I have a 2016 Tundra Crew Max 4x4 with 108,000 miles on it. No issues so far. I will always own a truck with a full roll-down back window. Tacomas probably hold their value better than any other vehicle available, and since this is the last year for the current Tundra, you might be able to get a deal, if you can find one. A Tundra is way more fun to drive than a Tacoma. I have a combined 994,000 miles on five vehicles with sunroofs in Georgia. Zero leaks ever.
Yep... I guess the lesson to be learned here is "stop buying shitty vehicles that have shit sunroof technology".
one of the many reasons I switched from ford to dodge/ram. Liked and trusted their tech better. My truck was literally the only one I knew that wasn't always in the shop for something. Still loved it, just love ram more. Which since I've purchased mine, my brother in law traded in his f150 for a 1500 laramie last weekend, and now his dad wants to trade in too. Speaking of, got your ram in yet @Nettdata ?
2 weeks or less, apparently. The dealer is pissing me off. "we're trying to back-door in all the stuff we had agreed to in the original contract that isn't available any more" "Uhhh... go fuck yourself... I have a contract with you outlining all the shit from a year ago. You were the ones who haven't been able to deliver. You have no choice but to honour it, and if you give me grief, I will come at you full force. Or, are you telling me that I am under no obligation to buy said vehicle from you?" They seem to think that I'm required to buy the vehicle from them, even if they can't live up to their end of the agreement... it was their failure to deliver, not my failure to purchase. I fucking hate dealers.
I got lucky with my cousin being buddies with one of the head dudes at the local place. If it weren't for that, I'm sure it would have been an absolutely horrible experience, as it usually is. I have a baby face and I guess don't look like I know what I'm talking about. It's generally not a great thing when you know more about the vehicles than the salesmen, which is almost always the case as well. Next time I'm just gonna order exactly what I want and be done with it
I will say that I optioned that truck to the fucking tits... in such a way that probably nobody else would want it the way it's optioned. I'd love to see them try and s I did exactly that... but had to go over my "sales guy's" order... he missed so many options that I had specifically requested. I was seriously thinking "why am I here and what the fuck are you doing to help me?" I knew more than him. "I want the air assist brakes." "the what?" "*sigh*" When he did up the initial sales order, he missed about 10 options that I had mentioned. WHY THE FUCK IS HE MAKING MONEY OFF OF MY PURCHASE? He provided ZERO value! I KNOW MORE THAN YOU! And then once the deal was signed, full-cash, zero negotiation, he never returned emails... I had to escalate to the manager... what a fucking gong show.
In the end, I'm paying nice until I get the truck, and then NEVER TALKING TO THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AGAIN.
had this same thought. Since I'd previously gone to the dealership to look and had a guy searching new inventory for me, the head guy my cousin knew, who found me the truck, handed the sale to him. He nice, just this wasn't his thing. He didn't know about the flip up mirrors. Or what a "straight six" is. He didn't know that the carpet comes off on the limited floormats, and how to do that. I should have gotten paid for everything I taught him. I'm still discovering things on my truck that he probably should have showed me. Nice guy, just clearly cars were not his thing, nor sales really, and I was a bit annoyed that he got to make money off of getting in my way basically. I still got a screaming deal on an amazing truck, and according to my BIL who originally wanted one like mine and had them look it up: there are only two remaining 2500 mega cab limiteds in the state of texas. Their parts and service. Also the service dept has a reputation in the area for being excellent, to where people drive out here to them, and they're like 5 min away.
The thing that really pissed me off is that I did the entire online thing. I totally spec'd out the truck I wanted, every detail, every option. It then said "we'll send this order to your local RAM dealer.." The local dealer had ZERO FUCKING CLUE about what I'd spent all that time spec'ing online. It was beyond frustrating. "WHY AM I HERE!?"
That sucks to hear, especially after all the time you've waited patiently for the truck. I've only bought a couple of cars from dealers and neither was a pleasant experience. I know that when buying my first 300ZX I stormed out of the place they were pissing me off so bad, then had to go back in because the car was the most perfect one I'd come across after looking at close to 100 of them. If I never have to deal with another car salesman or dealership I'll be very thankful.
I’ve worked at enough GM dealers to know that they are all like this, it’s genuinely a mystery to me why they all act like they do, buying a car shouldn’t be that hard. My wife and I spent 4 hours buying her first “new” car and after that I swore off the dealer experience. Every purchase I’ve made since then has been online, it’s so much easier than dealing with scumbag car salesman and finance people in person. I can do this because I buy strictly low mileage 2-3 year old cars, if your wanting it ordered they way you want they make it so you have no choice but to deal with these people. Dealerships should go back to being company owned and online ordering should be the norm, this won’t happen because large dealer groups have seen to it laws passed that severely limit what company owned stores can and can not do. This is what Tesla runs into when trying to open in new states.
They *should* make it. Right now Dodge is the only one selling a four door that's somewhat cool. Ford has zero and Chevy has the Impala whose body lines look like a Jackson Pollack painting. Chevy dropped the ball with the SS which had a bad ass drivetrain wrapped in the excitement of a vanilla ice cream cone. And not even a waffle cone. The only thing that set it apart from their other rental car shapes was a fake chrome trimmed brake vent in the fender and dual exhaust.
After a year, the new truck showed up. Ram 3500 HD with the 6.7 HO Cummins... tons of options, from dual batteries/alternators to air suspension to air assist brakes to snow plow kit.
congrats man!!! Love that delmonico red. Between that and the airstream, that's well over a quarter million dollars worth of rig right there. You're living the life man!
Thought there was a boat thread but guess not. *Finally* pulled the trigger on a boat. Only been wanting one forever. Looked at a 23' Regal on Saturday that was beat. to. shit. This little guy popped up and we took a look at it. Chaparral 216ssi. Original owner. Never beached or been in salt water. 207 hours. The only downside is that it was owner maintained so the service records are a little sparse. Guy said he's only selling because they're empty nesters now. His wife drives a Cayenne, his daily is an Audi S5 and his weekend car is an Lexus GS-F. All which were immaculate and owner maintained. So, I'm hoping he took the same care of this boat.