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This particular question is why I ended up on this forum. After 20 years of military service, multiple duty stations, several deployments, still married to my original wife, three kids (two of which are driving now with one in college), the whole time having to rely on Hondas and Toyotas as primary family movers and a 2002 Sport Trac as my go to work vehicle, I finally ended up with my dream truck. I absolutely love working on vehicles. With that being said, life is hectic and busy. Most times I don't have time to work on vehicles so I end up contributing to the service departments at dealerships. That and it helps to provide maintenance history from dealerships should I end up selling or trading in a vehicle. The Sport Trac's 4.0L had 133,000 on the clock and was going to need the entire timing set with guides, water pump, etc. done and I simply did not have the time to do it myself. Rather than throwing $2500- $3500 at it and with a little convincing from my family I decided to trade it in and get what I always wanted. In the two years I have owned it I have not had any issues our of it. Until now. Right now I am waiting on the fuel filler door housing pocket with the metal pin upgrade. The last thing I am gonna do is get a grill guard for it and I'm done with mods. Pic for attention.
This particular question is why I ended up on this forum. After 20 years of military service, multiple duty stations, several deployments, still married to my original wife, three kids (two of which are driving now with one in college), the whole time having to rely on Hondas and Toyotas as primary family movers and a 2002 Sport Trac as my go to work vehicle, I finally ended up with my dream truck. I absolutely love working on vehicles. With that being said, life is hectic and busy. Most times I don't have time to work on vehicles so I end up contributing to the service departments at dealerships. That and it helps to provide maintenance history from dealerships should I end up selling or trading in a vehicle. The Sport Trac's 4.0L had 133,000 on the clock and was going to need the entire timing set with guides, water pump, etc. done and I simply did not have the time to do it myself. Rather than throwing $2500- $3500 at it and with a little convincing from my family I decided to trade it in and get what I always wanted. In the two years I have owned it I have not had any issues our of it. Until now. Right now I am waiting on the fuel filler door housing pocket with the metal pin upgrade. The last thing I am gonna do is get a grill guard for it and I'm done with mods.
Thank you for your service and that is one great looking truck.
when my lease is up, trucks go back to ford. i started leasing back in 2014 and it works best for me
i had an 03 ranger that i bought my sr year of high school in 09 had 30k miles then
traded in on my 07 F150 in 2012 that only had 23k miles on it at the time
Just curious to know when one may decides to stop adding parts and time to their truck ?
New trucks are so expensive, but maintaining a truck getting old can be also very expensive, so ? when are you pulling the trigger for trading your vehicule ?
The self-imposed vehicular ownership rule I operate by is that my wife and I must always have reliable transportation to work. We have owned two old vehicles for daily drivers, and it was a delicate balance although we enjoyed our old beater trucks. We found an opportunity to add a cheap much newer car to the fleet to use for road trips and when our old junkers need repairs. We have operated this way for the last 6 years. Recently, we reached the tipping point when enough was enough when my wife’s 1994 GMC Sierra 5.7L 2WD needed attention several times per month to keep it on the road. Parts are cheap and it’s easy to fix, but I want to repair it on my time table and not all the time. We purchased our first F-150 from the salvage auction December 2019, rebuilt it, and have enjoyed driving it for the past month. The old GMC is now being phased out into our farm truck. It was a great truck, but it has served its purpose as a daily driver. 1 family truck purchased new by my father-in-law in late 1993. Original engine, rebuilt the original transmission myself at 357k. My Ranger is next to be retired. 9th owner, purchased 14 years ago with 106K at that time, now 298K and need to do some significant repairs.
The self-imposed vehicular ownership rule I operate by is that my wife and I must always have reliable transportation to work. We have owned two old vehicles for daily drivers, and it was a delicate balance although we enjoyed our old beater trucks. We found an opportunity to add a cheap much newer car to the fleet to use for road trips and when our old junkers need repairs. We have operated this way for the last 6 years. Recently, we reached the tipping point when enough was enough when my wife’s 1994 GMC Sierra 5.7L 2WD needed attention several times per month to keep it on the road. Parts are cheap and it’s easy to fix, but I want to repair it on my time table and not all the time. We purchased our first F-150 from the salvage auction December 2019, rebuilt it, and have enjoyed driving it for the past month. The old GMC is now being phased out into our farm truck. It was a great truck, but it has served its purpose as a daily driver. 1 family truck purchased new by my father-in-law in late 1993. Original engine, rebuilt the original transmission myself at 357k. My Ranger is next to be retired. 9th owner, purchased 14 years ago with 106K at that time, now 298K and need to do some significant repairs.
I can answer this.
