Pickup shopping done
cowdoc
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Stayed with the 6.7 powerstroke.
In these parts Ford superduties are getting sold so fast its not funny...they don't even have to advertise as they are sold before they can get them on internet ads!
Called a dealer 140 miles from home to get info and such on a pickup, told the salesman I was on my way....I get there and pickup wasn't there, turned into a total cluster efff, salesman told me it sold an hour after i had called him....I was pissed!, talked to the sales manager and he told me the pickup was sold three days ago, that was a Sunday, yeah right!
On the way home i called another dealer that was over a hundred miles away from the dealer I was just at and found what actually was a better deal and more what i wanted anyways a Ford F 350 long box.
If y'all have super-duties not moving/selling in your part of the world bring them here, they'll sell as fast as you can unload them off the trailer!
A friend of mine that sells autos told me people will actually follow the trucks into the lot and buy a new vehicle right off the truck, Crazy!
Question i put Bigsky gun racks in my pickups ie they mount to the roof and can carry two long guns in them....the 2011 and older pickups i mount so the rifles sit perpendicular to vehicle seats.....works great as I'm tall as are my kids so you not hitting your head on barrels and either passenger and or driver can each pull a rifle out and not have barrel pointed at others head ...and etc, i dont see how a guy can mount them this way in the alum body super duties due to the way headliner is ribbed in the center...any ideas ?
PS
I love the looks of aluminum Super-Duty pickups!
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I like my 2019 f350 diesel dually with the 6.7. . I pull our 34 foot camper and don’t even know it’s behind me. I get close to 12 to 14 when I’m pulling.
You suffered the oldest trick in the book. Advertise a popular truck/car at a great price. Salespuke says yea we got it come-on-in!!! I will get you set right up...
You get there and the vehicle is LONG gone. Then the bait and switch starts. You can not buy a vehicle unless you are on the lot to sign for all their traps. Once on the lot manufacturer training takes over to keep you in the "ether" of the I WANT that vehicle moment.
You are a buyer, they know that and will use every trick to get you to buy what they have well knowing you were suckered in by a BS ad for a vehicle that never existed.
You vote with your feet, by walking out, as you did. You done good. Most never make it to the door and buy what they can't really afford or think they got an awesome deal on what they really did not want.
Having experience as one I can say this; If a car salespuke has moving lips, they are lying.
I absolutely LOVE my Superduty F450. It is a 2014. It was in MINT condition when I bought it a little over a year ago. After a year of hard use by me, it is looking a little beat up. But, I USE that truck. Here are a few pictures.
Merc
One more, with the 20' dump trailer:
I did go with a single wheel.... I have two dually fords an 02 and 2011 both are very well seasoned so to speak, almost 800k miles between the two.... they'll be parked in the weeds when they finally give up the ghost.... kinda like your best horse ever, gets to retire die and be part of the ranch forever...lol
im off road alot and decided to go single wheel because the mud and snow is very hard on the dually fenders...in fact my 2011 I finally pull on a Hillsboro flatbed on it
Bpost,
I ripped onto the salesman and sales manager ....they both know how pissed off I was and I told them so. Normally I don't get so upset, but I lost a very valuable nice day due to the BS.... I was working on picking up over 30,000 bu of corn that I have piled on the ground on 60 deg day...today we had a blizzard......if they are going to lie, you'd think the salesman and sales manager should at least tell the same lie.
Glad to see you got a pickup, although it sounds like quite the PITA way you were treated.
I would have demanded gas money if they said they would hold it for you till you got there, write a letter to dealership then to corporate explaining the situation and the service you recieved, you may be surprised at the response......
Just the threat of word of mouth deflating of that dealership to everyone you know and anyone you should meet down the road (and online) would go far to get some kind of compensation to you and perhaps even get them to start doing business ethnically!
Congrats on the truck. May been a hard time getting one but now you succeeded. That is all that matters.