Mummascribbles – We bought a new car! – Mummascribbles

We’ve been planning to make a trip to the car showroom that we bought our current car from, for a couple of weeks. When we bought our car, the finance deal was one with three options. At the end of our term we could either settle up and buy the car, return the car or part exchange it for a new car. We were also told that if we wanted to exchange it early, for example at three years so that we could avoid having to have its first mot, we could also do that. And that’s why we’ve been planning a trip because we are approaching three years.

So yesterday seemed like the only day we could go over the next few weeks and we therefore headed off there in the afternoon.  We could have just phoned them and discussed our options but I had a feeling that a) they’d need to see our car and b) it would be way easier to do it all in person.

We arrived at about one o clock and were there for over three hours! First up they valued our car and then gave us an offer of having a Seat Ibiza Toca – the current Ibiza that is actually being discontinued. The monthly repayments would have been less but the car would have been exactly the same as what we have now but it will no longer be available and as soon as they said that I immediately didn’t want it. Who wants to spend thousands of pounds on a car that is no longer going to be made?!

We were obviously aware (because they’ve sent me tons of emails recently), that there is a brand new Ibiza being released next week. So we brought it up and asked the guy to look into how much we’d be paying. After pumping lots of figures in, after a lot of negotiation between us and the salesman and the salesman and the big boss who really was a hard man to push down, we came up with a figure using a few of their numbers they’d been pumping in and said if they can do that figure, we would do the deal there and then. Guess what?? They wouldn’t but their offer was only  £3 per month different and having already spent two hours negotiating with them with a toddler making full use of testing out all the showroom cars, we agreed the deal!

So we went there to make an enquiry and have a few questions answered and we came out having signed up for a new car (after another hour of me dealing with paperwork!). Not only a new car but the brand new model that isn’t even out yet!

It all felt a bit weird last night. We hadn’t gone out to buy a car and I kept having to remind myself that we had! I’m really excited though, especially after they let me have a little test drive of the one that was being prepared for a car show today! I absolutely adore my car now and to know that I’m getting the same again but with far more modernised features makes me very happy.

They reckon it’ll be about a month before we get it but did say they’ll try as quick as they can! I can’t wait to have it now, it’s always fab to get a new car and I just love that smell of them!