Member - Axle replied:

Hi Mark.

Its the dealers that sell second hand vechicles only that are questionable!.

New car dealerships do have to keep some sort of reputation.( sort of ).

Cheers Axle.

Motherhen replied:

You should see what they try when 2 females come looking (like when i took elder daughter shopping for a first car when my husband was overseas) - and subtly trying to find if there is Dad lurking somewhere to catch them out.

The next year when shopping for elder son's first (4wd), we got SGIO checks on the first few and passed them by. This was going to be expensive - so on the next 4wd where we were told it was perfect, my husband said - do you mind if we do a check? Then husband and son pulled on greasy overalls, got out tools and started the check the SGIO guy had done. The salesman rapidly came in with what was wrong with the clutch and anything else he thought these 'mechanics' were about to find. Another vehicle passed by.

I'm sure they are not all tarred with the same brush - just a few give them all the reputation of being sharks.

Alloy c/t replied:

Trust + car dealer ??? in the same sentence ???? bloody hell you planning on giving us all a heart attack , physical impossibility to get 2 true words out of any of them being that their so called "job" is to extract the maximum $ for each and every vehicle ,, bought a jackaroo once ,with "books" one owner ,sold privately 2yrs later , saw in yard 2days later , advert stated "1 owner ,all books " was 4k dearer than we originally bought it for 2yrs previously with the kicker that the yard was the same as we had bought from originally. car salesmen/women couldnt lie straight in bed even with a 6ft piece of 4x2 strapped to their back.

Member - Tonester (VIC) replied:

ha, yeah. I had a Jack before my prado, the 2nd hand dealer I bought it from was one of the few people in life who can't utter a sentence or two without impressing total distrust! Not all like that of course, but geez this one was a ripper.

F4Phantom replied:

One time I thought it would be cool to be a car salesman. I sold new and used cars at a new car place. I lasted 3 weeks. The sales guys would walk in after being really nice to someone and swear about them. The thing is there is two sides to the story, see most people who walked in actually didnt tell the truth either, I dont know what it is but its as if telling the truth will get you a worse deal. I have spoken to sales guys both truthfully and also with a 'story' and if your honest I think it is probably better. Saying that the sales guys are mostly at fault and especially in used cars its cause they cant work anywhere else. Its a case of 99.99% of the shoddy used car guys ruin it for the rest.