i was a road warrior with no other needs but to save money while sitting in a car I didnt mind driving, if you need the ability to haul that adds another parameter to the equation which we didnt have...

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I bought 2 diesel VW golfs and drove them for work did the depreciation/ write down kept careful track of all costs to claim on my taxes It was not hard to compare to a small car...

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yeah this ^^ I'm coming up on 5 yrs so even tho its a taco its new truck time

Eddy Vedder wrote " I wish i was the full moon shining off your camaro's hood " which probably won't happen with any of the new color paletes for vehicals which all look like leftover house paint...

Junior was going thru oil on his 2018 3.5 eco-boost so a buddy ( might have been a ford mechanic) told him to go to A certain Ford dealer and request A certain tech

they put dye in the oil and...

wow^^ a delivery guy backed into Junior's 2018 so he has an insurance claim for the tail light but I shot him the link about the water ingress

Junior ditched the Chipped Cumins crewcab/ 8ft box which would shudder from stop sign to stop sign and tow stuff like it wasn't there for the 3.5eco boost a real nice truck but its just off warranty...

yeah RAM does not have a midized Tacoma/ Colorado/ Ranger class of truck so who knows how much that costs them ?

Ford thot they could just stop making the ranger which was a good truck ( but dated...

also the chicken tax

IMO if you are such a dumbass you can't get your wheels under the fenders with all the options available now days you deserve any kind of Fine the po-lice thro at you

Aren't they quite a bit smaller than an f-150 so depending on where you roll wouldn't a maverick make a lot of sense

I personaly think those sled raps look really bad and I didn't think it would be 1 K

also i don't have any tats or drink canned vodka drinks

bar tender at the craft brew has the same truck as me so she asks " what do you think of getting a lift and some big wheels ? "
well do you need a lift and what else could you do with the 5k ?
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the half ton is for going to costco where north america fills the bed with stuff they don't need, then its used to take that stuff to the dump in a never ending cycle,

the local joke was they...

If I go to the mall with the safeway/ liqor store/ bank the most popular new car is a crew cab 4x4 short box with a tunnel cover

I was an old fuck even when i was young

I'm one of them retired old fucks with a hat so I just tell buddy to write the number on the back of his bidness card so i can get the right amount on a bank draft

I alwasy figured they don't have a house paymemt and its only for 5 yrs

them kids they all want the 3500 8ft box chipped cumins especaily with a 6 spd manual my son had to have one, fast forward and he is a grown up my daughter in-law can't drive it, it shudders from...

junior down graded from the chipped/ 6 spd manual/ cumins/ crew cab/ 8 ft box which used to shudder from stop sign to stop sign it was a full on beast, I drove it towing a trailer and you couldn't...

last spring I did a hot shot for a buddy he hands me a gas card and the keys to a brand new duramax with power everything fully loaded up with 2800lbs of drill gear, it had loads of power and what a...

I would be more concerned with the eco boost self grenading, I think the 3.5 eco boost was bad enough but the 2.4 is just asking too much from too little displacement

on the small truck diesel...

if its rough go for the 4x8 sheets of plywood in the bed to smooth things out, and even protect the bed

bob the ski hill owner/ contracter always used a plywood for the bed liner

so if you...

how does it ride, OK I'm assuming if its only 1/2 ton ?

I took a load of drill gear to ft Mac in a 3500 Duramax and it was great, they unloaded the 2800lbs of gear and it rode like truck

up here yer bearded/ convoy loving/ anti covid conservative pipeliner with the "fuck Trudeau" sticker has it on the back window of a black dodge PU

junior bought a 2 yr old f-150 still on warranty, it had an issue with the 3.5 ecoboost having a pourous block which they found by putting dye in the oil, Ford gave him a new Block

the guy I was doing expediting of food into morrison and the fire camps told me they spent an average of 5000$ a year keeping the trucks going on the forestry roads into the bush,

I had just told...

My buddy was a car guy built hot rods messed with old cars, lived close to the border, he said you get a car on the Canadian side and its rusted but the same car 5kms away on the other side in...

It was a 1990 4-runer ( 1st yr of the 4 dr) but IME driving it hard/ putting it away wet everything broke or wore just like any other vehical,

at some point I was spending so much money on gas &...

The place where i fix dry suits is right next to the dodge/jeep dealer, buddy tells me a new jeep spontaneously combusted

did Toyota pay for it ? I think in general they know what they are doing keep in mind the Tacoma frame replacements I thot who replaces a fucking frame but they did it, I seen Tacoma frames stacked...

you could tow that boat and trailer at the same time if you moved to Alberta

AKA Mordor

My buddy ( a mechanic) has the 2.7 and he sez its got rokin power & great milage, but i gotta wonder at what point they are asking too much of a small engine ??

I also been reading that the 2.7...

yeah who knew ?

I had been driving this amazing shiny new vehical for 16 hrs and i was totally enamored,

then they unload the drill hose/ drill pipe/ the gen set and it was a truck

just finished a hot shot to ft mac,
buddy gave me some credit cards and his 2022 chev 3500 duramax

it was fully loaded with 2700lbs of drilling equipment, it went up/ down hills like nothing,...

The guy down stairs works at the dodge dealer he sez " the tailgates have been falling off on the highway" so those sound easyier to get those off, kid is from a family of forever american truck...

My buddy has a Tundra with the rusty frame, he qualifyed for the new frame unfortuantley he didn't hear about it in time so when he tried for a new frame Toyota said sorry that deal is finished

sound like glowplugs ?

Try a heat gun if you can get near a pug in, I got stuck with summer fuel in my TDi and I got it running by pointing a heat gun into the air intake, drove it straight to...

I don' use CC on snow or ice but it might keep you from getting a speeding ticket

nowdays a Canadian is just an unarmed American with free health care

Pointing out the range of what the extra's do to the price of a new truck IME, but yeah those figures were of course in canuck dollars, the heated seats and and already mounted block heater I...

yeah don't the instalers need to glue windshields into the vehical and have it sit in a shop while the glue drys ??

I bought baseline trucks

In 2010 Ford had speced a bunch of Rangers at $6600 off cuz they were pulling the plug on the production line so with rubber floor mats, manual windows shitty radio but...

I'm from Vangroovy actualy and I can change a flat tire

yeah BC is not really in the territories

ft st john is driven by oil

them metro sexuals think anything past Kamloops is Narth but hy 16 is the dividing line becuz there is nothing else to divide the province in half,

I supose living on the south side of Hy16 I...

the only skis that didnt fit in my ranger with the canopy closed were the 225 RC4's

Right he told me about these trucks, his buddy Mike has one of those that he was moding to race at the drags I belive his motto is that if it isnt blowing up ... yer not trying hard enough

I hope you got it chipped ?

8 ft bed, crew cab, 6spd, 4x4, chipped Junior had one of them, it towed trailers almost like they weren't there

It was a beast that shuddered from stop sign to...

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