I went in a few weeks ago to buy a 2024 Santa Fe. - Unimpressed.
I went in a few weeks ago to buy a 2024 Santa Fe. I knew I wanted to come home and look over the number and would return the next day. The salesman, Connor, was helpful but when he went went back to the sales manager, he returned with a sheet with the biweekly payments rather than total price (red flag one). Once home, I worked out the total purchase price based on the interest rates and they had quoted me TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS over what the MSRP and tax should have been. I went back in a few days later as the next closest dealership is at least 2 hours away and kamloops had the exact car I wanted. I showed them the math and told them it was unacceptable, which is when a different salesmanager apologized and said he would get me a fair quote. The next quote was closer to what I would expect but still had $3200 dollars worth of extra dealer charges over the quotes from the Hyundai website. I also was looking for a hitch to be purchased too, the website quote $870ish with installation included, kamloops told me that was just the hitch price and with installation it would be $1400. My trade was the last straw, I did my research, similar vehicles with similar milage were selling to the public for 12-14k, they offered me 3k. I know it needed a little body work and I would have settled on 6 or 7k but 3k was insanely low. At another point they had double quoted me for car mats and "forgotten" to lower the tax bracket as the PST changes depending on the price of the vehicle.
Instead, I made the trek to the lower mainland, bought my new Santa Fe for MSRP, one admin fee and taxes, recieved 7k for my trade and had a much better experience than anything I experienced at Kamloops.
If you need to deal with this dealership, do your own math, know the prices and values and be prepared to double check absolutely everything. I would avoid them at all costs.
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