Ken
Colorado,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, February 17, 2012
You would have noticed that they post pertinent and usually helpful rebuttals and it's NOT your business to tell them they can't.
Anytime someone posts on ROR, they need to accept, not necessarily like, any and all rebuttals posted....And NO, I won't go away either.
The Eye
Zwolle,#3Consumer Comment
Fri, February 17, 2012
To bad everyone is not like Stacey and Robert, know it all. Stay off reports and let people speak their mind and use this forum.
Jim
Orlando,#4Consumer Comment
Thu, February 16, 2012
Many of the Mustang GT models use a two piece spark plug...unlike any other you've seen. These plugs are VERY FAMOUS for breaking off upon removal. If that has happened to this engine and pieces fell into the cyclinder that engine is junk. It is true every once in a while a plug will break but in the case of the Ford two piece design, the breakage is at epidemic levels. I would NEVER buy a used Ford with a threee valve V-8 engine for that very reason. If I bought a new model like that, I would get rid of those plugs the first week and replace them with a one piece replacement.
Robert
Irvine,#5Consumer Comment
Thu, February 16, 2012
In the end you did exactly what you should have done..return the car. What happened to you is fairly common. Dealers will often do what is known as a "Spot Delivery", which basically lets you take the car even though financing is not in place.
Legitimate dealers use this as a way to let you take the car at times when banks are closed but they know you will get financed. But there are less than honest dealers who know up front that there is no way that you will get a loan at the terms. So they let you take the car in the hopes that a few days when they give you the "bad news" you are so attached to the car you accept the less favorable terms(higher interest rate, additonal down payment, co-signer).
In the end it actually looks like you stuck it to them because they didn't require any down payment. There is also often a provision in the agreement you signed that says if they can't get you financed they turn the car into a "rental" where you had to pay x number of dollars per day. They generally use this as justification to keep the down payment. In your case they didn't get any down so they probably lost a few hundred dollars in resale value..which may explain their attitude at the end.
The best thing to do in your situation is to get your financing set up BEFORE you go to a dealer. That way you can walk into a dealer knowing exactly what you can afford and you short circuit any of these dealer "tricks".