Tundra vs. Chevy

roadhunter · May 7, 2015

Figures lie and liars figure.

Copperhead · May 7, 2015

Brand loyalty is really hard to understand, at least for me. I have found great vehicles in every brand, and vehicles I couldn't wait to get rid of in every brand. I am not sure why some folks will go to the mat over a particular brand. Maybe if that OEM was giving them the vehicle for free, I guess.

Degolyerent · May 7, 2015

Copperhead said:
Brand loyalty is really hard to understand, at least for me. I have found great vehicles in every brand, and vehicles I couldn't wait to get rid of in every brand. I am not sure why some folks will go to the mat over a particular brand. Maybe if that OEM was giving them the vehicle for free, I guess.

Same here, I try to find the good rated vehicles regardless of brand. I have a Chevy car and 3 trucks, one Ford one Dodge and one Toyota. All are good and have gave good service, and I have done repairs on all of them.
John

sawtooth · May 8, 2015

Diamondpilot said:
400K is a pipe dream for 99.9% of the vehicles on the road. Rust being the biggest killer. I know 2 people with vehicles with over 250,000 miles and both are gas. This was a selling point 25 years ago when gas motors made 100,000 miles on average but today 300,000 or more is reality. Chris

I'm a Ford guy but have a friend that has a 06 GMC Yukon with 365000 miles. He's close. Engine using a lot of oil now though and a lot of engine lights on in dash. Lol

Sent from my iPhone using TractorByNet

Copperhead · May 9, 2015

Surprisingly, many fleet operated pickups seem to pull off some pretty impressive high mileage numbers, which is strange considering employees driving them are not really treating it like they are paying the bills for it. This was impressive, a Ford with a 5.4L gasser with over 1 million miles going in for an engine teardown to see how it looks. Again, a fleet operated vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDF1zcaxrNU

Fordman1981 · May 10, 2015

Copperhead said:
Surprisingly, many fleet operated pickups seem to pull off some pretty impressive high mileage numbers, which is strange considering employees driving them are not really treating it like they are paying the bills for it. This was impressive, a Ford with a 5.4L gasser with over 1 million miles going in for an engine teardown to see how it looks. Again, a fleet operated vehicle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDF1zcaxrNU

Boy that was a nice commercial. I'll have to DVR TBN so I can fast forward through the next one.

Copperhead · May 10, 2015

It is what it is. I don't have any dog in that hunt. I do know of several fleets that have lots of pickups that are getting some pretty impressive high mileage numbers without major component failures, across the brand spectrum and using a wide variety of brands of oil doing it. Could be because, unlike individual owners are prone to do, they are not dicking around with their pickups and trying to modify the snot out of them. They just perform regular maintenance as recommended and operate them as the OEM intended.

Fordman1981 · May 10, 2015

Copperhead said:
It is what it is. I don't have any dog in that hunt. I do know of several fleets that have lots of pickups that are getting some pretty impressive high mileage numbers without major component failures, across the brand spectrum and using a wide variety of brands of oil doing it. Could be because, unlike individual owners are prone to do, they are not dicking around with their pickups and trying to modify the snot out of them. They just perform regular maintenance as recommended and operate them as the OEM intended.

I know of some getting high miles too of all brands. All manufacturers put out good vehicles and bad. I was just poking fun of the video you posted every other word was Schaeffer's oil. It reminded me of infomercials.

oldpilgrim · May 10, 2015

just yesterday there was an article on msn.com about which vehicles (cars and trucks were judged together) maintain their value the best.

Tacoma was the the one that held it's value the best, retaining 74% of it's sales price after three years.

Next was a certain model Jeep.

Third was the Tundra.

Take it for what it's worth.

Copperhead · May 11, 2015

Yeah it did do that Fordman. I only took an interest in that it was supposedly a play by play tear down of a motor that had been documented as actually turning over 1 million by a reputable tech school. While I am sure Schaefer was really on top of this, the tech school itself had their reputation on the line, so it seemed more legit that some of the infomercial stuff. But it sure had that appearance with the constant reference to Schaeffer oil. But who knows, it might have been a slight of hand sort of thing and not truly legit. I guess we'll never truly know.

I can believe the Tacoma taking a top spot. Just in what I have seen over the years, that little pickup just keeps going and going. It has to be darn near the most reliable in it's class. I sure would take a serious look at it if it would fit what I needed. Not sure the Tundra can quite make the same claim. While resale value may be there, that could be influenced by the carry over reputation Toyota has with the afore mentioned Tacoma.