with 125,000 miles, standard shift, gooseneck, extended cab, running boards, captain’s chairs, kind of flashy, but otherwise immaculate. The speedometer and cruise don’t work, and repair would be 800 bucks.
They are asking 14,500. Motor runs really smoothly, it cranks right up.
It has been used to pull a five horse steel trailer for the last couple years, and I would be the third owner. I didn’t drive it because it was still attached to the trailer.
What should I counter?
with 125,000 miles, standard shift, gooseneck, extended cab, running boards, captain’s chairs, kind of flashy, but otherwise immaculate. The speedometer and cruise don’t work, and repair would be 800 bucks.
They are asking 14,500. Motor runs really smoothly, it cranks right up.
It has been used to pull a five horse steel trailer for the last couple years, and I would be the third owner. I didn’t drive it because it was still attached to the trailer.
What should I counter?
I have a 1993 4 door diesel dually F350 with 58,000 miles on it. Was thinking of selling earlier this year and was hoping to get $15,500 (or $20,000 with the steel 2 horse gooseneck that has some rust but is a very nice trailer overall). Sounds like yours has some nice features but the mileage seems pretty high for that price.
Did you look up the bluebook price? Check out www.kbb.com and if you price it to find out the trade-in value, you’ll get low bluebook. If you price it as though you are buying it from a used car dealer, you’ll get high blue book. Something right in between in generally a fair deal.
because of the high price and high/unknown mileage. Besides, it has some flashy things about it that I would be embarrassed to be seen in. I’ve run a search on the internet and, if mechanically perfect other than the speedometer, the average for this area for this truck would be just under 13,000. Since I haven’t driven it, I don’t know about things like brakes and clutch, suspension and transmission. Don’t know if it has a tow package. Don’t know if it has been repaired after a wreck.
I might do some more talking to the owners and get a Carfax on it before I completely drop it though. Since they are the second owners, they may not even know whether it has a lot of the mechanical extras for towing.
Thanks for the advice and the websites. I’m still going to be looking for a horse hauler that is a better deal.
How long has the speedometer been non-functional? Because if it has been awhile it may have even more miles on it.
Will they let you have a diesel mechanic look it over? We just bought a '90 with the same specs, only it only had 55,000 miles on it. So far so good, but I am still waiting for my gooseneck trailer to come in.
I would sure consider the mileage as a bargaining chip. Granted the diesels are meant to be workhorses, but that is a lot of miles for 5 years. Isn’t 15,000/yr average these days?
“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”
Speedometer shows how fast you are going, the odometer shows how far you have gone. Having one break would not affect the other, so I don’t think there’s a reason to worry about it having more miles on it.
Valerie
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Sweetie…
SPEEDometer shows speed…
ODometer shows miles… 
This coming from a recent driver’s school grad
(please don’t hit me 
Dammit In The Gate jk
I hate to break it to you, but often times if the “speed-o-meter” isn’t going around the “od-o-meter” doesn’t either. And of course no cruise control because the poor thing has no clue how fast it is going. Well duh to you too.
Know this one for a fact, as when returning from Phoenix last Saturday, pulled back on to the road from the Gila Bend “pit stop” and no speedometer. And the little miley thing wasn’t going around. Then at about 70 on the freeway the darn thing kicked back in.
Hey Winglet, help me out here? 
Anyway the truck still sounds like a good find. Hope it goes well.
“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”
A 1996 F250, 7.3L PS, now has 120K but had 83K when I bought it in May of 2000. I paid $17,500 for it then, but it’s blue book was more in the $16 range.
I’d go to $13K on this one and see what they say. I’d pay $14.5 if they pickup the $800 repair.
Robby
We bought the 1990 F350 diesel dually, Lariat XLT with 83,000 miles and it has not a speck of rust in the rear fenders! It was kept garaged and the man told us that it has never had a snowflake on it.
Our cruise control doesn’t work but everything else does, I had the privledge of escorting Kennett Square to WIHS in it.
Ours was $6,000 and the Kelly blue book site had it listed at almost 8K with MORE mileage.
Go to http://www.kellybluebook.com and walk your way through the used car retail report. It is easy! Just check off the items that the truck has.
[This message was edited by Everythingbutwings on Nov. 07, 2001 at 07:56 AM.]
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