Good morning gents and gals! I'm currently in the process of purchasing a 2006 H2 and have been lurking around these boards for the past few days gaining knowledge on these vehicles so I have a little ammo when negotiating happens.

I am a moderator on another major forum for a previous vehicle I owned as well as a member of several other forums for our current vehicles.

I just wanted to check in, I have some questions but those will be asked in the appropriate places.

Glad to be here and look forward to chatting with all of you!

-Blaine

 

Welcome Blaine. We will be happy to help. Surprise is full of old folks, you sound too young for Surprise. LOL We will be happy to help and put you in touch with some local Hummer owners.

 

Good luck on your purchase and welcome.

 

lol, thanks guys. Surprise is more middle aged, younger crowd but we are right next door to Sun City and Sun City Grand which has the highest population of elderly people anywhere in the world.

Thanks again for the welcoming, I just finished reading all the pages/threads in the H2 tech section. I'm half tempted to just go pick the darned thing up!

 

Hello Blaine and welcome to the site. Enjoy you future purchase if you didn't buy it yet!

 

^not yet, possibly tonight if all goes according to plan

I just want to give you guys some background info on the purchase-I don't think it warrants a new thread elsewhere (hopefully!)

The H2 is a 2006 with just under 32k on the odo, interior and exterior is immaculate. It drives great, some slight noise from the driver side door panel but nothing major. One button on the radio scratched off but I have already found button kits to replace it and the info on here on how to do it.

My trade will be a 2006 Pontiac GTO 6.0 liter with 75k on the odo. Bluebook is $14.5 and so far they are offering $15 on the trade.

Sale price on the H2 is $30,999

So far we are at a payment of $589/month, $1,500 down, 6.75% interest. Apparently from what they're telling me even with my A credit rating the banks won't offer any lower of an interest rate because both my car and the hummer are due to be 6 years old in a few months.

I think I hit the basics, any thoughts or recommendations on where to go from here regarding the negotiations.

Oh also the spare tire is shot, gouges in the sidewall and its completely flat so the tire is absolutely no good......

 

A credit union will beat that credit rate by a wide margin.

 

Welcome from MI!

X2 on the credit union! Ours has better rates for older vehicles than the bank.

 

Thanks for the replies everyone, much more welcoming here then the GTO forums!

Well the purchase was finalized earlier. I'll post more into after I get some sleep but after they saw my credit the interest rate dropped by a large margin and so did the payment. Needless to say I am very happy with the purchase and the financing!

Pics and more to come tomorrow!

 

Well the deal was finalized late last night, interest and payment came way down after they say my credit so I am very happy with the purchase!



Few things they are replacing:
-rear spare was bad
-front driver side top marker lens, tab broken
-new owners manual
-second key and fob

That was all I could squeeze out of them. They had already given me $500 above KBB for my trade so I couldn't complain.

Also the way the loan worked out the tire warranty was only $1 more a month so I said why not.