Ford dealerships in Houston TX

The best thing about Ford dealerships in Houston TX are the incentives and the rebates that they offer. I used to live in Austin, and I’ve made much better deals on the two cars I’ve bought since I moved to Houston than I ever did over there, and it’s mostly because of things such as incentives and rebates from the For dealerships in Houston TX.

If you want to save money on an incentive and rebate from one of the Ford dealerships in Houston TX, then you have to know how to use it. An incentive can usually either be a rebate or it can be a deal on financing. Both can add up to savings, but in different ways.

For example, for the last car I bought, the original MSRP was $22000, but there was a rebate on it for three thousand dollars, so it really only cost me nineteen thousand dollars, which was fantastic. There was another option on that car which I could have gotten instead of the rebate, and that was to have a lower monthly payment. I ended up paying $550 every month, but the Ford dealerships in Houston TX would have given it to me for $480 a month, and seventy dollars every month over four years is a lot of money. I probably should have chosen that, in hindsight.

There are a lot of ways you can find out what kinds of incentives the Ford dealerships in Houston TX are offering. Most of the time they just come to you. You see them when you’re watching TV, so long as you don’t let yourself daydream during the commercials. You’ll see ads in the newspaper, on the bus, everywhere.

Joe Myers Ford Houston

Q: Can I get good specials at Joe Myers Ford Houston?

A: I always go to Joe Myers Ford Houston for the best specials. Not only do they have a good number and variety, they don’t just have specials on pre owned cars but on newer cars and also on service and maintenance. It’s a really good thing for anybody who wants to get their Houston Joe Myers Ford car and then continue to get good service and specials for as long as they own that, which I have been able to do with my two cars bought from Houston Joe Myers Ford.

• Service!

Right now you can spend only fifty dollars on a two wheel alignment, ninety dollars on a pads replacement and inspection of rotors and calipers, twenty dollars on an oil change and fluids top off as well as a replacement of your filter, a hundred and twenty dollars to remove harmful deposits in order to reduce emissions, a hundred dollars for power steering flush, and ten dollars to rotate all tires.

• Pre Owned Cars.

You get to save six thousand dollars on a 2001 Ford F-150, $2500 on a 2006 Ford Escape hybrid, one thousand dollars on a 2005 Ford-350 Super Duty, $2400 on a 2003 Ford F-150, two thousand dollars on a 2005 Ford Escape, $3100 on a 006 Ford Freestyle, and $5500 on a 2007 Ford Explorer Sport.

Houston Texas Ford dealer

Q: I’m kind of overwhelmed by all of the ads from every Houston Texas Ford dealer. How do I sort these out?

A: Throw them away?

A: Probably not if you’re looking for a car…

Ads drive me crazy, but when you want a good deal on a car from a Houston Texas Ford dealer, you have to pay attention to them. Sometimes they have great information and can seal the deal on which Houston Texas Ford dealer you want to go to for your new car, and other times they have this great unintentional code that says, “Never come to this Houston Texas Ford dealer! Ever!” which is useful.

I look for four things when I’m sorting for ads from every Houston Texas Ford dealer for a new car.

• Rebates/incentives: If a car isn’t selling as fast as the Houston Texas Ford dealer wants, then it might give a rebate or incentive on it. This means that you can get a better price, but it also means that since the car isn’t very popular you might have to sell it for a lower price in the future. Of course, in the meantime you’ll pay less for car insurance. You have to figure out which is more important to you.
• Sales tax is hardly ever included in the so called low monthly fees that the Houston Texas Ford dealer has displayed in huge print on the ad. Instead, to figure out how much you would really be paying every month, times it by the sales tax and then add the two numbers together.
• How long the contract is would also be a deal breaker. You might be getting a cheap monthly payment, but you might also be paying your car off for six years. You pay more in the end.
• Interest: here the Houston Texas Ford dealer is usually doing it right. The kinds of interest rates you can get from dealerships is usually way better than that from banks.

Mac Haik Ford Houston

I was told earlier this week when I went to get a car at Mac Haik Ford Houston that the color you get for your car is very important. I thought this sounded weird and figured it was somebody trying to say the thing that a lot of us hear–that if you get a red or otherwise flashy colored car, then you’ll have to pay more money on your car insurance. This isn’t true, and I know that. But it turns out that this wasn’t what they were talking about.

The guy that I met at Mac Haik Ford Houston said that I should make sure that I get the right color when I buy my car. I had been set on getting baby blue, and he asked me if that was a good idea. Why wouldn’t it be? Apparently the color your car is has a big effect on how much money you get when you try to sell it later on, even if you come back to Mac Haik Ford Houston and use it as a trade in.

Here are some colors that will get you more money for your car:

• silver
• white
• beige
• black
• dark blue
• red

Here are some colors that…well, won’t:

• sky blue (crap!)
• yellow
• orange
• lime green
• pink
• purple

I can see why. Most of the cars on the road are white, black, or silver, so obviously consumers are looking for cars in that area. To my taste, though, the cars in the second list look more interesting, which is why wanted one of them. You have to figure out if you’re more interested in how you look now or how much money you want to get for your Mac Haik Ford Houston trade in when you’re done with it.

Freeway Ford Houston

Q: Are there any good specials at Freeway Ford Houston?

A: There’s some, every now and then, but nowhere near to the extent that you see from other dealerships in Houston. Freeway Ford Houston has some good prices on cars, but it doesn’t have great specials. What they try to do is reel you in through their ads, but if you want to get a good deal from Freeway Ford Houston, then you have to learn to interpret the ad.

There are a lot of tricks of speech that they use at Freeway Ford Houston to make you think there’s a deal when there isn’t. This is used by most car dealerships, so it’s obviously not limited, but I live near Freeway Ford Houston, so I see a lot of it.

• Just the car in the ad.

A lot of times Freeway Ford Houston or whatever other Houston Ford dealership will have an ad with an obviously junky car on it, and this is the sale. They offer it at a dirt cheap price and word it in a way so that people might think that there are a lot of cars like this there. This means that people who are desperate for a cheap car end up going and, guess what? There was only that one car in the ad, and all of the other cars are pretty expensive.

• Low payments every month.

Freeway Ford Houston advertises about low monthly payments, but the truth is that you are no closer to a low monthly payment if you buy a car at Freeway Ford Houston than you are if you buy a car anywhere else. Normally, you really only get to pay a low monthly note if you have good credit and your down payment is enormous, and it will say so in tiny print–and that’s no different than anywhere else.

Tommy Vaughn Ford Houston

Q: What kind of deals does Tommy Vaughn Ford Houston offer? I’m looking for a 2008 E Series.

A: It depends on where you live, because there are a couple of Tommy Vaughn Ford Houston locations and of course they’re competing with the car dealerships around them and not necessarily with just the whole city. But, I checked out wha they have in my area (Northwest Houston), and the Tommy Vaughn Ford Houston looked like it had some pretty good incentives for the 2008 Ford E Series.

For the 2008 E Series Wagon, they can give you a thousand dollars cash back. Then, they have some special deals on interest rates. If you pay off in three years, it’s 2.9% APR; five years and it’s another one percent; four years and it’s 4.9%; six years and it’s 6.9%. I notice that the percentages go up as the years go up, which is a good reason why you shouldn’t buy a car if you have bad credit or don’t have enough money to make bigger payments. The rates are awful.

They get a little bit different when you look at the 2008 Ford E Series RV. The cash back for this one is better, at $1500. Of course, the 2008 Ford E Series RV costs more, so that’s pretty obvious. The financing rates are pretty much the same.

Houston Used Ford Dealerships

Q: Are there any other Houston Ford dealerships other than the ones you see on TV all of the time?

A: There are a couple of Houston Ford dealerships that aren’t so bad even though you don’t hear from them a lot. I find that while the bigger Houston Ford dealerships offer some good specials, you can also get better deals at the smaller Houston Ford dealerships. Service takes longer, though, and they often don’t have nifty features such as online bill pay, which is lame.

• Freeway Ford.

This is a good example of one of the Houston Ford dealerships that doesn’t pass on the TV too much, but it’s still great. They’re website is very annoying, though, and it doesn’t offer all of the options that some of the bigger Houston Ford dealerships do, though it does have online financing approval. It’s located on Southwest Freeway.

• McCree Ford.

For some reason, the name makes me laugh. No, but this is one of the Houston Ford dealerships on the gulf freeway kind of close to Dickinson (so it’s really far out). But, it does have great prices and some good specials, and it offers online options for researching your car. I haven’t seen any other Houston Ford dealerships do that.

Houston Ford dealership

Q: What information do I need to bring to my Houston Ford dealership when I go to buy my car?

A: I just bought my car last week from a Houston Ford dealership, so I still have all of my stuff in my purse. I’m just going to pull it out and reel off to you what I have in here. It’s so cluttery…

First of all, you’re going to need all of your identifying information, such as your driver’s license. They might try to photocopy this before you take one of the new cars that you like out for a test drive, but you can and should tell them no. They only want to do a credit check on every single car in the lot, but they can wait until you’ve actually chosen a car. It’s not required that they photocopy your license before you test drive. Rental car companies definitely don’t do it.

You also need your proof of insurance, which they will also photocopy. It needs to be current, and it doesn’t have to have your new car on it. Usually you have about thirty days to add your new car from your Houston Ford dealership to your car insurance policy, and it will still be covered during that time.

If you don’t have insurance, you can usually buy it from the office of the Houston Ford dealership. Be prepared to be there forever, though. I think that the customer service reps can sense that someone has already been waiting five hours at a car lot, and they take so long out of spite.

You’ll also need information on where you work, where you have worked, current address, old address…Make sure that you get around fifteen to twenty references ahead of time, with names, numbers, and addresses. Most importantly, you’ll need your last four paycheck stubs.

Ford Dealer in Houston

Q: I don’t know what model I’m going to get yet for my new car, but I do know that it’s going to come from a Ford dealer in Houston (I live in Katy…and, no, it’s not the same thing). Is there anything regarding cost that I should have an eye out for while I’m shopping for cars at a Ford dealer in Houston?

A: If you’re going to go to a Ford dealer in Houston, you definitely should know what kind of car you’re going to get ahead of time. First of all, they usually sell all kinds of cars even with the name of Ford dealer in Houston, so the vast selection can be disorienting, especially if you’re a first time buyer. My little sister went to a Ford dealer in Houston without having researched what she wanted first, and even though she asked to see Fords, she ended up coming a way with a Chrysler…

But you should now before you buy a car which one you want, and a good way to decide on that is to figure out what the costs will be after you buy the car. If you’re credit isn’t so great, then you should probably get a cheaper car, because otherwise your monthly payments will be huge, and so on.

• Cost of maintaining your car.

This is a huge deal. Some cars cost more than others to maintain. Nobody charges more for an oil change for one car over another, but if you get a certain kind of car then the parts can be pretty expensive. I had a BMW once and the prices of the parts, even the aftermarket ones, were killer. Think about that before you buy any European car, really.

• Gas, miles per gallon, etc.

Trucks and SUVs look great and drive well and have great performance and all that, but they also cost several hundred dollar a month to keep filled up. Unless you’re ready to make that kind of commitment or start riding your bike a lot, you need to stay away.

• Depreciation.

Anytime you buy a new car, it depreciates really quickly as soon as you drive it off the lot. The first couple of years are the worst. But some cars depreciate more quickly than others, so you can get a car that depreciates slowly and if you ever need to sell it, you might actually make some money off of it.

• Car insurance.

Insurance is a big expense. For us it’s around a thousand dollars a year, and would probably be less if we owned more insurable cars. If you get a safe, not so expensive car that isn’t on the most stolen list, then you’re probably good to go.

Champion Ford Houston

Q: I’m thinking of getting a Taurus from Champion Ford Houston, but do they accept trade ins?

A: Yeah, they do. I traded in my Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (1992) with them two years ago when I bought my Ford Focus. It wasn’t in great condition, and the transmission was going out along with a few other things. I had just replaced the starter and a few fuses, and all but one window didn’t roll down. The trunk wouldn’t open. I had been trying to get rid of it so that I could get a new car, and so I had called one of those ads in the Greensheet where they say that they’ll pay cash for cars. First of all, those things are rip offs and I’d advise against anybody using them… Everybody I talked to would only buy my car for less than three hundred dollars. I had bought that car for three thousand! No way!

Soooo, I went to Champion Ford Houston to get my Focus and asked them if they took trade ins. The Champion Ford Houston sales guy told me yes and I talked to him about the condition and make, model, year, and all of that. In the end, they ended up offering me $1500 for it–way more than I expected. I wasn’t looking for big bucks, just, you know, a little more than three hundred dollars.

The cool thing is that you don’t even have to call them up or go up there to see if they’ll take your trade in anymore, because they have this thing on the Champion Ford Houston dealer website that helps you determine how much your car is worth. You just fill out this little form with information on your car, and it gives you the value of it and then they call you up and talk to you about your trade in and the Houston Champion Ford car that you want to buy. It’s really easy, and you can get so much done right at home that it saves a lot of time from spending at the car lot.

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