About to buy a 2004 X3 3.0 in 2 hours.....HELP!!!!

kaibong

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I am about to purchase a 2004 X3 3.0 Titanium Silver from a dealer in SoCal. The car has the sport package, xenon headlights, navigation system, privacy glass, panarama moonroof, sport package and aluminum trim (weird coz i thought aluminum trim has to come with premium package).

The dealer is selling it for $400 over invoice. How does this sound?

I configured this car on Kelly Blue Book and the invoice price comes out to be $42100. The salesman told me the invoice price that they have for this car is $43200 but he doesn't have the breakdown of every option. He told me that there is a difference between the price in KBB and the dealership price because the following costs were incurred in the invoice price and was not shown on KBB:
1) Advertising costs
2) Training costs
3) PDI (Pre-Delivery Inspection)
And 4 other costs that he doesn't remember. He also told me this does not include the Destination Charge.

Is this true??
What should I do?

Any input is appreciated. TIA.
 

kaibong

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But do those costs really exists? Are they suppose to be included in the invoice?

1) Advertising costs
2) Training costs
3) PDI (Pre-Delivery Inspection)
And 4 other costs
 

mikemou

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post it on other forums to confirm

they might, but those are BS on my book (and kelly's, too).
 
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kaibong

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Thanks everyone for the help

I finally bought the car.
But before I paid, I inspected the car and found scrates at the front plastic bottom (I think someone hit the dip). I told the sales manager to give me the car for invoice price but he said he can't do it and rather get someone to try to fix it for me so I will have to bring my car in to the dealer again tommorrow. It was $350 over invoice but I had to pay for all those costs (PDI, floor mats etc).

And I also bought the factory alarm and LoJack for $1450.

Once again, thank you for the help!!~
I appreciate it.
 
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congrats on the buy...i think it was a good deal, when we were looking at my car we thought of the X3, and we got the price and i think it was 1400-1700 above invoice so i think you got a good deal...post some pics when you have it back!!!
 


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