Any tips or tricks to get the dealership to throw in a warranty when buying a used car?
Buying a Honda Element with 150k miles. Any way to get them to throw in a 6 month warranty or something? They are asking retail for the vehicle.
Ask for it as a condition of sale. If not, there are plenty more Honda Elements with 150K on them.
The BEST way to get something is to ASK for it. If you DON'T ask, you'll NEVER get it.
If you are buying from a Honda dealer and they have a CPO (certified preowned) program, yes, you might get up to 90 days warranty. Otherwise no. That's a lot of miles to expect nothing to go wrong in 6 months. You'd be lucky to get more than 30 days or 1,000 miles from a dealer.
Personally, I never buy used cars from dealers because they charge high retail price. I take my time and look for clean, well cared for 1-owner private sales. If you know what you're doing (I'm guessing you don't) then you can save $500 to $1000 on price, plus sales tax which in many places is another 5-10% added on.
Tell them to throw it in or your leaving.
They will just talk you into an expensive used car warranty!
Use it as a bargaining tool. State you want it included with the purchase and if they say no, start walking towards the exit.
Anything you buy is retail price… All you can do is ask
You won't ever know if you don't ask. Recently got a private seller down 1500 bucks on a decent car for my son because I figured what the hell. Seller wasn't thrilled and let it be known, but did the deal
With that kind of mileage, it's likely at least 8 years old. No one is going to include any sort of legit warranty with it.
Your only hope is to get a good mechanic to check it out before you buy.
Hi so here is how it works if it was a car with less than 40 k miles on it yes most would give you some sort of warranty. As a cars life is just 100k miles as the maker has designed it to do 100k miles then anything beyond that mileage is not an economical viability. So no chance with getting that. There are companies who will warranty but at a price which you have to pay for. Age is another important issue under 3 years old it might get a warranty of 3 months. However over 7 years for get it.
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