Get Real! Dealer Tags in $5000 Market Adjustments And $1000 For Nitrogen Filled Tires On New Camaro!

what a crock of shyt......nitrogen filled tires has been aroundfor a while....its really if your driving your car hard like nascar,f1...etc..but come the everyday average joe doesnt need nitro in their tires.

The dealer must truly believe there is an ass for every seat.

Way to go GM....you obviously learned absolutely nothing from this disaster you are going through. You take the bailout money only to have your stupid dealers raking people across the coals instead of trying to build a solid customer base back. That will really bring in the customers...."Hey Mr/Ms Potential Buyer, that is such a beautiful car, we've only a marked-up a $5000 premium on the car". Guess GM was trying to recover all their bailout money quickly.

it's not GM doing it it's the dealership chill out

Every company does it. So what!

The only difference is other companies charge about $900 less...i.e. at my BMW dealership I paid $100 for the privelege of filling up my tires with Nitro for as long as I own the car.

Nitro filled tires is a another stupid way to make a "quick buck" for the dealer, I see them normally charge $40-60 a set of 4 tires, and I can understand it since the tires have to be broken down and new valve stems put in. The nitro filled tires are a good thing for all the lazy people that don't check the tire pressure from the winter to summer times when temp changes and the tire pressure changes with it.

As far as market adjustment, I didn't see much being said about that when BMW was "adjusting" the price on the M3's.....

Market Adjustment is adjusting the price of a particular vehicle according to the market. Example, if you have 100 cars, and 500 buyers, guess what, you can charge what the people are willing to pay to get one. If you don't like the price, wait till there is 500 cars and 100 buyers.

The tires do not have to be broken down there is a machine(which costs about $6000) that sucks out air(78% nitrogen) and puts in nitrogen(96% nitrogen) in its place. Nitrogen does work I put nitrogen in my tires about every 6 months because it does not leak out as fast as air.

Well, GM could put a stop it and should. You build a very nice, highly anticipated (by some) vehicle and the dealers make it so that only a very few will buy anytime soon. You bring people to your dealers and then the dealers piss them off because that particular dealer is telling you that times are so good, we need an extra 5k on this car, just because. It's practices like these that are pissing off the car buyer in general. Most dealers try this 'Market Adjustment' crap, but the main culprits are the American car companies. Anyone remember the PT Cruiser when it first came out (10k over sticker), or how about the Challenger (5k over), or even another highly anticipated car, ZR1 (10-15k over sticker)? The American car companies have to tell their dealers to stop trying to RIP OFF the people you so desperately need right now. Your dealers are only shooting themselves in the foot. "If this dealer won't, I guarantee you that dealer will sell it for a substantial disount". They will see in a couple of months when those Camaros are sitting on the lots not going anywhere. Then, "Employee Pricing for Everyone"....

Sorry for the rant

very simple, you don't like it, go to the next store.

I sell VWs. Last year when gas was at $4+ it was great selling TDI Jettas oversticker and you know what? Very very few customers complained. Cars were in short supply, people from all over the midwest were calling in, things were rocking and rolling. Now, things changed. Gas is cheap no one cares about the TDI. And, that's fine with us.

Cars don't have huge markups like most people believe. So, it helps if I can make a little bit extra. We car salesman have to eat, just like the rest of you.

"Rip em off" please. I bet you're happy paying $8 for a Red Bull when you go out on Saturday night and feel good about it.

I bet a month from now these market adjustments go away, that's just the way it goes.

sorry for the rant

The import dealers do it to. Dealers are not owned by the car companies and can do alot that the car companies can't do anything about. New models get bumps put on them.

If you fall for the nitrogen in your tires trick, you deserve what you get. Dealerships can be crooks but please, lets not make it easy for them.

...and another reason american auto sales are down the drain!! I'm sure this won't be the only case as dealers get desperate to move product and make a buck any way they can. The companies sucker the taxpayers into propping up their failing companies and their dealers then sucker the taxpayers when it comes to purchase their failing products!

I have nitrogen in my tires and it cost me a whopping $16. That being said, are we surprised at this? Any new hot, must-have car is going to have some ridiculous mark ups. Remember when the Miata came out? Doesn't mean that it's right though.

YO> GET OFF MY LOT OVA HEEEA?

Wow.

you want some nitrogen gazzz to go wit dat?

Dealer or GM - it doesn't matter. The point is that this kind of crap can't help GM in any way.

Sorry guys this is domestic dealer stupidity at it's best -- putting the dealership before the brand and a HUGE reason why the domestics are in the state they are in today. Let's be serious Camaro is a 80k unit per year vehicle -- so a market adjustment. Bad business. I went into a Ford dealership a few years back with the launch of the new Mustang and same thing -- I asked the sales guy WTF? He said, hey it's a hot car! Well yeah, but as soon as production ramps up you have already lost me a customer -- was it the product, nope. Dealer greed. Unreal that some of these places continue to be so sort sighted that with impending bankruptcy in fewer than 3 weeks they have the audacity for a market adjustment. I am on the side of the domestics and hope they pull through, but this is a clear indicator that the paradigm has to shift in a big way. I wonder how market adjustments are going to go at Pontiac dealers in the next few months, maybe the Braintrust in the dealer community should check that out. Fast dimes over slow nickels, Awful.

The import dealers do the same thing. I worked at a Nissan dealer when the 350z came out the first one went for $5000 over sticker. The first 350Z roadster went for $8000 over. Even the first Quest we got went for $6000 over. People will pay to be first to own a new model. Last summer when gas was $4.00 a gallon we had a Toyota dealer adding $1500 to ever Yaris and Corolla.

Does nitrogen filled tires enhance performance and traction? Excuse me for the lack of wisdom on this issue.

Nitrogen filled tires don't change pressure very much with temperature changes. In a racing situation that means you have a less varying driving experience, but on the street, the most you can hope for is not having to adjust between summer and winter temperatures. (though even the best tires still slowly leak)

^ Timzilla, you know what they say, if it's on the internet, it must be true !!!!