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Price negotiated from MSRP

I wasted countless hours visitng and talking to dealers all over California. Total waste of time.
Call Lake Charles and be done with it.
 
rommel said:
What did it cost you to have your truck shipped to CA?
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It was 1600 from Lake Charles - Sacramento. Probably more now due to fuel prices.
You can save some cost by shipping to Phoenix, if you are in SoCal.
 
Mark Dodge quoted me $1400 to PHX just yesterday. That’s up from $900 3 months ago. [content deleted]

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dragon_ram said:
Mark Dodge quoted me $1400 to PHX just yesterday. That’s up from $900 3 months ago. Let’s Go Brandon.
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Sounds like you didn't ask for the Special Price... the one where they transport your truck on an EV Transport using renewable energy from the giant wind turbine on the roof.
 
mark dodge was 2600 cheaper than me buying locally. however they don't give u a full tank of fuel or anything else. great people yes but by time I would fly in drive thousands of miles the price difference of buying there didn't make sense. especially with my time being worth something to my kids. also oil changes for life were included at no cost so I decided to pay the extra 1500 to buy local.
 
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RIVERBOY460 said:
mark dodge was 2600 cheaper than me buying locally. however they don't give u a full tank of fuel or anything else. great people yes but by time I would fly in drive thousands of miles the price difference of buying local didn't make sense. also oil changes for life were included at np cost so I decided to pay the extra 1500 to buy local.
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I'm happy everything worked out for you.
 
RIVERBOY460 said:
mark dodge was 2600 cheaper than me buying locally. however they don't give u a full tank of fuel or anything else. great people yes but by time I would fly in drive thousands of miles the price difference of buying local didn't make sense. also oil changes for life were included at no cost so I decided to pay the extra 1500 to buy local.
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You must have gotten a pretty good deal from your local dealer then. As long as you’re happy that’s all that matters!
 
Any of you guy’s doing the fly and drive have concerns about break-in? IIRC manufacturers recommend varying speeds and RPM’s for the initial hundred or more miles on a new vehicle. Are you guys doing 100 or so local miles before the long journey back? If you subscribe to this it seems like hopping in and running the truck at 60 mph and 1700 RPM for a 1000+ mile trip home might be concerning. Thoughts?
 
Threeper88 said:
Any of you guy’s doing the fly and drive have concerns about break-in? IIRC manufacturers recommend varying speeds and RPM’s for the initial hundred or more miles on a new vehicle. Are you guys doing 100 or so local miles before the long journey back? If you subscribe to this it seems like hopping in and running the truck at 60 mph and 1700 RPM for a 1000+ mile trip home might be concerning. Thoughts?
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I took a truck home 75mph the entire way 600 miles with 1 stop for fuel. You should be fine, if an issue does happen, it should be covered under warranty and if it happens way down the line, you wont even know its because you didnt break it in.
 
RIVERBOY460 said:
mark dodge was 2600 cheaper than me buying locally. however they don't give u a full tank of fuel or anything else. great people yes but by time I would fly in drive thousands of miles the price difference of buying there didn't make sense. especially with my time being worth something to my kids. also oil changes for life were included at no cost so I decided to pay the extra 1500 to buy local.
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i was about to ask if anyone knew what kind of mud flaps Mark Dodge put on a new dually (the ole “free mud flaps while you have advertise For the dealer….”) and I think I know the answer if they seriously don’t fill a new truck up
 
Threeper88 said:
Any of you guy’s doing the fly and drive have concerns about break-in? IIRC manufacturers recommend varying speeds and RPM’s for the initial hundred or more miles on a new vehicle. Are you guys doing 100 or so local miles before the long journey back? If you subscribe to this it seems like hopping in and running the truck at 60 mph and 1700 RPM for a 1000+ mile trip home might be concerning. Thoughts?
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The only break-in I’m worried about is going through Houston :/

When I bought my duramax in 2006 (15 miles on it) loaded a 27 foot tongue Toybox on it and took it to the Sierra Nevada’s (camp around 8000 feet). Never an issue.
 
Threeper88 said:
Any of you guy’s doing the fly and drive have concerns about break-in? IIRC manufacturers recommend varying speeds and RPM’s for the initial hundred or more miles on a new vehicle. Are you guys doing 100 or so local miles before the long journey back? If you subscribe to this it seems like hopping in and running the truck at 60 mph and 1700 RPM for a 1000+ mile trip home might be concerning. Thoughts?
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There’s no breakin specified in the manual for the diesel. IIRC there was something about not towing for the first 500 miles to break the diff in.
 
RichM752 said:
Airplane tickets are reasonable. If you can spare the time you can save $300.
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Would absolutely fly in but I’m likely trading in my current truck. They offered the bottom end of KBB window but I save $$ on taxes in AZ with a trade. I’m still listing it locally to look at all options but realistically adding in the tax break folks would have to offer above the KBB window to compete. Time is valuable but I have to be in Dallas anyway and Lake Charles is only 5 hrs away from there.
 
RIVERBOY460 said:
mark dodge was 2600 cheaper than me buying locally. however they don't give u a full tank of fuel or anything else. great people yes but by time I would fly in drive thousands of miles the price difference of buying there didn't make sense. especially with my time being worth something to my kids. also oil changes for life were included at no cost so I decided to pay the extra 1500 to buy local.
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Mark Dodge delivered my truck to New Orleans where I picked it up. Its about 200 miles from the dealership, and it had a little over a half tank left when I got in it. Not sure about in dealership pickups, but mine was definitely filled.

I got somewhere around $8500 off MSRP on my Laramie. Local dealers wouldnt even come remotely close to that number back in April. It cost me $600 total to drive it home to NH. Took a day and a half from when I got to the airport to when I pulled in my driveway. Well worth the savings IMO
 
for each there own my fay and a half time ia worth the 2600 price difference. they told me 40.00 in fuel. I bought the 50 gallon tank. so to each there own I got right at 10%off msrp. and about 9k off total. so I took the deal locally for mere fact lifetime powertrain warranty if they do the services and they include free lifetime oil changes and vehicle inspections. no brainer for me.
 
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