{"id":224519,"date":"2010-01-25T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T05:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/indian-car-dealerships\/74221-sx4-shopping-aaa-vehicles-rana-motors.html"},"modified":"2010-01-25T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T05:02:06","slug":"sx4-shopping-at-aaa-vehicles-and-rana-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/224519","title":{"rendered":"SX4 shopping at AAA Vehicles and Rana Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"
So we are car shopping again \ud83d\ude00 , after deciding the ANHC is out of our budget, we have decided to go in for the SX4 , one TD in this car and trust me you forget every other car. Linea, Manza and Verna went out of the window.<\/p>\n

Here are dealer experiences :<\/p>\n

AAA – I live pretty close to them. On entering the showroom there were not a lot of customers but surprisingly no one approached me. Me and my dad checked out the SX4 , sitting in it, jumping in it , doing everything except ignition (since no key). After 15 minutes I got hold of a person and asked him if there were no salesmen, he then pointed to another guy and finally we had one.<\/p>\n

We start to negotiate, I am able to squeeze more than the initial discounts he offered, an additional cash discount of 5k + some accessories like car kit, idol and perfume. Sun film , he didnt budge as the shop doesnt stock for SX4 (would have to be after market.<\/p>\n

I asked him to check out my Maruti 800 for exchange and this is where it went downhill. The car is in my uncle’s name whose surname is different so I have to get it in my name first. He got a true value person to check out the car. He gets impressed with Maruti Service Masters servicing. The true value person starts over-revving the engine and points to some white smoke that comes with each over-rev and says engine gaya hai. Then he points to some rust (thanks to mumbai’s saly water) and says body gayi hai , then after looking at RC he says bahut kharcha hoga and values the car at 10k , I just got a Rs.11k servicing done on it by the way.<\/p>\n

Anyway his logic was that the engine overhaul and Re-registration (after 7 months) would cost him 8k +8k which I am pretty sure is an exhorbitant amount. I tell him to change the quote and he increases 1k, I say ok to him and show him the door. Then starts blabbing about expensive authorised service of MSM and how I could have gotten stuff done for 1\/15th of the price at local places, I show him the door again.<\/p>\n

Rana Motors – Lots of people in the showroom when we enter (mom with us this time), receptionist asks us within 1 minute what car we want and asks us to sit. A nice chap comes in (Yash), he is smartly dressed. His Downpayment quote is more than AAA but EMIs are lesser, almost same price overall and same accessories (except steering cover , someone apparently got blind while putting it on). <\/p>\n

He gets a vehicle for test-drive and all of us are impressed. Only thing missing the the fuel efficiency meter and trip meter. Maruti should really put these in, they make a fully loaded car and dont put these in.<\/p>\n

Other than that the legroom and cabin space is awesome. The original seat covers look cheap and will need replacement but dont go in for factory leather, its too expensive.<\/p>\n

The VVT engine is very refined and the cabin had almost no noise, we went over a few potholes, mom was sitting in the back, she did complain of some jerks getting directly to her. Suspension to blame I guess.<\/p>\n

The Rana Motors guy will come to see my Maruti 800 today and I will update his verdict on the car.<\/p>\n

Overall I am leaning towards Rana Motors guy , since he is friendly , agreed to a PDI before registration and looks more transparent. The AAA guy really put me off by finding problems in my maruti.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we are car shopping again \ud83d\ude00 , after deciding the ANHC is out of our budget, we have decided to go in for the SX4 , one TD in this car and trust me you forget every other car. Linea, Manza and Verna went out of the window. Here are dealer experiences : AAA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}