BenK91

Has anyone had any experience with swapping a car out for another (same dealership) that you finance your current car with?

Not necessarily looking at doing it but just curious as to whether you can!

Pulaski

Yes, of course you can. Dealers will fall over themselves to take your still-financed vehicle and swap you into a nice new vehicle.

chawkins99

As long as there's profit in it for them. Expect to be ripped off.

ETA: I bought a car from Carmax. Decided after a couple of weeks I didn't like it (under-powered).

Took it back and 'swapped' for my current drive. I lost about $1,500 on the car in 2 weeks.

Carmax offer a 5-day money-back guarantee but I missed that deadline.

BenK91

Thanks guys, had a feeling that would probably the answer $!

Also I have my court date tomorrow for my speeding ticket, I'm lawyer'd up and will update once I'm done emptying my pockets!

Pulaski

Oh! I think you'll find they do that for you.

Boomhauer

Love the Citroen DS, such a gorgeous iconic design.

SultanOfSwing

Yeah, our dealership was sending me cards in the mail before my car was even a year old offering to buy it back. I have received two cards from some sales guy there this year saying he really needs my 2014 car for his inventory and will give me an 'aggressive' price for it.

Somehow I doubt his version of 'aggressive' will match mine.

BenK91

Just got back from court.

I got caught at 90 in a 55. Which was a 6 point ticket and around a $5/600 fine with court fees.

Lawyer plead me down to a 3 point "unsafe lane change" ticket and a $140 fine. Pretty happy with that, now not to repeat what I did!

tom169

Wow, it's quite amazing how lawyers can be so effective over here.

BenK91

Yeah I couldn't quite believe it. Definitely worth the money.

A guy in front of me without a lawyer was caught at 91 in a 55 in the exact same spot as me and he got a license suspension for 30 days and a $550 fine so...

rbackhouse

Sounds like a good result. Consider buying a radar detector and use Waze for police notifications. Between the 2 you can reduce the chance of repeating if you are going to continue speeding 15 over or more

BenK91

I do use Waze but sadly no bugger had reported them sitting there

Will definitely look into a radar detector although someone said to me they were illegal?!

rbackhouse

Not in most states. Virginia is one where they are banned. You might be thinking of radar jammers which are illegal everywhere.

BenK91

Ah okay, I'll check them out. I'm fairly certain Cartoys or one of those kinda places stocks them.

chawkins99

You can buy them at Walmart.