TV trade in....
Good morning everyone hope all is well ! I was curious what some of you may have done if you were in the same position as the wife and I... i apologize for the long winded response!
Anyway.. back in 2014 we ordered a 2015 duramax denali dually, drove it for about a year, and it was a complete pig on fuel, and the interiors just didn't do it for us, we actually liked our 2012 denali dually better. Don't get me wrong the 15 duramax pulled great, and did its job well.
long story short a friend convinced us to go look at a 2015 Ram limited dually, and here we are today with the Ram for 2 years. Absolutely love it. Tons of power, about the only gripes i have is the stupidly small fuel tank, and the exhaust brake isn't quite as aggressive as the duramax.
However i love trucks! and i thought i would never say it but the new F350 duallies have really caught my eye big time. The amount of features it has is through the roof, and the 48 gallon tank is awesome! I have come to realize that all 3 brands will more than adequately pull our Montana and boat combo with no issues, so its changed from buying engine/transmission reliability to interiors/exteriors/features for us now. After we had switched from the GM to Ram i vowed to stop being stupid and so "brand loyal" because all we had ever owned is GM and i was extremely happy with our switch to Ram, so i can only imagine the same for a possible switch to Ford.
Being that we traded our 15 GM in on the Ram after one year of use, i imagine we took a bit of a hit, however the dealer was still able to attain the monthly payment we wanted on the RAM and i believe we got a great deal as it was a leftover 2015. Now we don't plan on upgrading to a new truck for roughly 1 to 1.5 years, the ram should be at roughly 70,000KM by then, may not be the best way to look at it... but now that i am not able to delete i just don't trust keeping these trucks past emissions warrenty, being we live in Canada, the amount of diesels in our family and emissions issues has been a really frustrating experience for us. So as a general rule we will be moving on shortly after emissions warrenties end.
What my question is what makes more sense and what have you guys done in the past? We took the longer term 84 months to attain the payment we wanted at the time because it was such a "quick switch" we werent prepared to buy, but things worked out.... Our plan when moving onto a new Ford is to put a great deal of money down 20-30,000$ plus trade in to acquire the lowest monthly payment possible. What would be smarter, putting the money down on the existing RAM loan, or waiting until we trade in and using that money for a downpayment ?
Anyway.. back in 2014 we ordered a 2015 duramax denali dually, drove it for about a year, and it was a complete pig on fuel, and the interiors just didn't do it for us, we actually liked our 2012 denali dually better. Don't get me wrong the 15 duramax pulled great, and did its job well.
long story short a friend convinced us to go look at a 2015 Ram limited dually, and here we are today with the Ram for 2 years. Absolutely love it. Tons of power, about the only gripes i have is the stupidly small fuel tank, and the exhaust brake isn't quite as aggressive as the duramax.
However i love trucks! and i thought i would never say it but the new F350 duallies have really caught my eye big time. The amount of features it has is through the roof, and the 48 gallon tank is awesome! I have come to realize that all 3 brands will more than adequately pull our Montana and boat combo with no issues, so its changed from buying engine/transmission reliability to interiors/exteriors/features for us now. After we had switched from the GM to Ram i vowed to stop being stupid and so "brand loyal" because all we had ever owned is GM and i was extremely happy with our switch to Ram, so i can only imagine the same for a possible switch to Ford.
Being that we traded our 15 GM in on the Ram after one year of use, i imagine we took a bit of a hit, however the dealer was still able to attain the monthly payment we wanted on the RAM and i believe we got a great deal as it was a leftover 2015. Now we don't plan on upgrading to a new truck for roughly 1 to 1.5 years, the ram should be at roughly 70,000KM by then, may not be the best way to look at it... but now that i am not able to delete i just don't trust keeping these trucks past emissions warrenty, being we live in Canada, the amount of diesels in our family and emissions issues has been a really frustrating experience for us. So as a general rule we will be moving on shortly after emissions warrenties end.
What my question is what makes more sense and what have you guys done in the past? We took the longer term 84 months to attain the payment we wanted at the time because it was such a "quick switch" we werent prepared to buy, but things worked out.... Our plan when moving onto a new Ford is to put a great deal of money down 20-30,000$ plus trade in to acquire the lowest monthly payment possible. What would be smarter, putting the money down on the existing RAM loan, or waiting until we trade in and using that money for a downpayment ?
