Advice on purchasing camry 2007-2010

[igbeserk]

Hey i'm new to this forum and I'm in the market for a camry. I want to get a 2007-2010 Camry SE. I'm trying to find the best deal i can some places have 2010's that cost less than the 2007's so that's why that's my range. Basically Yea i'm interested in the camry se model the v4. not looking for speed but it is important. more worried about fuel efficiency. I test drove one and fell in love. Basically i want to know if anyone has any tips for me on how I could get the best deal. So far it seems like in terms of price I can talk them down about 3000 dollars. Anyone know any helpful hints or tricks of the trade to better assist me in getting a good deal? I plan on financing and i have my 95 lexus es300 that i want to trade in has about 149k miles. it's in fair condition kbb says 1275 for it one dealership offered me 1100 so that's not so bad. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

Also any info on best way to maintain it? i think i'll just go to the dealer for everything. oil changes and tires and brakes but i know it's going to cost me more but i want to baby the hell out of this because after 2 troublesome vehicles i want a problem free car. i even plan to get the rubber floor and trunk mats lol. but yea any info on how to keep it well maintained or what's best recommended i appreciate it. thanks for your time and help.

I am going to a dealership friday a 2010 camry se with about 27k miles on it. in red it's about 17.8g going to try and talk them down it'd be nice if we could et down to 13g but that's probably impossible lol.

[joshuaboston]

This is what I did... about 2.5 months ago.

Fist go to http://www.carcomplaints.com/ and research each year and read up on the problems. It seems that there are alot of problems in 2007, I would stay away from 07s.

I went second hand, searched Craigslist, cars.com, autotrader on weekly basis, only searched owners that were selling their cars, I stayed away from Dealers. I had a bunch of cars but I was looking for good value and.... The car that I was looking for needed to have Fog Lights, Manual Tranny and a sunroof. I saw that someone was selling a Camry 08 SE with 35Kmiles for $13K, the car came with an extended gaurantee up to 75Kmils. The car was accedented... the owner told me that someone hit him in the behind, no air bags were deployed, less then a G of damage and the rear bumper was replaced.

OK... so I purchased it. FYI... I took my car to a dealership for an oil change and they informed me that my tranny was leaking oil, it was covered under the gaurantee, they needed to change a gasket, part was like 20 but I think it took about four hours of labor to complete. Basically, if you have no gaurantee make sure you check it out at a mechanic, I took a chance.


Sold my old car 2000 Celica GT on Craigslist for 950, it had 218Kmiles.

Good Luck

[bmbweber]

Dont buy the car the first day u go look at it...

Take 3 hours checkin the car out, negociating... blah,blah

No matter what the deal is, leave. They will call u with a better deal