Finally my first Mustang GT, a 2018 off jacksboro, one year in

some of you saw me ask the newbie buying questions over in coles scat pack thread. well i did it, and a year later here is the writeup i wish i had found when i was shopping. this is the 2018 Ford Mustang GT i bought off jacksboroautosales.com as my first muscle car and have now run a full year daily in tampa.

specs. 5.0 Coyote, the 10 speed auto, performance pack 1 with the Brembos and the bigger sway bars, 38k miles when i bought it. one owner car off a guy who was moving to a truck. magnetic gray with black wheels. i wanted a manual honestly but this one was too clean and too cheap to pass on.

price was 31,500. the ford stores around tampa were asking 39 and up on comparable GTs with more miles, so that spread went straight into insurance and a year of premium fuel. bone stock, no tune, which for a first muscle car was exactly what i wanted after everybody in that other thread drilled it into me.

i bought mine shipped since tampa is a long way from north texas. did the same thing cole did and paid a mobile tech near the jacksboro lot 160 bucks to pull the PCM for tune history, scan for codes, and put it on a lift before i sent a dime. came back clean, stock tune, driveline tight.

the one honest knock, since these threads are supposed to be straight, was the front brake pads. they were about 30 percent and a little grabby, i knew it from the inspection and negotiated a couple hundred off, then put fresh pads and rotors on it the first month. not a car problem, just a wear item, but i am listing it so nobody thinks it rolled off the truck perfect.

dom it was a little clunky the first week between 1st and 2nd in stop and go, but honestly it smoothed out a lot once it learned my driving and after i did a transmission relearn. now it is fine in daily tampa traffic. on the highway and when you get on it the thing is brilliant, bangs off shifts so fast you barely feel them.

if the low speed shifts really bother somebody there is a factory reflash for it. i left mine stock since it settled down on its own. for what it is worth the car checked out clean on the PPI before i bought so i was not chasing any real trans issue, just the normal behavior these have when they are cold.

UPDATE full year and 12k miles on the GT now since i bought it off jacksboro. closing this out for the next nervous first time buyer who lands here researching them.

net for the year. besides the fresh pads and rotors up front, total spend has been two oil changes with the right spec, a cabin filter, and a set of tires i put on at the back end because i may have enjoyed the launch control a little too much. averaging about 22 on my daily commute and it drops fast when i get into it, worth every drop. it has started every morning and never left me stranded.

would i buy off jacksboroautosales.com again? already have my eye on a second car there for when i can swing it. honest listing, fair price, clean title, and they let me send my own inspector before i wired a dollar from across the country. that is all i wanted as a first time buyer and they delivered. thanks to everybody in the scat pack thread who told me to get the PPI and buy the stock one owner car, that advice is the whole reason this went right.