Bargain week

[muddkatt]

This sucks. Bunch of overpriced crap in this town. 11,000 is waaaaay too much for a 200,000 mile truck

 

Remember this when the insurance company makes their offer on yours. You do not have to accept their offer if you feel like they are low balling you.

 

Like I said before, I would buy the salvage on yours and have it fixed. You can pull the front clip, engine and transmission and then have it towed to a body shop and have the frame straightened. Then buy a front clip from a wrecking yard, ebay, or off of craigslist and put it back together.

I have personally done that when my ex-wife totalled my 94 Impala SS. Insurance paid me over 20K, bought the salvage for 1400, bought a front clip, dash pad, air bags and drivers door. Did the above mentioned work, and put it back like new for under 5K. Yes it had a salvage title, but there was not a damn thing wrong with it and I kept it for another 15 years.

[gmfan24]

I'm too anal for that. It will never be straight enough for me

[gmfan24]

Also the engine would not crank

[StillOffshore]

Used vehicle prices led me to buy new. Insane what used trucks sell for.

[gmfan24]

Yes indeed. I'm looking at an 08 Tahoe at the dealership where I work. It's listed at 15,500. Hopefully I can work on em a little. I looked at several used trucks at car lots yesterday. Made my stomach turn. "Like new" 05 suburban z71. Yeah... as long as they roll off the assembly line with coolant, transmission fluid, and power steering leaks. Don't get me started on the worn out and split leather, and it looked like someone spilled cola in every single plastic cubby/storage compartment. Jeez. I'll pay a little more at a dealership and get a lot more truck.

[StillOffshore]

Yep. "Low mileage" means something completely different to a used car dealer. Same with clean, no tears, no stains, etc.

[gmfan24]

I find it crazy that market value of a gmt900 is 50-100% more than a gmt800

[gmfan24]

Bwahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha

 

18000 for a bargain vehicle. A loyal employee of 3 years can buy it for 17300. What a joke.

[gmfan24]

I also think that $18,562.49 is high for a 2007 Yukon Denali that's missing the 3rd row seat, dash pad is destroyed, and various trim caps are missing from. That's just from driving it around the block

[StillOffshore]

Wow, yeah, I believe that one. I had an '09 tahoe...insurance gave me close to $20k for mine when it was totaled out. I was shocked. Only paid $22k for it three years prior. I cashed that check quickly!! Just didn't go as far as I hoped with pre-owned vehicles.

[intheburbs]

Personally, I'd stay away from the '07s. First year of the platform, teething pains, all that crap.

 

I used Autotrader to find my two trucks, both bought used. You can run searches for features, mileage, option, etc. And you can save searches, set alerts, etc.

 

The 2500 Burb was hard to find - ended up driving three hours to Ft. Wayne to buy it. The Denali was 60 miles away.

 

And yes, they're not cheap. Paid $23k for the '08 Burb with 100k on the odo back in '13, and paid $25k for the Denali with 70k on the clock back in '15. Both times, the dealer was not willing to negotiate much.

 

[gmfan24]

I work at the dealership where the Denali is. This is why I don't like civilians. I bend over backwards for them, and all they do is try to bend me over forward. 700 off of the Tahoe is less than the sales tax on the damn thing. Why even bother? Maybe I should get a bicycle...

[gmfan24]

Oh, and uh, everyone else in my department makes double what I do for base pay. 25k is more than I can afford.

Civilian scum.

[gmfan24]

I could be making more, but a civilian scumbag got me kicked out of vocational rehabilitation and cost me my education benefits that I was awarded for being injured on active duty.

[gmfan24]

I should wear a sandwich board around... "One civilian cost me my education, another took my transportation, the next will make me lose my will to resist temptation."