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get pre-approved for a loan. load the VIN into Carmax or Carvana put in say 1000 miles and see what its trade in value would be, then make offer. Save a ton, its moves some steel for them and bang you get a sweet deal and maybe your not thousands of dollars upside down from the start
Random side note: Just after I picked up my "custom order" last year, I checked Carvana, and the offer was higher than the price I had paid for it! ?
 

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Random side note: Just after I picked up my "custom order" last year, I checked Carvana, and the offer was higher than the price I had paid for it! ?
well that's great, but lots have changed in 12 months just saying.
 

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well that's great, but lots have changed in 12 months just saying.
Oh, for sure. I was just happy/surprised, maybe a bit proud, when I saw it back then. :) And now I spotted a chance to brag about it, I suppose. :LOL:

(I, of course, didn't sell it and am not planning to ever be a vehicle flipper! haha)


That's a smart strategy for getting a price to use for negotiations, though!
 

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Oh, for sure. I was just happy/surprised, maybe a bit proud, when I saw it back then. :) And now I spotted a chance to brag about it, I suppose. :LOL:

(I, of course, didn't sell it and am not planning to ever be a vehicle flipper! haha)


That's a smart strategy for getting a price to use for negotiations, though!

I owe 33k on mine and carvana just offered me 36k...
 

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OK, So I went to see it. Perhaps just a coincidence, but since I phoned them yesterday and said that I will be coming, the price gone up $1.5k overnight. No biggie, right? The truck was stuck at the back blocked solid from all sides, no easy way to take it for the test drive. Dirty and muddy inside and out. 109 miles on it (not 9 as advertised). 12/22 build date on a door sticker. Oh, and $3k paint protection that can be negotiated, the guy said. So, where we left it was me offering $25k plus tax/registration, and him saying that it has to go all the way to GM for consideration (general manager, I imagine, not the mothership, which is no longer GM anyways, right?).
All being said, the truck is refreshingly simple. Even just to look at.
 

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You've gotta stop calling it a truck ?
The price inflation seems very suspicious to me ? ? but I'm suspicious of most things and I don't like salespeople in general
 

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Deals can be found. Bought my 19’ in April of ‘20. Out the door was 26 ‘ish with tax/tag etc.

Jeep Wrangler JL Can this deal be improved upon? IMG_4668
 

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So, are you going to buy it? At 20pct off MSRP, it seems like a deal. 109 miles is barely anything, maybe 10 test drives. The 9mi vs. 109mi is probably not an attempt to deceive but it had 9 when they put it in inventory and folks test drove it.

That being said Stellantis is having to move inventory.
 

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So, are you going to buy it? At 20pct off MSRP, it seems like a deal. 109 miles is barely anything, maybe 10 test drives. The 9mi vs. 109mi is probably not an attempt to deceive but it had 9 when they put it in inventory and folks test drove it.

That being said Stellantis is having to move inventory.
It would be pretty miserable for them if they had to update the website with the current mileage for each vehicle after each test drive or lot rearrangement
 

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The sales guy never got back to me with their out of the door price offer as promised. And I am not paying $3k for the paint protection, that's for sure. A coworker had ceramic wrap of his Audi S8 for less. The 109 miles and muddy appearance worry me: the car was likely through more than just around the block test drives. Had they revved the engine contrary the break-in guidance to get out of some ditch? If anything, oil needs to be changed as it was built in 12/22. Battery checked/replaced. To be on a safe side diff and transmission fluids changed. And so on...
 

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A technique a buddy of mine uses is to walk in and drop a cheque in the amount you want to pay on the sales managers desk. At that point the sales manager knows you’re serious and has to do next to no work for the sale.
My buddies had great success with that method.
 

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The sales guy never got back to me with their out of the door price offer as promised. And I am not paying $3k for the paint protection, that's for sure. A coworker had ceramic wrap of his Audi S8 for less. The 109 miles and muddy appearance worry me: the car was likely through more than just around the block test drives. Had they revved the engine contrary the break-in guidance to get out of some ditch? If anything, oil needs to be changed as it was built in 12/22. Battery checked/replaced. To be on a safe side diff and transmission fluids changed. And so on...
The batteries should still be covered under the manufacturer warranty, right?
 

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The sales guy never got back to me with their out of the door price offer as promised. And I am not paying $3k for the paint protection, that's for sure. A coworker had ceramic wrap of his Audi S8 for less. The 109 miles and muddy appearance worry me: the car was likely through more than just around the block test drives. Had they revved the engine contrary the break-in guidance to get out of some ditch? If anything, oil needs to be changed as it was built in 12/22. Battery checked/replaced. To be on a safe side diff and transmission fluids changed. And so on...
The manager probably took it home for the weekend. Sorry, but if mud on a Jeep bothers you then maybe a Jeep isn't the right vehicle?

It probably makes sense to have the oil changed. You get three(?) free. As @ArcadeTracks said: the battery and everything else is under warranty, so none of that should be a concern.
 
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Mud doesn't bother me. Moron joyriding a brand new motor through same at high rev does.
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