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Seeing as how we have knowledgeable vehicle people here *cough Ame cough*, I thought I might ask thoughts on buying a program vehicle vs what *I* out in the boonies consider a new one? (If I want a big 000000 on the odometer I'll have to travel probably 4 hours)
We bought a new Jeep Cherokee Latitude in December, trading in my beloved 2004 Ford Escape for it. At first I loved it, cheesed out every time I looked at it and drove it. Felt positively faaaancy. Heated seats/steering wheel, a huge touch screen ohh heck yeah for us that was living large. I had problems w/it from the get-go but figured it was me being weird driving a different vehicle after having my Escape for almost 11 years. Then I realized JD was having the same issues. So I did a google search...and found out oh hey, there are huge problems w/this vehicle and there ended up being two recalls on it. Great, that should fix the problems-except it was worse afterward.
Took it back to the dealership twice after that and they flat out told us in no uncertain terms we were imagining things, the 'lil wifey doesn't know how to drive, that's just how vehicles are.
So we decided to trade it in. We talked to my parents about it and dad seemed kinda meh about us having problems-until he realized we were serious about it, so he started to look into it and oh huh well I guess there really are problems gee...He called the dealership (where he's gotten every vehicle he's owned for 40 years or whatever) and gave them the what for. We took it back to have them "look at it" again and suddenly oh wow, there really is something wrong w/it....buuuuuut Chrysler doesn't have a fix in the works so we can deal w/it for up to however many months/years it takes, or trade it in and lose our shirts. For now, they've given us a different vehicle to drive, a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee...they seem to want to do a tradesies with it and no thanks sir.
I bought a subscription to Consumer Reports and none of the Jeeps get fantastic reviews. Dad feels we should get a 2015 Grand Cherokee b/c they've got rebates etc on them. Far as I'm concerned Jeep can stick it-we got 3k worth of rebates on mine and what stinking good did it do me??? I feel like we got a lemon and it's defective, so we should get our money back. I'm told that's not going to happen.
We drove a few other vehicles at a different dealership, driving 2 hours to deal w/the brother in a family I went to school with who will give us his family discount. We liked the 2015 Chevy Colorado. Dad talked to the dealership here in town and they will give us 22360 on ours and we'd need a loan for roughly 15k to get the truck. We're losing 11k on this stupid Jeep thru no fault of our own. It's not buyers remorse like awww nah I really wanted something different, it's a faulty vehicle, end of story and we're not the only ones w/this vehicle that have this problem. This ticks me off to no end.
So. Dad says we should look at getting a program truck rather than a brand new one. This bothers me, so that's the whole point of my post..finally, right?? He said we could cut our loan by about 50% going that route, which would be nice of course. But still. I'll get a 2015 w/10k miles on it, and my 2004 only had 53K. It seems stupid to me. So then we had a whole go-round about high miles/low miles on vehicles and "nowadays" it's not a big deal to have high miles. Miles are the first thing people look at near as I can figure-I look I know.
Any insights into program cars? I'd rather avoid *another* fight w/my dad (we're going on vacation together in a couple weeks so there's plenty of time for us to have at it)
We bought a new Jeep Cherokee Latitude in December, trading in my beloved 2004 Ford Escape for it. At first I loved it, cheesed out every time I looked at it and drove it. Felt positively faaaancy. Heated seats/steering wheel, a huge touch screen ohh heck yeah for us that was living large. I had problems w/it from the get-go but figured it was me being weird driving a different vehicle after having my Escape for almost 11 years. Then I realized JD was having the same issues. So I did a google search...and found out oh hey, there are huge problems w/this vehicle and there ended up being two recalls on it. Great, that should fix the problems-except it was worse afterward.
Took it back to the dealership twice after that and they flat out told us in no uncertain terms we were imagining things, the 'lil wifey doesn't know how to drive, that's just how vehicles are.
So we decided to trade it in. We talked to my parents about it and dad seemed kinda meh about us having problems-until he realized we were serious about it, so he started to look into it and oh huh well I guess there really are problems gee...He called the dealership (where he's gotten every vehicle he's owned for 40 years or whatever) and gave them the what for. We took it back to have them "look at it" again and suddenly oh wow, there really is something wrong w/it....buuuuuut Chrysler doesn't have a fix in the works so we can deal w/it for up to however many months/years it takes, or trade it in and lose our shirts. For now, they've given us a different vehicle to drive, a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee...they seem to want to do a tradesies with it and no thanks sir.
I bought a subscription to Consumer Reports and none of the Jeeps get fantastic reviews. Dad feels we should get a 2015 Grand Cherokee b/c they've got rebates etc on them. Far as I'm concerned Jeep can stick it-we got 3k worth of rebates on mine and what stinking good did it do me??? I feel like we got a lemon and it's defective, so we should get our money back. I'm told that's not going to happen.
We drove a few other vehicles at a different dealership, driving 2 hours to deal w/the brother in a family I went to school with who will give us his family discount. We liked the 2015 Chevy Colorado. Dad talked to the dealership here in town and they will give us 22360 on ours and we'd need a loan for roughly 15k to get the truck. We're losing 11k on this stupid Jeep thru no fault of our own. It's not buyers remorse like awww nah I really wanted something different, it's a faulty vehicle, end of story and we're not the only ones w/this vehicle that have this problem. This ticks me off to no end.
So. Dad says we should look at getting a program truck rather than a brand new one. This bothers me, so that's the whole point of my post..finally, right?? He said we could cut our loan by about 50% going that route, which would be nice of course. But still. I'll get a 2015 w/10k miles on it, and my 2004 only had 53K. It seems stupid to me. So then we had a whole go-round about high miles/low miles on vehicles and "nowadays" it's not a big deal to have high miles. Miles are the first thing people look at near as I can figure-I look I know.
Any insights into program cars? I'd rather avoid *another* fight w/my dad (we're going on vacation together in a couple weeks so there's plenty of time for us to have at it)