How To Avoid a Marathon Car Deal | Edmunds.com

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How To Avoid a Marathon Car Deal | Edmunds.com

Buying a car can take hours and hours. But there are ways to shave time. Here are some easy tips to speed up your next deal.

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mwwarwick

How to avoid a marathan car deal? Pay the asking price, you'll be in and out in under 30 minutes!

ed31

In the traditional car buying mode, you can schedule a test drive on your lunch break. Make it clear you only have an hour. Have the dealer appraise your car while you test drive. Then get their initial offer upon return and complete negotiations via email or phone. As for shortening finance, that's a tough one. I have told dealers I had no interest in an extended warranty or rust proofing prior to signing, yet I still got the hard sell.

Best experience I ever had was a Honda dealer in SC. They did everything over the phone. Gave me a fair price right away for new car and for my trade. They delivered my new car to my house and we signed the paperwork in my kitchen. They drove my trade-in away. It was fantastic.

stever

ed31 said:

Make it clear you only have an hour. Have the dealer appraise your car while you test drive.

Take an extra set of keys - a few dealers still think it's "cute" to misplace the keys to your trade.