Help with Pricing 2005 Denali XL

[Herms21]

Hello all, new to the forum and looking for some advice on what I'm hoping to be my next suburban based purchase. Have found a 2005 Yukon Denali XL with 129k for miles with a asking price of 10500. I know the current market of any used vehicle is hard to come up with a price. I am prepared to pay this for it as long as it checks out just curious what others think. I have not looked at it in person as the seller is currently away and holding it for me. will add a couple pictures of it as well as one of my current suburban that i daily which is a 99 that is about to roll over to 200k.

 

[OR VietVet]

Welcome to the forum.

I have an 05 Z71 that I balked at paying $8k for about 1.5 years ago. I am glad that members here talked me in to buying it. It had I believe around 133k miles on it. I have a build thread that talks about my journey with my rig. The low mileage on yours is appealing and with today's used vehicle market and it being a Suburban style replacement, that price does sound pretty good. Are you having any problems with the current one? Do you get repair/maintenance history records with the new? Any wiggle room on the $10,500 price? Same engine or getting the ever popular 6.0? Will you be checking the rig yourself when you see it or taking to a trusted shop for inspection?

 

[Herms21]

Welcome to the forum.

I have an 05 Z71 that I balked at paying $8k for about 1.5 years ago. I am glad that members here talked me in to buying it. It had I believe around 133k miles on it. I have a build thread that talks about my journey with my rig. The low mileage on yours is appealing and with today's used vehicle market and it being a Suburban style replacement, that price does sound pretty good. Are you having any problems with the current one? Do you get repair/maintenance history records with the new? Any wiggle room on the $10,500 price? Same engine or getting the ever popular 6.0? Will you be checking the rig yourself when you see it or taking to a trusted shop for inspection?

Thanks for the welcome. I will have to check out your thread, thanks for pointing that out.

no problems with my current, just quite enjoy the suburban/tahoe platform and came across this one and started tossing the idea around enough to the point of wanting to purchase it. There should be good records of the vehicle as the seller is a salesman at a GM dealer and claims to have sold it to the original owner who is a doctor new and her purchased it from him a few years back. He sounds pretty firm on the price but negotiating is much easier to do in person rather than through a text or phone(seems to be a lost practice these days to actually go and look and then do some negotiating)this of course has the 6.0. i am pretty familiar with the LS family of small block engines as i also currently have an 04 LS1 GTO M6 and dabble around in them often enough. So I will be looking it over myself and rust is one of the main concerns which I know it has some obvisouly. Its a canadian rig so i imagine the frame will at least have surface rust. Otherwise it looks to be pretty clean overall for the age. He sent me a video of it running and a good walk around and im basically ready at his notice to go pick it up.

 

[OR VietVet]

Always get ANY records you can. I would bet he would take $10k cash. The rust would be a problem with me depending on where it is located. I am a spoiled PNW owner and have no rust here.

 

[mountie]

I think the price is reasonable..... IF you get it raised on a lift and have a mechanic look it over and under!!
Check all the comfort accessories / switches.....

 

[Herms21]

I think the price is reasonable..... IF you get it raised on a lift and have a mechanic look it over and under!!
Check all the comfort accessories / switches.....

Unfortunately I won't have the luxury of putting it on a lift but will be looking under it myself. I do need to be thorough and check everything like you mention. Sometimes easy to overlook all of that.

 

[mountie]

Unfortunately I won't have the luxury of putting it on a lift but will be looking under it myself. I do need to be thorough and check everything like you mention. Sometimes easy to overlook all of that.

4 years ago, buying my '05 Yukon, with 140,000 on the clock..... I brought the vin number to the local dealer. I was happy to see a 4-page list of service / warranty fixes..... I found out the owner had the oil changed every 4,500 miles!

 

[Herms21]

4 years ago, buying my '05 Yukon, with 140,000 on the clock..... I brought the vin number to the local dealer. I was happy to see a 4-page list of service / warranty fixes..... I found out the owner had the oil changed every 4,500 miles!

sorry for the late reply. I haven't asked yet for this but will, we have a phone call setup for sunday night. From what i've gathered there should be a laundry list for this vehicle as well being serviced at the dealer the seller works at. Fingers crossed.

 

[mountie]

sorry for the late reply. I haven't asked yet for this but will, we have a phone call setup for sunday night. From what i've gathered there should be a laundry list for this vehicle as well being serviced at the dealer the seller works at. Fingers crossed.

Funny thing...... My 'new' '05 Yukon XL SLT was ..."perfect"....... I was waiting for something to go wrong for the 1st 6 months..... ( There is usually some surprise after buying a used vehicle ? )..

So far, with 165,000 on it, the only 'repair' was the driver's side passenger window motor. But I went to the autoparts and bought a complete power window assembly, took 1 hour and $80 bucks it replace.
That has been it..... I did flush my power brakes & transmission fluids, just so I know the 'history' of the fluids. I am about to flush my cooling system & use distilled water....

I think you should be fine with the purchase, since these things last forever, as you should know, having a Surburban.
( Barring a 'surprise' during inspection)

 

[BatsTDK]

Any updates on this? Did you strike a deal? That looks like an amazingly clean rig. And I guess you could say I’m partial to that color

 

[Herms21]

Any updates on this? Did you strike a deal? That looks like an amazingly clean rig. And I guess you could say I’m partial to that color

I actually backed out on this. Too much time had passed between being able to get together and purchase it and was still shopping in the meantime and have came across others that are either newer or less miles or both for the price that was being asked. Although it is a nice vehicle i felt the price was a bit too high and we couldn't come to an agreement.

 

[BatsTDK]

That’s fair. Mine had 145k when I bought it. Needs a bit of paint help, but was way cleaner than anything else I’d found in awhile.

 

[Vamoosa]

I actually backed out on this. Too much time had passed between being able to get together and purchase it and was still shopping in the meantime and have came across others that are either newer or less miles or both for the price that was being asked. Although it is a nice vehicle i felt the price was a bit too high and we couldn't come to an agreement.

When I was looking for an SUV I noticed some of the 07-12 were little cheaper compared to the 99-06.That kind of scared me so I stuck with the 99-06 platform.I agree about the price but it is hard to find one that clean and low mileage.

 

[BatsTDK]

When I was looking for an SUV I noticed some of the 07-12 were little cheaper compared to the 99-06.That kind of scared me so I stuck with the 99-06 platform.I agree about the price but it is hard to find one that clean and low mileage.

Interesting. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a Tahoe LTZ in that year range and everything I’ve seen has been at least $10k+

 

[Vamoosa]

Interesting. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a Tahoe LTZ in that year range and everything I’ve seen has been at least $10k+

When I was searching for an SUV I really wasn't looking for just a Tahoe LTZ.Plus prices vary from state to state.

 

[MassHoe04]

Low mileage is nice, but is sometimes overrated.

We were buying a Nissan Altima from friends. Belonged to the friend's mother. Was an 01 with only 26k miles! No rust on the body and sounded great. Then, we got it on the lift...
The front main crossover beam, which supports the engine and front end was rusted right through! the rusted crossmember could technically been replaced, but it was going to cost a lot more than the car would be worth after the repair. Good thing it was friends as the seller, they took it back and donated to a charity for scrap.

I have had two vehicles (including the 04 Tahoe I daily drive now), that had 180k+ miles on them when I bought them. I have not regretted either purchase!

High mileage can sometimes mean more things to fix, but not always. Both high-mileage vehicles I bought had some key work already done on them, because they were actually driven. A lot!!! My mechanic buddy was actually impressed with both the 05 TJ Rubicon and the 04 Z71 Tahoe I came to have him inspect for me.