I wanna get a pickup. I hit somebody without insurance because I thought I was given a commercial endorsement thru my employer but I'm not so I might be going bankrupt anyway lol, but I need some a vehicle and I'm leaning towards a truck because I tried driving a couple civics and they just cannot handle these winters and god-awful roads that blow up and never get fixed.
Pickups are expensive as hell, but if I can get an S10 4WD that would be great. Honestly I would trust like a 2004 S10 more than my freakin 2009 Civic cuz those cars are just not built to hold up. Or I could go with a small SUV but eehhhhh I don't like those near as much. I guess you have more security putting stuff in the back seats though.
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2020-02-27 at 8:06 PM UTC
you have too much education to qualifu for a truck.
get an SUV instead.
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2020-02-27 at 10:41 PM UTC
Get something you can live in, a van of some description...for when the shit hits the fan etc.
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disregard the rabble/idiots, and post your fucking budget in terms of max monthly payment. unless you're hauling and/or can afford a nice enough truck that it will resist depreciation through it's actual value, a truck is just overbuilt and over cost for what you need, which is a way to get to work. realistically if you intend to pay up front for something you can afford which i assume is 2500 dollars or so, you're going to be getting something to last a year or two, unless you make enough money to pay $$$$ in repairs. unless you're smart enough to diagnose and wrench.
in the end you're probably best off getting something like hyundai pre-owned AWD suv with mileage in the 30s or 40s because warranty is what will protect you from losing jobs for the next couple years. you can have something like that for between 200 and 300 dollars a month, pre-owned certified, which means you keep the remainder of the warranty. and, do you really need AWD, do you really know if AWD is even going to be useful to you, and are you smart enough to not need it, because if you can live with FWD, which you should be able to, you can have payments in the low 200s and even the high 100's with a vehicle that has between 60,000 and 80,000 miles of powertrain warranty that way. which is all you need.
if you can't afford 225 dollars a month + your DUI retard-tax insurance, that means you're paying 1-3K for a shitbox and good fucking luck, i suggest selling meth because it'll break at the wrong time and you'll be too dumb to fix it or get to work and you'll lose your job and be ruined, again.
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2020-02-28 at 3:12 AM UTC
If you can stand to have a 2 wheel drive truck those are some of the most reliable vehicles you can buy. No four wheel drive system to worry about and they are built stout as fuck, same chassis, just no transfercase and extra differential/cv axles.
What is your budget or are you going to be paymenting m8
2020-02-28 at 3:31 AM UTC
Should you really be getting a new car when you just totaled somebody else’s?
2020-02-28 at 4:11 AM UTC
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didnt read anything besides rhe OP but Michael Phelps champion SWIMmer just bought a ised 2500 with an 8.1 allison in it which is unnecessary.
ask me anythin about trux I kno a lil about em
2020-02-28 at 7:22 AM UTC
Originally posted by cigreting
If you can stand to have a 2 wheel drive truck those are some of the most reliable vehicles you can buy. No four wheel drive system to worry about and they are built stout as fuck, same chassis, just no transfercase and extra differential/cv axles.
What is your budget or are you going to be paymenting m8
how many days out of a week you drive your truck with the bed empty ?
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2020-02-28 at 10:14 AM UTC
get a cheap car and put blizzaks or hakkapelitaas on it, its better than awd or 4x4
2020-02-28 at 3:47 PM UTC
Have you thought about a red convertible?
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2020-02-28 at 4:37 PM UTC
Lol, first car I had here in the US was a geo metro..I'm 6'4", it was like a driving a clown car and the ridicule was real.
2020-02-28 at 6:45 PM UTC
I drive for a living so i need something that will hold up driving around in Minneosta winters on the god awful broken pot hole infested minnesota roads, so I do want decent gas mileage but I also want something that won't be a repair pit like my tiny cars were. I'd rather not have to splurge on an extended cab, but I'd also like to be able to haul groceries and other shit where it won't get stolen so maybe SUV is the way to go.
Yes, I'm leary of AWD, I've heard it can cause more problems than it alleviates and don't really know why it exists.
Just a compact pickup, mind you.
2020-02-28 at 6:51 PM UTC
i loved my 86 chevy blazer
2020-02-28 at 7:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by Cheyes
I drive for a living so i need something that will hold up driving around in Minneosta winters on the god awful broken pot hole infested minnesota roads, so I do want decent gas mileage but I also want something that won't be a repair pit like my tiny cars were. I'd rather not have to splurge on an extended cab, but I'd also like to be able to haul groceries and other shit where it won't get stolen so maybe SUV is the way to go.
Yes, I'm leary of AWD, I've heard it can cause more problems than it alleviates and don't really know why it exists.
Just a compact pickup, mind you.
get the lowest mileage pre-owned certified hyundai santa fe AWD you can afford. that way, whatever happens, you are guaranteed 100% a working vehicle up to 100,000 miles. and they're cheap as shit. they're not small, either. there's a used car dealership that sends a lot of their warranty stuff our way, and i've never even heard of someone servicing the AWD transaxle or differential. usually it's a coil pack, on the 2.0 basically everything on the car is warranty under 5 years/60k miles, and the essential stuff that makes the car go forward is covered to 10 years/100k miles.
unless you're smart enough to know a good used car and do work if it needs it, a used hyundai is your most fiscally responsible choice for that reason. what you want is the 2015 V6 3.3 liter AWD santa fe. they have a slightly larger body. they're available for between 9,000 and 14,000 dollars unless you get lucky, and of course your payments would be based on your credit score, but you can probably swing 220 a month. that's with 30-40 thousand miles on the odometer, meaning you have 60-70 thousand miles to drive where you will never have to pay for any expensive work on your car, and if it breaks, you'll have a loaner while the dealership or service center fixes it.
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2020-02-28 at 7:58 PM UTC
The reason I'm so fucked is because I was driving for work and the oyher guy told my personal insurance that I was driving for work at the time but I don't have a commercial endorsement through them and my company told me they don't carry liability for their drivers which is fucking retarded because I'm actually an employee of them, not just a contractor. I never would have done it otherwise.
