Find Honda Dealers in Grand Prairie, Texas

Hi everyone! I purchased my 2008 Accord LX-P in Nighthawk black pearl with the light interior on Sept. 29. (Almost the end of the month and all the sales people were desperate...I had about 5 guys come up to me while I waited for the guy that was helping me.) I was looking for a base model LX-P but all of the cars on the lot seemed to be equipped with over a grand in options. My car had $1,387 in options which hiked the MSRP of $22,795 to $24,182. I was able to "drive out" with the extended warranty and TT&L for just under $24,500. I think it was a pretty good deal but just wanted to hear others opinions and experiences. No regrets though! I LOVE THIS CAR and I have had so many people notice it. Jasmin

I just got back from picking up a 07 EX-L slate green/olive Odyssey from Windy City Honda and I must say the experience was a breeze! Sorry about the bad pun. Thanks for all of the great buying advice here. I'd been reading the numerous experiences over the past several months and decided to give the mass email approach a go. I sent one email to 20 different dealers Tues evening and by Thurs morning I had 11 replies. I'm in northern Indiana so I went for both Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus,OH, and three local dealers. The Chicago quotes were all clearly better than anything else. I was very clear in my email what I was looking for, no dealer visits prior to buying and I didn't give them a phone number so they had to limit contact to emails. Windy City gave me the best quote, no high pressure, and had a great selection. I never tried to whittle them down because they gave me a fair price that I was happy with. The great thing was that I was intending to do a cash deal, but the .9% financing would save me another $1200 after taxes so I went for that as well. Here's the breakdown EX-l $27,637 Trunk tray $ 93 Splash guar$ 90 Doc Fee $ 58 sales tax6%$ 1,673 Temp tag $ 10 Cook cty tx$ 15 Out-Door $29,576 I closed the deal on Thurs afternoon over the phone and picked up the van Friday morning. I can't believe how stress free the whole process was. I would definitely recommend trying the email approach if you want to avoid some of the car selling games you get when you visit the dealers. Anybody looking for a good car buying experience in the Chicago area should give Windy City a try. Also had had good communication from Honda of Lisle, Brilliance Honda, Continental Honda, Castle Honda, and Honda on Grand. I'd give a contact name but can't so feel free to email.

The Grand Honda ad has several great prices in the print ad available off their website. I'm in Texas so I don't know if local dealers would honor.... LX - $21860 EX - $24601 EXL - $26500 EXLRES - $28250 EXLRESNAVI - $30250 Touring RES - $31970 Touring RESNAV - $33947 Concerning the 2007 Odyssey, does anyone have knowledge of what price they will be selling for after they are introduced? Will it be closer to MSRP or Invoice?

I see your point but still feel it was Bait and Switch. Just a few hours after she said they had the car I wanted and offered such a low price, I drove to the dealer to find the car. They did not have the car but they did have several others unsold including one in Silver, and one MT. I doubt that in that few hours they got an offer and sold it and the car was gone off the lot. Possible but very doubtful. Neither is what was specified. The e-mail she sent was "boilerplate" and gave very little detailed info other than the blanket statement that they had the car I requested in stock and the price was 18,310 and that was only good on cars in stock. When I spoke to her she just wanted me to come to the dealership. I feel she just wanted to get us there and offer a different car they had on the lot. It felt pretty shaky, and her behavior in e-mails and on the phone was suspect. My gut feeling was to avoid her and dealing with her was wasting my time. In the end I'm glad I did and am happy with the dealer I bought from and actually got a better deal from them (I could never get her to tell me if that included Dest so I assume it didn't). In the end I stand by my opinion. You may want to give her the benefit of the doubt, but you weren't there. When I'm about to spend close to 20 grand on a product, I want to trust the person I'm dealing with. If I have to spend a little more I'd rather buy from someone I feel is being honest, as a matter of principle I try not to reward poor behavior. Even if it costs me a few bucks.

Well, I picked up our EX-L NAV/RES (slate green / gray) Odyssey yesterday and I haven't stopped grinning yet . First off, I gotta say that the experience with David McDavid (Irving, TX) was very positive. Everything went smoothly. They were very attentive throughout and they totally honored the price that we had agreed on 6 weeks ago when I ordered the van. Oddly, the van was actually at the "port" in Fort Worth as of Tuesday and it took until Friday to be trucked to the dealer (30 miles away). I dealt with David McD exclusively through their internet sales people (contacted via edmunds.com initially) and they were very pleasant to work with. I ended up paying $32448 for the van. I think this is around $2000 under the MSRP that was on the sticker that came with it and given how hard it was to find a N/R model in the Dallas area, I'm pretty happy with the price. That price doesn't include D&H ($515), TTL and tax, nor any of the options that I added (fog lights and dealer tint). As I mentioned in other posts, I initially went with Bankston Honda because the "matched" David McD but they basically didn't have a vehicle to sell me and after 1 week of going around in circles I bailed on them and went back to David McD since they had an incoming vehicle that I could "claim". After some fairly light "haggling" they came down on their price to add fog lights. I showed them the price that I could get the parts for at Handa and they came down to $550 installed (from $699) which isn't too bad IMO since it takes a good 3 hours to install them. I'll also have the dealer tint done ($129) when I take the van back for the fog lights. They couldn't beat handa-accessories.com on the cargo tray and splash guards so I'll order those online. BTW, they said they'd give me a loaner while they're working on the van which I though was a nice touch... Note: they also let me put $4500 of the purchase on my credit card = $45 in cash back . Impressions Obviously, I've had the van for less than 24 hours so far so these are just very early impressions. == Good == I'm finding that the van is very quiet so far. It compares very favorably with our 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan and is much quieter than my 2004 Honda CRV (EX). The NAV is really neat. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it is possible to get your current elevation via the "current location" option (I know -- I'm a techno geek ). I had misinterpreted some earlier posts to mean that there was *no* way to see your elevation at all -- I now think these meant that this isn't shown (real time) on the main display (which would be nice). Its also neat how you can have the NAV display with north up (so the van heading arrow rotates while the map orientation is fixed) or with "van heading up" so the map rotates to follow your direction (and the little compass shows you where north is). I think the sound system is fine. The sound is really quite good at moderate volume levels -- all its really missing IMO is a 3-band equalizer so you can reduce the slightly harsh "highs" (particularly vocals) without compromising the mid-range. I don't tend to be "allowed" to really crank the sound when driving with my family so I think that the premium sound system (Touring) would have been overkill for our situation (not that I don't appreciate a good sound system -- I've been slowly upgrading my CRV's sound system because I drive that by myself a lot more). If you like to play your music loud (and will be allowed to), you will probably find that there's more distortion than you like. The XM is really nice -- I'm going to be pretty darn tempted to subscribe before the 90 days are up. I suspect we'll end up ignoring all but a few of the stations though... Apart from the glovebox issue (see below), the fit & finish seems to be *very* good so far. I really like the interior. No creaks / rattles so far... == Bad == Nothing major so far. I have to agree with the comments on the steering wheel being just a bit farther away than I'd like. I'll probably end up keeping the seat a bit closer than I would otherwise and I'll tilt the steering wheel down as far as it will go and hold onto the bottom part much of the time. Access to the 3rd row seat is slightly difficult for our kids (5 through 10) and we've removed the plus one seat for now so they can get through that way. Being able to seat 8 people on occasion is still a bit plus for us. Not sure about how hard its going to be to find things on the instrument panel at night -- it seems like lots of the buttons (climate control, audio controls) aren't lit? The lower glovebox seems to be slightly "protruding" on the right side. I might get the dealer to compare ours with other Odysseys on the lot -- I'm not sure if this is normal (basically the lower glovebox isn't flush with the rest of the dash on the right side -- it sticks out maybe 1/4 inch). Not a huge deal... Note: this isn't the "gap" problem that many people have noticed (with the upper glovebox? -- I think). Afaict, I have that too (you can kind of see into the upper glovebox) but it doesn't seem too noticeable to me. From what I can tell, XM shows you the station name as you switch to it and the name of each new song as it starts to play. It would be nice if the FM had this also (RDS). People with young kids will find it a bit of a pain to get DVDs playing since you can't see the screen and it doesn't pivot like some of the aftermarket ones. Our kids should be old enough to figure out how to do this (probably as long as you have a > 6 year old back there you should be fine). Some of the latches / levers etc. for modifying seat positions are a little harder to use than I'd like. I was a little nervous folding the 3rd row seat into the floor since I had to pull pretty hard on the lever for doing this and it doesn't feel all that solid (I think the Sienna had the same issues). This is my fault for wanting all these gadgets but, man, are there a lot of buttons / options to figure out. I might have to take a week off work to study the 400 page main manual (not to mention the additional manuals and information for the NAV, XM etc. and the Odyssey DVD etc.). == Other == This is kinda embarassing but I had alexmish's excellent check list with me and I'd been preparing for several days to go through it in detail before going anywhere near the final paperwork. I did manage to check a few of the items but after doing a quick test drive I was, like, "Where do I sign!?" . Fortunately I've now had the time to go over things in more detail and I haven't found anything amiss so far . Someone at the dealership recommended just leaving the headlights on all the time -- they'll turn off 30 seconds after you turn the van off... Not sure about that yet... One of things from the alexmish list that I did manage to check (before my emotions got the best of me ) was the NAV DVD version number (it wa