What is the best website to know your trucks worth?

Wife works in auto tech. KBB is by far most used for loans and trade ins.
If your truck is old or in unique condition, you just have to research and hustle.

You can get a car max online offer too. I’ve done it several times and no one contacted me.

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Dealers usually use MMR, it’s normally pretty close to what KBB trade in is but sometimes it can be different. If you put your information in on the KBB website you won’t get contacted about it. You can also do the same thing on the Carvana website.

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I spent 35 years consulting to dealership service departments but I've been around dealer sales too a lot. Lifelong in the dealership environments,

There have always been different books used for trading and for selling. And at times different versions of the same "books". One for the customers to see and one for the dealers to use.

I am not sayng one book is more accurate than the others. I actually think long term NADA's Guide is probably as actual values for retail, trade and loan. But be dealeres will aslo use these numbers differently than customers do.

I think there are a lot of hinest dealers and a lot that are not very.

But their job is to get your trade as cheap as possible, Used vehicles and service pays the bills in dealerships.

Focus on the difference is as good a strategy as any. Don't play poker against the house.

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But their job is to get your trade as cheap as possible, Used vehicles and service pays the bills in dealerships.

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This is definitely true. I just bought a Sierra in January of this year and the dealer used MMR for my trade in. And that value was actually $3,000 more than KBB said it was worth. If I didnt do my research on multiple websites and I wasn’t a smart shopper they could have taken me for and extra $3k.

My last truck was a 2021 Ram (got it in February of 21) and they also used MMR for the value of my trade as well. It was also a different value than kbb said back then, don’t remember how much it was off though.

I’d just check with as many sources as you can and when they say “what do you want for your trade” definitely don’t answer that question.

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when they say “what do you want for your trade” definitely don’t answer that question.

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So what do you say?

I wish kbb had an option that said, “smoked in. Hasn’t been vacuumed out in 6 years”

I let them make the offer to me. I don’t tell them what I want in case it’s less than what they would offer. The MMR value is based off of auctions so they can change often.