Effing car dealers, their salesmen and the process of buying a new car.
Buying a new motor (the Lexus is almost 10 years old now), and decided on a Toyota Yaris Cross. Haggled a bit as you do, and agreed a deal involving a contribution from Toyota that depends on a finance deal for at least part of the price. I was happy, they agreed, and all I needed was to wait a bit for my car to be delivered.
Now the fun starts. The salesman is effing useless at actually doing stuff. I put my private plate on retention, then he tells me I need to pay them £80 to put a private plate on. Having disabused him of that, he then says I need to pay £26 for the plates. I point out that the deal was 'on the road', plates included, so just make up the plate with my number. His excuse is that they make up the plates as soon as they are allocated a number - coming up to a new plate year I very much doubt that unless they are daft!
Next is the Finance deal, he says he will send it, then he has to agree a handover date first. Then he asks if I have it andc I point out he hasn't sent it yet. Then he sends it and it is some weird video format that fails to verify me after asking some daft and innane questions and just sends me back to the dealer. Snotogram just sent, send me something I can print out and sign in ink!
FFS, I am close to demanding my deposit back and telling Toyota to stuff it. There are similar and comparable cars out there with less hasssle.
