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iwentdoodie posted:Are you planning on moving literally 5+ tons of poo poo at a time with regularity? If not, get a goddamn F150/1500 truck and be done with it. I can vouch for that. Unless you're towing more then a ~21ft trailer, our F150 has served us well. I've dragged home cars and machine tools. Filled it to the brim with firewood and trash for the recycling center. It's been a real work horse.
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the spyder posted:I can vouch for that. Unless you're towing more then a ~21ft trailer, our F150 has served us well. I've dragged home cars and machine tools. Filled it to the brim with firewood and trash for the recycling center. It's been a real work horse. Counterpoint: with a half-ton truck, U-Haul won't rent you a car trailer. Just a two-wheel dolly. You need to have a 3/4 ton or better to get the car trailer. Darchangel posted:edit: images are being fucky, at least where I'm viewing from. If no images, galleries are: steering wheel and power window switch Looks like whatever janky image host you're using has a busted SSL certificate. I think the forums are set to auto-upgrade all connections to https now, so unless you specifically load the page as http it won't work with that host until they fix it. Also, I'm the   
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Raluek posted:Counterpoint: with a half-ton truck, U-Haul won't rent you a car trailer. Just a two-wheel dolly. You need to have a 3/4 ton or better to get the car trailer. That's because uhaul is dumb as poo poo, and there's no way that's correct. Because I rented a 1500 truck from uhaul and towed their car trailer with it.
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I've had an 06 150 since 2009,and it has 234000 miles on it. V6 with the 7 or 6.5ft bed or whatever on it. It's done everything I've needed it to do, pallets of wet mulch, loaded down with loads to the dump, furniture, so on. Pulled a loaded trailer too. Honestly, unless you are hauling a car, an F150 would be fine. I think it could definitely pull a car, but I haven't yet. Granted, I want a four door F250 with an 8ft bed just because I can and my wife said I could get one.
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iwentdoodie posted:That's because uhaul is dumb as poo poo, and there's no way that's correct. Because I rented a 1500 truck from uhaul and towed their car trailer with it. Weird, looks like I was working with incomplete information. I guess they make a distinction between an older half ton and a more recent one. Their website didn't like a 1960 or 1991 F-100/150, but it did like a 2010 F-150. 
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iwentdoodie posted:That's because uhaul is dumb as poo poo, and there's no way that's correct. Because I rented a 1500 truck from uhaul and towed their car trailer with it. My 06 F-150 was rated to tow almost 11k pounds (or maybe it was 12k) and I hauled a car trailer across a good chunk of the country with it. It had the 5.4l v-8 and the trailer package. Sold it to my neighbor and it's still going strong with over 150k on the clock, and I don't think he has done poo poo to maintain it since I sold it with about 85k miles.
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See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before  I'll stick to looking at tundras and 1500s and see if anything comes up. I swear to Christ they're expensive as all hell compared to cars of the same vintage and mileage
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Man, America really needs dropside Transits. That's what the correct answer to "I need a full-size bed work truck to do actual work truck things, because I use my work truck to do work, and I'm totally not compensating for anything" looks like.
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The Locator posted:My 06 F-150 was rated to tow almost 11k pounds (or maybe it was 12k) and I hauled a car trailer across a good chunk of the country with it. It had the 5.4l v-8 and the trailer package. Isn't "tow rating" complete bullshit though? I thought the actual towing capacity was limited to the maximum GVW
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QuarkMartial posted:I've had an 06 150 since 2009,and it has 234000 miles on it. V6 with the 7 or 6.5ft bed or whatever on it. It's done everything I've needed it to do, pallets of wet mulch, loaded down with loads to the dump, furniture, so on. Pulled a loaded trailer too. Honestly, unless you are hauling a car, an F150 would be fine. I think it could definitely pull a car, but I haven't yet. I lugged a big two-car trailer and the Ford F100 it was carrying with a 3.7L F150, as well as numerous bike trailer configs.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before They are. Buying used trucks loving sucks. Being where you are sucks even more for them. If you're willing to fly and drive or ship it, look south. Much bigger pool of vehicles and no rust.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before Yup. I really wanted to get a 1500 for my kart poo poo when I got into it and the prices were loving ridiculous. Ended up getting a Safari that had half the mileage of any truck I looked at, body was pristine and paid like a third of the price. It really sucks cause I wasn't looking for anything fancy either.
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1500quidporsche posted:Yup. I really wanted to get a 1500 for my kart poo poo when I got into it and the prices were loving ridiculous. Ended up getting a Safari that had half the mileage of any truck I looked at, body was pristine and paid like a third of the price. It really sucks cause I wasn't looking for anything fancy either. Yeah, if you're towing a trailer a van is just as good if not better. If you're looking at 25/3500 series trucks, just realize you're looking at poo poo that is literally built to pull cars/hay bales/livestock. Not occasionally, daily. They ride worse, get worse mileage, and cost too loving much. TT, for your uses listed a loving 90s F150 would meet and exceed them by far. But I'd probably recommend an early/mid 00s Silverado with the 5.3, or one of the unicorns with the 6.0 if you could find it.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before  Also there should be a trucks/trailer/hauling thread.
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Aussies just laugh at the thought you need a truck to tow.
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What i want is a van that i can tow a car with and also sleep in. Building my own interior in an E350 diesel pretty high on the list.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Is he one of the guys who was suing APEGA? Tomarse posted:I think i'd struggle to lie/be creative like that even for a close friend. For an acquaintance like him that you only hear from every few years I would just be truthful.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Aussies just laugh at the thought you need a truck to tow. Legally we have to. Literally. Check the tow ratings for identical cars in the US vs everywhere else. Like I know a crown vic will haul a loving car...but legally it can't, because USA.
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The entirety of an email received from craigslist mutant: Ugg, the craigslist caveman posted:intersted in lq4 crank  I did reply as I want to be rid of this thing, but I mean, where do you go from there?
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:The entirety of an email received from craigslist mutant: Is it better or worse than getting this from a random number? 
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The Door Frame posted:Is it better or worse than getting this from a random number? Where do these people come from?
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before I have a 2011 Tundra - love it. That being said - its loving overkill for what I need. But, there's no deal "small" truck options anymore. A decent used Tundra or Chevy 1500 is what I would recommend. They'll do literally everything you are looking for with ease. Don't stress the 8 foot box - it makes driving/parking it in the city a bitch. I've got the 5'8" (or whatever it is) box and with the tailgate down I can haul 4x8's easily. The other option, which if you have the space may be better - get a small truck (older ranger/taco) or a smallish SUV with a half-assed towing capacity and get a small landscaping trailer. I've got a 6x8 one that hauls a ton, has a ramp to get things up into it, etc. Best $1500 I've spent. Easily the better way to spend your moneys, especially if its going to be "ton of use for hauling stuff then next to none". Because, be honest - how often will your truck truck?
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The Door Frame posted:Is it better or worse than getting this from a random number? That's why you always do craigslist stuff on burner phones. I've got two different ringplus phones and don't have to deal with any nonsense that I have to worry about getting back to my real info.
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Eh, I just do email only on a "burner" email account. If you don't want to correspond via email, then I guess you don't want it all that bad or you're trying to pull some other kind of shady poo poo.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Eh, I just do email only on a "burner" email account. If you don't want to correspond via email, then I guess you don't want it all that bad or you're trying to pull some other kind of shady poo poo. A lot of people communicate only by text. If you don't put a number, they don't respond. Texting isn't my thing, but if it comes down to making sales... Well, I'll do what I need to!
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The Door Frame posted:Isn't "tow rating" complete bullshit though? I thought the actual towing capacity was limited to the maximum GVW No, GVW it the gross weight of the truck on the truck's axles. The only part of the trailer weight that counts towards the GVW would be the tongue weight which in general should be about 10% of the trailer total weight.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Aussies just laugh at the thought you need a truck to tow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH81IqeWmvI&t=12s
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InitialDave posted:Just had a typical one on eBay: buy it now with best offer, so offer 80% of asking price, guy de-lists it because he's "getting too many daft offers". Seminal Flu posted:I'm still going through some archive computer stuff and found something interesting -- Intel replaced my Gateway's Pentium processor because it mathed wrong. I think that event may be older than some of the posters here. DoLittle posted:They had a quite large bankcrupcy/seizure auction last weekend:  The historic race car market has gone crazy lately especially for any car with history and paperwork to prove it. Not many years ago you could pick up a DTM/BTCC car for around the same price as a very clean low mile street example. Very much not the case anymore. Raluek posted:Weird, looks like I was working with incomplete information. I guess they make a distinction between an older half ton and a more recent one. Their website didn't like a 1960 or 1991 F-100/150, but it did like a 2010 F-150. Anyone in or around Palmdale, CA? Here for the week fixing some stuff and installing some new stuff. Was going to go out and see if I could find good food tonight but napped after I got back to the hotel and after that there's no way in hell I'm going anywhere. Delivery from Asian #1 was a good choice.
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Siochain posted:I have a 2011 Tundra - love it. That being said - its loving overkill for what I need. But, there's no deal "small" truck options anymore. A decent used Tundra or Chevy 1500 is what I would recommend. They'll do literally everything you are looking for with ease. Don't stress the 8 foot box - it makes driving/parking it in the city a bitch. I've got the 5'8" (or whatever it is) box and with the tailgate down I can haul 4x8's easily. I love my 2012 Tundra crewmax because it makes a great family vehicle. Enough room between the two front seats that my wife can crawl back and change diapers on the fly. And even with the front seats all the way back my lanky 6'6" rear end can sit back there. And while it's not fun to drive it's at least quick with 381hp and 4:30 rear axle. It has to truck about once a week, either an 1800lb bed of feed, 9-10k trailer load of round bales, or occasionally a 5k trailer load of animals. Works great. I actually stepped down from a 2006 Silverado 2500HD CCLB duramax. The tundra is cheaper to own, easier to park, and I hope it will be less likely to surprise me with a huge repair bill. The only downside is the 16.2mpg I got on a 1700 mile trip last week.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before You could almost certain do everything you've listed in a Tacoma.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before Yeah unless you intend to haul a lot of really heavy poo poo, get a 1500. case in point:  thats 800lb of rubber. Even a ranger can haul that in the bed.
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mariooncrack posted:Some times drivers do their routes out of order. If I remember correctly, the computer gives them am order of how to do the deliveries but they don't always follow. He may be doing more commercial places now. Yeah I eventually got in touch with him and met up. Met him around 1:45, he dropped me back off at my car at 5:15. Not as many hours as I'd hoped for, but it's something, and it feels good to actually be working. This was 100% residential, pretty much in a 2 square mile area. We dropped almost 100 packages, and he'd dropped about as many before we met up. Holy poo poo. Now I know why you never see a fat UPS driver. My legs are hurting in ways that I forgot they could hurt, but in a good way.  I know I'm going to be sore for a few days until I get into it a bit more.Also have an interview with two different Lowe's and a Nissan parts distribution center tomorrow. Lowe's interviews are as a delivery driver (non CDL, but in the ghetto) and cashier (in a very nice area). Nissan DC is a pretty long drive for me and only pays $1/hr more than Lowe's, and it's in a non-HVAC warehouse. And a very kind goon had PM'd me about a possible lead with an Apple store, I need to get off my rear end and get my resume over to him/her. funny Star Wars parody posted:https://www.carfax.com/vehicles/1GTHK23KX8F135050-used-2008-gmc-sierra-2500hd-sle--dunbar 6.0, and it's in a city named after me.  I have no idea what they're worth though. And the carfax says it was a commercial fleet vehicle at one point, so maintenance (and abuse) may be quite suspect. And like others are saying... you don't need a 2500. It's easier to find the 6.0 in the 2500, but a 1500 will work just fine for 99.9% of what you plan to do. funny Star Wars parody posted:I was only really looking at newer stuff because i'm tired of working on my car in my spare time and hopefully one of these guys won't blow up in the next three years Wait, don't we have the same car, aside from the engine? I know I have at least double the mileage, and mine's been really reliable. Until the other day, but that was thanks to rodents and wiring harnesses mixing. It's back to running great, aside from bitching about the secondary O2 sensor being unplugged.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Amazon stuff... Amazon hooked me up with the promised discount today. Thanks for prompting me to send that email to Bezos, clearly he (or someone screening his emails) read it. They actually called me and when I missed the call left a voice mail and then sent an email. Amazon CS Rep posted:Hello xxxxxxx, Unlike all the normal CS reps, this gal gave a full first and last name in the response.
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Amazing how bitching works. Also https://threelegdogest.bandcamp.com/track/dog God I love dirty rear end stoner metal.
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Rhyno posted:You could almost certain do everything you've listed in a Tacoma. As a Tacoma driver, they are over priced as hell and have awful fuel economy. If I were looking for a used pick up, go domestic.
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slidebite posted:As a Tacoma driver, they are over priced as hell and have awful fuel economy. If I were looking for a used pick up, go domestic. My neighbor has one, and loves it, but I don't really understand why. He got it a year after I got my F-150, and while some of the Fords trim around the back of the hood has decayed and crumbled in the sun, his Tacoma looks like it's been doused in salt for it's entire life, the paint is just terrible. He's also talking about needing a new engine sometime soon (don't know why) and it's got about 150k miles on it, so close to the same as the Ford, which is still running fine. He gets significantly worse mileage than I got in the Ford too, even with the big V-8. I averaged about 17.5 in mixed driving, and he gets around 12-13. The biggest issue with the F-150 in it's 10 year life is the power window's. I had to fix the drivers side front before I sold it, and now the drivers side rear mini-window is stuck down (I haven't volunteered to help fix it and he hasn't asked). Also the center console top sort of wore out and is now missing. Both of these items aren't what I would consider unreasonable wear for a 10 year old truck with that many miles on it.
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