Purchase strategy

[HammaMan]

I buy my vehicles with hundreds. My associate carries it in a briefcase. I wear my smoking jacket typically.

You watch too many movies. You can carry 100k in your pockets and not look unusual

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[Bossharp]

Lots of downside to buying a leftover. Was it a loaner beat on ect? The fact that you are looking for very specific equipment and options makes it even more difficult. If you order a new 2025 from Granger you will get EXACTLY what you want at probably the lowest price possible. The money you might 'save' will will not be worth the time and effort you absolutely will have to spend on finding it..If you ever do.

 

[0o7]

Topic has been covered before. Deals right now are as good as it gets. You should be able to get 10k off and 2.9% for 72 months if you need it.

Where are you seeing 2.9% for 72m?

 

[JJSnell]

Hi there! New member, great forum you guys have built with tons of info. Thank you all for that. Hopefully someday I'll contribute something useful.
Anyways, looking to purchase a '24 PB XLT 4x4 w 302a, trailer tow package, and 7.2 onboard. Some nice-to-haves would be the bed package, FX4, bed liner.
My strategy is to wait until Nov/early Dec and pick up an outgoing '24 at a discount. As mentioned before, I'm flexible on just about everything except PB, 302a, the tow package, and 7.2 and am looking to bring it home for under $50k. Question is, am I shooting for the moon here with this goal? Also, I'm finding the combo of PB tow and 7.2 to be hard to come by in TX at the moment, any advice of good search methods to find that combo other than the typical car gurus/auto trader/car edge? Any help of advice is appreciated. Thanks

This isn't in Texas, but this looks like exactly what you are looking for for. 302a with all your requested options....
Only 90 miles!!!
I like the color too....

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inven...tedEntity=d337#listing=379230394/NONE/DEFAULT

Let me know if the link doesn't work...

 

[HammaMan]

Talk to the dealer, it's NOT part of the summertime thing

 

[Kodiak]

Perhaps it doesn’t exist anymore. My ‘22 302A PB 4x4 has it.
Google thinks it exists for ‘24 lol

I believe 2022 was the last year for just the tow tech package. That is what I got on my 22 502a PB and since a lot of the HD features were already on the PB it was a good deal. Probably why they got rid of it.

 

[VTR_16]

I would use the build and price tool on the Ford website and spec out a truck as you'd like to have it. Forward those specs to Chip at Granger Ford and have him give you a price. This way, not only will you know the true cost of what you want, you'll also be able to compare deals locally and see if you can eek out the best deal you can if ordering is not for you. Welcome and good luck!

This is an excellent strategy. I did this and the local dealer I purchased from actually offered to beat it by a few hundred bucks. This was for an order I placed with the dealership too. So I placed and order and got the pricing beat and made sure to have the store manager sign the order sheet. 2 months later the truck comes in. All my financing was done over the phone the day prior with my sales guy so when we went to the dealership it took 45 min to get in and out. Best transaction ever had with a vehicle purchase.

 

[VRFlyer]

I still get a spam calls from the dealership every few months, 6 years later..

I don't get why some dealerships get butthurt and do this to some customers! You're like the 5 or 6th person that's mentioned this on dif. social sites.

 

[VRFlyer]

You watch too many movies. You can carry 100k in your pockets and not look unusual

Is the average truck owner even spending 100k on a daily driven unit?

 

[dochawk]

and a semi-floating rear axle that shears bolts pretty regularly.

Without this axle, you have to shear your own bolts at random times!

You can carry 100k in your pockets and not look unusual

But it just doesn't have the panache of having an "associate" to carry it . . .
?

 

[HammaMan]

But it just doesn't have the panache of having an "associate" to carry it . . .
?

I mean you can get it in 20s to 5x the volume of cash. Most of hollyweird just uses arbitrary amounts of "100s". Just watched a movie last week where they stole a mil w/ about 2.5mil worth of "100s". In a following scene they put ~250k worth of bills into bag for a $30k 'purchase'.

100k is about 5" of bills. Kinda underwhelming, especially if they're sequential SNs

 

[VTR_16]

I mean you can get it in 20s to 5x the volume of cash. Most of hollyweird just uses arbitrary amounts of "100s". Just watched a movie last week where they stole a mil w/ about 2.5mil worth of "100s". In a following scene they put ~250k worth of bills into bag for a $30k 'purchase'.

100k is about 5" of bills. Kinda underwhelming, especially if they're sequential SNs

This scene comes to mind lmao

 

[dochawk]

100k is about 5" of bills. Kinda underwhelming, especially if they're sequential SN

about 15 years ago, I had a full time contract as an in-house attorney. Not an employee; they hired my practice.

So I got a single monthly check, but it was drawn on BofA--and even other banks don't like them; they were the only bank in town that wouldn't verify a check!

If I sent it to vanguard, it took about two weeks to have clear funds.

So I had to take the check into BofA, where I'd opened a $6 online savings account, and could therefore cash it, then drive the stack to my credit union (actually a local one with an agreement), fill out the large cash transaction paperwork, and then move money where I wanted.

And one day, I went to a different branch.

I commented on the massive plexiglass, which the other didn't have, and it turned out it was because of the frequency with which they got robbed! And there I was, with over $10g cash . . .

 

[js312]

Even if you don't purchase new with Granger Ford (I used them and HIGHLY RECOMMEND), they still offer an excellent Ford-provided warranty plan. As everyone else has chimed in, spec out your dream vehicle, email @Granger Ford , and see the pricing that they can come up with. I saved ~$13K over the MSRP for my truck. They are incredibly great to work with.

Agreed.

When I bought this truck and the dealer pitched the Ford ESP, I gave them Granger's price and said I will even go $100 higher to give them the sale locally and get it all done at once. They said they couldn't do that, so I went home and bought from Granger. Easy painless process - good people to deal with.

 

[dochawk]

with the local doc fees being around $500, there's the extra for the loc al dealer!

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