I am looking at one with 20 miles on it. Should I be wary of anything? Yesterday I test drove one and the sales person revved it up to 6000 a few times. What happens to the break-in period? I don't know. I am a little paranoid about this. Advice?

 

Buy it but ask him to give you at least $3000 off the sticker price since it is a demo

 

 

As a salesmanager if someone would ask me to sell him the s2000 $3000 off b/c it's got 20 miles on it, I would ask them to leave the premises asap. Now let's make some sense. S2000 is Honda's bread and butter. If you want $3000 off go buy a MR2. If you don't want to pay for the value, don't worry we have plenty of people to buy these cars. THAT'S THE REASON I LOVE MY S2000! It's a limited vehicle. Now to get a discount, if you are referral to us, we'll discount it(not $3000 though). That's b/c you are a member of s2ki or you know somebody. But if you are just somebody and you claim we should sell you this car $3000 off b/c of 20 miles, you would get the same response that you would do, when a dealer asks you to pay $5000 over sticker.
Matt.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mayhan1980
As a salesmanager if someone would ask me to sell him the s2000 $3000 off b/c it's got 20 miles on it, I would ask them to leave the premises asap. Now let's make some sense. S2000 is Honda's bread and butter. If you want $3000 off go buy a MR2. If you don't want to pay for the value, don't worry we have plenty of people to buy these cars. THAT'S THE REASON I LOVE MY S2000! It's a limited vehicle. Now to get a discount, if you are referral to us, we'll discount it(not $3000 though).

 

So, as a sales manager, do you train your sales staff on how to drive a car that is under the break-in mileage or just let them do whatever they want and leave to the customer to deal with after they buy it? This particular dealership obviously hasn't trained it's staff.

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask especially if the salesman revs it up past 6k with only 20 miles on it. They just broke the Honda recommendations for the break-in period.

Asking them to leave for asking under this circumstance seems a bit out of line. The request is justified by the potential consumer.

 

"Asking them to leave for asking under this circumstance seems a bit out of line. "

But censoring posts for content rather than rule violations isn't?

 

ignorance is bliss...just buy it....

 

Buy it. Drive it. Love it.

 

interesting i test drove a new S and I said i'd prefer to drive a used one simply because i wanna feel the car and not hurt it... the dumbass salesman said don't worry it'll be fine ... I still didn't hit redline but i was at about 7k rpm ... so dude! I wasn't going to buy that one ... heh just thought i'd share my story.