Pickup truck market is impossible

those prices are insane. when did they get so high?

I tried just recently to buy a 2023 trail boss.
Had a 2020 silverado only 18,000 km for trade and was offering $17,000 cash also. They wouldn’t go for it

I want a single cab, manual transmission, 4x4 truck. I'll take basic everything.

But no, these assholes sell fucking spaceships now.

Two words. Fleet super / heavy duty

Youre welcome

I guess they’re more happy with the inventory.
It would have been much easier for them to resell my used truck with the low mileage, they-could have still made bank but they decided against it.
My truck still has warranty

Because people that pay those prices a borderline retarded

You need to look for used.

Plus, I could find a basic truck. Silverado its the work truck model (base)

Keep in mind that the auto industry morons are also in bed with the Vaxxtards who are trying to poison everyone to death.

Malice and stupidity are invariably a dangerous combination, but they are the basic tenets important to all of these psychopaths.

Source:
Vaxxtard Motors:
[link to www.freep.com (secure)]

Ford Vaxxtard Company:
[link to www.cnbc.com (secure)]

will keep my 01 7.3 powerstoke....not gonna take on a freaking mortgage payment for a lesser truck that won't last as long as this one.

If you have a low mileage pickup truck, I would sell it myself and price it against what the new alternatives are. (Or keep it!)

Just taking what a dealer offers as a trade in will lose you a massive amount of money.

Especially if your truck was built before they started to really screw up the engine designs by putting variable cylinder management on them and that stupid thing that shuts the engine off every time you come to a stop.

There have been a rash of other problems on the new trucks as well. I forget them all, but there are videos out there that will list all the problems. Guys pay $80,000 for a new Truck for their business, and it is in the shop 90% of the time for all manner of issues.

It's a disgrace what has happened to this industry.

I bought my GMC Sierra 4WD back in 2006 when the gas prices were insane and got a pretty good deal on it. Crew cab, fairly well equipped and has the 4WD manual shift on the floor where it belongs. (I think Obama was in office at the time, fundamentally screwing America).

Those modern push button 4WD selector switches are also a maintenance problem. For the few times I use 4WD, having to actually move the manual shift lever is not a problem. :)

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 05/01/2023 10:00 PM

You have a absolutely unbeatable truck in the 7.3, I have 5 of them in my yard, two excursions, three crew cab lariat 4 wheel drive f 250s, 7.3, will never have to buy another truck, been running 7.3 since 1999. Don't get rid of your truck, it's like gold.

The amazing thing is they won't cut prices and banks won't loan...it's all collapsing.

All the $$$ to be made is the optioned out units, 5g front & rear wrap around screens and the between the seats dual blow job option.

They can have their 100k pos

nobody has died from the vaccine shill, give it a rest

confidential vaccination reporting mandate

That is a lot of contradictory malarkey. Honestly, who could take that seriously?

Park them in a square, engines facing the centre.

Pop down the tail gates. Sell your goods off the back.

Instant Pick-up Truck market.

There was nothing impossible about that.


Maybe you should write more accurate titles for your threads.

The government designed all new cars and trucks by regulation they also designed all new washers dryers refrigerators toilets and almost everything
In your life.

Ford quit making cars other than the mustang, so they have to make all their money on the trucks.

Here are some of the new truck problems.

ford just announced due to Dealers ripping off the Public

They are getting rid of all ford dealerships

They will be selling direct to the people

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Wow! really? Holy crap!

Some immigrant smashed my 2018 honda hrv last novemeber. It took 6 weeks to get a payout from the insurance company cause they wrote it off. 29600.. This is CDN not usd.

So for 6 weeks I searched high and low in town, across ontario etc for a decent vehicle and just couldn't find anything. They wanted the 29k for 2016s with cloth interior and higher miles of similar vehicle makes. I had the ex navi loaded leather etc with 90k on it. Everything was over 130k or up for miles, no leather, just junk imo.

I finally found an 07 wrangler that some retired couple had winter stored for like 12 years and only put on maybe 7k as second owners. It had 115k total on it but the things was mint. The frame and under belly looked like it just rolled off the assembly line it was so clean and still had factory paint on the frame etc. Got it for 20k. It has after market bumpers, rims/tires, lift kit etc which is why I spent the 20k otherwise without those additions and rust free shape it was probably a 15k jeep at most. It had 500 dollar mickey thompson baja off road tires on it.. I had to replace them though because the ride was so rough so I ended up spending another 2k on rubber for some falken wildpeaks at3. Spent another 1k on alpine/kicker audio system, 300 on new battery. I might need to replace the alternator as the lights are dimming a bit/flickering but that might be the old battery thats still in there.

The only thing I hate about this jeep is the ride is super rough and its a bit hard on gas compared to that honda I had. And I don't like how people keep coming up to me asking about the jeep in parking lots and gas stations. Because its in such great shape and has some military decals on it, it draws a lot of attention. The rough ride is because our roads are so fucked up here.. Its not too bad on smoother/newer roads and I can't see myself using it on a long highway trip..

7.3s are the best for trucks.

I like d60s too though.

I wanted a Jeep as a lad, even almost bought a WWII Willy's surplus Jeep when you could buy the Cosmoline kit for next to nothing. Dad was in WWII and he talked me out of it.
Of course the newer Jeeps are like luxury rides compared to the old ones.

You might want to check your ground wires for your flickering light. Sometimes it is the simple things...

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 05/01/2023 10:19 PM

i have a 99 and a 2004 dodge half ton each with low mileage.

i gave up on new market cars years ago. i just don't care
anymore.

You have to go to a dealer and order a plain jane truck

Standard cab, standard trans, rubber floor, etc

Nobody stocks them because theres little profit there

And its all about profit - fuck the customers needs

Kind of forgot my main point to that post.. I was trying to say the used market is such a giant fuck show or was back in january.. Everything is high miles and over priced. A lot of these canadian dealers ship out the vehicles to the u.s for auction to bring in usd which leaves anyone up here looking for decent used stuff almost fighting over the scraps unless you can afford to buy brand new, which most can't.
This jeep has very basic shit, manual locks/windows. It feels like a better quality built vehicle than alot of the newer electrical shit they pump out today and in the last 5 years.

Back in 08 a lot of auto parts used to be made in north america then we had that housing crisis.. I noticed a lot of the auto parts plants closed and moved out of country to mexico or asia. Since then, the vehicles just don't seem to have a decent quality build to them anymore even though people are dazzled by all the computerized shit they jam into those new vehicles.