Anyone have a good experience with the CARS program here on Long Island?

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I used the clunker program to get a new minivan. Well sort of.
Went to a couple of dealers looking for a new minivan for my wife. Most dealers did not seem too sure of the program, one even said I had to take care of it not them. Ended up at Westbury Jeep Dodge . I told them the whole deal was because of the clunker program. Was bringing in my old Ford F-350 pickup. We settled on a minivan, settled on a price and started on the paper work. Came back the next day with the paperwork for the truck. 1st problem was the truck was not listed on the Gov website. The dealer called the 800 number and got a verbal ok. We finalized the paperwork but stressed to them the whole deal hinged on getting $3500 for my truck.
They called the next day and said the paperwork on the truck was denied because I was buying a car and not another truck. The salesman said they would give me a $2000 credit for my truck thru the dealership. I said I would think about it and let him know in a couple of days. They called back about 20 minutes later and said they knew the whole deal revolved around getting $3500 for the truck. After going back and forth they finally agreed to accept my truck and give me the full $3500 credit. They said to just bring the truck in and it would be up to them to get the truck acceptted.

Bottom line, Car dealers are never easy to deal with but the people at Westbury Jeep Dodge kept their word with me.

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Originally Posted by TeamExit

even if the companies are foreign, buying their cars helps out the people who work for them in this country. aside from the dealerships themselves, many of the foreign companies have plants to build the cars here too. i think the domestic companies should start making better vehicles if they want to sell them and survive

Please if you are saying imps are better then US cars you had better be willing to put your money where your mouth is...

Just because we let them make it here doesn't mean the money stays here....

So you know.... Have you ever seen as many US cars overseas ANYWHERE like you see imps here ?....

Absolutely not....because US cars are heavily taxed there.... unlike imps are here...
If you were paying what you should so that it would be FAIR.. imps aren't even paying the 30% tax the US makers are...

See how quickly you would utter there better made if you had to pay more...

Better made is the single most US traitors excuse for buying imps....

Dare to bring your imp and do some tests....lets really see whats better...

I can't remember how many US cars i threw a t-stat in and sent on there merry way...while imps all needed at the very least a head gasket if they were lucky... but lets see better...made

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umm.. dude just take a look at all the older cars that are still on the roads, in decent shape, still running great with high mileage... cars from late 80's to early/mid 90's... many of them are imports.. honda, toyota, bmw, mercedes, etc. i also work on cars for a living, and some of the engineering on many american cars is just plain dumb. german cars also though.