Why do people insist on telling me what my truck's really worth? I've had extensive history on this truck since it was brought brand spanking new off the Kallis Ford lot in Belfast , Maine on April 25, 1995m by grand parents.
Since that time it has seen it's run with my father and myself...and although the bumpers dented and the bed has a dent in it, I take real good care of this truck.
It's been in the family ever since and it's been in one accident that was the fault of a truck drivers failed brakes, didn't suffer any heavy damage just a dent that was pulled out and repainted, a tree branch fell on the hood one year and had to be replaced.
It had a motor replaced just last April for $2,220 and the donor now has at least 60-63k miles on it up from 51k when it was first installed.
So I do all the math and to date I spent almost 3 grand to where it is now (seats, speakers, new headunit etc.)
And people still want to low ball me for 2 grand? When I state in my ad for 2,900 firm.
I had some douche bag fucktard test drive my truck for his son on Monday..what does he do? He throws my truck in 4WD Low and does CIRCLES in the fucking thing in a PARKING lot on DRY PAVEMENT and as ANYONE knows you can't do that with a 4WD system because you'll fuck up the bearings...so I decided not to sell to the bastard.
Get this he tries to talk me lower than 2,400 so I gave him a weird look and said um yeah how bout a no?
I had a shit load of offers, and this one guy called me up told me how he wanted a truck for plowing and that he owned a mortgage company with various lots yadda (he owns a really nice 99 Acura CL) ..asked me if I had ever plowed with this truck and I told him no..so he told me he would definitely want interest in the truck so long as I fixed the o2 sensor..which I'm currently working on (well took a break because it started to rain).
So I held off a few offers in hopes that the guy was really interested in my truck, well today I call him because he was supposed to let me know.
He tells me oh well I found another truck but I haven't made my decision and I found a 5 speed manual which also gained my interest and the one thing I didn't like was that you weren't sure about your truck's 4WD system so I told him (I was fucking fuming not only because he didn't let me know that same fucking day he test drove it..he had me wait two days in which time I had to turn people back and I was all ready for that 5th gen I posted a couple days ago) it work's fine with the exception that the lights burned out.
And to my knowledge I don't think you can't really abuse the 5 speed for plowing since all that constant back and forth motion will burn the clutch in no time.
And on top of this I had one dumb ass call me and asking me if the truck has any under body rust? It's minimal but that guy sounded like a tightwad and I remember one email (I figured it to be him) asking me and telling that if it had one evidence of rust he wasn't interested. Well ladee da dumb ass..move on.
I've had a couple of no shows..whatever. But lately it's been low ball after low ball and it's just real frustrating dealing with these random people.
It sucks you try and sell something at a set price and people think it's either too old or it's not worth that much..well to me for a family owned truck it's worth allot more money because of the amount of care that was put into the truck in the first place.
I was really looking forward to that 5th gen, now because of this guy with the mortgage company holding me up and having to make me cut some people..I'm going to have to start over again.
end rant.
Since that time it has seen it's run with my father and myself...and although the bumpers dented and the bed has a dent in it, I take real good care of this truck.
It's been in the family ever since and it's been in one accident that was the fault of a truck drivers failed brakes, didn't suffer any heavy damage just a dent that was pulled out and repainted, a tree branch fell on the hood one year and had to be replaced.
It had a motor replaced just last April for $2,220 and the donor now has at least 60-63k miles on it up from 51k when it was first installed.
So I do all the math and to date I spent almost 3 grand to where it is now (seats, speakers, new headunit etc.)
And people still want to low ball me for 2 grand? When I state in my ad for 2,900 firm.
I had some douche bag fucktard test drive my truck for his son on Monday..what does he do? He throws my truck in 4WD Low and does CIRCLES in the fucking thing in a PARKING lot on DRY PAVEMENT and as ANYONE knows you can't do that with a 4WD system because you'll fuck up the bearings...so I decided not to sell to the bastard.
Get this he tries to talk me lower than 2,400 so I gave him a weird look and said um yeah how bout a no?
I had a shit load of offers, and this one guy called me up told me how he wanted a truck for plowing and that he owned a mortgage company with various lots yadda (he owns a really nice 99 Acura CL) ..asked me if I had ever plowed with this truck and I told him no..so he told me he would definitely want interest in the truck so long as I fixed the o2 sensor..which I'm currently working on (well took a break because it started to rain).
So I held off a few offers in hopes that the guy was really interested in my truck, well today I call him because he was supposed to let me know.
He tells me oh well I found another truck but I haven't made my decision and I found a 5 speed manual which also gained my interest and the one thing I didn't like was that you weren't sure about your truck's 4WD system so I told him (I was fucking fuming not only because he didn't let me know that same fucking day he test drove it..he had me wait two days in which time I had to turn people back and I was all ready for that 5th gen I posted a couple days ago) it work's fine with the exception that the lights burned out.
And to my knowledge I don't think you can't really abuse the 5 speed for plowing since all that constant back and forth motion will burn the clutch in no time.
And on top of this I had one dumb ass call me and asking me if the truck has any under body rust? It's minimal but that guy sounded like a tightwad and I remember one email (I figured it to be him) asking me and telling that if it had one evidence of rust he wasn't interested. Well ladee da dumb ass..move on.
I've had a couple of no shows..whatever. But lately it's been low ball after low ball and it's just real frustrating dealing with these random people.
It sucks you try and sell something at a set price and people think it's either too old or it's not worth that much..well to me for a family owned truck it's worth allot more money because of the amount of care that was put into the truck in the first place.
I was really looking forward to that 5th gen, now because of this guy with the mortgage company holding me up and having to make me cut some people..I'm going to have to start over again.
end rant.
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