How do/would you treat your brand new truck?

I was carefull driving it out of the dealer, but took it straight to the dirt once they were out of sight. It was my first 4x4 so i had to be sure everything worked like they said it would. Just like most, i try not to thrash it but I make sure i have my fun too.

 

I would treat it with the respect that any vehicle deserves, but I wouldn’t be worried about intense, bumpy offroading. After all, any truck I bought would be meant for it

 

straight from the dealer...on fire, the end.

 

like i stole it

 

Just bought my 2012 on saturday...went straight through some trails. I had a 2010 PreRunner that I sold earlier this year to get my wife an LR4, so I was curious how my new 4x4 would handle some mud. Turns out quite well, but I'm pretty sure these tires are going to be going away soon...

 

Truck had 500 miles on it... and it got about 3 feet of air. (Didn't see the rise in the road for the train tracks, doing about 60. Then hit the dirt with paper plates.

 

My truck was not brand new but was new to me. Took it out and broke the front shock on the first weekend

 

I know a guy that whenever he buys a new truck, he takes a big heavy chain with him to the dealership and throws it across the side of the bed.

He said the look on the salesmen's face is always priceless.

But it lets him use the truck like a truck. Makes since... I could never do it though...

 

Mine is not the most hard core video/audio, but she was stretching her legs for the first time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70cNysGhnM?version=3

 

Yep sliders! I wish I had the $$ to get skids

That was only the very last part of the ascend, one guy that had sliders on his 4runner managed to dend one of the doors on a rock. and some one else managed to dent in the gas tank on another trail on that same trip.



Nice runner by the way, did the front end sag noticeably with the ARB? Those things look beastly!

 

I would take a new truck off road, i would rather be a mall crawler

 

I bought my 06 new and honestly, I baby it now more than I ever did back then. I always had the mindset that it was a truck, and I was going to treat it like one. Now that we're closer, I show it a little more love...

 

Props fellas that's an expensive hobby.

 

There's been many times when there was something I wanted to do, but the thought of the consequences (broken bones, broken/expensive truck parts/being broke (no $$$)) made me hold back, then the "you only live once!" saying popped in my head and caution was thrown out the window.


I haven't regretted a single one.

sometimes those moments are very far in between

 

This sounds extremely familiar. I just had one of those incidents. Fun as hell and put on a good show, but broke shit.

 

well my 2002 I was nice to for the first year or sobut now im a little ruff on her! My old 1999 was beaten and abused!! the 99 got her 100,000mile oil changes and nothing else! funny the truck made it to 345,000miles when I sold it. My new one ive been nicer to I change oil every 25000mi and it never fails me! i hope i can be nicer to her in the future!! LOL

 

You change your oil every 25,000 miles?

 

The Fuck...?



100,000?
25,000?

No way you're serious...