[Celadrielas]

When I purchased my vehicle, I did what a lot are saying... I haggled on my trade in. Though I hated the dealership I ended up going with due to local rumor, and I did have issues with the dealership, I did feel positive about what I was paying.

I traded in my 2007 Subaru Impreza 2.5i for $5,000 - it had less than 100,000 miles on it, but had pretty extensive damage to it from a dresser that fell off a moving truck less than a week prior. I didn't want to file a claim, so I just traded it in. What I traded for was a 2013 certified pre-owned asphalt 6spd MT. Fr-S had 10,679 miles on it when I bought and had that bullshit pile of shit stereo in it at the time.

I did the letter method as the person above. I sent letters to all dealers within 50 miles and stated I will consider all resonable offers on new or used, Then basically pitted the dealers against each other when I narrowed it down to 3 dealerships.

Ruben, my first sales guy, was a lying idiot. so I used that to my advantage when I threatened to walk. I was not nice to him at all. I got him to write me an offer, and then told him I would think about it. Came back two days later (since it really was the best offer after trade in) and told the next man, Chris, I would do business with him as long as I didn't have to even so much as see or look at Ruben. Then handed over the written, unsigned contract and said, "I want it lower."

After some haggling, I didn't get any lower price than the paper had ($18,500) but I did get a new set of tires, one extra year of registration (Now good through july of 2015), and the upgraded touch screen stereo, and a lower interest rate. After all taxes, licensing, gap, and the extended 100,000 mile warranty, my total was $21,151 @ 3.2% interest.


Your best bet, in my opinion, is to run multiple dealerships if you can and have patience, then pick the best price. If one dealer will do it, they all can on a similar deal. I only had the subaru for trade and no money down.