Who are reputable and good online brokers ?

I like the way Carwow works, but they don't do BMW, so I need to look elsewhere. Has any one seen a deal through with any brokers, and if so what were your experiences ?

Edited 22 May, 201511 yr by Mr Grump

Bmw are on broadspeed and I think autoebid. Which I'm currently trying so will let you know if it works out.

I'm doing thus just now too. I'm looking at the mondeo 180 diesel titanium x hatch. They say they can get me one for about £23'500 when the list price with the extras I want is nearly 30k, I'm just a bit dubious if this true. I would have normaly gone for the mk3 octy vrs, but there just seems to be to many faults a negatives in the mk3 forum.

Thanks M12MKD.

 

I think its do-able meta55b, Carwow were getting a 30k Mondeo to 25k when I was looking, and I was surprised they didn't seem to be getting lower as there were better discounts on other makes.

Out of interest what concerns do you have on the Octy ? mine has been near faultless and a lovely car, I may have even gone for another (wanting to change to auto as left leg has been giving me grief), but BMW have some tempting incentives right now !

My only comment would be when it actually comes to an order. So far both drivethedeal and carwow have been unable to fulfill my order. Just waiting for autoebid they have 5 days to come back.

Thanks M12MKD.

 

I think its do-able meta55b, Carwow were getting a 30k Mondeo to 25k when I was looking, and I was surprised they didn't seem to be getting lower as there were better discounts on other makes.

Out of interest what concerns do you have on the Octy ? mine has been near faultless and a lovely car, I may have even gone for another (wanting to change to auto as left leg has been giving me grief), but BMW have some tempting incentives right now !

Hi mr grump. The concerns that spring to mind are, water still coming inside the car, booming noise, loud road noise and the extortionate price. I put a quote request in late last night with drive the deal, got a phone call early afternoon. For a mondeo titanium x hatch 180 diesel, with 3k worth of extras was about 25k. When I compare this to the octy its a no brainer. I'm not fixed on the ford, it's just the first car i could say I really liked.

As I've said many times and been flamed for it the mk3 Octavia is not a cheap car

Even the cheapest Skodas in the UK are no longer cheap,

they only have some rather cheap and nasty components fitted to remind you it is not a Volkswagen.

 

Skoda need to up the game and maybe the new Superb can do that.

Better Quality Control from the factory will mean the Fitter / Tech called Tommy that does the PDI

& the Warranty Managers has an even easier job.

the cost of the MKIII fabia and the fact I did not think it was good value for money this time was why I moved away from skoda when I changed my car earlier this year

 

had toys / gimmick (mirror link etc) that would not work with my phone and lacking basics I wanted like cruise etc

^^^^As above, I waited for the prices of the new Fabia and was instantly turned off the idea when I priced one up.

 

To answer the OP, I purchased my Citigo (now sold) through Carfile.net. It was a good deal at the time and everything went smoothly but I didn't go that route when buying the Toledo.

 

No one could even get close to the price I paid for my pre reg (new but a few months old) Toledo. The new models were weighing in at around £16.5k, when got mine last year for £11.5k and would buy a pre reg again for the savings over brand spanking new factory order. I intend to keep this one for a number of years.

Bmw are on broadspeed and I think autoebid. 

 

If you want a stress free experience then steer WELL CLEAR of Broadspeed!

If you want a stress free experience then steer WELL CLEAR of Broadspeed!

You can't leave it like that Martin - dot the i's and cross the t's! ;-)

Lets just say the car arrived at the supplying dealers nearly a whole month before I collected it (despite paying for it to be delivered) several ‘delivery attempts’ were apparently made by Broadspeed (despite the cars mileage saying otherwise!)

 

In the end I drove a 560 mile round trip to collect the car as they were so incompetent it doesn’t bear thinking about, it took the shine off the whole new car experience for me. 

I ordered the Yeti through Carwow (and it was supplied by Allams) this restored my faith as it was a really pleasant experience, to the point that we will probably use them for servicing despite having at least 6 Škoda dealers who are closer then Epsom. 

TBH that's why I like the idea of carwow, you deal with the dealer from start to finish.

 

@ meta55b, I can say I have not experienced water issues, a very minor amount of the booming, that was so infrequent (very particular surface at particular speeds) I didn't bother with it for a year, I eventually adjusted the hatch stops and its non existant now.

I don't have a thing against Fords, but I would take a Skoda over one for the same price and similar spec, however we all have our preferences

Certainly Skoda are not the bargains they were a while back, that's for sure 

TBH that's why I like the idea of carwow, you deal with the dealer from start to finish.

 

@ meta55b, I can say I have not experienced water issues, a very minor amount of the booming, that was so infrequent (very particular surface at particular speeds) I didn't bother with it for a year, I eventually adjusted the hatch stops and its non existant now.

I don't have a thing against Fords, but I would take a Skoda over one for the same price and similar spec, however we all have our preferences

Certainly Skoda are not the bargains they were a while back, that's for sure 

Don't get wrong, I like my octy and haven't even set foot in a mk3 yet. I just all the negatives in the mk3 forum from current owners. Yes I know you will here about the bad first, it's just that some of the faults are still there from the mk2. And the fact I've been offered a 30k rrp including options for less than the starting price of a octy vrs. Skoda really need to look at the prices.

Indeed, certainly worth going to check one out and test driving.

FWIW I specced up a vRS for comparison for interest on carwow, as I considered just getting another with DSG.

With extras it was 29.5k, cash best price was 25.8, finance much less discount, but I believe finance is 0% on PCP.

Forget autoebid. Complete waste of time as they cannot help if you want it on finance. Despite offering that as part of the service.

I've decided not to bother buying a new car now as all I've done is waste 3 months of my time trying to actually buy a product.

Carwow also let me down and drivethedeal no longer do the vehicle I'm interested in