PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

I just read all the comments and practically every point was made already. You should own two vehicles so you have a spare even tho you can get a free loaner while the main is in the shop. The reason being you might want to be able to lend one to a friend. You obviously would love to go offroading in a 5 speed 4x4 but perhaps it would be better if that was a weekend hobby and not also your daily driver... another reason to own two. You can keep highway tires on one and knobby tires on the other. One can ride low and the other can get a lift.
Well this one is one that got away but you can go ahead and start a savings account just for the next one and get prequalified for financing. You might aught to set your goal on getting a new one.
While they do hold value and it can seem like an investment, I would never advise anyone to buy a vehicle for that reason. Basically if you're not gaining value from it while you own it then it's a liability. The entertainment and utility value of owning a 4x4 for the weekend and as a backup is worth the cost in my humble opinion, but an overriding factor is whether you can afford it. Not everyone can get an income equivalent to their ability to work... that's called being underemployed and no one can force someone to hire them so we are all underemployed to some extent. If you put the same amount of money as payments into a savings account for a year then you'll have a 20% down payment. Of course you probably already know this but I'm sure someone else might read this and be glad for the tip. If you can't save at that rate then you would definitely be in trouble trying to make payments. If you have poor credit, the interest on financing can double the cost. Yet many people finance rather than save so they can have it now rather than 5 years later. There are creative alternatives that will let you own sooner. For example, a new vehicle will qualify for an advertising wrap. You could co-own it with friends. I've rambled enough for now.

 

That regular cab 4x4 would have sold in a couple days.

No offense, because I know how much you like your 5 lug, but a 5 lug auto 2wd is not a rare or desirable truck.

A regular cab 4x4 5 speed is a rare and incredibly desirable truck. They aren't even in the same league as far as capability.

I would have snapped up the 4x4. Don't get emotionally attached to depreciating assets.

 

We call them Hey-Zeus clips down here.

 

Many of us Reg cab owners have never owned anything but Reg cab short beds. I know this isnt considered a short bed any more but used to be . I must of had 2 dozen since I started driving in the early 70s only 3 Toyotas mostly full size trucks all 4x4s . This 08 with 111,000 mile SR5 bucket seats will probably stay here for the rest of my life unless the offer ya can't refuse ever comes along

 

Nice

 

I have a friend who lives in Hong Kong, and he says that airbag deployment will automatically result in the vehicle being written off, even if it is brand new and/or only moderately damaged. This is not only true in Hong Kong, but also in other parts of Asia and pretty much all of Europe.

If the airbags deploy and the cost of repairing the vehicle is determined to be more than the actual cash value, then the fate of vehicle should be determined by the owner. People often do buy back their totaled vehicles, repair them, and get a rebuilt/salvage title. I see absolutely no problem with this as long someone doesn't try to pass off the vehicle as having never been wrecked when selling it.

If the airbags deploy and the damage to the vehicle is repairable, then by all means repair it. My mom's 2013 Nissan Murano was involved in an accident with airbag deployment before we bought it (my parents did not know this at the time, otherwise they never would have bought it).

I honestly think that totaling a vehicle just because the airbag deployed is a waste of what could otherwise be a perfectly good vehicle.

 

Absolute myth.

Cost to repairs is weighed against the value of the vehicle and policy.

Roofs used to buckle and they would write it off, this is no longer the case.

Frames would bend, they would write it off, no longer the case.

Hell we see phentonal and rats nests and they won't write off vehicles.

 

In HK, airbag deployment is an automatic writeoff, which I think sucks.

Say I were to hit a deer in my Tacoma, resulting in no frame damage, moderate front end damage, and a deployed airbag. I'd want my truck repaired!

 

Myth here state side. Deer hit prior to my steel bumper deployed airbag, then I hit a tree. 14k of plastic and sheet metal replaced with about 2k being a/b deployment cost iirc.

 

Hence why cost of living in HK is one of if not the highest in the world. The citizens are the ones that pays for dumb policies at the end of the day.

 

June 4th , 2019:
Johnston Ridge Observatory
Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument
Washington State

 

June 6th, 2019:
Woodburn , Oregon

 

June 7th, 2019:
Burlington, Washington

 

June 11th, 2019:
Port Moody, British Columbia

 

June 11th, 2019:
Port Moody, British Columbia



Young lad heading off biking up the mountain, parked in front of our house. He was polite, asked if it was okay, plus he was driving a Taco with a BC Parks number plate, so I was happy to have him....I usually contemplate putting roofing nails under the tyres when they block my driveway

 

How? Why? Does it run?

 

Runs like a champ

 

YUP!!!

Don't know how the hell I missed this post...