What are the costs to put the way?

This is a line that you have probably seen on a quote or an order form: «Road costs»or his commercially softer cousin, «Delivery package».

On the surface, it seems a formality. In fact, it is A service offered by the professional sellergenerally In addition to the price displayed car.

The idea? Prepare it Used vehicle so that it is ready to be given to the customer. Clean, rolling and with a minimum of formalities performed. A kind of Handpopped packagepresented as comfort.

But be careful: This package is not standardizednor imposed by any national rule. Each seller decides content, price and how to present it. And it is here that it becomes complicated.

In some cases, they are Useful real services. In others, An easy way to inflate the margin without touching the displayed price. What matters is not the name, but what it contains.

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What include configuration costs or delivery package?

The problem with Road commissionsIt is that they are rarely the same from one seller to another. You can switch from a simple wash expressed to a way of formula 1, For the same title on the invoice.

Here’s what we find more frequently in a Delivery packageDetailed point by point:

1. Aesthetic and mechanical preparation

The professional seller often begins with Make the vehicle presentable.

• Full cleaning internal and outside

• Bodywork of the bodywork

• Vacuum cleaner, carpet shampooSometimes the treatment of plastic

• Fluid update : engine oil, cooling liquid, windshield washer, brake fluid … an operation that should already be performed by any serious professional, but which sometimes is located Invoiced in addition under this package.

2. Technical control and safety

Yes the technical control It is close to its expiry or missing, it is often included. Otherwise, the professional realizes what he calls a «Safety control»often blurred.

• Verification of brakes, lights, tires, steering

• Update of technical controlif necessary

• Verification of Operation of the equipment (wipers, air conditioning, lights, etc.)

Note: All this should already respect the saleCar there Guarantee of legal conformity It requires the sale of a vehicle capable of circulating.

3. Carbone: the minimum rigorous

In most cases, leave with 5 liters of fuel. Enough to join the nearest station, so as not to go back and forth in Paris-Bordeaux.

This full symbolism However, it is integrated into the package. Some more generous sellers arrive a quarter or halfBut I’m in the minority.

4. Registration dishes

If the vehicle requires new plates, the Supply and installation costs It can be included. Otherwise, you can find it on an attachment line or … integrated into the pack.

Some people do this as if the plates were carbon fiber. Actually, Two basic plastic plates cost less than 30 euros.

5. Various accessories (depending on the mood of the seller)

This is where we find more Variations from one professional to another.

• Security kit : vest, triangle

• Floor mat (often the cheapest on the market)

• Reserve bulbs

• Glass engravingSometimes offered as an option under safety coverage

All this can be presented as a «gift» or included in the blur in Road commissions. The important thing: ask for black on white.

6. Administrative costs: yes but …

Some sellers include their pack Management of the registration certificate. Passes through theNational Agency for safe titles (ants)and can generate a file service for file management.

Be careful anyway: these costs must be clearly detailed And they are not mandatory. THE DGCCRF (Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Repression of Frauds) everything remembers it invoicing of non -justified accessory costs It can be considered as unduly presented as mandatory.

The only rule to remember: All in the road package must be detailed and justifiable. If it is not clear, You have the right to ask the question, to refuse or even negotiate. Why not, This package is nothing sacred.

The delivery package or costs to put the road mandatory?

Not.
And it must be clearly said: Road costs are in no way mandatory During thePurchase of a vehicle used by a professional.

What the regulations say

THE Premiums displayed must be «Round in hand». In other words, the price you see is supposed Include everything you need so that the vehicle takes the road immediatelyWithout you slide a supplement at the last moment.

Only Two things can arrive morejustified:

• Gray paper (registration certificate) ;

• The cost of the production and laying of the platesIf they are needed.

Everything else – that we call it «Package of supplies», «Delivery package», «Preparation of the vehicle»OR «Road costs» – East optional. And in any case, You have the right to refuse it.

Order offensive practices and reminder

Some professionals are still trying to do it Pass these costs for bonds. Integrating them opaque or presenting them as a condition of sale. THE DGCCRF (Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Repression of Frauds) He has already remembered them to order. Several times.

Because it’s simple: Presenting optional expenses as an obligation is a deceptive commercial practice.

An honest seller you should:

• Presents each expenses distinctly ;

• Clearly mention their optional nature ;

• Give the choice accept them or not.

The refusal is legal

So you have perfectly entitled to say it Not to a «cleaning package» at € 290, to an automatically imposed «safety package», or a «set» ghost of which «of which» You have never asked for the services.

What if you are told that it is not negotiable? Run away. Because it is not a concession. It is a tax dull.

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