Pickups the new Luxury Car?

[Terry1040]

I really like my 2015 F150 King Ranch. BUT, I wont let myself put any miles on it. I ordered it, to get it cheaper, with less options. I have about 3,000 miles on it & keep it put away inside a storage building. I drive other stuff !

 

[Zerk]

Not me over 90k on my truck in 3 years, plus miles on my other truck and 3 bikes.

 

[Zerk]

I really like my 2015 F150 King Ranch. BUT, I wont let myself put any miles on it. I ordered it, to get it cheaper, with less options. I have about 3,000 miles on it & keep it put away inside a storage building. I drive other stuff !

You really should put a few miles on just to find any problems under warranty. They call it the bathtub curve, things fail at the begining and end of their lives.

Plus keeping seals wet and oil good. For me, I often 200 miles a day on, and try and each truck out once a week. Not as much in the summer with the bikes. But IMO one of the worse thing is not driving a vehicle.

 

[ultrarunner]

Unless there is anther Rush Creek that i dont know of, they are only ~30 miles from our farm, and we go right past them all the time going between different properties...
Small world huh?

July of 1978 I was driving cross country and stayed overnight at Rush Creek... it was the same time when the Grasshoppers were thick... all over the roadway.

Total of 4 Arabs from them... raised outdoors and semi wild...

My brother was nationally ranked endurance rider years ago.

It is a small world.

 

[Terry1040]

You really should put a few miles on just to find any problems under warranty. They call it the bathtub curve, things fail at the begining and end of their lives.

Plus keeping seals wet and oil good. For me, I often 200 miles a day on, and try and each truck out once a week. Not as much in the summer with the bikes. But IMO one of the worse thing is not driving a vehicle.

I actually do drive it around town every so often, but have been putting the miles on my wifes car instead and older pickup. I had a vehicle years ago that cost me a new transmission due to not driving it & seals went bad. So thanks for the reminder ! I did not know that I would do this, so I am surprised. I waited for over 10 years to buy my used 2010 King Ranch, which I used a lot. But < I just cant bring myself to put the miles on this one yet. Maybe I can talk myself into a few hundred miles a couple of times a year ! My older pickup - I haul EVERYTHING in it. I always am picking up stuff and hauling it around.

 

[Zerk]

Enjoy that truck you worked hard for it.
If you put 5k on that truck a year, it will last forever. Even 10k, will probably get you 20 years.

For me in this part of the country, my old truck will rust out, before engine dies I suspect. Replaced brakes a few times. Bought it in 1999 and has 195k. I am trying to burn it up before it rusts out, a little.

Good to get it out and get the oil hot, cook out moisture.

 

[Garandman]

Seems to mirror what I have been seeing...

One of my good friends was in the market for a standard cab f150 and no exaggeration... there were none to be found... he went with a extended cab.

The lots here are moving a lot of luxury and crew cab trucks... some accounting for half their sales

There is a lot of air that has to be hauled back and forth from work.....

 

[GPintheMitten]

I wouldn't buy a 50-60K truck and let it sit to drive something else. It probably costs about $17/day just to have it sit there.

I have a luxury 2014 F150 crew cab 4wd Platinum pickup because that's what I wanted. I worked hard all my life raising my family and doing without. Now retired and have everything paid off except the truck. Love the truck.

But I don't see young people making $13-15 / hour spending all their money on a vehicle.

 

[ultrarunner]

Enjoy that truck you worked hard for it.
If you put 5k on that truck a year, it will last forever. Even 10k, will probably get you 20 years.

For me in this part of the country, my old truck will rust out, before engine dies I suspect. Replaced brakes a few times. Bought it in 1999 and has 195k. I am trying to burn it up before it rusts out, a little.

Good to get it out and get the oil hot, cook out moisture.

In decades around the car business we never had a single brake line replaced... not a one... on rare occasions the flex hose... but only on very old cars.

 

[ultrarunner]

I wouldn't buy a 50-60K truck and let it sit to drive something else. It probably costs about $17/day just to have it sit there.

I have a luxury 2014 F150 crew cab 4wd Platinum pickup because that's what I wanted. I worked hard all my life raising my family and doing without. Now retired and have everything paid off except the truck. Love the truck.

But I don't see young people making $13-15 / hour spending all their money on a vehicle.

Maybe it is different now... lots of my friends bought expensive new cars when they started working... even at work some of the most expensive vehicles are those younger and on the lower end of the pay scale.