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Does this 6.4 2500 sound ok to buy?

Clark41

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Looking at a crew cab2022 ram 2500 tradesman 6.4. It has right at 100,000 miles on it. It was a rental, has a clean carfax and has been serviced regularly. It does not has the goose neck hook up, has a ding on the rear bumper and tailgate. But it’s priced at 29300, but I’m probably going to be able to get it for a lil cheaper. I do Plan on getting an extended warranty if I buy it.

Just wondering if I should be worried and not get it because of the 100K miles. Not much experience with the 6.4. Plan on having the vehicle for at least 5-6 years. I drive approx 12,000 miles a year.

Sorry for the long post, but just wanted to see the general consensus on what you guys think.
 
Even with the service records all showing it has been keep up to date? I get a rental you never know how it was treated, but isn’t that true for all “used” vehicles you buy? Unless of course you were buying it from someone you knew personally.
 
Clark41 said:
Even with the service records all showing it has been keep up to date? I get a rental you never know how it was treated, but isn’t that true for all “used” vehicles you buy? Unless of course you were buying it from someone you knew personally.
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that truck is priced higher than retail. if you want to go down that route, that's a $20k truck - not $30k. look up the values on KBB. buying it for $25-26k is still too high.

we just traded in a 2021 2500 tradesman, 6.4 with 34k miles. got $32,500 for it. priced it to 4-5 dealers and most of them were in the $30-31k range. had one offer of $33k on it. truck needed tires - they said they'd put it at $36,900 and end up selling it in the $35k range.

if we'd had traded back in late March/April, probably could've gotten $34-35k out of it. Ram lowering the MSRPs along with how the truck market is these days is making it rough sledding

somebody is trying to make their next few mortgage payments off that deal
 
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that truck is priced higher than retail. if you want to go down that route, that's a $20k truck - not $30k. look up the values on KBB. buying it for $25-26k is still too high.

we just traded in a 2021 2500 tradesman, 6.4 with 34k miles. got $32,500 for it. priced it to 4-5 dealers and most of them were in the $30-31k range. had one offer of $33k on it. truck needed tires - they said they'd put it at $36,900 and end up selling it in the $35k range.

if we'd had traded back in late March/April, probably could've gotten $34-35k out of it. Ram lowering the MSRPs along with how the truck market is these days is making it rough sledding

somebody is trying to make their next few mortgage payments off that deal
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Thanks for the reply. If I may ask why did you trade it in? 3 hours away they are selling brand new Tradesmans for 42,000. I may consider that route instead.
 
traded it in on a gmc half ton. would have preferred to keep it, but we have a dually for our towing so it never pulled anything more than a bumper pull hauling hay - the primary driver also migrated to a suv and the new driver is shorter and needed a power seat.

didn't have any issues out of it - if you can swing it, i'd lean towards new for sure
 
I'm going to offer a counter point. Rentals are used hard, however a vehicle having service records and actually serviced is a huge advantage over a regular vehicle on a dealership lot. According to my dealer service advisors COX automative has done surveys in the past and found that on average 85% of vehicle owners did not service or delayed service of their cars. Hence why many luxury car dealers offer free service on leased cars to try and get people to do the basic services. I guarantee you there are plenty of used trucks that are sitting on dealer lots that had their first oil change by the used car dealer when they were brought in for trade. On diesels people cheap out all the time and use some no-name brand fuel filter if they are even ever changed..... So a vehicle that has been well used and well serviced might be a better buy than a truck that could be abused and never serviced, or used regularly and never serviced.. Its a gamble on a used vehicle, in most cases that it was ever maintained. You gotta remember the mindset of a trade in, it could be there because they couldn't afford it (so little to no maintenance), didn't like it (so probably not maintained why bother?), owned by someone who didn't care, or well maintained. If the vehicle was maintained by a delaer they will have records. Ask your service advisor to pull the service records on any potential vehicle, as you don't want to see constant service or service on a particular item (truck was dumped because it couldn't be fixed).
 
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