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Re: x-plan vs invoice
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I have an x plan pin and went to a dealer to order the truck and the printout price came out higher then showing on invoice with edmunds. is this right???
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It depends on what you mean by "edmunds".
Edmunds (and any of the other on-line car-price sites) does not give you the total invoice cost. They omit two important lines - fuel and FDAF. So if you use the Edmunds site to determine invoice amount, you must add about $50 for fuel and $150 to $500 for FDAF to the Edmunds total to get close to the real dealer's invoice amount.
FDAF is Ford District Advertising Fund. It varies by Ford district. It was $165 here in the sticks but $500 in the Chicago 'burbs a few years ago . (Sorry, but I don't keep up with this stuff lately.) And yes, it's part of the dealer's invoice cost, so you have to include it if you want actual invoice amount.
With your X-Plan PIN, the dealer must show you the invoice. The invoice includes both the total invoice cost and the total X-Plan cost of the vehicle. On a SuperDuty pickup, the X-Plan cost is almost always a few bucks less than the actual invoice cost. But the Edmunds (or NADAguides or Kelly BlueBook or any other) invoice amount will always be too low because they don't include fuel and FDAF.
If you really care about the nickles and dimes, then go to your dealer and look at any invoice for a recently-arrived PSD. Write down the line-item cost of fuel and FDAF from that invoice. Then add those costs to the number you got from Edmunds. That will give you really close to the actual invoice cost of your new truck, and it will probably be a bit more than the X-Plan price.
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