How To Buy A New Chevrolet Truck?

Jstpssng · Feb 4, 2018

daugen said:
Even with the new 120 month financing? You'll only pay about double for the truck...
CPO doesn't seem to be a big thing in trucks but in cars a two or three year old vehicle with 30K miles is a much better deal
considering cost per mile and reliability too.

In boats you always wanted to find the guy who had "two-foot-itis ", someone who just wanted a bigger boat for whatever reason and this pristine like new boat is now one third off. I have a good friend with a place in Florida who wants to buy a nice multi engine center console and is seeing prices like half a million bucks. He's just gagging and keeping an eye for a used 5 year old boat.
For a truck, I constantly see folks trading up just for styling. Usually younger guys who don't understand at the end of the year how much of their income went to a truck. Instead of savings...
Most of my firemen friends here aren't driving trucks any older than three years. So someone is getting some good used trucks.

Around here the mill workers are like that. They take exceptional care of them, washing them 2 or 3 times a week; and never get off the tar.
Conversely I have a forester friend who trades every 36K; sometimes upgrading in 9 months. =He also takes very good care of his pickup and will get out and walk if there is a chance of scratching it; he also doesn't have a dog. When he trades he gets top dollar; I have seen as many as 3 of his trades on the lot when he drives off with a new one.

CADplans · Feb 4, 2018

Jstpssng said:
Are those tires as good as they look? Nice, aggressive tread, they look like they'd be good for plowing snow.

I have had the truck in "loose soil" and some mud,, not REAL mud,, it has been too dry for that,,
My old Silverado would have only gone through those areas with high speed,,
the new Silverado with these tires just walks right along,,,

As far as snow,,,, as long as I still have the old Silverado,,
the new one may never see snow,,, except from a parked position,,,