So my old dear wants to buy a new car (Renault Captur), not getting much discount at the main dealers, so I look on line and there are various brokers (is that the term?) offering her main dealer, factory ordered cars for discounts of around £2k. Anybody have any experience of ordering from these people, any downsides?

brokers like Drivethedeal are generally well regarded (from what I could research anyway).

Worth getting a couple of quotes from them, then trying your luck direct with the dealer?

I used drive the deal dot com. I’d use them again. Have a look on their website about possible pitfalls elsewhwhere when you check them out.

Feel free to ask more.

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I know a few people who have used drive the deal, the car comes from a local Renault/VW/BM etc dealer anyway so the service you get should be no different.

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P.S. Put your sunglasses on first

Lingscars tends to come out one of the most expensive from the cars I’ve checked. Not very good value at all IME, and a bloody awful website 🙂