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      03-08-2022, 12:27 PM   #1
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Has anyone ever transacted with BMW Bloomfield (NJ)? I was looking at a pre-owned vehicle MY2020 with 11k miles and the rep told me they don't do CPOs there. I know not every car meets the reqs to be a CPO but for this dealer they said they do not CPO ANY of their BMWs! A quick look at their site shows they have 63+ BMWs on the lot and not a single one is Certified. Instead the rep wanted to sell an extended warranty through another company.

Anyone ever heard of a BMW dealer that doesn't CPO cars as a matter of policy? Seems shady to me but maybe I am overreacting?

Any experience or comments about this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
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Has anyone ever transacted with BMW Bloomfield (NJ)? I was looking at a pre-owned vehicle MY2020 with 11k miles and the rep told me they don't do CPOs there. I know not every car meets the reqs to be a CPO but for this dealer they said they do not CPO ANY of their BMWs! A quick look at their site shows they have 63+ BMWs on the lot and not a single one is Certified. Instead the rep wanted to sell an extended warranty through another company.

Anyone ever heard of a BMW dealer that doesn't CPO cars as a matter of policy? Seems shady to me but maybe I am overreacting?

Any experience or comments about this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Never heard of this. That being said coming from someone who has bought several CPOs from BMW and 2 from Porsche. They slap that shit on anything and it means nothing except they charge you more for the extra warranty and make you feel better about it. Make sure if you do by a CPO much less any car, take it somewhere else to get checked and run a paint meter on it.

Sorry for the rant, but if a CPO is not offered, you should be paying less anyways and could add an extended warranty on it if needed.
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This isn't too uncommon - CPO process is quite pricey to a dealer and once it's complete, cannot be removed.

So if a dealer CPO's a car - it automatically raises the dealer cost by a couple grand. If a customer doesn't care if a car is certified or not - the dealer is gonna lose a sale, since his cost is now several grand higher than a comparable model sitting on a Lexus dealer lot or something.

Some dealers feel this result isn't worth the effort - so they don't certify their cars.

Not really a big deal. If you MUST have a CPO car, then simply buy elsewhere.
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This isn't too uncommon - CPO process is quite pricey to a dealer and once it's complete, cannot be removed.

So if a dealer CPO's a car - it automatically raises the dealer cost by a couple grand. If a customer doesn't care if a car is certified or not - the dealer is gonna lose a sale, since his cost is now several grand higher than a comparable model sitting on a Lexus dealer lot or something.

Some dealers feel this result isn't worth the effort - so they don't certify their cars.

Not really a big deal. If you MUST have a CPO car, then simply buy elsewhere.
though BMW-CPO versus buying 3rd party extended warranty the CPO seems like a better deal for the buyer ? And in the long run a better opportunity for the dealer ?
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