Need advice. CPO vs new. Platinum vs Limited

JasonH said:

In the future I would advise against thinking like this. My first and last new vehicle purchase was a Ford Focus compact. I bought it because I needed a reliable vehicle for a long commute, and knew very little about vehicle maintenance at the time. The vehicle was flooded one year later during Tropical Storm Allison. Luckily, I put a substantial sum as down payment.

Depreciation seems like something that you recognize in the future, when you sell...but the future can arrive much sooner than you think. If your vehicle is ever heavily damaged, you will eat the depreciation immediately. For that reason, I would suggest gap insurance on a vehicle this pricey.

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No, I know you're right... Life doesn't always work out the way we intended it to. GAP won't be an option to my knowledge because the vehicle is damn near paid off... Infact I only financed a little to qualify for $1250 Ford incentive that comes with using their piss poor financing.

I wonder if there is an added coverage option though as this thing will be worth basically $20k less by the weekend.... Hmm

Flexpedition said:

Congrats. My mom lives in the area and always uses Woltz & Wind. She is closer to Washington Ford though - Canonsburg North Strabane area.

For what its worth, our '08 was full of new tech at the time as well. $1995 navigation and $1295 rear seat entertainment, etc. Newfangled CAN-BUS, coil on plug, safety canopy, the rear view mirror alone would cost over a grand to replace. Everything old was once new applies here.

Rolled the extended warranty dice and won on this one, the truck has been 100% perfect for 10+ years and has required no repairs whatsoever outside of a drivers front window regulator. Hope yours does as well as mine has.

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Aren't you the one that has virtually no miles on his truck though? Like sub-100K?

So stoked!

Wow congrats, looks gorgeous! Great color!

What's that thing on the side window?

The keys stay in that at the dealership sometimes....

Thanks! It's funny,And silver spruce was supposed to be what the dealer was getting me and I switched it to silver RIGHT before they "secured" that one, im glad that I did (not that I don't love silver spruce as well). as far as the box goes see post below, I believe it's the key holder.

Deadman said:

The keys stay in that at the dealership sometimes....

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I'm officially taking delivery tomorrow which is good because I'll have my husky liners and weathertech mudflaps to bring with me to the dealer lol.

I tried so hard to negotiate on a few Platinum CPOs today and even 1 non CPO all ranging from 9k-14k miles and nobody was budging on price and giving me as much as this dealer did for my trades. To me the stealth with convenience package is just as comparable to a entry level Platinum so the only $4k price difference was worth it. I think you really have to get in to the 20k mile range for these things to start really taking a hit... At least from what I've found in my area. Also the platinums I was looking at, non had the HD tow package whereas this stealth does.

Nice ride Bill! Wife and I are looking at a 2019 LTD stealth in stone gray to replace our '16 LTD in platinum white.

ib_jigged said:

Nice ride Bill! Wife and I are looking at a 2019 LTD stealth in stone gray to replace our '16 LTD in platinum white.

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Thank you! The stealth is a great looking package imo and I like the black leather with the red stitching. There are other little unique touches to the interior as well.

Keep in mind that the 303a does not automatically add the HD towing package like Ford's website says it does (see second bullet under 303a). You have to add the convenience package as well.

Thanks for the info Bill, but we don't need the heavy duty tow package, I have a '12 F150 with the max tow package that covers all the heavy towing.

We were going with the Stone Grey Stealth, but dealer cannot secure one, only 2 available in the a 6 state radius of us. So we are looking at Oxford White. Spent an hour debating that color while walking around the dealership, but we had to have a small spot repaired on our '16 with Platinum White and I can still see the difference (very hard color to match, area looks grayish and duller as others I have seen fixed). My f150 is oxford white with black accents and when the two are parked next to one another the oxford is a brighter white and to us contrasts with the black much better than the platinum white. The silvery platinum white looks better with shiny aluminum and chrome in my opinion.