Ever heard of this?
So my wife and I were looking for a new truck,which we were going to order, priced it out on Truecar, got 2 offers, went to the dealer and settled on the price, no problem there. We went on a Sunday, ...
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NC Hauler wrote:tplife wrote:
Most dealers won't accept TruCar relationships for that very reason, and any salesman who matches their pricing is going to be out of a job unless he makes the lost profit and costs back on the trade. The opinions given above who suggest otherwise don't know the industry. CarMax is also notorious for lowballing trade-in values and only beat dealers by a small amount statistically. (When between labs I stay busy with a seller's license, I'm GMC and Ford Certified.) If you need to buy a vehicle, get your advice from Consumer Reports. Getting it from where you are reading this right now is not the place.
I'd just as soon read about real life experience's on this forum, and glean from there than trust a rag like Consumers report:R IF I'd listened to them, I'd NEVER owned a Jeep!!Better yet, probably not a Dodge/Ram!! I've owned Jeeps since 1980, and NEVER had an issue. Jeep Wranglers, Jeep Grand Cherokees, Patriot's a Compass and several Cherokees...in my instances....they were DEAD WRONG....as they usually are...No probe with my trucks since 2010 either.
You think a couple hundred people (on RV.net) is a better snapshot of vehicle reliability than hundreds of thousands of experiences collected and aggregated in a scientific manner?
Consumer reports says wrote:
If you think so, then more power to ya. My 2 year old is convinced the earth is flat too, after all, his experience is that he has never walked upside down.
I wouldn't use consumer reports as the end all, be all. It's simply one bit of information. CR simply reports on trends for reliability, which doesn't mean if you buy a Yugo it will be a disaster or buy a Honda/Toyota it will never break. Why people vilify a company who at least makes the effort to be honest and protect the consumer is perplexing.
