09-04-2018, 07:38 PM
I don't know how much the dealer actually worked with BMW on this. Nor how much of the hit was taken by the dealer and how much by BMW. Actually the cash hit for the dealer and BMW is small. They can probably resell the car for around £27K but they lose any profit margin and the valeting etc costs. The car was bought via Carfile: https://www.carfile.net/ If I was buying a new car I'd definitely use them again and recommend them wholeheartedly. They got a better discount than I was likely to be able to get myself. I think the list price was about £38K and I paid £32K. Hence the dealer's margin on the sale was lower than it might have been.
If I'd pushed the CRA stuff hard I reckon we'd have ended up with engineer's reports, epxert witnesses and a fair bit of extra expense and hassle. I'm sure I would have won in the end, thus costing them a lot more but I judged it not worth the fight. They probably did the inverse calculation - how little could they offer without risking me pushing it further. I don't know if I blinked too soon but I reckon I got as good a result as I could have done without a lot more work.
If I'd pushed the CRA stuff hard I reckon we'd have ended up with engineer's reports, epxert witnesses and a fair bit of extra expense and hassle. I'm sure I would have won in the end, thus costing them a lot more but I judged it not worth the fight. They probably did the inverse calculation - how little could they offer without risking me pushing it further. I don't know if I blinked too soon but I reckon I got as good a result as I could have done without a lot more work.
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