I've had the truck bug for years but managed to refrain. The last one I owned was a 1998 Chevy W/T, 4.3L reg cab shorty and I sold it in 2002 and bought an SUV because we needed car seat room for kiddos.
I had been doing a bunch of truck research and shopping recently for the father-in-law who ultimately bought a used 2017 Nissan Frontier SV crew cab 4x4. I had this particular Ram on my FIL's short list, but he didn't want anything but a Frontier so all other make/models were ignored. All this research and shopping was my demise! lol
I kept watching this Ram because it was for sale at a very small mom/pop owned Buick, GMC dealer about 30 miles out of town, and they slowly kept lowering the asking price. It wound up being the perfect storm of being on the lot since late January, being the end of the month and the fact it's not a Ram dealership. The truck has 8300mi on it and was owned for 9mo (verifed by CarFax) by a local gent who traded it for a more loaded GMC Sierra.
Got it for $22800 + TTL and traded my Forester towards it. I got what I researched was fair for the Forester. Just under KBB "excellent condition" value for it. What's insane is, the sticker for Ram was something like $36-38K. I'll post up some pics when I pick'er up.
I had been doing a bunch of truck research and shopping recently for the father-in-law who ultimately bought a used 2017 Nissan Frontier SV crew cab 4x4. I had this particular Ram on my FIL's short list, but he didn't want anything but a Frontier so all other make/models were ignored. All this research and shopping was my demise! lol
I kept watching this Ram because it was for sale at a very small mom/pop owned Buick, GMC dealer about 30 miles out of town, and they slowly kept lowering the asking price. It wound up being the perfect storm of being on the lot since late January, being the end of the month and the fact it's not a Ram dealership. The truck has 8300mi on it and was owned for 9mo (verifed by CarFax) by a local gent who traded it for a more loaded GMC Sierra.
Got it for $22800 + TTL and traded my Forester towards it. I got what I researched was fair for the Forester. Just under KBB "excellent condition" value for it. What's insane is, the sticker for Ram was something like $36-38K. I'll post up some pics when I pick'er up.
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