Trucks

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Every now and then I do some checking around online and see if there's any "steals" when it comes to trucks, like when I got mine almost 3 years ago. Saw that Chevy Christmas commercial the other day, and just decided to do some looking. Found a 2014 Husker red Chevy 1500 on Cargurus with 100K miles on it and looks clean as can be. Has the 5.3 L V8 Flex Fuel engine in it. Anybody have that motor? Good reviews? Bad reviews? We all know Chevys are notorious for running for forever as long as they're taken care of.

 

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Every now and then I do some checking around online and see if there's any "steals" when it comes to trucks, like when I got mine almost 3 years ago. Saw that Chevy Christmas commercial the other day, and just decided to do some looking. Found a 2014 Husker red Chevy 1500 on Cargurus with 100K miles on it and looks clean as can be. Has the 5.3 L V8 Flex Fuel engine in it. Anybody have that motor? Good reviews? Bad reviews? We all know Chevys are notorious for running for forever as long as they're taken care of.

I usually trade for new every 3 to 4 years. That is about when the mileage adds up enough and the wear and tear adds up enough, that it is time to trade for new. As a contractor/builder, I need a newer vehicle that is reliable and able to daily take what I need to put it through. That being said, I hope to be able to keep my current 23 GMC AT4X for at least 7 or 8 years this time around. The pricing on new vehicles is ridiculous anymore.

You didn't mention how much they were asking for the truck. It is about to be 12 years old, but 100K isn't bad at all for over a decade in on that truck, so likely used fairly lightly. I had a 2014 Sierra with that 5.3, no issues in almost 80K miles before I sold it. It's a decent enough engine. Nothing spectacular, but to my knowledge no major issues with it.

EDIT: No idea why Garrett's post was included in my quote of posts. Disregard that quoted post, lol.

 

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I usually trade for new every 3 to 4 years. That is about when the mileage adds up enough and the wear and tear adds up enough, that it is time to trade for new. As a contractor/builder, I need a newer vehicle that is reliable and able to daily take what I need to put it through. That being said, I hope to be able to keep my current 23 GMC AT4X for at least 7 or 8 years this time around. The pricing on new vehicles is ridiculous anymore.

You didn't mention how much they were asking for the truck. It is about to be 12 years old, but 100K isn't bad at all for over a decade in on that truck, so likely used fairly lightly. I had a 2014 Sierra with that 5.3, no issues in almost 80K miles before I sold it. It's a decent enough engine. Nothing spectacular, but to my knowledge no major issues with it.

EDIT: No idea why Garrett's post was included in my quote of posts. Disregard that quoted post, lol.

So they're asking $17,995 for the Chevy, which it's also included is about $1200 above market.





I probably don't need to screen shot each one lol but each picture looks pretty good, atleast to my standard, and my standards aren't very high admittedly. My current F150 is a 2013 King Ranch. Call it kind of an impulse first major 30 year old purchase when finally getting out of the diesel game. I like my F150, I don't love it, it's pretty cool. It's showing rust where it's natural to show rust, needs a brake job, needs new tires. My wife doesn't trust it because of the brakes. It very clearly vibrates, the whole cab, when I hit the brake, most of the time. I'm used to it, my wife hates it.


I would say my only real dilemma is the comparison between what it's worth according to KBB, is pretty close to what I owe left on it, so the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to show as far as paying it off. And if I were to get into something else, that obviously goes away. And, as any average dude would be happy about, the payment on the Chevy is cheaper than the payment on my Ford, so that would be cool.

I don't know, there's nothing major wrong with my F150, but the Chevy is a year newer, looks much cleaner on the outside, and has 40K miles less on it, and it's a Chevy, so historically that's a good formula. When I was a kid, my dad had a Suburban from like 92 that lasted something like 15-20 years. Looked horrible, started every time.

 

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So they're asking $17,995 for the Chevy, which it's also included is about $1200 above market.

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I probably don't need to screen shot each one lol but each picture looks pretty good, atleast to my standard, and my standards aren't very high admittedly. My current F150 is a 2013 King Ranch. Call it kind of an impulse first major 30 year old purchase when finally getting out of the diesel game. I like my F150, I don't love it, it's pretty cool. It's showing rust where it's natural to show rust, needs a brake job, needs new tires. My wife doesn't trust it because of the brakes. It very clearly vibrates, the whole cab, when I hit the brake, most of the time. I'm used to it, my wife hates it.


I would say my only real dilemma is the comparison between what it's worth according to KBB, is pretty close to what I owe left on it, so the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to show as far as paying it off. And if I were to get into something else, that obviously goes away. And, as any average dude would be happy about, the payment on the Chevy is cheaper than the payment on my Ford, so that would be cool.

I don't know, there's nothing major wrong with my F150, but the Chevy is a year newer, looks much cleaner on the outside, and has 40K miles less on it, and it's a Chevy, so historically that's a good formula. When I was a kid, my dad had a Suburban from like 92 that lasted something like 15-20 years. Looked horrible, started every time.

Sounds like your Ford needs some $ put in to it if you keep it. However, if you sell or trade it, the things it may need work on may lower it's value.

I get wanting lower payments. I am tired of continual truck payments. But I have tried at least 3 times over the years to get a it older truck, with more miles/etc, and try to make that work as my work truck (I gave up having a 2nd vehicle years ago as two sets of insurance, license/registration etc is not worth it IMO). Every time I tried to go with a bit older and more miles, it didn't work as those trucks just weren't up to holding up to what I need them to do for my construction business. Major enough issues started happening where it made more sense to trade them in on a new vehicle instead of continually dumping money in to an older truck.

Rates on used are higher and rates are higher now in general, so keep that in mind.