Hey guys, I was at the BMW showroom today. The salesman told me theres a prereg bmw available, and the pricing is within budget. But the catch is the car isn't registered yet, and they need to "accumulate 2k mileage" & have the car registered at their place for 2 months first before releasing it. Have anyone heard of such thing?

only then it will be called pre reg

Ahh okay, its my first time hearing about this. So just wondering if that's their criteria for prereg.

Pre reg - already register and 0 mileage

Pre own - already register and have mileage.


Most of conti car has this prereg/preown promotion.

If the car below 12 months, u can get new car interest.

Last time in 2014, i help my father to buy w204 amg model mileage 6k, register on same year. Price 210k.. interest we got 2.7%..

I bought prereg jetta on 2014 as well. 0 mileage. But the car already registered.

I see okay, thanks a lot. Then it's a bit strange that the salesman said the car needs to accumulate 2k mileage, seeing that you say pre reg is registered but 0 mileage.

Was hoping there's no such requirement to wait 2 months tho, but oh well, the price difference is quite significant.

I know 2 people who got a BMW pre reg, one with 0 km and another with 13 km. About the 2 months thing, that i'm not too sure.

Yes, very common practice by Ab and also HSS !

need to wait. u can reserve the car at 0km. but cannot drive out of showroom. park there 2month (unless u choose the pre parked car)

nope ....
bmw prereg is you pay they register under co name than transfer to ur name .... no mileage.
Pre-own - yes, basically company high management drive those car

This post has been edited by SonnyCooL: Apr 12 2017, 01:23 AM

The thing I learnt is , if it sounds too good to be true , it always is

any idea what is generally the "discount" for both pre-own and pre-reg?

pre-own will be much lower and the prices is still negotiable ... just like use car with better warranty.
pre-reg, i think there is fix prices or very slight nego, as Co use internal for tax reduction than resales it (some tax grey area)

Gee!! Thanks! For pre-own, as this has been used for by their top management, guess to use normal 2nd hand value as a guidance. What about Pre-reg, any rule of thumb? 10%?

Thought MB some years back ran into trouble with IRB on this scheme, so they might have found another "trick"

Do you need special connection to get this pre-reg car? or it's a norm.

When i was in BMW show room, they didn't mention on this, perhaps I should ask kua

This post has been edited by Antzfield: Apr 12 2017, 03:07 PM

i get quoted discount 4-5k about there.
if habis they able to get from other branch. no need special connection. only certain hot sell model got.

Hapseng star have a lot of pre-own as they have many division (home, loan, plantation, mosaic n bla bla bla) ......
Yup u can ask around for pre-own but everyone is offering different Prices cause is used car.
for example last week HSS manager offer a 6month old c200 for rm 210k (i think 30k cheaper than brand new), but with some internal connection (me some how work with HapSeng before), able to get it at 19Xk

For Bmw pre-reg, basically i heard from friend, as they buy it as min 30k-80k cheaper (depend on model). assume pre-reg is a lot better as is BRAND new car with two name on the title ....

I got my pre-reg from Auto Bavaria but had it's original registration changed to my own selected plate number. So on registration card it shows that I'm the first owner.

oic, hmmm..., i was being offered 6k straight discount for X3, can further nego if interested, that's what the SA said lah.

Was also asking on F10, he said no more stock as hoping big cut that was in Feb 17

No one offer me then at HSS, the one in Kinrara. They don't even give discount, not a single sen, only 2 service coucher worth RM 1,200 each, only when they got to know I was checking at C&C

For pre reg and pre own, walk in to any branch. They have a list for the car. Last time when i want to buy w204, the car is from Ipoh, they bring it to glenmarie.

Pre- registered means it was already registered! If you are the new owner , the ownership should be transferred to you and it will become a second name ! So can you shed some light on how your reg card only show one owner 's name?

BMW, Merc always have such offer. They wanted sales volume by giving lower price unofficially via pre-reg and pre-owned. Because of this, grey import business affected that they slash more price to compete. Price is affordable than buying brand new if you don't mind being 2nd owner

Pre owned does make sense to me. Wifey bought F30 320i LCI in Jan 2017, car is 2016 model, 6k mileage, RM190k OTR. Maybank loan 7 years 2.57%.

Wow!! Means RM50k off from brand new price of RM240k? Not bad wor

Based on what I know, some car brand principal require the car to have certain mileage before it can be consider as pre-reg (normally is demo car).

Pre-reg = dealer is first owner. (low mileage)
Pre-own = previously owned by another customer. (possibly high mileage)

You have to compare second hand market for these

There is one listed ,M sport spec for 201,000

Yes, looks like it.

It is more like a second hand car (as it should be registered as second owner, but someone mentioned can registered in our own name thus 1st name, not sure), and perhaps continue warranty with better maintenance by the car dealer.

May consider this later

Pre own is just fancy name for second hand car

BMW regularly has pre own carnivals basically second hand car sale

parking here

new reg card become digital no longer the pink paper.
only show 1 owner name

yup x2

Funny! I just did a car no. swap in Feb and I still got the pink paper!Anyway, do a jpj search will show the history of the car thus it's still two names!

my parents bought pre reg last yr. is given a piece of a5 (half of a4) size card. no pink paper.

jpj will keep the previous names in database

This post has been edited by ktek: Apr 13 2017, 12:30 PM

I bought a recon car last year July, no pink slip, just plain card/paper alike the size of half A4 paper showing current owner only.

When I decided to purchase it from Auto Bavaria Glenmarie with KL registration number WB xxxxC, I told the SA that I wanted my own number under Selangor registration and then tendered the number at JPJ Padang Jawa. Once I got the number, SA introduced me to an agent at Wangsu Maju since the process to change it is less problematic at JPJ KL. The agent called me to be present at JPJ Wangsa Maju and within 30 minutes the clerk just deregistered the old number and issued a new one. Of course the agent charged me for his efforts.

Oh , this should be number plate interchange . The previous number should be abandon or already transfered to others vehicle .

Pre-reg or pre-own also up market product there !

Gratz to whom bought their new ride 😉

Deregistered and discarded I supposed

Now with the new VOC, every transfer of ownership, the new owner will get a new VOC.
One won't know the ownership history unless he/she perform a search at JPJ.

So far i know thats no option for de-register , eventhough the vehicle total lost , the number still exist and bind on that ☺

As far as my registration card is concerned it only shows my name as the first owner. JPJ should have all the records but it does not matter. I got my preferred plate number even though I didn't have to buy a motor cycle or whatever

Ohya , its not a big deal 😉

yes there is ....
recently i just scrap a fiat bravo, pay some fees for runner and get that number delisted (not a bad number but no body want (double digit)).... and jpj give us a paper on it ... so that number won't belong to me or related with any car .....
cause i go for proper scrap procedure ....

Just bought one and need to drive for 1000km, before can transfer ownership. Not sure bout 2 months tho.

1,000 km driven by who? Seller?

Your number is just bought one？

How much did the agent charge for this?

Normally by the salesman/staff from the dealership.

By me. They call it, courtesy drive.

But i need to hit the 1k in less than 2 weeks, else have to go back to puspakom for inspection to do ownership transfer since that's the grace period

So i went to penang, eat some cendol and then come back to sign off the docs

Also, because my car was pre-reg after i bought it. Usually, zero mileage pre-reg cars no need to do this if the car is pre-registered for more than 1 month before a buyer purchases it

This post has been edited by shai_razi: Apr 15 2017, 05:37 PM

RM700.00

It's easy to get, either you tender or check with senior officer if the number you prefer is still available, could be old numbers. At one time I got a number for BML even though the running number was BNA

A bit confusing. The car was alresdy registered under dealer's name right? Why need to complete 1,000 in 2 weeks else have to do Puspakom transfer again? Means u have alresfy been to Puspakom to inspect and transfer once? And u said " my car pretegisteted AFTER u bought it" what do u mean???

Answer is , MITI nowadays very active to spot check traders to ensure they are not selling cars too cheaply . So a lot of car manufacturers nowadays are doing these tactics in order during audit able to show that these cars were 'demo cars and not brand new hence the discount is justified.

I bought the car first. Then only BMW do pre-register.

Unlike your case. The car is already pre-registered before u even buy.

My point is every dealer and every pre-reg case is unique. Chill.

As long as u r buying frm renowned bmw dealer, jst follow the procedure and the car will be urs in no time.

Tq.

Hi..mind sharing which model n price you get?

330e, approx. RM230k (all-in)

this is msport or normal 330e?

where got sell msport version?

Introduced couple months back. But it doesnt have adaptive suspension like 330i

demo car

Hi guys,

Is prereg still a thing now? Is it a BMW practice or also common for Mercedes and Volvo? Currently looking for a new car but heard prereg is so much cheaper...thanks

Jpj senior officer ? Which jpj n how to meet him ?

Meet the Pengarah of the JPJ branch.
Usually there's a list of "unclaimed" numbers

MB has it too
It's a way to give discount without angering those who bought new
It also enables the dealer to provide courtesy cars (low mileage, almost new pre-reg) or company cars to their directors, etc (usually about 1 year old)

But take not that most luxury brands has corporate discounts and do compare the value of the discount vs pre-reg

A bit frust due to they dont release it in mysikap
Otherwise can buy online
Quite hassle wanna go jpj queue

Actually, not all the numbers can be bought on mysikap and i'm not talking about single digit numbers. Popular numbers such as 8585 can't be bought on mysikap (unless things have changed)

The name on geran is two name or only our name only?

Now the vehicle ownership cert doesn't show previous owner(s) anymore