Why you should keep your 10th gen.
05-02-2016, 11:09 PM
#11
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I agree. I love my 2000 too. I bought it in Aug 2000. In 2004, I decided I wanted the new body style, but I kept the 2000 and my wife drove it for years. I never really liked the 2004 like you don't care for the 2012. After I put nearly 200,000 miles on the 2004, I sold it a few years ago so I could get back in my 2000. We bought my wife a jeep and I have a daily driver jeep to keep the miles down on my truck. My 2000 is perfect. We took it on a 1200 mile round trip to NC a couple weeks ago and did perfect. Love it
05-02-2016, 11:28 PM
#12
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Every time I think about buying a new truck, I stop and think, "what would the new truck do that my current one does not"?
Every time I ask it, I get the same answer. Nothing.
Sure I have to fix stuff every once in a while, but having to spend a hundred bucks or so every few months sure beats a $35,000+ hole in my bank account.
My truck is beat up, and I don't really care if it gets scratched or whatever. I can fix most everything on it. Vehicles are becoming to fancy for me. All the fancy electronics are just things to go wrong and something I could not fix myself for the most part. Plus I hate the look of new truck (all manufacturers), and the beds are too tall to be useful, even on 2wd trucks.
I can understand if you had a regular cab or extended cab and needed to get a crew cab for more room, but even then, I would have a hard time buying new.
Every time I ask it, I get the same answer. Nothing.
Sure I have to fix stuff every once in a while, but having to spend a hundred bucks or so every few months sure beats a $35,000+ hole in my bank account.
My truck is beat up, and I don't really care if it gets scratched or whatever. I can fix most everything on it. Vehicles are becoming to fancy for me. All the fancy electronics are just things to go wrong and something I could not fix myself for the most part. Plus I hate the look of new truck (all manufacturers), and the beds are too tall to be useful, even on 2wd trucks.
I can understand if you had a regular cab or extended cab and needed to get a crew cab for more room, but even then, I would have a hard time buying new.
05-02-2016, 11:51 PM
#13
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I'd agree as well. As a valet in my spare time, I get to drive all the new trucks and everything in between and even just the short amount of time that I'm in them, they still just don't feel the same. Obviously so but its not just me that feels this way it seems.
My grandfather has a 2012 ecoboost supercrew 2wd and it's not a bad truck by any means. It's got plenty of power for what we do and is reliable and quite a bit more with the times than my truck but something about the bulkiness of the interior and how smoothly it drives just makes me appreciate my truck more.
My grandfather has a 2012 ecoboost supercrew 2wd and it's not a bad truck by any means. It's got plenty of power for what we do and is reliable and quite a bit more with the times than my truck but something about the bulkiness of the interior and how smoothly it drives just makes me appreciate my truck more.
05-03-2016, 12:17 AM
#14
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lol I read your ram straight line thread and I couldn't help but laughing, I saw your points you were trying to make and they were just being ignorant.
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05-03-2016, 12:19 AM
#15
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I'm sure a few of you have seen my posts on buying a new to me truck. I've wanted a newer truck for a couple years and I've been saving, waiting for the right deal. Well I finally made it happen and bought a 2012 FX4 with the 5.0 and 3.73s. What made me actually pull the trigger was cab space, I have a 1 year old and needed a crew cab, my 10th gen is a supercab. Here are pics of both trucks for reference. With that said, I thought once I got a new truck I would forget all about my old one. The first 2 weeks I had it we went on a trip to Phoenix for work. About a week in I started missing the old one. By the time I got back, it wasn't one day before I found an excuse to take her offroad. And that's exactly what we did. Jemez mountains in NM. I've had it for about 2 months now and I am so happy I decided to keep my old truck. The new one flat out hauls ***, and that's fun. But other than that my old one will do everything it will just as good if not better (minus fitting a car seat). I get an overall different feeling when driving the old vs the new, and if I wasn't desperate for cab space I would be regretting my decision gaining a 400+ a month vehicle payment. My point is this, if you're 10th gen is in good shape and you are thinking of buying a new, whatever it is, think long and hard. The one you have now might just be the best vehicle you'll ever own. I'm proud to say that about mine.
05-03-2016, 06:35 AM
#16
I raised 2 boys in a 2002 scab, yea I always wished I had a screw but they were fine back there.
when I finally traded that 02 in and got crew cab *&^%$, what a mistake, I still miss that 02.
when I finally traded that 02 in and got crew cab *&^%$, what a mistake, I still miss that 02.
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05-03-2016, 08:41 AM
#18
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Second, and this is what pushed me over the edge. My daughter is almost 1 now and she's in the 95th percentile for height (she's tall). Tall enough that she was kicking our elbows while driving. A couple days after that happened I went truck shopping.
05-03-2016, 12:19 PM
#19
I figure the longer I have a cheap paid off truck the higher its value of use rises for me. It's still getting the job done and even if I put tons of money into it, that cost is still less than I'd pay for a new truck. Especially if I financed it.
I'm from an old twisted school of thought; the wife gets the new cars and the husband has the Truck or Jeep along with a project car.
A lot of people put status into what they drive and how new or fancy it is. Once you get older (Usually) people realize that newer isn't always better. If for some reason I had to host other executives or financiers and I needed something more professional I'd get something that was better suited for my role. As it stands now I work with scientists, some of which are millionaires and they drive cars like 85 Toyota's and worn out '80 Mercedes. I'm probably the biggest "show off" with the most bling vehicle and I'm the only one without a Doctorate. lol
I'm from an old twisted school of thought; the wife gets the new cars and the husband has the Truck or Jeep along with a project car.
A lot of people put status into what they drive and how new or fancy it is. Once you get older (Usually) people realize that newer isn't always better. If for some reason I had to host other executives or financiers and I needed something more professional I'd get something that was better suited for my role. As it stands now I work with scientists, some of which are millionaires and they drive cars like 85 Toyota's and worn out '80 Mercedes. I'm probably the biggest "show off" with the most bling vehicle and I'm the only one without a Doctorate. lol
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05-03-2016, 02:11 PM
#20
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My big hang up with getting a new truck is that it's 30k (25 if I can sell my truck for 5), but if I turn around and put that in my truck, it's a new truck again without all the techy stuff I don't want lol. That and insurance is a little of double on a new truck vs what I'm paying now, but as I just found out, my truck isn't the most comfortable road trip truck.