Would you buy a car from a dealer that stuck a dealer (ad) plaque or sticker on cars?
 

Ok, you're shopping for a new FR-S or BRZ. You get the price you want, but you notice the dealer sticks hard plaques or super adhesive stickers to the back of all the cars w/ some gaudy dealer logo (e.g. BRANSON'S TOYOTA / SCION of Tempe).


Is this a deal breaker for you?

Why or why not?

in my case not really, I think every vehicle I owned or friends owned, I ended up removing them with goo gone, fingernail or fishing line carefully to not ruin the paint. Usually took all of 5 minutes to remove it. Then just to wash, clean and wax that area.

Wow... erm no... um because it is a little bitty sticker :-s
Goo-Gone = job done

My car came with a dealer sticker. Peeled the sticker off with my fingers, it took 10 minutes though. No glue or marks left...

My last two cars had dealer stickers/plaques. I asked the dealers to remove them. They did.

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Oregon dealers do not do it thank goodness, but if they did then I would not be happy

Are they paying me to advertise for them? If not I will make them take it off. It will be my car, not theirs.

Not anywhere close to being a dealbreaker. It's messier removing tape residue from the sticker/info sheet stuck on the window. I'm guessing OP never debadged a car before. :iono:

Goooo gone!

My hair dryer and Griot Polishing machine will take car of that.

i never had a car w/ one. but one of my friends bought a car in college w/ a dealer plaque. he tried to take it off, but the dealer had superglued it on.

he was not happy :mad0259:

I've bought a car with dealer badge and sticker on the car before, and before I left after the car purchase I just ask them to remove it and usually they don't mind and do it. So lol just ask ....depends on what time of the day sometimes you have to leave the car over night. If you askn nicely XD so I selected

Something else.

I usually ask dealers not to put on the stickers or their license plate frames, since both will be tossed in the trash. I tell them so it saves them time and money, and it saves me time and aggravation. It also voices my displeasure with those kinds of ads.

It was much worse back in the days when some dealers would drill and rivet their plaques onto your cars.

Or superglue. I don't think it's possible to remove a superglued one w/o ruining the paint, or at the very least clearcoat.

My 2009 Corolla XRS had a sticker on it, I would have asked them not to put a sticker on, but it was already on there. I pulled it off when I got the car, it came off easily.

Lexus doesn't put stickers on, they use plate frames. When I showed up to get the car, they asked me if I wanted one. I said no, and my car arrived with no dealer markings. :)

To me, I would always ask that it never be put on in the first place, if it's already on there, it depends what kind of sticker it is, some are easy to get off, some aren't. Either way, it would be coming off. I'd either ask them to do it before I picked up the car, or get a car that didn't have one on it (perhaps order it).

Jeff

Also make sure they don't drill your front bumper for the license plate bracket. I personally dont want one and they put holes in that shit in the blink of an eye.

My car has a sticker from the dealer, no big deal, but they already know I'm most likely trading my car back in for the BRZ. So it doesn't matter to me now, but I'll make sure they know what I want when the BRZ comes in so it better be meticulous and ready to go.

Here's an idea, why doesn't the dealer pay me for their 8-10 years of advertising?

You literally NEVER see this in California. If you see a car with it its a dead giveaway that the car came from out of state, even if it has ca plates. Every ca license plate car I've seen with these had an out of state dealer name. This practice is an abomination if you ask me. If I lived out of state I would ask the dealer to take it off but if I ever saw a ca dealer do it I would walk away. I can't understand why practically the entire rest of the country puts up with that crap. Do some people actually like it?

I don't think anybody likes it. The only ones I have seen around my area (LA, Pasadena, etc.) is Carmax (sticker) and Lexus of Glendale (they put a chrome "of Glendale" right under the "Lexus" badge).

The California car culture has probably kept this from happening here. One of the few things about CA culture that is better than most of the rest of the country. :sigh:

-Charlie

I've asked dealers to not put them on cars we've bought new, and all of them agreed. I don't know what I'd do if I went to a dealer (our local Honda/Chevy/Caddy dealer for example) that puts them on the trunk as soon as the car goes on its lot. I'll humor them and take a license plate frame knowing it won't last the week.

putting it on a lexus? wow. they have balls.

i almost never see them on high end cars. especially not on Mercedes or BWM. I wonder if they have rules preventing the dealers from doing it.

I need to remind my dealer not to put on their stupid stickers or plate frames. And not to drill the front bumper for plates.

are you sure it wasn't Lexus of Glendale (Arizona)?

My moms E550 has a Big ol' "Park Place" badge on it. It's disgusting and I might remove it soon. But shows you how even merc dealers do it.

Unless a LOT of people from Glendale AZ just moved to the Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena area, yes. :bonk: They are only on what looks like <5 year old cars from there. Its enough to make me avoid the place, that's for sure...

The Carmax thing I understand - it is a national company and they ship cars all over (to and from places where its more acceptable). Once again though, I probably wouldn't buy a car there.

-Charlie

Edit - I just went to the Lexus of Glendale (CA) website - if you search their used cars section, you can see the badging...

I would buy a license plate frame that attaches to the toe hook or something and tell the dealer not to put the badges and not to drill the holes in the front bumper. If they are willing to, which they would probably be if I just bought a car from them, I would ask them to install the license plate frame for me.

Dealers here think they're fully entitled to do it. Nothing looks worse than a brand new car with a massive yellow ad plastered, usually unevenly, onto the rear windscreen.

I'll be making it very clear that if I see a hint of any of that shit on my 86 I'm walking away.

It'd be a custom order so I'd instruct them to leave the protective cellophane on the car, don't wash it, don't drill it, don't stick anything on it. If the price was right and they already had a dealer sticker/badge on it, I'd have no problem with removing it unless it was drilled into the car, and I've never seen that. Planned on debadging the car a bit anyway, so it'd just make more work for me.

As noted above, you rarely see it in Cali. Instead, they use a plastic license plate frame with the dealer's name and city on it. Easily removed and usually the first thing to go on my cars/motorcycles.

Do you mean like this?

http://www.a1talk.de/attachments/mar...k-p1010461.jpg

I would want to take it off, but I would probably end up forgetting about it and just leave it on.

No, they mean like this "Team Toyota" decal (random photo I found online):

http://www.parish-without-borders.ne...ics/label0.jpg

I voted "something else." If I was ordering a brand new car, I would ask that they not put their advertisement on it, but if they mistakenly did so anyway - it's easy enough to remove. It would not be a deal-breaker for me.

GrimmSpeed has a Subaru tow hook plate frame relocation kit for most models. I was really thinking about ordering one to see if any fit/if they need to modify it in any way.

In 1967 My wife and I ordered a new yellow Mustang fastback GT. I specifically stipulated no dealer logo on the back. This dealership logo had two pins in the back that required two holes to be drilled in the trunk. We went to pick up the car and there was the logo. We refused to take delivery and they got another new car for us.

The last two new cars we bought the dealerships (both different) used the stick on type logos. We simply had them remove the logos before we took the cars off their lots.

I can deal with pulling a sticker, but if the dealer puts rivets in I would walk away for sure.

-Zach

At least half of the new (and many of the used ones as well) cars I've bought over the years have had dealer stickers/plaques mounted on their rear. I've removed all of them, never had an issue with paint damage. None of them have been drilled to mount, I can't see dealers doing that in this day and age, much easier and cheaper to slap a decal of plaque on with double stick tape. Drilling the bumper is another matter. I will refuse a car for that.

My dealer did a full badge for me so I could install the Toyota badges. They also did not install their badges at my request.

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This happened to me. I told them when they were prepping it that I didn't want it. It had one and I told them to remove it or the deals off. They did, and there was no damage. Luckily it was just a puffy sticker, not a decal.

Mine came with chrome plate frames with the dealer name on it.. saved me time from removing stickers :)