Placing booking for Honda City while abroad

[AbbasJin]

Hey guys,

Since delivery time Honda City 1.5 seems to be 3-5 months, and I'm abroad for a few months, I was thinking I should get the process going and asked my brother to get a pay order made in my name. So far the bank told him its not possible the regular way as the account holder has to visit in person(??). He was told I can make a Roshan Digital Account (RDA) and get a pay order made that my brother can pick up in the branch in PK.

Question is, do I need to have the pay order in my name? I basically plan to register the car in my name while my brother gets me in line for the booking now. So if he uses his own name on the pay order will that be a problem when registering the car?

I plan to keep the car for many years but I'm just wondering if this'll cause any problems. If it does I'll try to get the RDA account and make a pay order remotely via that instead.

Thank you.

[fastian04]

Yes u need your own name pay order to get invoice on your name.

[AbbasJin]

Thank you. That’s the plan now. Just disappointed that delivery time is now quoted in sept and even that is not firm. Also it seems silver steel color is discontinued. I might go with the meteoroid grey color now. I think it’s closest to modern steel color?

[fastian04]

City has bo meteroid .. only civic has

[AbbasJin]

I am not sure what the salesman was on about. He said silver metallic is no longer being produced and the meteorite grey is coming for 25k more…

[fastian04]

Yes thats color is gone and shade is quite different. Internationally $500 is charged on civic for new colors as well. Delivery dates are now next year april

[zee5han]

Well you can always buy and register the car on your brothers name and transfer it later, but it wont show as first owner car on card anymore.

[AbbasJin]

Does it matter if he makes pay order in his name and then invoice will be in his name but I can register in my name after we take delivery ? Or vehicle can only be registered by person who’s name is on invoice?

I also don’t understand why salesman offered me car on 1 lac and then said price will go up by 2 lac after eid. Why not keep your car and sell it for more own rather than being nice and selling it to customer?

[chinyoti]

If buying on Roshan digital platform you can probably get a Corolla in 15 days.

Same should be for Honda aswell. Please recheck with your dealership.

[AkbarGr8]

Your brother will need to register the car in his name and then transfer it to you to prevent a 200K penalty. The salesman is offering you the vehicle on premium (1 lac) - this is a double edged sword. If it's a vehicle on open invoice (i.e. belonging to the dealership and not to an investor) it's a good deal otherwise if it's an investors vehicle technically you'll be paying 1lac premium + 2 lac penalty on registration.

Regardless, if you can get a car on open invoice, get it by paying the premium. One thing is for sure, those are price hikes considering how unstable things are.

All the best!

[zee5han]

As poster above said , we have a policy in Pakistan that if you register a car that is not invoiced on your name you have to pay an additional tax , I think its 4% of car value (for easy estimation just double the cost of normal registration).

So to avoid that tax your brother books a car in his name and registers it in his name , and later you transfer it to your name by paying a transfer fee probably like 20-25k

And the 1 lac thing, they are just trying to move investor stock and get their commission, since they have alot.. they will have plenty more when the price increases

[AbbasJin]

Thank you. Is roshan digital early delivery that fast for Honda? I’m in process of making account but hard to get all info and the bank customer support is pretty slow. I’m told someone is I’ll contact me in two days but I guess after weekend.

I found another dealership with early delivery because they claim they’re new and Honda atlas is giving them priority delivery as a helping hand. Is that a thing? Hard to believe one dealership quoting 5 month delivery for city and another one two months.

[AkbarGr8]

You'll end up paying more in terms of higher cost of the actual car by booking and waiting for 5 months. It's kind of a strange way of premium mafia / market dynamics to punish people who book. Lol.

In a nutshell, have your brother find a vehicle on open invoice, buy it on premium and register on his own name. Have him transfer it to you upon your return.

Do NOT book, you'll thank me later. It's not worth the mental or financial stress. Godspeed.

[AbbasJin]

I would’ve taken the own car instantly but they don’t have the color I want. For me it’s a pleasure car so I want the color which no one’s has on own and I won’t be in the country for another 2 months so I don’t mind the extra wait. I guess the only stinky part is price going up but I don’t want the wrong color.

[zee5han]

Even if the price increases value of the car also goes up so don't worry

[chinyoti]

Yes, Roshan digital enables everyone priority delivery.

Contact Honda dealership aswell.

For Roshan digital check if you can it for your self as a overseas Pakistani or gift it to your relatives.

If gifting to your relative, they will have to initially register it on their name and transfer to you after 3 months.

[crema]

The RDA provides priority delivery only when you get the car financed from the bank as an RDA holder.

In case of full payment using Roshan Account there are no priority delivery available.

[fastian04]

A friend tried to book civic with RDA but he got the response to get city as civic cannot be delivered on priority. When he opted for city, ge was told to get 1.2 cvt if car is required on priority

[chinyoti]

Honda Pakistan is a scam. Ager gari fori milrae hoto rs.180,000 deike 1.6 Corolla he leiny chaiye.

Indus motors in my opinion is entertaining Roshan Digital account holders.