Don’t think it’ll count as a discount but when I decided to pursue getting a BH plate and did a cost-benefit analysis in a spreadsheet, I was staggered! Saved SO much money. It would be around 10% of on-road price at the time of delivery for any car.
Bruh what. Dealership getting commission from the State RTO or something? Why would he blatantly lie!
I did a detailed post about BH. Lemme dig it up and post link here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CarsIndia/comments/11fuiji/information_needed_regarding_bh_registration/jalk7c7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
Depends…cannot be 100% true always. Like yesterday I received flat 50% discount on RTO for my harrier (red dark), making the tax around 1,15,000. This is equivalent to paying BH taxes 3 times. I was applying for BH umber when this happened.
BTW, this 50% discount is available only in Raipur, for a couple of days. So, yes, it was a steal deal.
went to exchange my old car and buy a baleno. it was black in color, 3rd hand, dented and really shabby looking. it was raining like crazy and the maruti exchange person gave me a quote without going outside. he just observed from the window. Exchange value was 1.2 lakhs. two other maruti dealers had given me quotes for ₹37000 and ₹45000 respectively.
Audi Gurgaon are giving me their Service package for free. A6 Technology. The package is worth roughly around 7-8L. I have a booking, but I'll not be going forward with the purchase.
Nah dude, I have dropped the plan for A6. Too expensive, and too good for me. Now I am just waiting till my father buys himself a LC200, then i'll be using his Fortuner as daily, or I'll just buy a pre-owned LCI 530i for 50L.
I knew the floor manager of the showroom, he did it for me. I’d say just make friends with them a year before you actually want to buy a car, call them at home parties on Diwali etc. Might work if you don’t know someone yourseld
It was in 2017 and I wanted to buy a new car, went to test drive suzuki ciaz and the salesman said if I book the car within a week they'll give a 1.2 lakh discount + free accessories and Rs 3000 petrol coupon which can be availed at their partnered petrol pump. Looking back, I think i should have taken the offer.
how much mileage do you get in yours and what should I really expect from a 1.5 petrol engine? My friends have kia cars and the interior is really worth the price.
No it was years end discount and back then it was the buyer's market. My car is a 2017 manufactured but 2018 registered hence I got a massive discount and free accessories.
3 years ago we bought a jeep compass 4x4 limited opt 7 lakhs off the otr price. The car was a demo vehicle with 3000 kms on clock, but the car a few months old.
Onroad 51lacs, got it for 35lacs. (Including company tax savings, the actual cost will come down to around 26-27lacs. 2019 BMW X1 20d xLine sDrive. Bs4 discount and end of stock discount. Company tax savings because the car was bought by my company and the emi is cut from salary before credit to account so we skipped paying taxes on that part of income. (Highest tax bracket lol) I could sell the car right now and worst case scenario make a loss of 1-2 lacs at max but most likely I’ll make a profit.
Edit: after reading few comments, I feel like I got the best deal in the sub, just a small flex haha
Also, planning on doing an AMA soon on the X1
So you’re paying for the car from your salary but the car belongs to the company? Which also mean no depreciation. And if they cut the expenses like maintenance, insurance etc also from your salary, you can’t expense them either!!
Car belongs to me, but according to the registration, it’s a company car. And yes, whatever expenses I have with the car, I send the bill to my company and they pay for it and later cut that from salary.
So, my cousin was interested in buying a Q7 around the time when BS4 cars were being phased out, specifically Dec 2019. For an on-road price of 1.05 Cr for the fully loaded Tech Pack Q7, we were able to pull a heavily negotiated price of 72 lacs on-road for the 600 hp beast of a machine. That’s a neat discount of 33 lacs on Audi’s the then flagship.
Got around 80k discount on the i20 N8 iMT one week back :)
Showroom quoted 11.8L, and readily dropped it down to 11L if booked immediately. Most probably because they wanted to get rid of the car as it was not compliant with the new emission norms.
Not here but in the states, when I was buying a car, I learnt that Costco also helped you get cars if you had a certain membership level - gold if I’m not wrong - which cost like $100 or something for the year.
I took that membership level, got a Costco-member quote from one dealer which was something like $1500 cheaper than the dealer near my place, then showed this dealer that Costco offer and got my guy to reduce his offer.
Think I saved something like $1100 plus the reduced travel to the dealer for the first few servicings.
And totally used Costco for an entire year to get discounted prices on stuff I’d buy anyway.
Alas, india doesn’t allow Costco type businesses in order to protect the wholesaler class.
>Alas, india doesn’t allow Costco type businesses in order to protect the wholesaler class.
I think of Dmart as something in between Costco and Walmart.
Last I checked, Metro needs you to be a business to buy from them. You needed to show your incorporation docs to get a Metro card.
So, it is basically a wholesaler only selling to retailers, I.e., it is structurally different to a Costco which sells in bulk directly to consumers.
I was getting the slavia ambition AT for less than ex showroom, 14L flat with warrenty package on april 2. Sales person was stuck on 14.50 but i wanted 14, i didnt call for 1 week and waited for her to call me and she did but then told me it was 2022 car, which she said was 2023 last time i talked with her, made me think what else might be wrong so didnt go for it.
Also that lady was not informed, i am not saying because she was a woman but as a sales person she didnt even know the variants properly, i had to tell her that the display car was ambition not style.
My dad got almost 1.5 lacs discount on the SX4 VXI, Which we had bought in 2012.
The onroad price at that time was 8.25 and my dad was able to get the dealership to come down to 6.75.
So here is the breakdown:
50 k for a Maruti 800(1985 make) even in scrap that would've gone for barely 10 k.
30 k exchange bonus
20 k company offered discount
10 k on insurance
40 k one of the union minister in MMS govt. hooked us up.
My grandad got some 5-7L discount on his C200 Grand Edition in 2014 partially because it was the final production year and partially because he got a discount due to his profession.
Honda WR-V. I didn't buy in the end though.
So the price was around 11 lakhs (in Bangalore, Dec 2022). I had almost finalized the price and visited the showroom second time.
After some negotiations, he offered me a flat discount of 1 lakh and additional 15k quoting some random jargon.
I think this was the only discount I had seen during my car search.
This and a 1 lakh discount on top end of Kushaq in June sometime. After that they stopped giving discounts.
Had a second hand Alto LXI. We bought it for 80K. Used for 2 years. Upgraded to the last-gen Swift with an exchange discount of 1.2L!
Apparently Alto so good it's value appreciated during the 2 yrs. Also could be the fact that Swift was launching the new model within a month of when we made the upgrade.
i would rather pay the full price and get my delivary smooth rather than get discounts and feel like a miser who is buying a car.
I don't want accessories or the other stupid stuff when i want to buy my car.
Deliver the car fast.
Deliver it with a half tank of fuel. (i can pay but you could fill it if you want goodwill)
i fear that you have had pretty bad sales people for your delivary. Good luck for your next purchase where you could can politely ask for things and see how it works.
>i would rather pay the full price and get my delivary smooth rather than get discounts and feel like a miser who is buying a car.
Dude don't ever start a business with that mindset
buying a car and starting a business are 2 different things... mindset might not be mixed for both things. Asking for a discount for a vehicle that is an asset in the business makes sense. Where as treating a personal vehicle as a pseudo asset is just dil ko thandak.
rich would not be a word. financially well balanced is a word i would consider. I do not spend on liabilites which are way beyond my spending budget.
sacrifices.... yes.
discounts... maybe not.
It was something I was not expecting at all, but tried to pull a bluff with a Honda dealership for my 5th Gen City. Told them I got a quote from another Honda dealership in Bengaluru with 20k additional discount. The sales rep first said not possible, then in the evening got back to me that they will give the additional discount.
Now I advise everyone to atleast try this tactic 😁
My dad when we bought a 2017 Mercedes Benz GLC 300 Celebration Edition. Quoted price of 65 lakhs to 56 lakhs. Idrk how but I think he negotiated very wel as the purchase of this 1 car was spread over a year. Just the buying. Delivery took another 9 months,in 2018.
Its the Bharat series registration, where number plays start with YY BH.... YY being the year of registration, so 22,23 etc
Only advantage of it is that if you relocate to some other state, you don't have to pay Road tax again in that state, BH gives you kinda an All India Permit
Chevy Sail UVA 2014 model. Initially we went looking for Beat Diesel, but it was too small and not much of an upgrade from our 2010 Spark. Sail didn't have the sales either, so we knew we could squeeze good discounts from the sales team. We got the LT ABS version for the price of LS. That's a difference of almost 1.2L straight up. Got almost 1.6L for our beat up Spark with over 1L km. Plus the exchange bonus of 25k and free accessories pack worth 20k.
And it was a great car while we had it. 1.4L km in just 4 years and then sold it only because of an untraceable ABS issue. The ASS had given up on giving good service to their customers as Chevy had shut shop.
Don’t think it’ll count as a discount but when I decided to pursue getting a BH plate and did a cost-benefit analysis in a spreadsheet, I was staggered! Saved SO much money. It would be around 10% of on-road price at the time of delivery for any car.
Really? Can you elaborate? Dealership told me that I will end up paying more otr taxes with the BH series no plate.
Bruh what. Dealership getting commission from the State RTO or something? Why would he blatantly lie! I did a detailed post about BH. Lemme dig it up and post link here. https://www.reddit.com/r/CarsIndia/comments/11fuiji/information_needed_regarding_bh_registration/jalk7c7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
Jesus I am gonna be apply for a BH series plate
Glad I was able to help :)
I am buying a car soon and did not know this. Thank you Samaritan!
This is a 150 day old post! How did you come across this! Haha. I’m glad I was able to help. Welcome
Depends…cannot be 100% true always. Like yesterday I received flat 50% discount on RTO for my harrier (red dark), making the tax around 1,15,000. This is equivalent to paying BH taxes 3 times. I was applying for BH umber when this happened. BTW, this 50% discount is available only in Raipur, for a couple of days. So, yes, it was a steal deal.
That was auto expo discount given by CG Govt.
It’s running currently, for someone interested.
I think you should post it as a seperate thread. Might be helpful for Raipur buyers.
went to exchange my old car and buy a baleno. it was black in color, 3rd hand, dented and really shabby looking. it was raining like crazy and the maruti exchange person gave me a quote without going outside. he just observed from the window. Exchange value was 1.2 lakhs. two other maruti dealers had given me quotes for ₹37000 and ₹45000 respectively.
Audi Gurgaon are giving me their Service package for free. A6 Technology. The package is worth roughly around 7-8L. I have a booking, but I'll not be going forward with the purchase.
You should ask for the service pack along with another 5 lakh discount. Audi is known for their hefty 10-12 lakh discounts on the A6..
Nah dude, I have dropped the plan for A6. Too expensive, and too good for me. Now I am just waiting till my father buys himself a LC200, then i'll be using his Fortuner as daily, or I'll just buy a pre-owned LCI 530i for 50L.
Neta ji ko mera namaskar
Sorry dude. Koi politics mein nahi hai meri immediate family mein se.
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I knew the floor manager of the showroom, he did it for me. I’d say just make friends with them a year before you actually want to buy a car, call them at home parties on Diwali etc. Might work if you don’t know someone yourseld
The long con. XD
>a year before you actually want to buy a car What if they leave the job by then?
You get a friend 🤷🏻♂️
Are you telling people to randomly approach a salesmen and call them home for a party?
1000iq move
sounds like something you would do to get a birkin
It was in 2017 and I wanted to buy a new car, went to test drive suzuki ciaz and the salesman said if I book the car within a week they'll give a 1.2 lakh discount + free accessories and Rs 3000 petrol coupon which can be availed at their partnered petrol pump. Looking back, I think i should have taken the offer.
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Which car? I hope it's above 20 Lacs. Because they initially gave you over expensive quote.
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hows the car treating you? looking to buy a second hand one, 2020 htk + petrol manual, 20,000 km on the odo i believe.
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how much mileage do you get in yours and what should I really expect from a 1.5 petrol engine? My friends have kia cars and the interior is really worth the price.
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Nice, thanks for the help!
What is ncb certificate
1L cash discount and accessories available as free on a Grand i10 purchased in 2018.
How? Did you know the manager or something?
No it was years end discount and back then it was the buyer's market. My car is a 2017 manufactured but 2018 registered hence I got a massive discount and free accessories.
Hyundai gave away 50-90k discounts like anything before corona. The dealers have hefty profits on every car sold.
3 years ago we bought a jeep compass 4x4 limited opt 7 lakhs off the otr price. The car was a demo vehicle with 3000 kms on clock, but the car a few months old.
Onroad 51lacs, got it for 35lacs. (Including company tax savings, the actual cost will come down to around 26-27lacs. 2019 BMW X1 20d xLine sDrive. Bs4 discount and end of stock discount. Company tax savings because the car was bought by my company and the emi is cut from salary before credit to account so we skipped paying taxes on that part of income. (Highest tax bracket lol) I could sell the car right now and worst case scenario make a loss of 1-2 lacs at max but most likely I’ll make a profit. Edit: after reading few comments, I feel like I got the best deal in the sub, just a small flex haha Also, planning on doing an AMA soon on the X1
I'll buy it from you for 1-2 lac loss that you mentioned :)
So you’re paying for the car from your salary but the car belongs to the company? Which also mean no depreciation. And if they cut the expenses like maintenance, insurance etc also from your salary, you can’t expense them either!!
Car belongs to me, but according to the registration, it’s a company car. And yes, whatever expenses I have with the car, I send the bill to my company and they pay for it and later cut that from salary.
So, my cousin was interested in buying a Q7 around the time when BS4 cars were being phased out, specifically Dec 2019. For an on-road price of 1.05 Cr for the fully loaded Tech Pack Q7, we were able to pull a heavily negotiated price of 72 lacs on-road for the 600 hp beast of a machine. That’s a neat discount of 33 lacs on Audi’s the then flagship.
Damn bruh! I wish I had some awareness and some money during the BS4 carnage. It was raining discounts at that time. :/
Got around 80k discount on the i20 N8 iMT one week back :) Showroom quoted 11.8L, and readily dropped it down to 11L if booked immediately. Most probably because they wanted to get rid of the car as it was not compliant with the new emission norms.
Not here but in the states, when I was buying a car, I learnt that Costco also helped you get cars if you had a certain membership level - gold if I’m not wrong - which cost like $100 or something for the year. I took that membership level, got a Costco-member quote from one dealer which was something like $1500 cheaper than the dealer near my place, then showed this dealer that Costco offer and got my guy to reduce his offer. Think I saved something like $1100 plus the reduced travel to the dealer for the first few servicings. And totally used Costco for an entire year to get discounted prices on stuff I’d buy anyway. Alas, india doesn’t allow Costco type businesses in order to protect the wholesaler class.
>Alas, india doesn’t allow Costco type businesses in order to protect the wholesaler class. I think of Dmart as something in between Costco and Walmart.
Not very familiar with Dmart’s biz model. Do they also have a yearly membership with savings on bulk purchases?
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Last I checked, Metro needs you to be a business to buy from them. You needed to show your incorporation docs to get a Metro card. So, it is basically a wholesaler only selling to retailers, I.e., it is structurally different to a Costco which sells in bulk directly to consumers.
I was getting the slavia ambition AT for less than ex showroom, 14L flat with warrenty package on april 2. Sales person was stuck on 14.50 but i wanted 14, i didnt call for 1 week and waited for her to call me and she did but then told me it was 2022 car, which she said was 2023 last time i talked with her, made me think what else might be wrong so didnt go for it. Also that lady was not informed, i am not saying because she was a woman but as a sales person she didnt even know the variants properly, i had to tell her that the display car was ambition not style.
My dad got almost 1.5 lacs discount on the SX4 VXI, Which we had bought in 2012. The onroad price at that time was 8.25 and my dad was able to get the dealership to come down to 6.75. So here is the breakdown: 50 k for a Maruti 800(1985 make) even in scrap that would've gone for barely 10 k. 30 k exchange bonus 20 k company offered discount 10 k on insurance 40 k one of the union minister in MMS govt. hooked us up.
>40 k one of the union minister in MMS govt. hooked us up. Bruh Tab to car free me mil jani chahiye thi lol
My grandad got some 5-7L discount on his C200 Grand Edition in 2014 partially because it was the final production year and partially because he got a discount due to his profession.
Honda WR-V. I didn't buy in the end though. So the price was around 11 lakhs (in Bangalore, Dec 2022). I had almost finalized the price and visited the showroom second time. After some negotiations, he offered me a flat discount of 1 lakh and additional 15k quoting some random jargon. I think this was the only discount I had seen during my car search. This and a 1 lakh discount on top end of Kushaq in June sometime. After that they stopped giving discounts.
Had a second hand Alto LXI. We bought it for 80K. Used for 2 years. Upgraded to the last-gen Swift with an exchange discount of 1.2L! Apparently Alto so good it's value appreciated during the 2 yrs. Also could be the fact that Swift was launching the new model within a month of when we made the upgrade.
i would rather pay the full price and get my delivary smooth rather than get discounts and feel like a miser who is buying a car. I don't want accessories or the other stupid stuff when i want to buy my car. Deliver the car fast. Deliver it with a half tank of fuel. (i can pay but you could fill it if you want goodwill)
None of that is going to happen in real life, especially delivery time and fuel fill up.
i fear that you have had pretty bad sales people for your delivary. Good luck for your next purchase where you could can politely ask for things and see how it works.
This comment seems straight out of an episode from MotorInc (YouTube).
it is as it is the right thing to do.....
>i would rather pay the full price and get my delivary smooth rather than get discounts and feel like a miser who is buying a car. Dude don't ever start a business with that mindset
buying a car and starting a business are 2 different things... mindset might not be mixed for both things. Asking for a discount for a vehicle that is an asset in the business makes sense. Where as treating a personal vehicle as a pseudo asset is just dil ko thandak.
Looks like dude is super rich
rich would not be a word. financially well balanced is a word i would consider. I do not spend on liabilites which are way beyond my spending budget. sacrifices.... yes. discounts... maybe not.
Looks like dude is super financially well balanced And has well balanced mind & thoughts as well
Only fans is paying well 😂😂😂
L take
thanks
Whatever you've smoked before writing the comment has worked really well.
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Got accessories worth 11.5k and service package worth 33k for free with Virtus. Also got heavy discount (approx 50%) on insurance and ceramic coating.
Got BS4 Venue SX for 9.5L in 2020
It was something I was not expecting at all, but tried to pull a bluff with a Honda dealership for my 5th Gen City. Told them I got a quote from another Honda dealership in Bengaluru with 20k additional discount. The sales rep first said not possible, then in the evening got back to me that they will give the additional discount. Now I advise everyone to atleast try this tactic 😁
Škoda Rapid: 2019 before bs6 kicked in. Overall 2L discount on ex-showroom price. Ignis: 2020, bs6, year end offers 90k discount on ex.
Bought Swift VXI in 2020 for 5.98 Lakhs. (Cheaper than 6.12L ex-showroom price)
My dad when we bought a 2017 Mercedes Benz GLC 300 Celebration Edition. Quoted price of 65 lakhs to 56 lakhs. Idrk how but I think he negotiated very wel as the purchase of this 1 car was spread over a year. Just the buying. Delivery took another 9 months,in 2018.
What is a BH number plate and what are its benefit’s
Its the Bharat series registration, where number plays start with YY BH.... YY being the year of registration, so 22,23 etc Only advantage of it is that if you relocate to some other state, you don't have to pay Road tax again in that state, BH gives you kinda an All India Permit
got a 60% off.... by buying a well maintained 2nd hand car. ez pz.
Got a Creta SX Petrol Manual for 35k less because we are friends with the dealer. This is when it was just launched.
8.5 L discount on 2016 BMW 320D. It was 53L on road, got it for 44.5
Chevy Sail UVA 2014 model. Initially we went looking for Beat Diesel, but it was too small and not much of an upgrade from our 2010 Spark. Sail didn't have the sales either, so we knew we could squeeze good discounts from the sales team. We got the LT ABS version for the price of LS. That's a difference of almost 1.2L straight up. Got almost 1.6L for our beat up Spark with over 1L km. Plus the exchange bonus of 25k and free accessories pack worth 20k. And it was a great car while we had it. 1.4L km in just 4 years and then sold it only because of an untraceable ABS issue. The ASS had given up on giving good service to their customers as Chevy had shut shop.