CavCop
Elite Explorer
- Joined
- August 17, 2022
- Messages
- 46
- Reaction score
- 17
- Location
- Texas
- City, State
- Killeen, TX
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2023 Explorer King Ranch
After failing to get a custom order in for 2023, and most likely unable to get my custom 2024, I bought a 2023 White King Ranch 4wd as a compromise.
So much to learn and adjust. Probably going to take a week to get things adjusted where I want.
Initial impressions are the quality control could be better. Hope to fix/adjust some minor stuff.
I wanted no moon/sunroof, bench seats for second row, messaging seats, and green paint.
I got moon/sunroof, bucket/captains seats, no messaging seats, and White paint.
Traded in my 2018 F150 Lariat 4x4 5.0l max haul with black/sports package in Leadfoot. Gave the sales guy/manager a good offer, but they tried to play games with the prices. I explained I made my offer prior to driving up there, and was not wanting to play games and had other dealerships with the same vehicle. They took my fair offer. $55,000 for their King Ranch Explorer (MSRP $61,945), and $31,000 for my paid off F150 valued between $35 to $37K with 47,000 miles (using whatever discounts and adjustments they wanted, including rebates and $500 military/first responder cash). My logic was rather than than wasting time trying to sell my vehicle and worry about taxes/gains, by trading it in I saved time and taxes on my new vehicle.
While my last few vehicles have been 0% APR through Ford, I was looking at $2.9% for 60 months. I got 1.9% from their financial person, which I was happy with. Their financial person thought it was odd that I wanted my payments at a set exact amount. I explained I always did that make tracing my finances easy, and Ford usually just had my final payment/payoff as a lower amount.
Not sure how long I will keep this vehicle, usually I do 10-15 years. But this was kind of a pressure buy, as I wait to see what the 2025-2026 Ford Explorer, Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro, Acura MDX Type S, and Subaru Outback Touring have to offer in their new models.
$450.00 a month, for the next 60 months. Definitely drives different than my F150, and seems to drift more on the highway will a little more road noise and little sounds. Still a lot of tech stuff to adjust, learn, and get used to. But I wanted a smaller/shorter vehicle
So much to learn and adjust. Probably going to take a week to get things adjusted where I want.
Initial impressions are the quality control could be better. Hope to fix/adjust some minor stuff.
I wanted no moon/sunroof, bench seats for second row, messaging seats, and green paint.
I got moon/sunroof, bucket/captains seats, no messaging seats, and White paint.
Traded in my 2018 F150 Lariat 4x4 5.0l max haul with black/sports package in Leadfoot. Gave the sales guy/manager a good offer, but they tried to play games with the prices. I explained I made my offer prior to driving up there, and was not wanting to play games and had other dealerships with the same vehicle. They took my fair offer. $55,000 for their King Ranch Explorer (MSRP $61,945), and $31,000 for my paid off F150 valued between $35 to $37K with 47,000 miles (using whatever discounts and adjustments they wanted, including rebates and $500 military/first responder cash). My logic was rather than than wasting time trying to sell my vehicle and worry about taxes/gains, by trading it in I saved time and taxes on my new vehicle.
While my last few vehicles have been 0% APR through Ford, I was looking at $2.9% for 60 months. I got 1.9% from their financial person, which I was happy with. Their financial person thought it was odd that I wanted my payments at a set exact amount. I explained I always did that make tracing my finances easy, and Ford usually just had my final payment/payoff as a lower amount.
Not sure how long I will keep this vehicle, usually I do 10-15 years. But this was kind of a pressure buy, as I wait to see what the 2025-2026 Ford Explorer, Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro, Acura MDX Type S, and Subaru Outback Touring have to offer in their new models.
$450.00 a month, for the next 60 months. Definitely drives different than my F150, and seems to drift more on the highway will a little more road noise and little sounds. Still a lot of tech stuff to adjust, learn, and get used to. But I wanted a smaller/shorter vehicle
