New(used) Yaris for me...

[guzziknight]

Hi All,

On Monday, Memorial Day, I bought an 08 Yaris S sedan. The car had 17,300 miles, automatic and power package. I think they were really needing to sell it over the holiday weekend. They dropped the price from $14K to $12K, and with the trade of my 08 Civic, I got it for $10,500 out the door. Pretty good price. I'm real happy with it so far. Wish it was a manual, but I'll live with the auto.

Here are a couple of pics.

Yaniv

[Tamago]

nice looking car! looks READY for a drop!

[SIPNGAS]

It looks nice! Welcome to Yaris World... :o)

[guzziknight]

Originally Posted by Tamago

nice looking car! looks READY for a drop!

Would love to, but since I bought this car because my finances are tight, that'll have to wait a bit.

[SailDesign]

Welcome! Nice to see another convert.

[Tamago]

keep an eye out for a good set of used springs, should be able to get the car a little lower for under a couple hundred including labor :)

[guzziknight]

Originally Posted by Tamago

keep an eye out for a good set of used springs, should be able to get the car a little lower for under a couple hundred including labor :)

Been checking Ebay, but for other things. I'll look at springs next time. Would I need anything else, or just the springs?

Thanks!

[1NZYaris1]

Welcome , looks nice ,
New springs will set you back $100+ US depending on brand.
look at www.microimageonline.com he's a vendor on here , he can sort
you out when you are ready , goes by cali yaris on here .

[The little red pill]

Pretty car. IMHO, you should just enjoy your car with the stock suspension, especially since you have the ground effects with the "S" package. Lowering a car looks good, but in places like Oklahoma with bad roads, it would not be a good idea. lol.

[wooverstone8]

Congrats on getting a good deal on a great car and welcome to YW.

[Cosworth]

Congrats!

I actually saw that car last Sunday at Curry. (Down in ATL for the week.) It surely looked real nice. :)

Q: So, did you get your out-the-door price since you had some equity in your '08 Civic? Or, was that the out-the-door price w/o any trade-in or cash down?

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[guzziknight]

Originally Posted by Cosworth

Congrats!

I actually saw that car last Sunday at Curry. (Down in ATL for the week.) It surely looked real nice. :)

Q: So, did you get your out-the-door price since you had some equity in your '08 Civic? Or, was that the out-the-door price w/o any trade-in or cash down?

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Here was my situation:

I owed $13,800 on my Civic, an 08 EX 5 speed. My payments were $300/month. I needed to get my payments downs as low as possible. There were very few new cars that would fit the bill, so I started to look at used. I had to get one with a warranty, since it wouldn't make sense to give up the one I still had on the Civic. It looked like I was going to get a Kia Rio, since the price was right, and it was a pretty nice car. I decided to go to Curry, just to see what they had. The only thing that was close to my price range, which was around $10,000, was the Yaris S, at $12,000. The sales guy asked me what I needed it to be at, I told him. he said he didn't think they could go that low, but he'll check. He comes back and say they could do the deal. I asked to see the numbers. They lowered the price of the Yaris to $11,300, then gave my $15,500 for the Civic(previous best offer was $14K from the Kia dealer). Since the trade in was more than the new car, I didn't have to pay sales tax. When it was all said and done, it was $10,500 out the door with a payment of $183/month.

They really wanted my Civic, and had the Yaris for 42 days and really wanted to sell it. It was a right place, right time thing.

I spent about 3 1/2 hours at the dealership working the deal. For the first time in my life, I came out ahead when buying a car!

[yaris-me]

Fantastic deal! Wow!

[mryaris]

Originally Posted by guzziknight

For the first time in my life, I came out ahead when buying a car!

Heh.....I'm a charter member of the "buy high, sell low" club.

Congrats on the Yaris!

[guzziknight]

Originally Posted by mryaris

Heh.....I'm a charter member of the "buy high, sell low" club.

Congrats on the Yaris!

I'm usually in that club!

[nemelek]

What happened to the other $900. 15,500 - 13,800 = 1,700. 11,300 - 1,700 = 9,600. The difference between out the door of $10,500 and 9,600 is $900.

[guzziknight]

Originally Posted by nemelek

What happened to the other $900. 15,500 - 13,800 = 1,700. 11,300 - 1,700 = 9,600. The difference between out the door of $10,500 and 9,600 is $900.

I don't have the paperwork on me, but there were the usual dealer fees, even though it was a used car. Prep, etc.

They way I looked at it, i got a car with a KBB of $15K+ for $10.5K. Pretty good deal to me.

[YarisOwnersDad]

Yeah, regardless of what the missing $900 went for, you got a KILLER deal in my opinion.

Tomster