That makes sense. I didn't know the computer kept track of the number of days since the oil was last changed. I had been almost a year since I had changed it last.
What I didn't mention was I had put my Explorer up for sale (due to financial reasons) and cleaned it up back in August of last year and it was driven maybe less than 100 miles until a couple of months ago. I finally took it off the market back in November when I saw that it wasn't going to sell. Plus my wife thought we needed a second AWD vehicle to make it up our driveway in the winter.
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I listed it for $10,000 or best offer knowing someone was going to haggle with me. Eventually dropping it down to $9300 which was a few hundred dollars below NADA private seller which was what I owed on it at the time.
As usual I kept getting the "what's your bottom dollar" responses. No real offers.
I would have taken $8000 for it but knew if I listed it for that someone would try to get me down even more. Maybe the "haggle" price drove some prospective buyers away.
I had plans on reposting it during our first major snowstorm of the year which occured Monday. Hoping it might draw some interest but by that time my wife decided we needed to keep it.
One guy did lowball me at $5000 but he was a used car salesman. He said there was no market for V8 SUVs anymore. For that price I might as well drop it off at the credit union I financed it through and let them auction it off and pay the difference. But didn't want to hurt my credit rating.
The vehicle was in good shape. It does have a few things going against it. A bad respray of the rear end due to a rear end collision causing paint to bubble on the rear bumper. Why won't paint to stick to plastic when it's repainted? I've seen this happen on several vehicles.
One of the 3rd row seats won't go up. One guy pointed out that this was an important feature to him so it was a deal breaker unless I either fixed it or knocked $800 off the price that the dealer wanted to fix it.
That spare tire ratting noise I mentioned in another post.
V8 engines consume more gas. But I'd rather have the power over a V6 any day.
And it had 126,000 miles on it. Which really for an 9 year old vehicle I don't think is really that excessive.
I get this one call from a guy who thought 126,000 miles was high mileage. I was sitting in my 68 Ford Fairlane 500 at the time which has 54,000 original miles on it (belong to my Grandmother).
I was tempted to tell him," I'm sitting in a 1968 Ford right now with 54,000 original miles on it, what do you think about that?".
These people piss me off. Years ago people seemed more fair when it come to buying used cars. Now all they want to do is low ball you and try to get something for nothing.
I'm out of buying new or used cars. You buy a new one and get ripped off from the dealership or try to sell a used one and get ripped off by the buyer.
