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Don’t Tell the Salesperson What Monthly Payment You Want

Don’t tell the salesperson what monthly payment you’d like. Instead, negotiate the total price of the car first to a monthly payment you can afford, and then discuss your down payment and trade-in value. If you just tell them that you want a monthly payment of $x, they might try to put you into a more expensive car and just stretch those payments out longer to get to your target monthly payment.