there is a big difference between a suburban and a MB. There are many
things you need a suburban for than you can use an MB for. That is why
I have one, but I guess I need to sell it since I bought my 1 ton truck.
Ed Booher wrote:
On 7/17/05, Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brother just called. He has "found" a new Suburban at a dealership,
2004 model that never sold. Price reduced from $42,000 to $30,000
because of the model year.
Any problem with buying a new car that has sat for almost two years
w/out being started? If I understand him correctly, this car has
almost no miles on it, has just been parked at the dealership.
...snip
Thoughts and recommendations I could pass on to him? Lives in Florida.
I recommend that he can get a very nice late model Mercedes in like
new condition that will last much longer and get better gas mileage
than the Suburban for $30K. But you already knew that.
However, the great thing about a "new" vehicle, even though it's an
older model year is the warranty. We all know that you need to drain
fluids on vehicles that are going to be sitting due to the fluids
potential to maybe eat through some gaskets and such. Basically, I'd
say the truck is probably fine, but he needs to drive it a solid 2 - 4
weeks with no background noise, no radio and no DVDs for the kids,
etc. Get to know what it sounds like, so that if something has
happened when the driving harmonics change he'll know it's wrong.
Also, I don't know if this is a nationwide thing or not, but here in
IN we are getting the "employee" pricing on all models but the Vette.
One of the Chevy dealerships had a Tahoe on sale with employee
pricing, and even giving the customers the rebates on top of it all,
for something rediculous. The ad was "New Tahoes for the Price of a
Cobalt", given they had to mean the highest end Cobalt with no
discounts, but you get the point. If he wants new new he can probably
beat the pit boss up and get one fresh off the truck for the same
price.
GM is really hurting right now, apparently. Bad enough that at least
in my area, all of the big three have ran after GM and now we have
"employee" pricing for Ford and Chrysler/Dodge products as well at
some dealerships. It seems cars is not a growing business these days.
You might even suggest the ol' I'm looking at a Dodge ploy. You know
the one, "I really like the truck, but I'm not sure that bright neon
green is really the color I'm looking for, besides I want to run up
the street and look at a Durango while I'm thinking about this one."
OR "I've been looking at a Durango up the street." The second one is
particularly effective if you happen to actually go look at a Durango
and can escape the dealership with *any* kind of official looking
paperwork. Write some prices that aren't too out there, you know?
$32,000 Durango with some math and figures and a $30,000 with a circle
then a $27,000 with a larger circle.
My pit boss at least, was driven by those kinds of things. If we had
an up on the floor and had gotten to the point in the presentation to
be working numbers and they started flopping like that and could
produce something that showed they had a car for a couple grand less
up the street, he'd almost always drop to at least match, if not beat
by at least a grand just to get them to sign the contract. Vettes were
the exception. We never made deals on them. You paid what was on the
sticker.
Anyway, that truck has not sat completely. It can't, just won't happen
on a lot like that. You've got people wanting to test drive it that
will take it once around the block (hopefully with the salesperson, or
they are lazy) the lot workers will move the vehicles around when new
stock comes in to distribute colors, or like vehicles, or make more
room for the vans, or whatever. So the point here is the truck is just
fine, no worries at all above and beyond what anyone would have with a
new vehicle.
Personally, I'd still talk him into a Benz.
...snip
LT Don
1977 Mercedes 240D (Slug)
1972 Honda CB-500K
--
Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK
89 560SEL, 87 300SDL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE, 85 300D, 81 300TD,
81 240D, 81 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 69 250
Okie Benz Auto parts-email for used parts
