 Re: Getting the best out your truck settup
I'm a lot like treevet when it comes to purchasing equipment. When I need something, say for instance a truck, I try to locate one that will perform the task, at a price that the truck will be working for me, not me working for the truck.
As I am also a farmer (Original multi-tasker) we have always had 1/2 tons. These little gems have always been work horses during the week and cruising machines on the weekend.
In my part of the world there is also another problem. We call it the "keep up with the Jones' " syndrome. Last June I was looking for a replacment for the tired '93 Chev 1 ton diesel 4X4 (chip truck). It didn't take long to realize that a new one was out of the question, $75,000.00 for a New Dodge extended cab 1 ton was clearly going to have me working for the truck for a LONG time. I asked the sales guy where he figured a truck is worth that kind of money. His reply still puzzles me to this day, he said "well people in the cities buy them to haul their boat or 5th wheel to the lake a few times a year". So in my province the truck is what a car was 30 years ago. I also agree with treevet that the stuff they put out these days could't hold a candle to trucks built in the '60s.
When it is all said and done, I have spend hundreds of hours getting greasy, puzzled at how the thing was put together at the plant, and welding up nessasary sub frames, cause the engineers never contemplated that "I NEED A WORK TRUCK". Oh ya I almost forgot the wiring. I need more than a plastic cover on the tail-light wires. We have gravel and sub zero temperatures 1/2 the year. Tail-lights, who needs stinkin' tail-lights. I think I have used up that excuse, anyone have a better one? |