The best Truck for a Host Mammouth

Buying several years old truck in a hurry brings pretty high risk, but I understand you have cash in hand?
When you find something you'd accept, offer few thousands less and show them stack of green bills.
Work around the World the same.

I understand that the prices at the moment very high. We want to start out tour in 2 weeks , so we must buy something.
I have 2-3 trucks in this price range, most of them silverados, I like the Silverado.
I don’t think that European are the better buyer here, it isn’t easy for us to understand the Prozess of negotiations, There are a lot of difference opposite Germany

JTLance wrote:
Duramax before all the smog **** (2007 LBZ) is the best there is.

2006 LBZ, best Duramax. 2007 close second, you just have to do a delete on it.

It's good that we have a european here to help educate us wasteful ignorant Americans.

Grit dog wrote:

We should all be more like you kayteg, what with our stupid ;we and other useless features holding us back.....

Define "we"?
My logic might be partly personal, but definitely my European education plays big role.
European generally have less money to blow than US residents, so they do their homework and don't hesitate to wait for the right choice.
Americans want to buy "today" and pay tens of thousands for stuff they will never use.
I had tough decision buying new truck as I had to wait for cash coming from home selling. Taking cash in hand and picking up something from dealer's lot would be the easiest, but even I searched dealers in 1500 miles radius, none of them had a truck that would make sense to me.
So we were living in camper for few months - waiting for our dream truck to be build.
But now not only I have something that works perfect for my needs, but also has the colors (2-tone with pearl paint) that I like.
Saved me mentioned tens of thousands in the process.

From a manufacturer:
https://www.lancecamper.com/docs/08-owner-manual.pdf

TIRES
Tires are available in a variety of load ratings and sizes, and if the tires you currently have cannot handle the load, it maybe possible to replace your tires with tires of higher pound capacity.
Bear in mind, that the ultimate capacity of the truck is determined by the weakest link in the system. This could be the tires, wheels, suspension or brakes.

(Emphasis mine.)

Kayteg1 wrote:

finsruskw wrote:
No sunroof and no 4WD. but the crew cab w/fold flat floor is priceless for additional storage!!

Never had overfilled our Supercab and still kept 3 dogs there.
The extra foot of wheelbase sure makes parking harder beside additional costs.

We should all be more like you kayteg, what with our stupid 4wd and other useless features holding us back.....

This is another one of those threads that’s really going somewhere......
Schubi, good luck finding a low mile newer used diesel for a decent price anywhere. They’re popular, the economy is good, fuel prices haven’t gone way up again.... yet.
The trucks you’re looking for are few and far between and most of hem are for sale for the same or only marginally less than you can get a new similar equipped diesel from a dealer that discounts them.
Seriously, I’ve been looking for a couple years and in this market , you’re better off with a discounted new model vs couple years old, unless you stumble on one of the rare “deals” that may come up.
Or wait for the next economic downturn and/or for oil to get to $150 a barrel and you’ll find a good deal then.

finsruskw wrote:
No sunroof and no 4WD. but the crew cab w/fold flat floor is priceless for additional storage!!

Never had overfilled our Supercab and still kept 3 dogs there.
The extra foot of wheelbase sure makes parking harder beside additional costs.

Duramax before all the smog **** (2007 LBZ) is the best there is.