I have been searching high and low for a new(to me)truck. Right now I have a 2001 Ranger that I am probably going to trade. I am looking at a 2003 F150 Supercrew that has 98,000 on it. My dilemma is that I feel that is a lot of miles. Second they want almost 13,000 for it and I feel it is too much. It is clean and in good mechnical condition. I just am not wild about the miles. Do you think that is a lot of miles or not? I know it averages out to 10,000 a year which isnt bad. I am just not sure what to do. This would be my First F150 and I know they are durable.Second would you pay that much for that rig or not.

 

98000 on a 2003 is actually pretty good. I have a 2004 with 196000 miles and I would not list is for under 12000

 

Ya 98k for a 11 year old truck is good divide 100k miles by 10 years and that's only 10k miles per year. What is your price range? Like what's the most your willing to spend on a truck if its really nice

 

That's a pretty high price for an 03. You can get a 04-06 with around 100K miles for 10-13K

 

My top end is gonna be 12000, we just bought my wife a new car so she didnt have to put the baby in the back seat of a two door. Hers was 18,500 and I don't wanna try to have two huge car payments. I have found some similar styles with the same miles that are going for between 9,995 and 10,995. It seemed high to me at 13,000 so I will have to haggle with them a bit I guess!

 

I'm gonna throw something out here having bought a lot of cars....there are price points where a little more buys a lot more...5,000 and under segment a great example.... Spend a bit more and you can get much more for your money. I would look and make sure that 1 or 2 grand more couldn't get you a great value. Often times a newer truck will have a much lower finance rate as well, saving u additional money. If you can swing it, might get more for your overall money if you check out what other options are out there. What if you waited a year and banked payments of what you would have spent and use as down payment? Then get more truck...just my 2 cents. It's your money, it's easy to tell someone else what to do with it.

 

I have thought about waiting but with a ranger there is no room for the baby seat and another person. I use it to hunt also and it's hard to take more than one person with me because of the room. The truck is way overpriced. I have found similar trucks with same miles for 2-5k less. I am gonna use that as a bargaining chip and see what happens. I know where my payments can be so I am not going over that. I thought about waiting and getting more truck later but the prices are nuts and I don't see them going the other way any time soon. So trying to save that money for a year would be difficult, plus who knows what the prices will be next year. It's hard to say. Since I have gotten burned before with a used car I am a little more Leary about what I want to take home. The truck is solid I just need to work on the price.