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Re: Final Repair Attempt!! [redrabit54]

by bspotten on Thu Nov 06 10:40:28 PST 2008

I had the same problem. My dealer did fix it after trying three times. The only problem is that the dealer that fixed it is gone now. You might be able to contact someone at there other location. The one that closed was Ideal Pontiac in Middletown , Maryland. You might be able to find out from the service manager who the manager of the pontiac dealer use to be. Here is their web site. http://www.idealautogroup.com/

Please Help!

by hold31 on Fri Sep 19 08:40:21 PDT 2008

O.k i went to Honda and they are offering me this:Car is a 4 dr sedan w/ navi. Auto, not v6. Black with black leather. Thanks all who respond 26,500 for car 4,000 trade on my semi ,o.k 02 altima 78,200 miles with a dent on side --------------- 22,500 1,828 sales tax at 8.125% 45 dealers optional fee for processing 74.50 registration fee 10 inspection fee 12.50 nys waste tire ---------------- $24,470.13 4,000 cash down ------------ 20,470.13 I am finacing through my bank at 6.5% for 60 months. Is this their final offer on the car? I signed vechile cash agreement form but did not leave a deposit or anything. Middletown ny,

Should I ? Please help!

by hold31 on Fri Sep 19 05:45:56 PDT 2008

O.k i went to Honda and they are offering me this:Car is a 4 dr sedan w/ navi. Auto, not v6. Black with black leather. Thanks all who respond 26,500 for car 4,000 trade on my semi ,o.k 02 altima 78,200 miles with a dent on side --------------- 22,500 1,828 sales tax at 8.125% 45 dealers optional fee for processing 74.50 registration fee 10 inspection fee 12.50 nys waste tire ---------------- $24,470.13 4,000 cash down ------------ 20,470.13 I am finacing through my bank at 6.5% for 60 months. Is this their final offer on the car? I signed vechile cash agreement form but did not leave a deposit or anything. Middletown ny,

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by hold31 on Tue Sep 16 19:43:46 PDT 2008

O.k I have been shopping all day between Nissan and Honda. I tried the 09 altima but I liked the 09 accord due to its navigation system and interior look. Ok., here goes the tricky stuuf. I had my 02 altima for trade in and they were willing to give me $6000 for it. I told the sales man I wanted what the accord had but he said that was not possible abotu the navi. Then when I told him I ws going to go to honda , he told me to hold up. He rhen cam e back with an offer to get the 09 altima with nvi system and rear view camera , moonroof heated seat, etc. Oh, this was a 2.5 sl4 cylinder. He told me it would be a connection paackadge as well as a tech package deal. I had to keep my payment at 350 0r no higher then 360 a month. Originally that is what we had. As soon as i made a 500$ deposit , his manger came over and told me that he could only give me $4500 for my trade in since it had a little damge to it and i had custom rims on it. Now my payment was going to be $395. He told me if I bought my factory wheel back he would give me an extra $500. So now the trade in would be $5000. He told me the MSRP was at 3032? Now when I asked about where the car was coming from because it was not on the lot , he told me from anther dealership. I had to go back and get my paystubbs and proof of residence and he said he would check with his finace people to see what rate i would get. I was already preapproved at my credit union and the ytold me my payment would be at 350 a month.I told him that and that is when they said they wouldcheck through their finace . I came back later but they said they could not get in tiouch with anybody becuase it was late in the day and to give them to til tommorow morning to come p with something. Am i getting screwd here.? I read about obtaining my deposit back but i am not sure. My mother used her debit card to put down the 500. Thonda the guy told me that i would alos have to wait till tommrow to see what percent the can give me. What do I do? I hope i will not have a hard time getting my money back if i decide not to get the Altima. I can afford to m ake a payment of 450 a month. Oh, the dealership is Middletown of Nissan

Maxima woes

by carcass29 on Fri Sep 12 09:39:21 PDT 2008

Hello all, this is my first post and just wanted to share this. I went to purchase 2009 Maxima SV premium package in Silver for MSRP $36,465 at Middletown Nissan/ Kia in upstate NY leased at 479 month 15000mi 39 month term. Salesman's name is John....said that this price was negotiable and once qualified we would talk about getting me a better deal. Approval went through and gave them insurance info...everything still going smooth. They register it(get the plates) and insurance and call me to say they had the car shipped from other location to come in and do the final paper work...car is on site and ready to go. So I ask the salesman upon arrival "hey lets talk about that price per month and MSRP"(In Jersey and NYC) this exact model is $34,500-600 MSRP... the same vehicle with the premium package. He acts like he doesn't know what I'm talking about in front of the finance manager saying, " I never said we would discuss price?" WTF? All of a sudden the monthly payment shoots up to $525 a month....hahaha imagine that. Oh and due to my credit not being perfect was the reasoning behind this price....credit is not as bad as they said it was....I checked months ago. They basically said I signed a paper to approve this price (contract)which I didn't...it was just to show I paid $100 cash to show that I paid for them to run my credit! Do not give these guys any money up front...they made me pay $100 saying they could not check my backround without it. Make you sign a paper that you gave them the 100 as a receipt but really later on they are saying that you really signed contract. I'll be calling the better business bureau if I don't get my $100 back....BEWARE of these scammers! Unbelievable!

Saccucci Honda vs Honda of America Latest News

by joconnor on Thu Sep 11 11:57:19 PDT 2008

Honda's family squabble Using hints from Honda field reps, a small Rhode Island dealership began taking service contract business away from Honda stores around the country. Guess who got mad. Kathy Jackson Automotive News | September 8, 2008 - 12:01 am EST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — There was something about young, apple-cheeked Gardiner Reynolds that Honda field reps liked. A couple of them took the energetic, Gen Y computer whiz under their wings. In the process, they helped Reynolds save his grandmother's small, struggling Rhode Island auto dealership, Saccucci Honda. Reynolds, now 28, oversees one of the nation's top-selling retail Web sites for Honda parts and accessories. Another site he launched at Saccucci Honda may be the No. 1 retailer of Honda-backed extended warranties. These days, the little dealership can hold its own with much larger stores. It sells a huge number of service contracts at cost and rakes in factory bonus money based on volume. The Honda execs were so impressed with the kid's online operation — which has only two employees — that they brought executives from Japan to see for themselves. American Honda Finance Corp.'s finance and insurance zone manager once stood up at a dealer meeting and called Saccucci Honda's Internet business: "American capitalism at its best." But not everyone was thrilled. When several big Honda dealerships around the country began to complain about losing business to Saccucci's Web site, Honda got the message. The automaker put a stop to the online sales of Honda-backed warranties. Saccucci sued and now the dispute is in court. Monthly supplements Internet sales have provided a nice niche for Saccucci Auto Group. Here’s how the dollars are flowing from cyberspace. WEB SITE WHAT IT SELLS MONTHLY REVENUES hondapartsdeals.com Honda parts and accessories $200,000-300000 myhondawarranty.com Honda extended warranties $200,000 myfordwarranty.com Ford/Lincoln Mercury extended warranties $60,000 The answer: The Web Saccucci Honda hasn't had it easy this decade. Honda is having a good year, but the dealership's sales and profit margins on sales of new vehicles are dropping. The family-owned dealership has a tiny customer base on the island city of Middletown, R.I., with a population of 16,000. And right down the road, Boston-based Ernie Boch operates the largest Honda dealership in the country — famous throughout New England for ubiquitous TV commercials urging customers to "come on down" for the deals. Saccucci Honda's owners — 83-year-old Cora Saccucci and her two daughters, Barbara, 56, and Carol, 53 — are a conservative bunch. For years, they knew only one way to do business — the old-fashioned way. Then in 2006, Honda executives began applying pressure. In letters to the Saccuccis, they complained about the dealership's lack of working capital and the store's outdated facility, which also houses a Lincoln Mercury franchise. Automotive News http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/ANA0... 1 of 4 9/11/2008 14:55 The Saccucci women worried and began looking for an answer. It turned out to be right under their noses: Barbara's son Gardiner, a 2003 computer science graduate from Providence College. The field reps took an immediate liking to Reynolds. They had begun pushing dealers to turn to e-commerce — and the kid seemed to have the right stuff. "Honda would bring people in from Japan and say, 'Look what this kid has done,' " Barbara Saccucci said during court testimony here last month. "We make very little if any net profit on new and used-car sales. With Gardiner, I felt we were on the right track to enter the new millennium." ENLARGE Computer whiz Gardiner Reynolds, the son of one of the dealership owners, capitalized on Internet sales to expand the tiny store's customer base. Photo credit: NEAL HAMBERG Vital to bottom line But after complaints from Honda's National Dealer Advisory Board, the automaker decided that beginning April 1, it would prohibit Honda and Acura dealers from selling Honda-backed extended service contracts online. On March 28, Saccucci Honda won a temporary restraining order. The dealer council says Saccucci's low-priced online contracts were undercutting other dealers' in-house sales of service contracts and damaging the brand image. Barbara Saccucci says the online sales keep her in business. "Honda has a pump-in, pump-out list that shows where we have sold out of market and where others have sold in," she says. "We lose sales to other markets all of the time, so we have to work hard on the phone and the Internet to bring in sales. "This is an important part of our bottom line," she adds. "We may have to reconsider keeping the franchise if they take" away the online sales. Saccucci Auto Group was founded in the 1950s by Cora's husband, Michael Saccucci, who died in 1984. Michael was the general manager of a Lincoln Mercury store in nearby Newport, R.I. He acquired the franchise from the owner and in 1968, bought 5.5 acres in Middletown and moved the Lincoln Mercury store to the site. The Honda franchise was added in 1978. These days, the store sells about 80 to 100 new and used Hondas monthly and has 53 employees in the small, aging Automotive News http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/ANA0... 2 of 4 9/11/2008 14:55 dealership. Cora, working alongside her husband, handled jobs in all parts of the dealership and brought in the girls to keep it a family affair. Each of the women owns one-third of the business. "My husband always told me he would die before me," says Cora, an octogenarian who comes to the store every day. "He told me not to ever take on a partner and, if I do sell the franchise, to keep the land," which court records show is valued at nearly $3 million. The three women hope to pass the franchise on to Reynolds and his 23-year-old cousin, Michael Meyer, Carol's son and the store's sales manager. Building business "When Gardiner came to the business, he knew how to make the Internet work," Barbara said. "Everybody at Honda and at the dealership were happy because they knew this was a new revenue source." Reynolds started in sales when he joined the dealership out of college. According to court testimony, he soon came under the mentoring of Dan Enderley, the dealership's parts and service rep from American Honda. Enderley "felt the Internet was the future; he lit that fire in me," Reynolds said. "He came by often and would take me out to lunch. He knew we were small and thought we were too caught up in the family dealership. He thought the Internet could help us compete with bigger stores." Under Enderley's tutelage, Reynolds launched Hondapartsdeals.com in May 2004. The Web site initially sold only accessories. The next year, Reynolds added Honda's entire parts business, which brings in $200,000 to $300,000 a month. That's the same amount the dealership sells in parts a