Good point. As well, due diligence is also in play here. It's always best to know exactly what is available in options, etc., before buying a car.

My son has the 335i sport with the paddles and they are important for him. I don't have the sport package on my 550i and love the softer feel of the car. That being said, the SAT is a must have if you purchased the sport package after June 07. The SAT and paddle shifters should be part of the sport package, imo, why would anyone knowingly fork out over $4k extra and not get the SAT/paddles for $500?

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just let it go man...

lots of good points are being brought up here. in all honestly, you just got a brand new car. go enjoy it.

 

Thats their JOB... they get paied to do that. Its their responsibility. People need to own up to things. Be responsible at least for what you SHOULD be responsible for. If I told my manager... "oh theres too much technology in the part we're making I cant keep up with the changes..." I would be out of a job.

 

Are you frigging kidding me, this salesidiot dosen't work for Carmax, he sells one brand of car with features many of which are redundant across the product line. If there are people like some of us who are consumers of the product, who make the effort to educate ourselves about the cars we drive, is it too much to ask that this idiot has enough pride to know his own product. I bet you his boss would'nt buy this ".....difficult to keep up with all the technical details..." bullcrap either.

 

Point taken. But maybe the salesperson had a bad day and made the simple mistake of not clearly differentiating between SAT and Automatic. [paradigm shift] We all make mistakes and I know for sure that if I were in the position of dropping 70 large for a new automobile, I'd take into account the possibility that my salesperson may be a dunce for that day and do my homework to learn every minute detail about the car before taking the plunge.

 

While this is true, there is also some responsibility on the part of the buyer to know what is available and what he wants in a car. Who's to say the salesman didn't knoe about the about but instead read the body language of the buyer or that the buyer didn't walk in and say I want a 550, sports package etc? That's exactly what I did but having previously owned an E60, I am familiar with the options and had researched to the point that I knew what the SAT offering was. No educated buyer simply walks into a showroom and expects to sold everything about a car. I personally did a lot of research before buying my 545 and am doing it again before buying my 550. The SAT is clearly offered is the sales catalog, did the OP not review that at all to see what options were offered? How did he decide for or against sports package, Active Steering or HD radio etc. Some of the responsibility is his as well. That being said, as other have posted, he still has a great car, even without the SAT. On with the mods and simply enjoy a great car...

 

Ya I dont disagree that the buyer should have done their home work... but the salesman or women should know their product inside out. Yes, there are bad days... but we all know... there are more salesman that truly dont know their products than there are those that do.

 

Guys, we are talking about a $ 500, here in europe a $ 200 feature - in my eyes, the sales guy just rushed the deal by saying that SAT does not make a difference because he knew that if he said it made a difference, aznunknownx would insist on test driving a car with SAT, and he also knew that there were no e60s available with SAT at that time, and that test driving one would push his deal by atleast couple of weeks if not a month. From this point of view, I think he had definite enough motivation not to tell aznunknownx that SAT made a difference. Alone because of this, I would freak out and talk to a GM there...

ps. you can not expect buyers to do the homework that we here have done, or do - when my dad bought his e70 x5, he would have bought extras that the sales guy was going to talk him into but i did my part in choosing what he should buy because i knew his wishes and requirements... difference is: i cared, the sales guy just did his job...

 

What you said is true... makes me want to cry

I have emailed the sales agent responsible for the deal. I will post up news of what's happening soon... Hopefully this can become a happy ending without too much $$ lost

 

i am so glad to read this - thought you will sit back and do your mods instead... Best solution, get a new car with SAT and then do your mods