Vinsil wrote:
jat4 wrote:
Vinsil wrote:
jat4 wrote:
Vinsil wrote:
GeoBoy wrote:
Jat4,
Keeping a truck 10+ years, a diesel isn’t going to give you a big advantage with resale. The Ford or GM 350/3500 with a gas engine will do everything you want to do with a Northstar 950sc on the back. Good luck.
I respectfully disagree as I just traded in a 10 yr old Diesel. They gave me 30k with almost 100k on it. A similar hemi truck was worth $12k..
As to the OP, the Ford XLT I bought was the same price as a similar Ram, Ford offered more options and the diesel option was cheaper, over 11k for the Cummins and that aisin trans was another 2500k, Ford gives you the diesel for $8900..
No brand war, Ford is all new and Ram is a 2010 design.
I finally did locate a comparable Ford (gasser still) which I'm going to take a look at today, and you're right, the price is right around where the Dodge is. My diesel isn't worth quite as much as yours, but I'm hoping for a trade value of $16-17k, the Dodge dealer offered $16k so far.
How many miles on your truck? That trade offer seems really low unless you have 200k+ miles...
If it’s your location it might be worth a few calls to som of the larger dealers like Dave Smith if they offer you more for your truck.
My truck just turned 150k miles. The NADA guide online (consumer version obviously) lists a range of $19k for "rough" trade-in value to $21k for "clean" value; Kelly Blue Book lists $14k to $18 for "good" condition, $12k to $15 for "fair." Some of the dealer trade-in calculators have been sort of $14k-ish to $17k-ish. So $16,000 seems about right given the condition (somewhere between average and good). The Ford dealer I visited today offered $15k for trade.
I see. In our region your truck would be a $25k truck if it wasn’t rusted out or beat hard, 5.9 Cummins in a megacab is a rare beast, they only made the 1.5 years. But each coast is different unfortunately. Best of luck!
thanks, actually in our area there are a handful of '06 megacabs for sale and $25k is the going full retail price. Those trucks are completely cleaned up and honestly are in better shape than mine is currently. It will be interesting to see which dents and dings the dealer chooses to hammer out.
I should also say that I went and looked at a totally stripped down F350 yesterday (XL trim), and after they worked their best numbers it still ended up coming out $3k higher than the Dodge gasser I'm considering which has considerably more options included. So I'm still thinking that a Ford to Dodge apples to apples comparison will end up with Ford being $4-5k higher. I asked the sales mgr yesterday why that is, and he just sort of shrugged and said "maybe lower quality?" before adding "we'll never be able to beat a Dodge price." With the diesels obviously the Cummins commands a premium at $11k-ish plus the $2k Aisin tranny upgrade whereas the Ford diesel is $8-ish, so that makes the diesels closer to comparable in price.
