mers

Hi Can anybody reccommend a decent used car sales in Adelaide please. I don't really wish to go to a ''Carcraft' car supermarket. Also what is the process and usually how long does it take to receiving the car after buying it. many thanks Andy

bluekipper

Hi ,there are used car sales showrooms all over Adelaide,we got ours on Brighton Rd,and it was a very reliable car, much more expensive over in OZ than UK for used cars mind. Process is shop around,haggle if paying cash,pay the gov tax one off fee (cant remember how much think it was a couple of hundred $$$)Get some insurance we did online, again shop around,pay your rego(like tax) 3mths 6mths whatever you wanna pay, thats about it then you drive it away!

Bluekipper

Rach25

Hey
Main South Road near Reynella has loads of 2nd hand dealers, we bought a little ford there few years ago, can't remember the name of the place, and it ran smoothly, we were even able to sell it on. Definitely agree with the above, go to a few places a few times and haggle. Good luck

Wendy

Lots of car dealers and they are usually all in the same area - look on Main North Road or South Road there's hundreds of them.

Take a look here as well www.tradingpost.com.au

doje6863

Hi, we bought ours from adelaide car sales on the corner of main north road and grand junction. They were good and gave us a generous discount. I think they are on the south road too, somewhere near castle plaza.

donna

lonndongeek

We got our first 2nd hand car from Southgate Holden on Main South Road in Reynella. No bullsh!t/harassment from the sales person and after sales has been very good.

Our 2nd car was bought from Peter Page Holden in Elizabeth. They're the complete opposite to Southgate Holden. Smarmy sales people and the service department are crap.

If you're planning to buy on finance, get an SA driver's licence as the stamp duty (around 4% on the purchase price of the car) will be sent to SA gov't by the dealer. Otherwise you'll have to hand over the cash at a Customer Service Centre.

To get your drivers licence you'll need proof of address. If you've recently arrived and don't have anything yet, download a tenancy agreement from http://www.ocba.sa.gov.au/assets/fil...term_lease.pdf and fill it out with whatever details you want. This will be accepted by Transport SA as proof of address.

The time between payment and handing over of keys will depend on where you buy from. For both of ours, we waited a couple of days for the cars to be cleaned/serviced before we picked them up.

HTH

Cheers

Steve

sundropstar

We have been looking on the main south road for a car this week. We have been advised to ask for a discount for cash, ask for the rego and stamp duty to be included and also for some petrol. None of the dealers will budge, they all say no way, cost on forecourt plus all extras-I can't seen to get them to budge-what am I doing wrong?

lonndongeek

Our first car was supplied with with a full tank. The second one was 3/4 full when we picked it up.

The franchise dealers are more likely to give you a car with a full tank of petrol. As for including stamp duty in the cost of the car, just add 4% to the price you negotiate to get an idea of what the stamp duty will be.

Cheers

Steve

Babsw

can't remember guys name but we bought car from him when we first moved to Adelaide, he helped us with a genuine mechanic when we needed one for a second car( we didn't buy that car from him!!!) and also helped us to sell ours before we moved back to UK at no charge. Just remebered-Eddie, bottom of Anzac Highway, just as you go into Glenelg.Originally a brummie from UK.

pumpkin blossom

It depends what price of car you are looking at, but they should drop the price a bit, we have not had one say they can't knock anything off the price. We bought our latest car last week an it was advertised at $2500 and we ended up paying $2000. They wouldn't chuck in rego, but we did get half a tank of petrol.
Hubbie generally just asks what they can do with the price, doesn't even mention cash.

Tiggs+Graz

we had a good chat to the (english) salesman after we bought our car and his opinion was that due to the high price of second hand cars most of the garages only have a small mark up and therefore simply dont have much scope for negotiation.
We picked up our car right at the end of the month when the manager was trying to meet his sales targets so we did get a discount. did try for rego etc but they werent having any of it!

This probably varies depending on the price of the car you are looking at ... we were looking at 10k and under.

ronnie98

has anyone taken there car from the UK and do they have diesel at the pumps

pumpkin blossom

yes they have diesel, seems very expensive.

Sham Williams

Its not as expensive as it is back in the UK!! I drive a Nissan Patrol and it cost me $200 to fill it up yesterday!! But thats both tanks and that will last a few weeks!

We bought her from the Nissan dealer on Main North, had a deal, but then it was 42 degrees and the man did say we were the only ones silly enough to be out buying cars!! But it worked we got all sorts thrown in!!

rab

By far the best option in Adelaide is to visit the Government car auction yard on Marion Road.

As long as you have the cash you can pay for the vehicle after the auction and take it away the same day.

The website is good too. It has a transaction history so you can see the prices at recent sales. The cars are good, never usually more than 2 or 3 years old, with low mileages and often still under warranty. And the prices are always better than dealership prices and you can bid against the dealers to get the better of them. I bought a Subaru Forester at the Fleet SA auction in 2004 and the car's a dream. I would buy there again without question.

http://www.auctions.sa.gov.au/