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Sorry about the late and long reply. Yesterday was so busy and tiring. We spent a little more than three hours in the dealership and most of time was at finance manager's office. Trying to explain the guy that $500 is a credit to a finance manager seemed impossible at that time. He would not just look at the simple calculation and figured out which part on his end was wrong or wanted to verify with the sell's manager. I know the fact most of Mini are custom ordered and we are not the first customers he has to deal with the deposit paid earlier. What a pain! Then move on trying sell us the tint and basic maint package. Basic maint package was $1649 including everything EV doesn't need, but he pointed out that we will need break pad and disc will need to be replaced within 4 years (basic maint package covers) which will cost us $1800. So the basic maint package will pay itself off by that time. I said no and he won't take that as an answer.
We have 2016 Honda Civic, brought it brand new and has almost 100K miles on it, even that we haven't changed the break pads yet, but the rear ones will need to be replaced soon. Honda is well known to put thin break pads on especially the rear ones. We are not really driving the cars hard.
Keep telling him no, then he switched to the different method and telling us about the firmware will need to be updated in 4 years otherwise the car won't be able to drive. It will throw out error codes. How ridiculous that sounds like!! At that point, I told him if that is the case, your maint package won't be able to cover it, the warranty should be able to cover it. On top of that, does he even know what firmware do to the car?? 4 yrs firmware failure?? I told him if the car firmware failures occur within 4 yrs and he knows about it and just want to sell the maint package, he will class action lawsuit on his hands. That shut him up about it.
Oh my gosh, the trouble we had to go through with this guy was unbelievable. This really made Tesla delivery shine here. They make an appointment with you, you show up, they take you to the back room, inspect the car, sign the documents, show you some accessories if you are interested, then you are done! So much better!!!
I asked my sales person how many MINI Cooper SE he delivers within a month, he said it is not a lot, around 5 per month. Honestly speaking, this is why the tradition dealerships don't like EVs, no added-ons they can really sell to you and not much maint money they can make from you, they have to come out some creative lies to trick you to buy some useless stuffs or do some unnecessary maint. Be careful out there.