KenJr
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Hey Folks!
First post for me. I'm about to pull the trigger on a R18 Classic in 719 trim (Galaxy Dust Metallic). Pretty stoked.
I found an earlier thread with folks talking through their buying/financing experience with the dealers. Here's been my experience and hoping others can shed light on some of this for me.
I'm buying a bike out of state from a dealer. It's a 2022 with 2 miles (literally still in the crate). I won't mention any dealer names and such for obvious reasons.
Dealer Price is $13,995 on a bike that was MSRP at $22,195. So, a $8200 discount from the dealer. At the time I found it last week...it was the lowest priced 2022 R18 C I could find...by a LOT. So, I jumped on it.
The Out the Door price shipped to me (minus Texas sales tax because I opted to pay cash and will pay those when I register the bike here) is $15,968.95. Pretty good deal.
Here's what the dealer has been telling me all along though. Because they discounted the bike $8200 - the BMW 0% financing option (with them paying up to $1000 in payments) is not available.
From the other thread I was reading on this topic - it looked like other folks were getting pretty steep discounts like this from dealers but also getting the financing.
The dealer claims that since this is a 2022 model it's classified as 'pre-owned' and thus the financing offer isn't available, despite reminding them of an email that I received from the first sales rep that responded to me that it was. They were happy to do it for me - but say they'd have to do it on a 2023 model instead despite the fact that the R18 offer I linked above clearly states that it's available for the 2022 models provided I take delivery by 6/30/2023.
Is the dealer full of crap or is this really how this is going down. It's not the end of the world - but would have saved me another $1000 in payments that the BMW would have picked up and I wouldn't be out the $15k in cash - just making payments for a few years on their money.
This dealer has been a bit frustrating to work with - it took 4 different buyer's orders (quotes) from them with all kinds of fees and funny math that I busted them on until I finally just offered to pay cash for the $13995 bike price plus dealer freight and prep + shipping. They are charging me $370 for 'document and admin fees' as well...meh.
Thanks for making it this far - hopefully this helps out some other folks looking at this time too. These BMW dealers are also selling 5-6 other brands in their showroom and given that these R18's aren't exactly flying off the lot it seems to me that the sales folks don't really know what's going on here.
First post for me. I'm about to pull the trigger on a R18 Classic in 719 trim (Galaxy Dust Metallic). Pretty stoked.
I found an earlier thread with folks talking through their buying/financing experience with the dealers. Here's been my experience and hoping others can shed light on some of this for me.
I'm buying a bike out of state from a dealer. It's a 2022 with 2 miles (literally still in the crate). I won't mention any dealer names and such for obvious reasons.
Dealer Price is $13,995 on a bike that was MSRP at $22,195. So, a $8200 discount from the dealer. At the time I found it last week...it was the lowest priced 2022 R18 C I could find...by a LOT. So, I jumped on it.
The Out the Door price shipped to me (minus Texas sales tax because I opted to pay cash and will pay those when I register the bike here) is $15,968.95. Pretty good deal.
Here's what the dealer has been telling me all along though. Because they discounted the bike $8200 - the BMW 0% financing option (with them paying up to $1000 in payments) is not available.
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www.bmwmotorcycles.com
From the other thread I was reading on this topic - it looked like other folks were getting pretty steep discounts like this from dealers but also getting the financing.
The dealer claims that since this is a 2022 model it's classified as 'pre-owned' and thus the financing offer isn't available, despite reminding them of an email that I received from the first sales rep that responded to me that it was. They were happy to do it for me - but say they'd have to do it on a 2023 model instead despite the fact that the R18 offer I linked above clearly states that it's available for the 2022 models provided I take delivery by 6/30/2023.
Is the dealer full of crap or is this really how this is going down. It's not the end of the world - but would have saved me another $1000 in payments that the BMW would have picked up and I wouldn't be out the $15k in cash - just making payments for a few years on their money.
This dealer has been a bit frustrating to work with - it took 4 different buyer's orders (quotes) from them with all kinds of fees and funny math that I busted them on until I finally just offered to pay cash for the $13995 bike price plus dealer freight and prep + shipping. They are charging me $370 for 'document and admin fees' as well...meh.
Thanks for making it this far - hopefully this helps out some other folks looking at this time too. These BMW dealers are also selling 5-6 other brands in their showroom and given that these R18's aren't exactly flying off the lot it seems to me that the sales folks don't really know what's going on here.
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