Dennis Dillion Dodge

goducks10 wrote:

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Yep going to an out of town/state dealer and then finding out they were trying to pull a fast one, would make me find a good local dealer. Then what if you need to take it in for warranty work. Are they going to give you a car to drive or make you wait for the work while their loyal customers take priority? That deal may not turn out to be such a great deal after all.

Buy local and support the people that support your home town.

Don

That's easy to say. Try living in a town that's a one horse town. The dealers here think all their trailers have a pot of gold in them.
I've tried to deal with two of them and they think they have the last unit on earth. There's only 3 RV dealers where I live. One is rather small, the other two are midsize. Not the best of selections for brands.
I bought my last 5th wheel 300 miles away. I've only had one minor warranty repair needed. Of course some may of taken it in for some of the little things that needed worked on. That's fine. But the MFG found an independent shop in my town to fix the water leak.

Just me, but the last thing I'll do is drop $1000s on the table just so I can support the local dealer. They all seem to be doing fine as they've been gouging people for years.

As it stands right now the units that we're considering aren't in the town where I live.

Sometimes you have to get outside the box.

I'm with you. Local dealers need to be competitive to earn our business. Also looking for a 3500 SRW on the lot is difficult because of lack of availability. The closest dealer that had one on the lots was about 400 miles away. Local dealers weren't even competitive on locating one and ordering one from the factory was $7-8k more than buying one off the lot.

I just resigned myself to look all over the country for the right truck and factor in a flight to go pick it up. Ended up finding a $60k 3500 SRW D/A for just under $46k about 1000 mi. away. Dealer was great to work with and no surprises whatsoever.