As an owner of a Tundra and a Rogue, I can say, with confidence, you're wrong

Some of you guys are missing the point

It doesn't matter if you "need" a truck or not.  Some people just like to own trucks.  that's not the issue.


Everything everywhere always comes down to money.

Money money money

The thing that always stabs people in the ass is money.


The big issue at hand is the fact that the OP does not have enough money.

He has enough money to drive around in a 4 year old car but he doesn't have enough to drive around in a 4 year old truck.

So he's going to buy a 15 year old truck and hope for the best.

Which is a foolish thing to do.

The supply of used cars and trucks is way too low right now and the prices are a joke.


Any time you do anything, you need to have enough money to make it work out good.

Otherwise, you're just pissing your money away.

if you want a pool table, you save up enough to buy a B+ or A- grade one.

you don't buy a C grade table and then end up hating it because the balls roll like shit

because then you're screwed, you just pissed all the money away on nothing


there are a lot of times in life when you should just "go for it".

"Just going for it" cannot be praised highly enough.

like if you see a armored car with the doors hanging open, you should just run up to the truck and grab a few bags of money and run off

or if you're in love with the prom queen, you should run up to her and start reading her a 15 page love poem you wrote.  It will be so romantic, she'll immediately fall in love with you.  Wear your best sweater vest.

or if they have a sale on Cheetos at the store, ask your mom to buy three extra bags and have a basement Cheeto party with you and your online pals.


but when it comes to buying machinery, especially a money pit like a used truck, you shouldn't "just go for it".

there nothing that sucks like dumping money into a POS car that's starting to fall apart

I bought a 15 year old truck.

Where is your shitty double spaced response now?

this also are you going to use the truck?

buying a truck and just using it as a grocery getter is retarded, stick with the much better around town car.

I went from a 2008 Civic to a 2005 Tundra. Depends on if OP will actually use the truck. The car was awesome for scooting around town but once we bought a house I quickly realized it's hard to work on a house out of a Civic Si's trunk.

I didn't say that buying a 15 year old truck was physically impossible.

So the fact that you bought one is not actually relevant to anything I wrote.

130k miles on a 2004 Silverado for $8000?

I must be in the wrong state.  Most of the 2005-2006 Silverados here are in the 160k range.

As an example, the one I'm going to test drive Saturday will be 158k 4x4 crew cab and I'm going to try to make a deal at $11k driving it off the lot.

No they won't. If they bought the truck for 7500 they MIGHT straight trade for your car if the blue book value for said car is over 15K.



 

Update:

Seems like the smart decision is for me to hold off a few more years, then get a truck for a second vehicle.

Here is link to said truck: http://www.ramsautosales.com/2003_Chevrolet_Silverado%201500_Milwaukee_WI_260655566.veh

I seem to be the king of finding used trucks for some reason. When I first came back to the states from being stationed overseas I bought a used 07 F150 STX with 41k miles on it for 11,000. After I came back from deployment and having that same truck nearly kill me in the winter I decided I wanted to upgrade to something with 4x4. Bought a used 09 Lariat F150 for 26k with 60k miles on it.

I don't know what you guys are doing wrong.