Official prices paid VW Jetta and Golf TDI - buying experience thread

[thrab]

http://www.vw.com/tu/?tu=1582621

Price: Paid MSRP ($26,720)
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Extra Fees: Only extra fees were $200 "paperwork" fee, licensing and tax.

Did not see a sticky'd thread with this information (admin?). Please post your buying experience here so as to have a comprehensive list.

[chittychittybangbang]

I try to avoid having too many stickys so I changed the title to official prices paid - buying experience - dealer recommendation thread. If others start a similar thread it will be merged with this one. Other good sources for this general pricing information is zag.com and edmunds.com. I don't know how accurate those are so nothing beats reports from the field!

[hduncan]

I did not end up buying it, but I got an offer from a dealer for $1000 over MSRP and that was after days of negotiation. Most dealerships in California have markups above this and this was the lowest I've seen so far.

The best price I saw was the $1000 over MSRP for a 2010 Golf TDI, 2door, Black, DSG, with Cold-Weather and Bluetooth, with markup it would have come out to $26,479.

[jaytro]

Hey all, I'm new to this site. Last week I purchased a 2010 Golf TDI 4 door, manual, with sunroof, mats, and cold weather package. After a week or so of negotiating on the telephone, I ended up purchasing for MSRP, which was a few dollars shy of 25K. The dealership--which was 80 miles from where I live in San Francisco--initially was asking 3k over sticker, so I was very pleased to get it for sticker price. It helped that I purchased the car on the last business day of 2009, so the dealership was eager to make a deal. They even delivered my new baby on a flat bed truck for free. Another dealership closer to where I live wouldn't budge from their price of 3k over sticker.

I've only put 50 or so miles on car, but so far I love it! Very fun to drive.

[kimluk]

We live in Southern Cal. We're looking for 2-dr TDI with DSG only. No dealer has the car exactly the way that we wanted and most dealers want $1000 over MSRP. Found a dealer willing to go $100 over MSRP. Finally bought it from a dealer in Bakersfield (100 miles away) at MSRP. It has a moon-roof and cold weather package. I figured that the sale taxes deduction should pay for 60% of the extra cost. No hard negotiation was needed and the dealer was very friendly.

[hduncan]

Originally Posted by kimluk

We live in Southern Cal. We're looking for 2-dr TDI with DSG only. No dealer has the car exactly the way that we wanted and most dealers want $1000 over MSRP. Found a dealer willing to go $100 over MSRP. Finally bought it from a dealer in Bakersfield (100 miles away) at MSRP. It has a moon-roof and cold weather package. I figured that the sale taxes deduction should pay for 60% of the extra cost. No hard negotiation was needed and the dealer was very friendly.

Was your salesperson's name Jim Ballard? You may have bought the TDI I was looking at He was the ONLY dealership I got to offer me MSRP on an INSTOCK vehicle.

[RITDI]

Does anyone sell genuine VW Platinum Protection via internet? I bought a Toyota plan before over internet and saved a lot of cash!!!!!!!

[kimluk]

Originally Posted by hduncan

Was your salesperson's name Jim Ballard? You may have bought the TDI I was looking at He was the ONLY dealership I got to offer me MSRP on an INSTOCK vehicle.

Yes, I got it from Jim Ballard. The dealer in Woodland Hills offered me $100 over MSRP.

[chittychittybangbang]

Originally Posted by RITDI

Does anyone sell genuine VW Platinum Protection via internet? I bought a Toyota plan before over internet and saved a lot of cash!!!!!!!

Yes, this guy does. I normally would never give out someone's name and contact info over the internet but he already advertises it:
Chris Farnham
VW of Langhorne
215-741-4100

Or at least you can use his offer as leverage at your local dealership.

Do not put emails in plain sight because they will get picked up by bots surfing the internet to be added to spam lists. Chris's contact info is already out there and you can't get email spam over the telephone.

[Chunk Male]

Originally Posted by jaytro

Hey all, I'm new to this site. Last week I purchased a 2010 Golf TDI 4 door, manual, with sunroof, mats, and cold weather package. After a week or so of negotiating on the telephone, I ended up purchasing for MSRP, which was a few dollars shy of 25K. The dealership--which was 80 miles from where I live in San Francisco--initially was asking 3k over sticker, so I was very pleased to get it for sticker price. It helped that I purchased the car on the last business day of 2009, so the dealership was eager to make a deal. They even delivered my new baby on a flat bed truck for free. Another dealership closer to where I live wouldn't budge from their price of 3k over sticker.

I've only put 50 or so miles on car, but so far I love it! Very fun to drive.

I am curious as to which dealer in the Bay Area this is. We have been talking for many months to about half of the 16 different dealers in the SF Bay Area about buying/ordering a salsa red JSW with manual transmission and sunroof. We had our closest dealer locate one and negotiated him down to about $600 over MSRP. Just before 12/31 his manager pulled the plug, claiming he will get $3000 over sticker. For a salsa red JSW with M/T? Good luck.

There is a dealer in LA who said that he will order anything for MSRP, it's just that it is harder to deal with someone 400 miles away, then financing, pickup and pre-purchase inspections, etc. If we have some of the recently mentioned problems (engine light, etc.), I can't afford to spend a week in LA waiting for these problems to be fixed.

We are in the fortunate position that we are not in a hurry to buy, but already missed the 2009 tax break and the next one is slowly fading away as well.