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YOUR RESEARCHAnyone run into this when trying to negotiate trade-in?
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Regardless, when they get my car for service next week the plugs will have been changed.
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I use a 3-ring binder and use plastic page protectors/sleeves to keep everything so I don't have to hole punch anything and the paperwork doesn't get damaged.
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Use plastic page protectors/sleeves
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I use a 3-ring binder and use plastic page protectors/sleeves to keep everything so I don't have to hole punch anything and the paperwork doesn't get damaged.
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Check on the serpentine belt
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Recommend spark plugs
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I have 35K on my 03 and along with the RMS and clutch they are recommending spark plugs.
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I use a 3-ring binder and use plastic page protectors/sleeves to keep everything so I don't have to hole punch anything and the paperwork doesn't get damaged.
Anyone run into this when trying to negotiate trade-in?
Use plastic page protectors/sleeves
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I use a 3-ring binder and use plastic page protectors/sleeves to keep everything so I don't have to hole punch anything and the paperwork doesn't get damaged.
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When negotiating trade-in value, the dealer tried to ding me because the 30K service was not showing up on the carfax. Natch I have done it myself, so of course it's not on the history. They claimed - get this - that the 30K service was $2000 so that's why they were offering so little (since they would presumably have to pay to have it done before they could sell the car). I got so pissed off that I told them to stick it and left. This was, BTW, a non-Porsche dealership, and they were looking to wholesale the car to one of their chain Porsche dealers (or more likely, since it's an 02, just wholesale out entirely).
Anyway, I've had a lot of dealers try to pull different tricks on me, but this was a first.
And don't even ask what they were going to allow me on my pristine '02 cab. Criminal, it was.
Hopefully the ghost of Dr. Porsche will forgive me for briefly thinking of straying...
Michael
You could always have the 30K service done and bring the reciept with you. That would end any discussion of how much it's worth (the 30k service that is, not the car).
30,000 mile service is oil, filter, cabin filter, air filter, and what? check on the serpentine belt for damage? Put air in the tires? Water in the battery? $2000 for that? No wonder i do my own maintenance!
Does the 30K service ever include spark plugs do to the age of the car (not mileage)?
I have 35K on my 03 and along with the RMS and clutch they are recommending spark plugs. The 30K service was done by another dealer last year.
Regardless, when they get my car for service next week the plugs will have been changed. I'm changing them this weekend.
This post is exactly why I don't trade cars into dealers or buy cars from dealers.
Put your car for sale privately for just a little more than the dealer offered you and it will sell.
Your Avitar looks like you have an Aero Kit car. That should go quick.
I really should change that... I joined Rennlist when I had a 993, which obviously, I do not anymore (having upgraded to the far superior 996).
I'm really not even sure that I want to sell my baby. There's nothing wrong with it other than being 8 years old.
Michael
Well, that's no reason to sell the car. If she's beautiful, you still love her, and she's trouble free, then keep her... philosophy works with cars and women.
im just hitting 45k on my 2001. i have acess to a lift, and plan to do the service my self (45k). it is unfortunate someone may look at the carfax and see 45k serv isnt there. blasted old carfax!!
im just hitting 45k on my 2001. i have acess to a lift, and plan to do the service my self (45k). it is unfortunate someone may look at the carfax and see 45k serv isnt there. blasted old carfax!!
I think you should be able to hold on to your receipts for parts purchased and whatnot; that's what I do for anything I do on the car; mods, maintenance, receipts for the oil from the Autozone down the road, and printed documentation of what I did and at what mileage; you name it, I've documented it.
I use a 3-ring binder and use plastic page protectors/sleeves to keep everything so I don't have to hole punch anything and the paperwork doesn't get damaged.
