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2003 sales were 49,392 vs. 37,000 in '02.
December sales were way off from last december.
I checked for engine and cabin air filters on the net, but was not able to locate any.
Toyo and Pirelli also make 17" winter tires in the 225/50R17 size, but they may only be H-rated. Many more selections if you go to 16's, but again, lower speed ratings generally.
PS. If you have the polished aluminum rims, make sure they use the "stick on" balancing weights on the inside edge of the rim instead of the clip-on lead weights on the outside of the rim. The road salt accelerates the corrosive effect of the lead against the aluminum and will leave a nasty "scar".
I believe their website is at http://www.rickenbaugh.com
On the way home I stopped into my dealer and mentioned the problem. He said the sending unit failed and they'll replace it next week.
I left and stopped into a grocery store for some milk and when I started the car the fuel guage went right to full. Do I presume that it's O.K. and wait to see if this occurs again?
The other strange thing that happened was while I was driving home I had the console reading on fuel used and I swear that it jumped to another setting without me touching anything.I guess that I should have mentioned this to the dealer but I really forgot about it.
PS thay are supposed to call me as soon as they get a black/black with sunroof CTS-V
Today, while on the south bound I5 freeway at the merge point with the 118 I was nearly hit by a van which was changing lanes without looking. I caught it out of the right side of my eye as it moved toward me. I very quickly jerked the wheel left to avoid it and then immediately back to the right to get back into my lane after it moved back. The car leaned slightly on each swing but immediately recovered with absolutely no fish tailing. This car really runs on rails. It was so well under control that the stability system did not even come into action. (I have the sport lux model with Stabilitrac II.)
I to have made emergency lane changes in my lux sport that I was sure I would have had a fishtail problem
I really appreciate all of your pointers so that if ever get this done I'll be sure to inform the techs!
Mine has come on after stop at gas station for morning coffee on way to work. It will go off on restart if problem is gone and vacuum leak check passes.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
He said that a manual transmission deducts $3,000 off the price on a trade. He didn't tell me what book or site he was using. So if this is true about a CTS then I told him that before anyone would buy a manual CTS he should be told this!
As soon as I heard this I thought about the Lincoln LS that dropped the manual trans and I'm wondering if Cadillac will also in the regular CTS. I also questioned him about who would want a CTS-V? He said that it's different.
Did anyone else hear this?
That means dealers have to do more work to sell manual transmissions than automatic. To make up the profit margin, they lower the trade value.
That does not mean the CTS with a manual has less value than an automatic to every driver. If you wanted to do the work, you could probably find a manual lover willing to pay a fair price for one. But you would not be worrying about the other commission car sales you are losing while you are looking for the manual lover.
The CTS-V is different because the high demand for the vehicle is concentrated among the 20% of drivers who know how to drive a manual. I bet people will leave their names with Caddy dealers hoping to hear about used CTS-Vs. An automatic CTS-V probably will have even have less value to these sort of buyers than one with a manual.
2021 VW Arteon SEL 4-motion, 2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech
The dealer is still ordering manual trans for his stock because he wants some there when the CTS-V arrives.
The reason that I asked was because I was interested in the CTS-V. The sales manager also told me that they would be selling the car at window sticker price with no discounts no matter what. He said that they would be able to do this because of the limited number of CTS-Vs being produced.
I don't know what small booklet he looked in to get the price but I called a friend who works at another dealer and he said that it's really true. He didn't know why the sales manager would use that pricing on me because I had bought it there. He was as surprised as I was.
I thought my SVT Contour depreciated fast. But it's 5 years old now and its still worth 45% of what I paid.
Brian
I am really re-considering buying a CTS-V. For a $50,000 investment (o.k. a car is not an investment)or purchase price I wouldn't expect the CTS-V to hold its value either but I wouldn't hope for that much drop percentage wise. Maybe it will?
I debated it, but can't quite get comfortable with buying my tires online --it's the sort of purchase that I'd like to have a physical place to return to if there is a problem. Of course, another bad snowfall could have me rethinking that.
If I did do it, I'd consider getting 205x65x15 size mounted on basic 15" steel wheels (I assume if you buy a tire-wheel package from tirerack.com that they mount and balance the tires on the wheels) which is a cheaper size (offsetting most of the cost of the steel wheels) and from what I gather better for the snow (taller sidewalls and narrower tire are recommended). This would spare my wheels from getting beat up as much.
That's one reason the percentages look so bad on Caddys and Lincolns versus BMW et al. The published numbers for both are based on MSRP. BMWs sell for maybe $1K off MSRP at the most while Caddy/Lincoln goes for $3K - $10K off MSRP depending on incentives and model year closeouts. That totally skews the published depreciation figures.
If you're looking at a used car, compare it to what you would pay for a new one similarly equipped. That's what determines the used car's price.
Paying sticker for a CTS-V is going to be heavily depreciated in 1 year
After all, the dealer said all manual transmissions are a hard sell and the more limited the market , the harder the sell. Considering the CTS-V is really limited then it would stand to reason that the value should also fall after year one. There will be no incentives or discounts available just like the CTS had none when it came out.
wwhite2 ---- I would be curious to see what your car would be worth on a trade.
GM will never make enough CTS-Vs to meet demand. A well tended used CTS-V will be sold before the original owner even trades it in.
wwhite2 - I agree with you and I was estimating the $5K off sticker. The ones who really get killed by depreciation are the ones who pay close to sticker and then the car gets heavy discounts in later years. The value of a 3 yr old CTS will be based heavily on what a brand new one is selling for at the time. That's what I would look at if I was dealing on a used car.