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[ChrisoftheNorth]

5 mins of research turns up a ton of threads of late model F150s with some bullshit rear end shaking on essentially brand new vehicles.

Crazy.

Meanwhile my dad's 2013 Fusion with the 2.0 Ecoboom is at 140k miles and it's never seen a service center other than Jiffy Lube.

your dad got lucky.

[ChrisoftheNorth]

WOW. That's terrible.

And somewhat that they actually refunded their dough.

TBH

[wap]

So Johnny, what are your folks going to buy now, do you know?

[Johnny_P]

Crazy.

Meanwhile my dad's 2013 Fusion with the 2.0 Ecoboom is at 140k miles and it's never seen a service center other than Jiffy Lube.

your dad got lucky.

My mom had a pretty basic first gen Fusion, 2004??? That lasted a long time. In the 10 years they owned it, they only needed to replace the exhaust pipe. They traded it because the door handle fell off one day and my mom didn’t feel safe

[Johnny_P]

So parents bought a truck last weekend. To tow their travel trailer they ordered and will be here in a few months.

2020 F150 in Max225 Mini Cooper Gray. Crew cab XLT.

They drove a couple hours to this dealer man that had inventory and gave a good price.

Halfway home they turned the bitch around and went back because the truck was shaking at highway speeds. Dealer man said they would put new tires on it and test drive. They call next day and say the tires didn’t do it, there’s a problem in the rear end.

Dad said keep your shitty truck and give me my money back. Which they did.

Yay Fraud.

Wow that’s horrible. Also curious what the deal that they got was ?

Current market is absolutely terrifying.

I was driving by a clean 2001 4 runner yesterday and I figured since I liked working on the taco, why not take a look.

134k Miles
Baldish tires
Dented Tail gate with a busted lock
$14,900

that’s getting close to what I paid for the mini.

I have no idea what the deal was. I don’t know why he was dead set on the F150. I told them to look at Rams.

2021 is a brand new model F150. So I imagine fraud has some good deals on existing inventory.

[Tar]

your dad got lucky.

My mom had a pretty basic first gen Fusion, 2004??? That lasted a long time. In the 10 years they owned it, they only needed to replace the exhaust pipe. They traded it because the door handle fell off one day and my mom didn’t feel safe

Hey man, the Fusion was highly rated for reliability. Mazda helped design it in their heyday as partners. It was a good pick.

[Johnny_P]

So Johnny, what are your folks going to buy now, do you know?

No idea. Some enormous pickup I think. Maybe a Tundra. He’s not a Chevy guy and couldn’t give a shit about Chrysler products as they were problematic for him in the past. As far as I know he’s never owned a Toyota but their Japanese Subaru’s and Mazda have been good. So it wouldn’t surprise me.

[Johnny_P]

My mom had a pretty basic first gen Fusion, 2004??? That lasted a long time. In the 10 years they owned it, they only needed to replace the exhaust pipe. They traded it because the door handle fell off one day and my mom didn’t feel safe

Hey man, the Fusion was highly rated for reliability. Mazda helped design it in their heyday as partners. It was a good pick.

Yes. It was slow as f but handled ok and wasn’t too shitty to drive.

[razr390]

So Johnny, what are your folks going to buy now, do you know?

No idea. Some enormous pickup I think. Maybe a Tundra. He’s not a Chevy guy and couldn’t give a shit about Chrysler products as they were problematic for him in the past. As far as I know he’s never owned a Toyota but their Japanese Subaru’s and Mazda have been good. So it wouldn’t surprise me.

Tundra's are assembled/built in San Antonio, TX too. So if they want to bring a part of their past SATX lyf with them wherever they go, Tundra is a good pick.

[Tar]

Hey did you all see the TRX on Car and Driver? Supercharged Hellcat motor and really nice offroad hardware for the pharmacy and grocery store pickups...

[Melon]

Hey did you all see the TRX on Car and Driver? Supercharged Hellcat motor and really nice offroad hardware for the pharmacy and grocery store pickups...

Call me when the Dart gets a Hellcat engine.

[Tar]

Hey did you all see the TRX on Car and Driver? Supercharged Hellcat motor and really nice offroad hardware for the pharmacy and grocery store pickups...

Call me when the Dart gets a Hellcat engine.

Yeah true, for the money one can pick up a new 911 or Cayman GT4,

[max225]

Call me when the Dart gets a Hellcat engine.

Yeah true, for the money one can pick up a new 911 or Cayman GT4,

How are those comparable vehicles.

1/2 the power
1/2 the capacity

[Tar]

Yeah true, for the money one can pick up a new 911 or Cayman GT4,

How are those comparable vehicles.

1/2 the power
1/2 the capacity

Coming from the guy who compares Range Rovers to Civic Sports, I take no offense to your rebuttal

[Tar]

Also, the price will be comparable obviously

[Desertbreh]

Well, it's better than the Raptor.

[Melon]

Yeah true, for the money one can pick up a new 911 or Cayman GT4,

How are those comparable vehicles.

1/2 the power
1/2 the capacity

Twice the resale value.

[max225]

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/356Z8k ... ab-trd-pro

Hold my beer

[Apex]

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/356Z8k ... ab-trd-pro

Hold my beer

[max225]

I registered to bid.... do y'all have any reservations about it? seems a bit of a "fishy" story about the wife bs

[Johnny_P]

Well, it's better than the Raptor.

6 out of 7 female cousins agree

[Tar]

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/356Z8k ... ab-trd-pro

Hold my beer

He probably bought this for his wife (himself mainly) and she got pissed when she found out, so now he's selling it. No reservations personally, love the color.

[Apex]

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/356Z8k ... ab-trd-pro

Hold my beer

He probably bought this for his wife (himself mainly) and she got pissed when she found out, so now he's selling it. No reservations personally, love the color.

is my feels. Wife said she wanted to try and ends up not liking it so the trucks gotta go.

[max225]

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/356Z8k ... ab-trd-pro

Hold my beer

He probably bought this for his wife (himself mainly) and she got pissed when she found out, so now he's selling it. No reservations personally, love the color.

Doug de rapo has a 4.5% fee on his site... so if it goes under 42k I think i'll bite... that's 44k post fee. But I don't think it would... also angry wife for 6 months?

[Devilchrono]

Well, it's better than the Raptor.

Remains to be seen honestly.

I've been in my dad 18' Raptor with the Ford Stage 1 package (dealer option) and it's super fucking nice. He overpaid for it, but that's normal for him. The TRX, while nice, is gonna be pushing $90k+ when optioned out, and that's just nuts. I would love a Raptor, but even the used pricing on this is ludicrous.