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• Steps for foreign students to buy a car
• Personal experience in car selection and purchase
• 3000+ km September 2019 version 530 leading the way

Purchase price: the car purchase price for foreign students is very transparent and there is no additional fee, only the official car purchase price (expressly stated on the official website) + the intermediary fee of the explicit price (about RMB 2500), and there are generally no compulsory / soft charges in 4S stores.

Intermediary choice: there are only two in the whole market: for more information, please see the BMW official website customer-Foreign Student page), their official website has profiles of different brands and different models (I personally find that it is not very complete, you can consult the agent for details).

I am in Chongqing, this car purchase is quite satisfied with the service of Chinese enterprises, need to recommend can be private letter (only in Chongqing area. Because I don’t know the agents in other places, the differences in intermediary services vary from person to person, so it’s no use asking me.

1. Vehicle choice: this is a matter of personal preference. I don’t like pure electric plug-in and light low row, so I draw a wide range. However, choice difficulty is a real headache. Brands have chosen to see BBA, Cadillac and Volvo. City SUV test-drives a GLC,X3,Q5; car, E300, C300, 5 series, new 3, and so on. According to my chief of staff-the former elite NVH engineer comrade of a certain automobile research institute, this class of cars have their own advantages and disadvantages, no ranking, only feelings. Anyway, I personally chose the 5-series Li. I originally wanted to choose 5 Series I, but why not be included in the car purchase list of foreign students, bowing for five buckets of rice, but as a young father, after driving for a period of time, I still feel that Li is still very fragrant, comrades refer to psychology “look at the effect”.

two。 Car purchase steps: foreign students to buy a car is actually very simple, decided to start buying a car only need two steps: first, choose an intermediary, contact the intermediary assigned specific business personnel; second, in the business staff recommendation, or you choose a nearby 4S store as a car delivery shop. The rest is to purchase in accordance with the process of intermediary business personnel, the specific process I drew a diagram to introduce in detail, please refer to the first part of this article. Here, according to the reflection of students in different cities, different professional qualities of salesmen can bring completely different car purchase experience. I wish you all a good fate and meet the right person.

3. Personal car purchase episode: my car purchase is scheduled for July 16, 2019, and the car pick up is November 13, 2019. Speaking of, there should not be such a long waiting time, the main problem is that I did not know the change in September when I booked the car, and the car went offline on September 2. Brilliance mainframe factory in the above picture offline-payment notice process is very slow, early September offline, October 18, I received the payment notice. This episode brings advantages and disadvantages: 1. After waiting for a long time, it directly gives me the excitement to wait for the car, which I believe the comrades who buy the car understand. 2: unlike the ordinary 4S store, foreign students can only passively choose the September style, because except for the 4S store itself, it is normal to schedule production, there is no choice after buying a car, and the favorite window black bar is gone. Disadvantages 3: foreign students buy BMW according to the payment date, the official website added thousands of yuan in September; advantage 1: due to market factors, the new model is often added more than the simple September model ID7 really fragrant, full-screen Carplay, wireless charging board, as if missing some emergency kit Do not know the good or bad: changed the color of the window trim, the domestic gearbox (in view of this, I only put forward, do not verify the pros and cons, a friend of an automobile research institute said that this change should not be superstitious, quality control and performance are only known to the gearbox production workers. The mainframe factory doesn’t know.
Friends in the jar also know it, such as Ji Feng Brother: https://club. .com.cn/bbs/thread/349d56ef85ce1235/84786560-1.html#19

Car purchase process service quality evaluation (100 points system): as a consumer, I have the right and obligation to evaluate the products (services) purchased for individuals:

Business staff of Chinese enterprises: 99 points, very satisfied, less than 1 point to avoid pride (joke). I did not expect that the intermediary service industry in Chongqing has such a high quality, acts professionally, has a good attitude, is very considerate of consumers, and does not do some wool that I think is normal for consumers, exceeding expectations.

Car buyer in 4S store: 90 points, also very satisfied. Compared with ordinary customers, I personally feel that for 4s stores, it should be more responsible than profit-driven, after all, the price is so transparent. I am a more business client, and the manager takes great pains to answer my questions. Tell the truth 4S store service system I was not very optimistic (layman nonsense: the manufacturer’s cost of sales, not to mention big brands, brand supervision in the past two years in the market competition to the advanced countries / regions, but the process is still a long time. Moreover, the high-quality service industry needs the joint progress of businesses and consumers, and there are many consumers who cross the border and businesses who do not know how to be responsible online, not to mention that the degree of competition in the service industry in Chongqing is not bad. In the end, seriously, 4S managers are good.

BMW mainframe factory: from the point of view of the service, I don’t know why the price has been delayed for so long, even if it happens for a reason. From the point of view of the essence of work, as the second global factory of quality control, the most important thing to be scored is quality control (layman’s nonsense: including the supply chain, as well as the high quality expectation of assembly and inspection quality as high as possible, and the variance as small as possible) and how much cost they are willing to pay when defective products appear. Have you ever considered the current Internet customers (things like Xi’an Mercedes-Benz) with insurance thinking? Reflects a combination of international established brands + domestic big manufacturers in the face of consumers in the new era, that kind of clumsy and helpless case of public relations failure), after all, it feels that BMW in China is a time when the brand is strong and the product power is strong, and some people still buy it when you are negligent. I don’t know about the future development. Look at the big brothers in other industries, Nokia, Sony, and many ups and downs in the history of the automobile industry.