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Kooky_Lukey

Kooky_Lukey

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I need a truck. My A4 just is not cutting it anymore. If you truck guys or girls could tell me what truck has been the most reliable and just all around great truck that would be greatly appreciated. I am not going to be hauling a bunch of shit or anything like that so no i do not need a Ford F350 V10. Im looking at a some silverados right now and if anyone mentions a WRX i will stab you in the jaw with a fork.
 
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I own a silverado 1500. It is over 10 years old and has over 200,000 miles on it. I have never had any repairs besides brakes and oil. It has been a great truck. My friend has an f 150 and the same situation as me. Both are great trucks
 
Probably a pickup right, OP? Unless you are hauling substantial items on a somewhat regular basis. Even if you're only hauling snowmobiles, sm fishing boats, river/float boats -- all of those are easily handled by pickups.

The obvious solution would be a Toyota. I had amazing luck with mine and it served me incredibly well for bad weather, off-road, and long drives. I eventually sold it to get something more economical (Subaru wagon) for traveling back and forth to university. I miss the hell out of that truck and wish I never did it though sometimes! But, I do still see it driving around from time to time, that's nearly 20 years that thing has been on the road.

If you don't want to be on the Toyota bandwagon I would suggest an S-10 (particularly the ZR-2 editions) or Ford Rangers. You'll get the best mpg with a Toyota (but not by a longshot).

With older models you may be inheriting frame or body rot, but it really will depend on how much money you want to spend.
 
iv had a couple deisel trucks (duramax and a cummins) id deffinetly recomend a dodge cummins 24 valve. i can get 20 mpg with a 4 inch lift pushin 35s. and if you get a manuel and leave it stock height and strait pipe it with a cold air intake you can get even better fuel mialage. oh and you could pull a house off its foundation if you reallly wanted to. there tourqe monsters
 
iv had a couple deisel trucks (duramax and a cummins) id deffinetly recomend a dodge cummins 24 valve. i can get 20 mpg with a 4 inch lift pushin 35s. and if you get a manuel and leave it stock height and strait pipe it with a cold air intake you can get even better fuel mialage. oh and you could pull a house off its foundation if you reallly wanted to. there tourqe monsters
 
This. Or Nissan Frontier.

Ford Rangers are built to broke, and Tacoma's and Frontier's get pretty good gas mileage.

Don't lift them if you WANT to look like you have a small dick however
 
Nissan Frontiers are great but be careful because I believe the 04 to 07 models had transmission issues. My friend had an old one and it was bullet prof. he beat the hell out it and it's still running today as a camp truck through the woods.

If you have the means, obviously tacoms are great trucks. they last forever. the downside is the price.

I had a dodge dakota for about 3 years and it was awesome. Never had any trouble with it. Plus you can chose between reg cab, extended cab, and crew cab and 4 banger, v6 or v8. Most options to get just want you want/need where with s10s or rangers you're a bit more limited

as for full size trucks I'm a dodge guy and I love rams. but the newer ones are only reg cab or crew cab, and the crew cabs are pretty big compared to an extended cab siverado or f150.

Regardless, check everything to make sure it hasn't been beat. People are fucking rough on trucks so you have to be careful.
 
Tundra/Tacoma.

I wish I could've afforded one when I was car shopping last year. I bought an 04 ranger instead and I've had one small problem with it in the 13,000 miles I put on it last year... And it was half the price of a Similar Tacoma.
 
If you can get an old diesel patrol or something similar, we've had our 84 diesel for ages and has over 500,000 on the clock and is still going strong, never rebuilt or anything!
 
bud a cummins can run for over 500 thousand miles easy. a low stress strait six is low wear. im pretty educated on cars and trucks also. since my dad is a mechanic and iv beeen working on cars and trucks fomy whole life and im gonna go to school for deisel mechanics sooo ya go fuck yourself.
 
Im guessing its the plethora of grammatical errors. It was getting to the point where I couldn't really focus on what you were saying because of them. No capitalization combined with run-on sentences just make you seem a lot younger in you're posts. Now if you were to re-write that post with proper grammar, you wouldn't come off as a 12 year old who's bragging about his daddys truck.

Nothing against you but grammar goes a long long way in terms of presenting yourself to others. Nothing says, "Don't listen to what I have to say" than excessive grammatical errors.
 
Dude no way 20 mpg? Something must be wrong... My cumminGs gets 35 mpg while pulling a house up a 35% grade. You wanna hook chains ? Ill drag you around home depot and back! I love rollin coal from my 2 foot wide 13 foot tall tug boat stacks!!!!
 
Wasn't saying anything about the truck. Just that you have the spelling and grammar of a kindergartner.
 
Thanks for the help errbody. I was thinking more of a full size because my grandpa had a ranger and my uncle had an s-10 and both are kind of shit. all of these sound good though i just need something that is not going to cost me $150 just for parts when my rear wheel bearing goes out
 
Silverado/sierra or yukon/tahoe. the 5.3s are very good engines, but do research first because a small percentage had faulty components (castech 706 heads). And i would go tundra over tacoma, unless your going with the 4 cyl. The 4.0 v6 gets terrible mileage for its size, so might as well get a bigger truck that gets the same mpgs and can haul more.
 
There is an F350 in my garage, you should come see it sometime, then maybe we could mate

I mean date
 
Ok so the engines are good, but what about the rest of the truck? Sure, the engine might go forever, but have fun with that death wobble.
 
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