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Old 07-29-2006, 06:12 PM
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Thinking of a trade tell me your opinion

I have been looking to trade my 05 2500 for a dually. I was planning on going back to a 04 to get pretty close to a even trade. I have found several trucks and went today to check one out. Well the truck is pretty clean but it lacks a few of the goodies mine has. It also has 36800 miles and mine has 16200. They want me to pay 1200 out the door price. It is a early 04 so it dont have the 600 engine and my truck is same as flawless and has a little place on the bumper and the bed has a sprayed in liner that doest look to good. Then I called another dealer and they were idiots they had a 04 auto with 20k on it and wanted between 7 and 8 grand to trade. I told them to keep that truck. So tell me what you think.
Old 07-29-2006, 08:36 PM
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Sounds like it would be a lot cheaper to keep the truck you have and make chassis/suspension upgrades as necessary
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Never trade

If I were you I would sell the truck instead of trading. It may take a little longer but you will always get more money for your truck that way. Of course you have to look at other advantages to trading as well. Like not paying sales tax on the difference between the trade, time, upside down, etc.

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both good points. I have done some overloads on mine now but I was thinking of putting a flatbed on one of these days and the dually would work better for that. I am also running a trackhoe on my days off and mine pulls it fine but its not as stable as I would like it.
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well if you are puting a flatbed on it all you would have to do is through some dually wheels on the rear and buy a dually hub for the front. right, maybe im wrong, but i think it would be pretty easy.
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True and I still may do that but with the dually I would have a longer bed. Also when I am pulling my trackhoe it is pushing the laws a little and the dmv here has really cracked down on things here.
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