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I talked with the dealer today, they came up another $500 on my car, and down to $21000 on their car. I feel that's a pretty fair deal. My 2010 challenger has 107k miles on it, and the dealers are offering me horrible money for it. I had 3 dealers offer me $9500 today for it. I don't owe on it, so everything I get out of it is equity in the mustang. This is a secondary vehicle, so it's going to get tuned and all of that fun stuff.
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Just a thought...

with the number of ecobooms that seem to have happened, you might want to do a carfax and see if the car that you're about to purchase still has the factory engine in it...:thumbsup:
 

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The 2015 was reported to be a second quicker to 60 than 2016 so you may be disappointed with that gubber blue slug. Get yourself a 2015 EB/PP Auto and you won't need to tune it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jalopn...boost-is-getting-slower-report-1781842682/amp
Him getting a 2015 would be a mistake. The Sync 2 system in 2015 is a pretty big downgrade from the ones that come in 2016+. Sync 3 FTW!

Also, sounds like whoever did that comparison needs a driver mod. No way it's a full second quicker 0-60. The non-PP car is the quicker from 0-60.
 

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I've owned a 15 .... trust me, you need to tune it. There's no way it's a second faster. The cars have the exact same specs.
One of the tuners showed that Ford pulled back some of the parameters a bit on '16 and up to keep the engine out of the dangerous LSPI zone a while back...an attempt to reign in the ecoboom.

I can attest to the '16 being a hair slower, too...read my signature;)
 

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If it’s at a Ford Dealer - request a copy of the Ford OASIS report.
 

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I have a 2016 EB Premium for sale for 21,500, and have gotten zero inquiries. Trust me, its a buyers market. You can probably do better then that.
 
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I have a 2016 EB Premium for sale for 21,500, and have gotten zero inquiries. Trust me, its a buyers market. You can probably do better then that.
That's the main reason I have held off. I noticed earlier this week that prices continue to go down on them, especially as it starts to get colder.

I can't believe you haven't got any hits off of it yet. I had a 2010 challenger RT I put for sale on craigslist, TONS of tire kickers, morons offering me $10k for it, I put it on facebook, and it sold at full asking price within 2 days.
 

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The real question is what kind of miles those 9,000+ miles are. I bought a pre-owned 2015 Eco with 3,000 miles on it. Big mistake. Dealer demo, test drive whore, whatever it was used for it ran through oil like a son of a bitch and had a bad 3rd cylinder. I can only imagine how many times that poor car was boosted with cold oil, and shut off with oil boiling on the turbo bearings. Luckily I modded the hell out of it enough to expedite any eventual failures before the warranty ran out and got the bottom end replaced for free. (She still ran 12's with very light mods despite all those issues). Now starting over from scratch.

I would be way less worried seeing that you're looking at a 2017 with the newer engine. Don't know if they would do it but seeing a healthy compression test would go a long way.
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