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Originally Posted by 90Xjay
Yeah, I was trying to deal with mega dealer in my town and ended up traveling 20 miles and bought a truck with a higher MSRP and more options for around $1200 less.
I wouldn't have even traded except the fact the GM upped their warranty to 100,000 miles, sent me a deal for an additional $1000 off any new Chevrolet truck and then threw in the 0% financing.
I tried for about 2 days to buy a truck in my hometown, but in the end I couldn't get them to the price I wanted.
I work off of purchase price and trade in for my vehicle. Most car salesmen and their managers are crooked as an acre of snakes and they will screw you with an ink pen if your not careful. I'm one of those jerks who sits across the desk from them with my laptop running scenarios with different figures. I think they were glad to see me go.
I still wouldn't have traded again so quick, but this vehicle is a work vehicle and I get reimbursed every month to drive my own truck plus my fuel is paid for. So it doesn't come out of my pocket, it's just the more I spend on a vehicle, the less of that check I can put in the bank each month.
But for a little difference, I moved from a extended cab to a crew and went from a standard warranty to the new 100,000 mile warranty.
Oh and on a truck I was test driving, I stomped on it and the new Eaton rear locker works..  left two black marks  |
Don't get me wrong, 90, I wasn't belittling you for buying new, nor was I trying to burst your bubble. Sure, if I could get a deal I liked on a new vehicle, I would buy new, but that just ain't gonna happen, 'cause they don't give them away for free.
The only one I bought brand new was my '85 Toy 4x4 when I was 21. Man, I loved the feeling of being the first person to pop it's cherry, but I just can't justify the expense of doing it again. I remember when I went to pick it up, it had 8 miles on the odometer. Not that I'm overly superstitious, but 8 has always been a bad number for me, and I've considered 9 to be my lucky number, so I made the salesman drive it around the lot till the odometer turned over to 9 miles!
So, the original bill of sale (which I still have, BTW) lists the odometer reading as 9.0.
In the next few months, I will be leaving my current company and going to work for my ex-supervisor who left last week to take over another company, and he has said I can go pick out my own work van when I make the move. He took one other guy (his assistant manager) with him when he left, and they have already gotten their company vehicles. My boss got a 2006 Chevy 4x4 extended cab, and the other guy got a 2004 Chevy 3/4 ton van. I'm trying to talk him into letting me get a military hummer, but I don't think he's gonna go for that. I originally suggested a Rubi, but he said I needed something bigger to haul my tools and parts, so of course, the hummer was my next choice!
I'm currently in a '98 3/4 ton van with the 5.7 Vortec, and I wish I could take it with me. It's been a great vehicle. Very comfy seats, lots of leg room, smooth ride, and very quiet. It also has the power to smoke the tires, even when pulling a full size compressor behind it! The only time it let me down was Monday morning. I was getting ready to leave the house for work and it wouldn't start. It would turn over, but wouldn't fire. They eventually got me a back up van, a POS '93 V6 GMC. The 30 mile trip to work nearly crippled me for a few days because the seats are so poor and there's no leg room. Found out my '98 had a crack in the distributor cap (that the mechanic had replaced 2 months ago). I'm so glad to have it back in the driveway again!!
Anyway, sweet looking ride! Yeah, I'd take it if ya gave it to me, 'specially if it's red!!