Seeing as there is a facelifted Mondeo coming out, I'm surprised they are not falling over themselves to give it away, to make room.

Admin fee - no way.

Tax and sale target date may tie in - it might run out at the end of this month. Sales staff get targets for second hand too and if it's a Ford Direct there will be a date it has to be sold to realise a profit.

Look for another in case you have to walk - there's thousands of them out there

Saw a car on Motorpoint site advertised @ £19,999.

I was interested an asked a few questions on line.

Reply call in 10 mins, answered questions well THEN

£19,999 became £20,750 How?

RFL £155

Admin Fee IIRC £80

3 years Warranty £400

Preparation..... I forget the rest

I said @ £19,999 he could well have a sale but I would expect a 10 mile car to come with no extra charges, well may be RFL.

I won't give up as I may call @ their Glasgow outlet. 3 years ago I got £500 off screen price, £50 for mats, £50 for a tank of Diesel., no Prep charge as the car was clean enough and I got it Valeted @ home for £50...................looks like sitting in front of the Assistant manager was the right route.

Perhaps you're focusing too much on their pricing structure - don't get hung-up on how they compose their price - just ask yourself: is this a good cost to change or not when compared with (any) alternative deals.

By co-incidence, I've bought same model recently - admin fee & no RFL deal etc.

My calculation was done on cost to change - which was good (with price of P-Ex car subtracted etc.) - in fact the whole deal went off very smoothly - the only pain really, was the drive to get there from my locale.

Just a comment on two points made:

- the poster who mention '£400 warranty cost ' on a car supermarket - surprising, since I'd have thought the car (@ £19,999) would have had the standard manufacturer warranty residue - which must have been at least 2.5 years....

- the poster who cautions against buying a 'misfuelled' car : maybe so years ago, but new (or nearly new) Fords will have their clever anti-misfuelling filler cap - so I wouldn't

worry unduly about that.

Edited by woodbines on 24/09/2010 at 09:05