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Looked at an 09 F150 this morning...
Hattie wants bad! Dark blue like the SDL was, chrome bumpers, light gray interior with actualy pretty decent vinyl seats, although I still would prefer cloth. I like Ford's new interior, almost as nice as my dads old 1994. I like the retro looking guage layout, much nicer than the sparten look of the previous model. I like the new tail lights and tailgate, it has kind of a built in spoiler look to it, with Lincoln ish tail lights.
It had the 3 valve 4.6L V8 with the 6speed auto, and 3.55 posi rear, so the drive line to get. What it didn't have which I want is the towing package. The dealer is dumb not to order the trucks with it, its only $350 and you get a bigger radiator, transmission cooler, and a hitch wired in with a plug. For $350 I want the larger radiator and trans cooler! The dark blue with light gray is a dumb combo to, blue shows everything. Good choice for an S class but horrible for a truck. I want silver, or gray. $21k and some change, but Ford knocks $3k off right away, and I can get the $500 college discount. So its really about $18k before negotations begin. Plus supposidly the trade in value of the POS VW is $1,300. I need to save some more, I really don't want a loan but its so damn tempting...if I put $10k down it wouldn't be so bad... Hattie wants a new truck bad, that new truck smell is like crack. Made getting back into the little tin can VW so hard, so much more room and power. Plus I can throw my friends ATV in the back with a bunch of guns and beer for some camping fun.
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Did they offer you the free oil changes for life too?
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If you're going to routinely wash your truck, white conceals scrapes and scratches real well. The salespeople are given color choices but all of our delivery vehicles are white for that reason.
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I don't want white because its going to look like a fleet or UI truck. Silver is a nice middle ground, it hides everything and looks somewhat decent.
The VW almost stranded me on the way to school today. It decided to fry the plug wire end going to number 2 spark plug and it missfired horrible as I limped it home. According to the codes cylinder 1 is missfiring as well. Fantastic another $100 down that rat hole. If I had the money AAA would be towing it to the Ford dealer and I'd be driving home in a new F150. I'm tired of old junk cars, now I can't deliver the form to change my degrees concentration today, so I can graduate. VW's will be the end of me.
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Sounds good!
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You make it sound so dirty.
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$12,000 off sticker?
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I looked at them too. I have a 2003 that my wife drives as she has horses and needs hauling capacity. It's a beautiful truck and if they would make a deal I might just pull the trigger, but the salesman said they were not discounting them at all. I said thanks anyway and left.
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When there my fleet I'll live with white, but since I'll be the owner I won't have to drive one.
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I have a feeling that your Golf can sense your *slightly* negative attitude about it....and thus breaks down extra often to make you mad.
Our old Caravan is a POS but we've kept an "it will never break" attitude about it....and so far it has gone for nearly 2 years with essentially NO repairs or breakdowns.....just a couple oil changes. Cars know....you have to be nice to them.
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I don't get along with VW products.
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Can I run over the VW with the G?
I wonder what the insurance company would pay out....
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Pretty sweet. I talked to a sales guy at the Ford Dealer about an F150. One similar to the one your talking about, and it was on sale for $19,500 before any discounts or haggling...
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