I bought a new truck

[Telvis]

Well........I bit the bullet and bought a new truck yesterday. My trip to Texas to buy the 2001 turned out to be a fiasco. The supposed pristine scratch and dent free truck I found on Ebay turned out to be a piece of feces. I just about came to blows with the seller. He was a real piece of work. It was a weekend wasted driving. I won't even mention the money I spent on gas and hotels. Anyhow I learned a valuable lesson. I have bought several cars on Ebay without any problems but this one has ruined all that. I started looking around locally and found out I could buy a new truck with the Dodge Employee discount and rebates as cheap or cheaper than a lot of used ones I had found. Anyhow, I am now the proud owner of a 2005 Ram pickup. I will be taking it on it's maiden excursion to the Mopar Nationals this weekend. I am sure I will probably get my first door ding too.

[psykicpup]

pics please   

[RD]

congrats telvis

break it in right!!!

[Old Moparz]

Good deal, I did the same thing last month with a 2004 leftover Quad Cab. It's hard to believe you can get new for less than used.

[Charger4404spd]

So guys, with the discounts and all, how much we talking about?

[Charger_Fan]

Congrats, Man!

Oh & pics pleeeze.

[Telvis]

It's a pretty basic truck. V8, auto, cruise, tilt ,carpet and trailer tow package. That's about it. Nothing fancy just what I need.  I couldn't turn down the deal. The sticker was a little over $24,400 but after the employee discount and rebate it was $17,500. Plus they gave me $6000 for my 99 V6 5speed 67K miles. That's what I was going to try to get out of it on Ebay. I didn't have to pay the EBay fees so it worked out to my advantage. I gave $11,500 plus tax after my trade. I feel pretty good about the deal. I even got a set of floor mats and two oil changes. I wanted a 3/4 ton to pull my car but in all reality I won't haul it very often.  It would almost always be in town. Hoefully I can drive it everywhere. I do haul swimming pool stuff that I sell but I rarely pull more than 3,000 pounds anyway. This is rated for 7,800 pounds. It will do what I need it to do. All of the used stuff I was finding was either junk or they wanted $20K + for a 50K mile truck.

[NHCharger]

Wow, that seems like a smoking deal. Congrats.
With all the car companies now offering this employee discount pricing thing, anyone who is trying to sell a 2-3 year old vehicle is going to take a beating.

[Charger_Fan]

Wow, that seems like a smoking deal. Congrats.

Very decent deal! Nice job!

Did you have to beat the crap out of any salesmen to get that good of a deal, or did it all just sort of roll along?

[41husk]

great job I would love to trade in my 01 ram for a new hemi rumble bee.

[Telvis]

It was actually a pretty smooth. I ended up at a small dealership two counties away from me. The salesman is an older guy and has been there for a long time and was very laid back. It was one of the easiest deals I have ever made. I was surprised that they gave me as much for my old truck. I pretty much negotiated the new truck deal first and figured I would just come back when I sold mine. The owner of the dealership looked at my old truck and gave me what I wanted for it. It was pretty painless. At least as painless as six hours at a dealership can be. With the employee pricing they don't have much room for negotiating. I'm happy with it. It should last me a while.

[Old Moparz]

So guys, with the discounts and all, how much we talking about?

The leftover I found when looking for a used truck had a sticker of $36,800+/- but was in the paper for $23,065. I assumed it was 2 wheel drive & maybe even a "fake" ad to get people in, but it was there. They had two, 2004 trucks left, both 4 wheel drive, but one was sold. That one didn't have the tow package & was $1500 less. I needed the tow package, so I didn't care. Just to see the salesman's reaction, I told him I had to get at least $20K for my Pathfinder. He asked what year & how many miles, & I said it's pretty new being a '94 with only 162,000 miles on it. He had a strange, blank look for a moment which I loved.  

[ChargerRob]

 

[Silver R/T]

happy trunkin'

[SeattleCharger]

Cool Telvis, its black too.   I have a black '76 still going strong.   Have a pic somewhere.   Wouldn't mind having that one though.   Nice truck.    

[Telvis]

Hopefully this truck will last that long. I try to squeeze as much life out of them as I can.

[SeattleCharger]

Found some pics, '76 Adventurer Sport, original rallye rims, 318 AT, reblt. eng and trans 50K ago, thinking about taking the canapy off, don't use it as a work truck anymore.  Maybe selling it, I don't know, might be hard to replace if I want an old ext. cab Dodge again.

[Blusmbl]

Nice truck.  I bought my Ram back at the end of December, and I'm extremely pleased with it.  I've put about 4k towing miles on it, and another 13k normally, and I haven't had any problems yet.  Tows well too.

[Charger_Croatia]

Congrats!

I can only dream about such thing, as stupid DCX distributor here decided to leave RAM out of selling program for Croatia.