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Replying to: dsilver668 (Sep 23, 2004 3:10 pm) |
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I bought my Trailblazer 6-cylinder Ext LT late June 03. MSRP is $36,300. The following is the breakdown of the details: The dealer took off almost $10,000 discount It had a few hail dents on the hood but not any on four doors. several small dents on the roof but you cannot see that also including $4,000 GM manufacturer rebate $500 conquest rebate. I had $4,100 GM credit card including $3,500 accumulated for seven years and $600 bonus GM gave me as incentive. I also had Citibank driver edge credit card which gave me $1,500. It had memory seats, six CD player, heated leather seats two zone automatic temperature control, automatic screen wiper, On-Star, driver information system, dual control button on steering wheel. The price I paid was $20,700 before TT&L. One week after I bought my TB EXT, GM offered some more rebate such On-Star rebate. I missed that chance around another $1,000. I put more than 20K miles on that. I have had several minor problems so far. Item 1) Tailgate light was flooded at 3,000 miles. The whole light housing was changed within thirty minutes at service dept. Item 2) gear handle came off. Item 3) back license panel gasket was not properly installed. These two items were fixed at dealer within one hour. Item 4) whole front bumper was disfigured very slightly. it was completely changed with a new one. It took dealer three days to finish that job. And I was offered an Envoy as a rental car for three days. Now it looks perfect. Item 5) passenger side strut is slightly leaking. not fixed yet. I am waiting for something that might show up to have them fixed together at one trip. It is not urgent. Item 6) the shift between the first gear and the second gear is not very smooth as I expected and you can feel it very reluctant to switch it forward and backward. So now the acceleration is not good enough and on the other hand when it is coasting on idle it is very reluctant to shift back to the first gear. So that it will stay around 1100 to 900 RPM at the of 30 miles. The real idle rpm when it is at stop either at parking or idle driving is around 600 rpm. Now it is wasting around 5 percent of gas because the most of the mileage I drive is local and have a lot of stops and goes. I have talked to two dealers and had it checked and was told 'no problem. the other Trailblazers also behave in the same way'. I have test-driven several TBs and Envoys before and after my purchase and found them behaving much better than mine. All I have test-driven are regular not extended version. Actually or ironically I did not test drive my vehicle before I bought it, because I thought they should be the same. Now I know there might be and will be some differences between each individual unit even though they are mass manufactured on the same assembly line by same kind of workers and by same kind of parts. I feel extremely happy with the whole deal including the price, its whole design, all those luxury features and warranty service, because nobody would and could give me such a deal. With all those features, Toyota Sequoia or Acura MDX (both have the third row) will cost around $40,000. Will they give any discount from MSRP? Probably one thousand dollar. That is it. Have All those minor problems bothered me? Not at all. On the contrary, I am really amazed to find actually the vehicle has so few minor problems considering it has more than thirty thousand parts.
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Replying to: larry503 (Oct 25, 2004 3:59 pm) Could you say more on that Citibank driver edge credit card $1500 and the on star $1000 rebate? How did you look for all these rebates? Thanks in advance. |
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Hi bigcat Citibank driver edge credit card 800 967 8500 gives you back 2% on all your purchase. $500 max a year but max you can claim is $1500 for one vehicle. But it can combine with GM card and you can buy any car of brand and of any model even used. After you buy a car, you just fax Citibank your vehicle invoice in sixty days, you will send a check of whatever you have accumulated up to $1500 per vehicle. Actually I accumulated more than $1500. Onstar rebate is just promotion from GM. You need to watch for it. It is not always on. |
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Was in a Chevy dealer yesterday, priced out a Trailblazer LT, leather ,sunroof, XM radio, etc...The sticker on the car was $35,800 (or so), with the employee discount program etc, the out the door price would be $26,000. Still thinkinng about it.
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Replying to: stag1203 (Jun 09, 2005 7:21 am) |
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Replying to: stag1203 (Jun 09, 2005 7:21 am) i need to know where you're looking. i cant find a darn dealer to help me out at all like that. I need to find an EXT model with all of that. I saw an EXT loaded w/out leather, xm and moonroof and still wanted 27000, but becasue I mentioned financing, he put the rebates back in to make it 30,000.
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Replying to: honestmortgage (Jun 09, 2005 11:17 pm) Trailblazer LT, two tone Green over silver, Lux pkg #2, Sun and fun pkg, off road wheels, running boards, side curtain aribags (basically every option but the DVD and Nav). The bottom line on the sticker on the car was EXACTLY the same as the one I saw the other night. Talked to the sales mgr about why the difference in price and he took me through it step by step, he said that basically, the option pkgs and the discounts make the difference. If I understood correctly, the silve rone I looked at had a discount on the window sticker due to option packages of $2700+; the one I bought had on the window sticker a discount due to option packages of about $1300 or so. He said that basically comes off the employee purchase price and that $1400 difference is the difference in the price. The guy was great about it, even though I broke his shoes by playing stupid and saying "Well I am just a layman and to me if the bottom line on the window stickers is the same, the payment is the same"...he said he couldn't do anything because under the program the price is the price, so he threw in 5 free oil changes. Hey, I took it, something is better then nothing. email me if you want the dealer info I'll be more then happy to let you know. It is a small dealership, but they are really helpful. I wasn;t interested in the EXT, so I don't know what they were pricing out at, but I imagine pretty close. They did have an EXT on their showroom floor, an it was pretty loaded (I think an LS) with an out the door place. of $26,500. I haave to go to the dealer this afternoon for something, I will check it out for you and get the details. |
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