fine, smooth, comfortable.... thats all good. However, after driving after a little bit, i start to hear engine humming noise. Sometime it happens, sometimes not, you can hear more on uphill acceleration, or acceleration from crusing speed. This is not the normal engine reving up, its weird noise. Sometimes i hums real loud. I've not taken it in because simply sometimes you dont hear it. I have a friend who has a 2007, who also has this problem, and he's got 150K miles. Also some poeple posted here few years back also had this problem, with no solution. So i just want to bring this up
chris
We are in southern Indiana. We were seeking the above model with EVP #2 and daytime running lights (RL). We have purchased it for $26,165 OTD (approx $24,200 without TTL).
We only have one Toyota dealer who is local, but I solicited e-mail quotes from 13 dealers within a 75-mile radius. Initial quotes ranged from $26,592 OTD to $27,667 OTD. (Note: only 3 of these dealers had the LE8 on the lot. The actual options/packages with the quotes varied somewhat, but all had at least what we asked for and usually the towing prep package, too, for a minimum MRSP of $27,200. All quotes mentioned below are OTD, so include all tax, license, fees, and rebate.)
I contacted the dealer with the lowest quote, from about 70 miles away, by phone to see how much lower he could go, and he offered $25,865, which includes the $1000 rebate. I then phoned three other out-of-town dealers to see who could beat that. They all were very dubious at this quote, and expressed skepticism that it would really be honored! (I know from this list that this quote, at least compared with other regions, is good but not by any means incredible, though it seemed to be considered a stretch in these parts.)
Only one of the three that I phoned actually lowered his quote from $26,886 to $26,401. Finally, we went to our local dealership in person to do one more test drive and discuss a purchase. We showed him the lowest quote and asked what he could do. He came back with $26,165 OTD. It was $300 more than our lowest quote, but we decided that the savings in time not to go to the out of town dealer was worthwhile.
http://townhall-talk.edmunds.com/direct/view/.ee93e3c/8977
Working "backwards" to subtract the difference between your desired options we have
LE8 evp#2 $24000
less 1 seat -$150
less evp#2 -$383
add evp #1 +$185
Total $23652 is what you ought to get it for (maybe even a little less).
This includes the $1000 rebate incentive.
rolz @ omnistep.com
I am also looking in NJ at a Toyota Sienna Limited 7 passenger AWD. Do you know how much I should pay for it?
Thanks in advance
Sonny
They may be able to give you a low rate for a 60 month term but it won't be 0%.
I'd get a rate quote from your bank and maybe a local credit union and then ask them to match or beat it.
Negotiate the sales price on the van seperately. People here are driving away in XLEs for $29k out the door, even with tax included. Yours might have more options, though.
I am from Texas and for Sienna 2008 LE8 Passenger, LEVP#2, alloywheels,cargo mats etc MSRP 28800 for 25200 +TTL =27000
Is this good deal. Can i get more out of it.
Thanks
I am in Long Island, New York.
I went to a few dealers today and put a $40 deposit at one.
My original intention was to lease.
I am interested in an ’09 Sienna LE 8 Seat FWD. The vehicle below has the extra value pack #1.
My current vehicle is leased and has 3 payments of $340 left on it.
With a total of $3663.27, including all taxes and fees down, I got a lease deal of $359 per month for 36 months with 12k miles per year. This includes them taking my old lease vehicle in.
I guess my first question is, is this a good deal? There is no MSRP on the Lease Order but the following amounts are listed:
First Month Lease Fee: $359.00
Cash Down Capitalized Reduction: $1,300
Bank Acquisition Fee: $650
Documentation Fee: $45
NY State Inspection: $10
Up Front Sales Tax: $1,170.76
Sales Tax on Capitalized Reduction: $112.13
Sales Tax on Administrative Fee: $3.88
Tire Disposal Fee: $12.50
Now on the way home, I decided that I may want to purchase this vehicle rather than lease. So I called the dealer to ask how much it would cost me to purchase the vehicle. He told me for the same amount down ($3,663.27), the cost would be $504 per month with 3.9% financing. I then asked him how much the MSRP is (since it is not on the lease agreement) and he told me it was $26,900 + Tax. The tax rate where I live is 8.375%.
Something doesn’t seem right to me. It seems like the lease deal is a good deal but I’m not sure about the purchase deal... especially after reading some of the deals some of you have gotten.
I realize this is my fault because I went in asking for a lease and didn’t think about buying until I was on the way home.
If I do buy, I am looking to put down 10k-15k.
Can I have some advice and recommendations about where I should go from here? I would really appreciate your feedback.
I am not opposed to getting this same vehicle with some an extra value pack #2 or #3 if of course I can get it for the right price.
Thanks
You can lease for a 36 month intitially with a 0.00005% APR. The contract itself should indicate how much we can pay to buy at the end of 36 month lease period.
The value will be the TRADE-IN-VALUE after 36 months. Usually the trade-in-value will be very less than private-party value.
So if you lease now for 36 month @ 0.00005% and then buy it after 36th month, then you will save a lot. Because right now you are on 0.0% rather 2.9% or 3.9%.
I do not understand what is $1,300 for???. because when I checked in Indianapolis yesterday for an XLE, they have no EXTRA fees.
If I were to lease for 3 years, and then buy on 36th month, then it was saving me around $ 3000 .00
Mail me at ramaname@gmail.com for any questions.
Thing is, each transaction you make with the dealer, they are adding a profit layer for themselves. The more changes you make, the worse the deal is going to get.
You probably should have waited until the prior lease is over, but you didn't, so how can you be 100% sure you will want to keep this van longer than the term of the lease? Don't get stuck again, leasing short-term may actually be better for you.
I would not change it.
I live in New York, does that matter? Thanks!
2009 7-pass CE w/ Opt Pkg 1 (cruise/roof rack)
$22,400 including Dest. Charge but not TTL
Seems to be a bit below invoice....
I'm tempted not to shop around but just to buy it straight out... will trying a few different dealers likely yield me much savings?
Thx!
LE EVP #1
DRL & De-Icer
Z1 - First aid kit and mats
Plus they are taking my current vehicle ans paying the last 3 months of my lease payment ($339 per).
MSRP $27,583
Invoice: $25,233
Sale price before tax: $25,500
I'd like to have you thoughts on this deal.
Thank you
But...the deal is not that simple, because they're taking over about a grand in lease payments, or at least paying off early termination fees. I guess it depends on what those amount to.
You can't wait 3 months? My guess is you'll save about a grand and get the free use of your current car for 3 more months. Unless you've hit the mileage limit or something.
Went to fitzmall.com and found a CE with Option Pkg 1 and Daytime Running Lights for appx $600 below Invoice.
Went to my local Lancaster, PA dealer and found they had the same car in stock. I had them evaluate my trade-in (2004 Accord) and it came to $6700 - a bit low. They wrote down the MSRP and subtracted $1000 and told me this was the 'sale price'. However I knew the $1000 was simply the current incentive deal.... so I whipped out the quote from Fitzmall and showed it to the sales guy. After a talk with his manager he came back and said:
"He's seen this kind of thing before."
"They add the $800 delivery fee to that price" (NOT TRUE)
"They reel you in with that price and add all sorts of gotchas" (also NOT TRUE)
"There's an Internet Price and a Value Price.... the value price is for the locals and the internet price is for the .... blah blah" (don't even know what he was trying to say here)
So I told them, look, you match or beat or I'm out the door. They told me invoice was 24,000 (true) and they wouldn't make any money if they sold cars below that. (LIE)
I left and went to fitzmall in Chambersburg. They gave me the exact car for $23400 plus TTL .... I opted for 1.9% finanacing instead of $1000 back AND they gave me $300 more for my Honda. I was on my way in no time.
Moral of the story: steer clear of Lancaster, PA Toyota.
Summary:
Toyota Sienna CE 7 Pass w/ Opt Pkg 1 : MSRP w/ Destination Charge: $25625
Invoice: ~$24000
My deal: $23400
Nothing amazing but not too bad....
Does anyone know of a good online place to purchase accessories such as floor mats and other accessories specifically made for the Sienna?
Thanks!
Just bought aN LE EVP 2, floor mats and sill protectors, running lights, wiper deice, and nothing else other than standard. Silver pine mica. No financing through the dealer. Paid 23,800. Charged me $194 for "document fees" on top and would not budge on ANYTHING. Thought about walking out but from all the other dealers there was all kinds of others I didn't want to pay for - like Alloy wheels, cargo net, 1st aid, emergency, which would have driven it up. True car notes it as a " great price" but feeling like they could have given us something... even 100 off the service fee. Hard to know - love hte van. It was the best deal I had at the time and needed it now - What do you think? Thanks
Where is the dealer located?
We'll be getting a Toyota Sienna, but are not in any real hurry and I want to wait out for any great incentives or any rush on the dealers to get rid of '09's since there's a redesign for 2010 (if I'm not mistaken). Right now, $1K cust. cash is good- does it get better by late summer?
They matched the deal they agreed to, and it's not their fault the extra $340 worth of equipment was on there. So long as they were giving you the invoice cost for those extras you should have jumped on it.
The fact that other dealers are charge $1600 more for the same van ought to tell ya...that first dealer was being fair.
I would have bought that first one.
Any rumors of what incentives for the month of June?
Thanks
Unless the buyer is willing to factory order and wait 6-8 weeks (which I've done once, and you get exactly what you want and just that), that's the best any dealer could do.
Why blame the dealer?
I'm sure the deal was pretty bare-bones and didn't leave enough margin for them to eat the loss on the options he didn't want.
They gotta pay bills, too, and feed their families. We can't sit here and get below invoice prices and then expect them to drop another $3-400 just because a very specific color/model/option package isn't on the lots right now.
To conclude - if you're not flexible about color/model/options it may be harder to get as good of a deal. Don't you think?