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Both those outcomes result in repairing old tech. What about that means the car market is out of control?

>>58401668
>Buying a 6.0
Worst piece of crap to come from ford ever.

>>58401696
The problem is boomers are under the impression that their old piece of shit is worth 10x what they paid for it.

>>58401668
7.3 would be worth that price.

>>58401696
Picrel is a truck that’s in pieces and they are asking $18,000 and you’d still have to put it back together yourself. There’s numerous examples of this shit all over the used car sites. I’m not getting into a $40k new car just to lose thousands on depreciation and have the warranty end in 3-5 years and I don’t like the idea of buying inflated used car just so I can work on it. Might as well keep repairing my current piece of shit since its already paid for.

>>58401740
>I don’t like the idea of buying inflated used car
You're engaging in a free commerce society where buyers and sellers negotiate to find a price point. You find his price unreasonable and therefore won't buy it.

>There’s numerous examples of this shit all over the used car sites
You're dealing with end-user sellers. What part of you thinks they will be knowledgeable about selling practices and pricing reasonably?

Sales fag here

Most people are completely ignorant about most things.

They have an unwillingness to learn, to acknowledge their faults, or to control their base inhibitions.

When they want something, they want it right now and will not wait.

You're taking advantage of their ignorance, but they are ignorant and won't change. So how do you profit off an unchanging human condition?

This is most of sales.

It's not your duty to educate the buyer, it's theirs.

You quote them a price. Most will say no, but enough will say yes to be a valid strategy.

Often it's MORE profitable to sell shit to retards than quality products to knowledgeable consumers because there are more retards.

This is why a lot of our products today are actual garbage because YOU keep buying them.

I wish that you wouldn't. I wish that you would be better. I wish we could all live looking inward and growing as people.

You don't though. So if I must be stuck with you, then I'll put my boot on you until you learn to stand.

the republicans passed usmca before the pandemic which ruined the prices for americans, then they lockdown the ecoomy during the pandemic casuing further damage then they printed a quarter of the antions money supply in a month leading to irreparable damage, deal with it

>>58401668
I got an 09 honda fit I bought used for 8k six years ago. Been putting more work into it to get it to last. Just installed new rear shocks. Hoping to get another 3 years out of it. If you put in the effort and have a place to work you can save a lot of money. I got my own tools, but use my dad's garage to do the work. The rear shocks were $107. Probably would have been over $500 to have a shop put on cheaper parts.

But eventually you got to buy a car. All I can say is save as much as you can and choose wisely. For a truck I would go either Ford Maverick or Tacoma depending on the market when I buy.

>>58401668
anyone who knows anything about cars:

I want to buy a 2013 murano luxury with 30k miles on it for 15k, is there anything terrifyingly bad about this car I should know

its basically the lowest miles used luxury car i can find thats my criteria

>>58402183
You got a couple issues. One buying a 11 year old car isn't luxury. Two more expensive model cars have parts that cost more so it will be more expensive to maintain. Just buy the Honda crv/hrv.

>>58401792
Gas yourself disingenuous faggot

>>58402548
>>58402183
It's a Nissan too. How the fuck is this a luxury car? It being a Nissan, I bet the tranny dies pretty quickly.

>>58401668
i'd pay that for a frame-off powder-coated bulletproofed 6.0 with what looks likes fresh valves and a turbo. he likely has that much in parts & labor which he's trying to recoup. there's an ass for every seat.

>>58402595
These Nissan muranos are known to develop an exhaust leak around the flange before the catalyst resulting in an illuminated MIL with P0420 that'll have a shyster try and sell you a new catalyst when in fact it's the exhaust leak before the catalyst causing the code. Unless you're outside of California you just have to deal with the god awful smell of exhaust fumes entering the cab if you really don't want to fix it but then again it's an exhaust leak entering the cab.

>>58402622
meant to reply to >>58402183

>>58402183
i'd be wary of a car that old with that low of mileage. any issue that would have popped up and been covered under warranty is now on your hands. the coils/plugs/valve cover is a 6 hour job on the 3.5

>>58402651
Could just be an old boomer that has it. My dad has a 2015 Sonata with 29k miles on it.

>>58401668
most likely is you're buying used cars, yes, is basically like gambling on eesee, you don't know if you're gonna make a shiny nft that will 100x

i will never get rid of my 99 camry
fuck the entire car market

>>58402683
Also a lot of people have lower mileage from working from home.

>>58401711

Bruuh, the 5.4 Triton is even worse, it is possibly the WORST V8 of any kind constructed.

>>58402726
>Time for a tune up
>Have to remove the cylinder heads

>>58401668
You don’t get it. By 2030 most of us will be forced to start growing our own food and raising animals if we want to eat. 2030 Great Reset “you’re fucked” Agenda is real.

>>58402548
>>58402595
> One buying a 11 year old car isn't luxury.
w-what O_O
I just need full leather interior and a sunroof and fancy heating / AC. Guess that's the qualification of "luxury" why does the age matter?

>>58402622
>>58402651
Dangit! I didn't find that anywhere in my research. I'm gonna have a mechanic look over it before I buy it. I'm pretty much buying it anticipating having to replace the AC and power steering. Tho, some gas leak thing will really mess me up

>>58401727
I want to buy an OBS Bronco and swap a 7.3 with a ZF manual trans into it. Literally had a random dream about this the other day and I had never considered owning a Bronco or swapping a 7.3 into one before that, but now I can't stop considering it.

>>58402726
My brother in law bought an F150 with a 5.4 Triton. Within a week he's pulling into my driveway asking why it's making a rattling noise lol.

email test. may as well shit up a blatantly off topic thread to check

>>58402747
>oopsie lmao the spark plug snapped off in the cylinder tee hee oh no hehehehe

>>58402842
LOL LMAO
Said the scorpion.

>>58401668
Nigger

>>58401715
The real problem is that second hand product sellers dont really need any money at all, in fact they’ve got tons of money, enough to keep their junk horded. so they overprice everything and if it never sells, they incur no loss. If it does sell, they get a ridiculous amount of momey. Almost as much as what they paid for. That boomer in the OP’s picture probably paid 18 for the price of the truck when he first bought it.

Most people who need money do not have money to pay rent/taxes on the space required to store old junk, for the anount of time it takes to sell old junk. They’ll pawn it for 1% of its value, or they’ll even just toss it in the garbage (or in the case of trucks, have it taken to a junkyard). Rarely a person’s acquaintance will buy it or even more rarely it will get out on the market only to be bought the same day.

You wont see good deals on d junk unless the nature of our economy changes, and poor people have more living space for junk to lie around.