Used RAM Mileage Question updated w/Photos and Carfax

2012Coleman wrote:
Who drives a truck that much?

Someone delivering bumper pulls.

FishOnOne wrote:

Me Again wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Me Again wrote:
I year ago we bought a brand 2015 3500 4x4 Laramie with everything but the sunroof for only 10K more than this high mileage one. Given that financing is easier and has lower rates on new vehicles, I would look for a similar new 2016.

BTW it took me 4 hours to install the four pucks and wiring harness working by myself. With a helper I could have done it in 2 hours or less. Chris

Code words above for, " I got all antsy and just did it my self " even tho "someone" offered to help! ;)

Rear diff lube tomorrow with help! Chris

Do you also need help changing the blinker fluid too?

NO, I have friends!!! This friend has a 5 gallon pail of 75/140 Serve Gear Lube and a place to work on it.

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone. I contacted the dealer and after reviewing the carfax, I'm definitely not interested. This truck went back and forth from Indiana to Arizona numerous times. It was a one owner truck and you can only guess what it was doing. You must agree that the interior/exterior is in great if not new shape. Notice the new Michelin tires.

Just between June and July of this year, almost 11 K was added to the odometer. Who drives a truck that much?


I'm posting a link to the photos and carfax to satisfy your curiosity - not to try to help sell it.

Photos

CarFax

braindead0 wrote:
Do not use NADA for pricing. It's owned by the National Automobile Dealers Association.. there's a huge conflict of interest there. KBB is just as bad, owned by the same parent company as AutoTrader.

Edmunds.com is much more likely to be accurate as far as real sales prices. You don't say if it's 4x4, what bed length, cab size.. but guessing at those things I got roughly $32,000 for private party sales price in my area.

Edmunds values this truck at $40,186 - not to far of NADA. Agree about KBB.

Threebigfords wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

Threebigfords wrote:
I would worry more about the miles than the price.

Sounds like a hotshotter's rig to me. If that's the case, those are 100k HARD miles.

:h

Well OP stated no Puck, or GN hitch, so if Hot Shottter's TV, they were only pulling TT, so not hard work for a Ram 3500.

The miles are nothing, the price is way too high.

As stated, Hotshotters are known for removing entire interiors, removing the beds and installing Hauler beds or flatbed setups for GN trailers. They then put the stock parts back on the truck, trade the truck in on a new one and start the process over again.

Unless you can verify this isn't the case by speaking with the original owner, then I stand by my statement. I'd assume 100k HARD miles.

I recently went through an extensive nationwide search for a used F450 and can tell you first hand I came across numerous trucks that fit this description to a 'T'. Very high mileage, yet looked as if nothing had been hauled in the bed/interiors. Yet once you dug a little deeper, and saw the evidence it was pretty clear what was going on. Some trucks looked to have had even more mileage than was already on the odometer, as if the dash cluster had been swapped out for awhile and then re-installed for resale.

But hey, you can choose to believe it was a grandma pulling a T@B trailer if you'd like. You might get lucky.

Well said Threebigfords...

Me Again wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Me Again wrote:
I year ago we bought a brand 2015 3500 4x4 Laramie with everything but the sunroof for only 10K more than this high mileage one. Given that financing is easier and has lower rates on new vehicles, I would look for a similar new 2016.

BTW it took me 4 hours to install the four pucks and wiring harness working by myself. With a helper I could have done it in 2 hours or less. Chris

Code words above for, " I got all antsy and just did it my self " even tho "someone" offered to help! ;)

Rear diff lube tomorrow with help! Chris

Do you also need help changing the blinker fluid too?

rhagfo wrote:

Threebigfords wrote:
I would worry more about the miles than the price.

Sounds like a hotshotter's rig to me. If that's the case, those are 100k HARD miles.

:h

Well OP stated no Puck, or GN hitch, so if Hot Shottter's TV, they were only pulling TT, so not hard work for a Ram 3500.

The miles are nothing, the price is way too high.

As stated, Hotshotters are known for removing entire interiors, removing the beds and installing Hauler beds or flatbed setups for GN trailers. They then put the stock parts back on the truck, trade the truck in on a new one and start the process over again.

Unless you can verify this isn't the case by speaking with the original owner, then I stand by my statement. I'd assume 100k HARD miles.

I recently went through an extensive nationwide search for a used F450 and can tell you first hand I came across numerous trucks that fit this description to a 'T'. Very high mileage, yet looked as if nothing had been hauled in the bed/interiors. Yet once you dug a little deeper, and saw the evidence it was pretty clear what was going on. Some trucks looked to have had even more mileage than was already on the odometer, as if the dash cluster had been swapped out for awhile and then re-installed for resale.

But hey, you can choose to believe it was a grandma pulling a T@B trailer if you'd like. You might get lucky.

Not likely it was a high idler, or even a city commuter. Avg engine hours for that mileage would be around 3000. Less if over the road, more if a soccer mobile.
Nothing for the engine internals, still over 100k on every thing else.
Seeing as you can buy a new CC Cummjns Laramie 4x4 for under $50k, this is a huge ripoff!

Build date will be on one of the stickers under the hood or door jam. Let's stay it is really almost two years old. 117,000 at an average of 60MPH (high) is 1950 hours on the road. That would mean it was on the road every day for 730 days for 2.67 hours. Let say is was only driven 5 days a week to commute. That would mean it was driven 3.7 hours a day. However 60 MPH average is pretty high.

I would pass on this one. Chris

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Me Again wrote:
I year ago we bought a brand 2015 3500 4x4 Laramie with everything but the sunroof for only 10K more than this high mileage one. Given that financing is easier and has lower rates on new vehicles, I would look for a similar new 2016.

BTW it took me 4 hours to install the four pucks and wiring harness working by myself. With a helper I could have done it in 2 hours or less. Chris

Code words above for, " I got all antsy and just did it my self " even tho "someone" offered to help! ;)

Rear diff lube tomorrow with help! Chris

Me Again wrote:
I year ago we bought a brand 2015 3500 4x4 Laramie with everything but the sunroof for only 10K more than this high mileage one. Given that financing is easier and has lower rates on new vehicles, I would look for a similar new 2016.

BTW it took me 4 hours to install the four pucks and wiring harness working by myself. With a helper I could have done it in 2 hours or less. Chris

Code words above for, " I got all antsy and just did it my self " even tho "someone" offered to help! ;)