anyone successfully buy a car from the bronx?

[gbux]

I live in the suburbs of nyc and whenever im cruising autotrader or other sites im inundated with offers for what seem to be too good to be true deals on m3/4s in the bronx. My bs meter immediately goes off but man im curious if anyone has ever dealt with these people and came off with a deal

[shwinturbo]

if you have to ask...

[White340]

The worst roads I've driven on have been in the Bronx. Not saying the cars they're selling lived there, but if they did you can bet they've taken a good beating.

[Ovrtim4]

I went someplace in the Bronx to look at a Porsche Panamera turbo s. I heard the first thing to go with the car is the airbags so I ask the car guy. How are the airbags? His response they are good. So I ask for the key. He goes whoa buddy wat are you gonna do. Mind you my daughter is sitting in the car I say to him check the airbags. He goes you gonna pay for the car. ? Now I'm confused and go u think I'm gonna crash the car ? He goes how else u gonna check the airbags. Now I look at him and ask do you know anything about this car. He says no. Long story short the Bronx is horrible

[KACHM3]

Originally Posted by Ovrtim4

I went someplace in the Bronx to look at a Porsche Panamera turbo s. I heard the first thing to go with the car is the airbags so I ask the car guy. How are the airbags? His response they are good. So I ask for the key. He goes whoa buddy wat are you gonna do. Mind you my daughter is sitting in the car I say to him check the airbags. He goes you gonna pay for the car. ? Now I'm confused and go u think I'm gonna crash the car ? He goes how else u gonna check the airbags. Now I look at him and ask do you know anything about this car. He says no. Long story short the Bronx is horrible

Here's my story with the Bronx..I was looking for a M3. And I found one a yas marina. Anyways I see the car and it was at a Nissan dealership..Teddy Nissan to be exact. I get to The dealership and one of the sales rep went to take the car to go and get food….😐 when he told me that he was going to get the car wash..Bullshit. I get to see the car I fell in love with it I saw that there was scratches on the bumper scratches on the rear the car was not in great shape for a low mileage car. I sit in the car and he goes to me "do not rev the engine" like why the fuck would I do that? I got so annoyed and wasn't happy that I left.

Another dealership was 26 motors…I went to look at a M3cs…and I hear down the block tire skids and it's some guy in the car coming back from where ever he's coming from? I walked off the lot.

The Bronx is hot and cold. But private sales are ok. Long story short. Do your homework do your investigation and pay for the Carfax or request it when you are looking for the car…sometime carfax is shit too but know what you looking for..paint, gaps, trims, take your finger along the paint, hood, hood bolts if they are scratched, shit like that….I got my M3 at Brooklyn auto sales with Adam..I couldn't be any happier 👍🏼

[agentrnge]

Nope.. I checked out an e38 and a lexus LS400 in a shady bronx lot. ( 15 years back ), and an f80 a few years ago at a larger dealer. They were all absolutely beat up. hard pass. M3 had like 8k miles and looked like it was washed with a screw driver and hammer. It was so sad.

[carchrism5]

I see this type of stuff too, the prices then sometimes find the issues are more obvious (bad title, accident, visible damage), but the other thing is the dealership itself like hidden fees (that can be thousands), demanding you use their 'banks', etc.

And again, especially in this market, if something looks too good to be true, it is.

[paulo_f80m3]

I avoid buying vehicles from NY/NJ Period.

[HotRodM4]

I stick with the BMW dealers and CPO’s.

[RNJ15]

Originally Posted by HotRodM4

I stick with the BMW dealers and CPO’s.

https://youtu.be/cCpl1kIGe9U

I wouldn’t always blindly trust dealers.

CPO’s tho definitely. If not might end up with that

[SRod321]

Stay AWAY from Bronx mom and pop used car dealership. They ALL use the bait n switch tactic. When I was looking for my F80, i actually went to first see an M4 ZCP I think at Teddy Mitsubishi. I called and asked if the car was available and I got a resounding yes. Scheduled to go see it the next day, show up because I had an "appointment" to see the car. When I get there I'm waiting for about 30 minutes when this shady guy comes up with an attitude, "can I help you?" I said "yeah I have an appointment to see the M4..." he looks at me and asks "the blue one?" I said yes. He looks at this dry erase board and points at some numbers and said, "yeah it sold yesterday around 5pm" with his attitude... whatever just bad luck right? So About a week later, I find a black F80 M3, Sakir Orange interior, low miles no accidents, and the same place had the same car higher miles with an accident on the title. I ran both VINs. I call up, and specifically ask if the NON-accident vehicle is there, lady says yes, I also say, I'm not going there to waste my time so please, if it's not there tell me, and she was like "oh no it's here come by". I show up 30 minutes later, sure enough, the car magically sold the night before at 5pm.... And I had explained to him what I told the phone rep.... but they had a another one they could show me. I ask if it's been in an accident, the guy hung his head and was like yes... at least THIS guy apologized... but I learned my lesson. Stay away from the bronx dealerships.
I DID however get mine from a private luxury car dealer in Deer Park who was pretty straight forward and I'm happy with my car. Would've gone CPO but none had what I was looking for in their inventory. I'd say stick to CPO if you can.

[DocL]

My cousin owned a big used car dealership on Jerome Ave back in the 80s and 90s. I'd never buy car anywhere in the Bronx.

[R N M]

Originally Posted by DocL

My cousin owned a big used car dealership on Jerome Ave back in the 80s and 90s. I'd never buy car anywhere in the Bronx.

100% agree - anywhere in the boroughs, these cars are far from clean. Look for OEM dealers in CT or NJ that have pre-owned inventory, even then its crapshoot. All depends how OCD you are with condition of the car.

[Dmytro]

Originally Posted by ccxcv23

https://youtu.be/cCpl1kIGe9U

I wouldn’t always blindly trust dealers.

CPO’s tho definitely. If not might end up with that

CPO’s could also be horrible. The cars that were used on track with “25k miles” at Monticello were beat to crap. Turned on and straight to redline. And then when the new M’s came out or if Monticello wanted to update the fleet (Facelift etc), the cars went right back to BMW to be sold to customers. And yes, all of them were CPO. Although the odometer read 25k those cars may aswell have had 250k. I gotta say tho, the fact that none of them blew up propelled me to buy a BMW (not CPO). Gotta give credit where credit is due.

[MrFrosty's]

Not to beat a dead horse, but unless you are truly chasing the bottom dollar I would not recommend at all. Exception I guess would be you are looking to modify/track the car and don't care about condition or history as much.

Most Bronx dealers are indy shops who's business model basically relies on big bank revolving credit facilities. Hence their goal is not necessarily to build a relationship or be the "spokesperson" of a brand but rather to move units and to ideally move them with backend financing where they can claim a 1-2% spread on each deal. These dealers do not care if your car is repo'd in 2 months because they got you a 17% APR deal. They will always have customers because 9/10 people shop for vehicles by going on Autotrader and sorting lowest to highest. In a metropolitan city like NYC, you will always have a captive audience who will walk through those doors.

Not to say they are all shoddy. But imo it is never best practice to buy from folks who get nearly all their cars from auctions or other deals. Being able to ask a private buyer or even a large franchise dealer who has serviced a car for all it's life is a extremely valuable part of car buying.

Just my 2C

[OnlyGerman]

Originally Posted by White340

The worst roads I've driven on have been in the Bronx. Not saying the cars they're selling lived there, but if they did you can bet they've taken a good beating.

Yup. I bought a benz that lived it’s early life there and it needed a lot of suspension work.

[evoix]

Originally Posted by gbux

I live in the suburbs of nyc and whenever im cruising autotrader or other sites im inundated with offers for what seem to be too good to be true deals on m3/4s in the bronx. My bs meter immediately goes off but man im curious if anyone has ever dealt with these people and came off with a deal

I don't even bother anymore.
I tried a few times:
1) they gave me an edited carfax that took out the fact that the car hit a tree
2) fine print said i had to finance through them at almost 12%

I gave up on the deals you are seeing online. Most of the time they are a waste of time.