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There will be others with your name on it. The right vehicle only comes up when you are truly committed to the purchase. When you are not 100% committed you find little excuses not to buy or to postpone. That's my experience.
Notwithstanding that you have moved on from this vehicle some lessons learned from my recent purchase of a dealer vehicle in VIC (lessons are universal to any state):
a) before you sign up read the aftermarket after statutory warranty T&C's carefully. I bought my 130 with an aftermarket warranty which was priced into the sale cost. I received the warranty booklet with the truck (I live in NSW so had no prior opportunity, or more accurately didn't exercise a right to read it first). Anyhooooooo the aftermarket warranty does not apply to vehicles over 3000 kg GVM. Not much use for a 3500 GVM vehicle. I told the dealer and he was surprised by the limitation, said he would look into it and has gone into hiding. From NSW it's hard to look him in the eye. A 110 is 3050 GVM so that equally gets caught;
b) get a Personal Property Service report (PPSR) from the Government. Cheap insurance at $19 for the report. It will show any encumbrances on the vehicle and in my case that it was a repairable write-off in VIC, repaired and re-registered. Double edge sword, you know it has history but in my case it was a bargaining chip to knock $7,000 off the ticket price.
Wow 20,000 kms. I wouldn't be happy with that offer. I'm a 10,000 km service internal man. Annually i replace all fluids, gearbox, TFC, diffs, bleed brakes, coolant. Some might say it is not necessary but I'd rather spend the money on oil than a rebuild.
MLD
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There will be others with your name on it. The right vehicle only comes up when you are truly committed to the purchase. When you are not 100% committed you find little excuses not to buy or to postpone. That's my experience.
Notwithstanding that you have moved on from this vehicle some lessons learned from my recent purchase of a dealer vehicle in VIC (lessons are universal to any state):
a) before you sign up read the aftermarket after statutory warranty T&C's carefully. I bought my 130 with an aftermarket warranty which was priced into the sale cost. I received the warranty booklet with the truck (I live in NSW so had no prior opportunity, or more accurately didn't exercise a right to read it first). Anyhooooooo the aftermarket warranty does not apply to vehicles over 3000 kg GVM. Not much use for a 3500 GVM vehicle. I told the dealer and he was surprised by the limitation, said he would look into it and has gone into hiding. From NSW it's hard to look him in the eye. A 110 is 3050 GVM so that equally gets caught;
b) get a Personal Property Service report (PPSR) from the Government. Cheap insurance at $19 for the report. It will show any encumbrances on the vehicle and in my case that it was a repairable write-off in VIC, repaired and re-registered. Double edge sword, you know it has history but in my case it was a bargaining chip to knock $7,000 off the ticket price.
Wow 20,000 kms. I wouldn't be happy with that offer. I'm a 10,000 km service internal man. Annually i replace all fluids, gearbox, TFC, diffs, bleed brakes, coolant. Some might say it is not necessary but I'd rather spend the money on oil than a rebuild.
MLD
