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Musiclover08

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Hi everyone. So I decided to purchase a M3, put down the deposit and have been waiting since October last year for the car. I'm dealing with Sandton Auto and I have been told that my car should be here in july/august. I was just wondering if I should cancel the car and tell BMW to bugger off or wait for it. Secondly, anyone dealt with Sandton Auto? Positive or negative review of them?

Thanks
 
Damn, bro....M3....people take their business elsewhere when the Hyundai dealer takes one week too long for an Atos.....

unless its packed with all the stuff you want, it will be worth the wait....did not know you guys get treated this way at that end of the market....

what's the waiting period on an M3..?
 
Going on a year (minus 3 months) ...whats the interest you could have earned on putting that deposit in your credit card for 12 months?

You are giving them an interest free loan basically. Tell them where to get off and that they can get in touch and beg once they have the freaking car. Then bleed them because it's packed with add-ons that no one else necessarily wants.

Meanwhile shop around for a better quote and ask them to beat that before you even begin to talk business.
 
See the problem is that a deposit was put down for the car, so if I cancel it, there goes my deposit. I was so close to cancelling it cause they keep bs me around. Well besides a special colour and full leather it pretty much is full house. What happened was that they started phasing out the old M3 cause the new facelift is coming out. So after being told that my car would be coming in Jan, then Feb, March, April, June and now August, I'm pretty much pissed off. The standard waiting period is 3 months. I can just see that I am gonna get this car and take it for servicing to another BMW dealer. Interest wise lol, I'd say I'd be able to pay half the car off right now. Well I intend to milk them of whatever I can get SlinkyMike
 
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Major cash hey. Well if they decide to get the car this year, it will be roughly another 4 years before the next one. This is the last NA one as well as the next one is coming out with turbo's. Well I'm gonna see about getting another person onto the advanced driving course and def asking for all the motorsport gear they have. But if this is the service from them, I am seriously thinking of another dealer for servicing
 
If I'm not mistaken you can take these guys to court, if the standard is 3 months and they have been shunting you around then maybe talk to a lawyer if you can to get options.

The deposit that you paid more or less concluded the contract between you guys and if they told you something such as 3 months and they didn't meet it then isn't that breach of contract?

I'd go talk to a lawyer and get some real advice, these people are getting nice interest on the deposit you gave them, while not living up to their side of the contract.

EDIT: This is just from a little bit of commercial law we did this year so please don't take everything I say as fact... but as far as I know the debtor (Sandton Auto) is in mora debitoris (delay by debtor) and that it is a breach of contract you should be able to tell them to bugger off as well as get your deposit back. Maybe talk to a lawyer to find out more.
 
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Personally I wouldn't take the legal route (yet)...
Have you escalated to head office? Maybe get a "bigshot" involved who might be able to get things moving faster...
 
I would have lost my cool long time ago. Go see a lawyer.
 
I did escalate this to the dealer principal who subsequently placed the car under BMW SA instead of the dealership name. What they have basically told me is that I have had to wait because in October, when the deal was done, BMW AG was phasing out the old model M3 and I was placed for the "new" model. The new model only starts production in June this year according to the dealership. So my plan to this is that I wait for the car, then tell them to NOT register my car this year and register it next year, because if it's registered in Aug, then technically I get the entire year's depreciation on my car, along with the depreciation from just taking it out the dealership. I think this is fair since they have made me wait? On the topic of dealerships, anyone recommend a good BMW dealership for servicing because I'm not going back to Sandton Auto, I refuse if this is the service level.
 
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