Dan, that is exactly what I was thinking. My feeling is the dealer will treat the $4,500 as a discount and try giving you nothing. If I were going to do this, I would do exactly as you suggested and once we reached a final price, I"d then tell them I want the clunker deal. That would surely make them nuts. <grin>
On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Dan Rossi wrote: > Well, there are a couple of caveats with the clunker program. You > have to > have owned the car, and had it insured for at least one year. It has > to > fit the milage criteria which means it has to get no more than 18 > miles > per gal. if you want the full 4500 bucks. Your new car has to get at > least 10 miles per gal more than the clunker. And, if the car is worth > more than 4500 bucks, you might as well sell it instead. Lastly, I've > heard a suggestion that you don't tell the car dealer that you have a > clunker to trade in, until after you have settled on a price for > your new > car. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
