pickup truck size

[ArlyA]

That sounds boring. A winter without snow is like breakfast without orange juice.

Why wouldn't someone not get out in it and have a great time skiing on it.

 

[check]

I drive thousands of miles in my company 4 door short bed pickup with snowsled or ATV in back. Just because something is useless to you doesn't mean that it won't work for somebody else. I would not want to go back to hauling all of my winter clothes and gear in the bed of the truck, and I sure don't want some behemoth with the extra cab and 8 foot bed on some of the roads I drive. Besides, that extra 18" bed isn't that important; my snowsled would still be sticking out the back.

I agree. And in fact, each time I get a new F150 super crew, I get to choose between the 6 1/2 foot box in the 5 1/2 foot box. I always take the 5 1/2 foot box. Much easier to get into parking spaces, both on the street and in parking lots. Don’t really miss the extra foot of box length.

 

[ArlyA]

I agree. And in fact, each time I get a new F150 super crew, I get to choose between the 6 1/2 foot box in the 5 1/2 foot box. I always take the 5 1/2 foot box. Much easier to get into parking spaces, both on the street and in parking lots. Don’t really miss the extra foot of box length.

We got a 2019 ranger with a 6ft box. Its nice to drive around town and fit on narrow roads. It gets fabulous fuel mileage, gobs of power at 260hp, towing capacity is 6000lbs + something and comfortable to ride it. Its a keeper. Here is its review.

 

[Jstpssng]

Why wouldn't someone not get out in it and have a great time skiing on it. View attachment 712469

Have you ever tried hooking them up to a harness and letting them pull you?

 

[lman]

I fixed that problem and moved to Texas. If it sounds like snow, everyone in the city goes to the grocery and buys everything. Then they hunker down and wait for the blizzard. After a light dusting, they cancel all non-emergency activities and wait. TXDOT drives around spreading water on the roads to prevent icing. Plows are apparently illegal for Txdot. Fortunately, global warming comes and melts the white stuff before anyone dies of starvation. Then, people get together and tell stories about how they survived snowmageddon and make "I survived winter 202x" t-shirts and hot chocolate. To be fair this is in the DFW area. The panhandle gets real snow at times and I have heard stories of bootleg snowplows roaming the highways. But it is all worth it because we don't have to shovel or blow snow and our cars are rust free...unless you live on the Gulf Coast. The End.

I was in Houston, TX in July years ago and swore I'd never go back. I've kept my promise.

 

[Torvy]

I was in Houston, TX in July years ago and swore I'd never go back. I've kept my promise.

No offense to my neighbors to the south, but Houston is the nether regions of Texas. We're a solid 4 hours north of that humid, overpopulated area. My wife has to go there for work quite often. She will not miss it next year when we retire.

 

[Torvy]

That sounds boring. A winter without snow is like breakfast without orange juice.

I hear you. My adult life has been about equally spent north and south. The advantage for me now is that snow is a choice. I can head north a bit and enjoy it. For what it's worth, I don't drink OJ either. Too many carbs.

 

[Farmer495]

Someone I know up in Nova Scotia pretty much figures that any time he has to wrench something that he will have to cut bolts (which also means replacing them). I'm fortunate in that my conditions see me expecting to NOT have to do such things (and when I do I'm not happy about it).

Yes. faster to cut/torch bolts then trying to free them up usually.

If anything is on the road after 10 years old it has had body rust repairs. Anything 20 years old is something either senior owned or seasonally used (convertible, some farm trucks) and never drove in the winter much.

If the frame rots out it's junk...usually with fairly decent interior and low miles on it.

Government inspections pull the rust buckets off the road at inspection expiry.

 

[Oaktree]

I agree. And in fact, each time I get a new F150 super crew, I get to choose between the 6 1/2 foot box in the 5 1/2 foot box. I always take the 5 1/2 foot box. Much easier to get into parking spaces, both on the street and in parking lots. Don’t really miss the extra foot of box length.

I have no particular use for a back seat in a pickup so I generally go for the extended cab with longer bed. Don't really need an 8' bed anymore, but the 6½ is nice.

Saw a tacoma the other day with one of those hitch-mount bicycle racks on it, kind of sad when you can't even fit a bicycle in the back of a pickup.

 

[CADplans]

I can just see this now....

Someone from up north buys a truck down south to get a rust free truck and the truck is actually a rust bucket from up north.

This could be a whole new chapter in "What Goes Around Comes Around"

The ULTIMATE chapter would be~~~
that the guy ends up (unknowingly) buying back the EXACT SAME truck
that he sold one month earlier,,
but, it now has a new paint color!!,,,

and during that month that he did not own it,
the truck had been wrecked (with frame damage)

 

[Jstpssng]

It's the frame more than the sheet metal which tends to be a problem now.

 

[Oaktree]

It's the frame more than the sheet metal which tends to be a problem now.

Trouble with 'most everything now is that they have so much plastic cladding that just traps moisture/salt/crud but hides the rust until there's major damage.

Likewise with frames...they seem to mostly be enclosed now so you can't really get the moisture/salt/crud out. Not sure who thought that was a good idea.

 

[Renze]

Trouble with 'most everything now is that they have so much plastic cladding that just traps moisture/salt/crud but hides the rust until there's major damage.

Likewise with frames...they seem to mostly be enclosed now so you can't really get the moisture/salt/crud out. Not sure who thought that was a good idea.

Mercedes B class is mostly bought by seniors who want a high seat. Its the worst car they ever built, they hid the brake lines behind plastic side skirts which break off when you take them off to check the brake lines for MOT. And as an MOT judge you cant risk your license with them by not checking, because these steel brake lines are notoriously rust prone

 

[Creamer]

Why wouldn't someone not get out in it and have a great time skiing on it. View attachment 712469

What happened to the feet on that black dog? He looks like a northern type dog, i.e. lots of hair.

 

[oliver1555]

Dog booties. Pretty common.

 

[ArlyA]

What happened to the feet on that black dog? He looks like a northern type dog, i.e. lots of hair.

She gets ice built up between her pads and becomes painful for her. So as Oliver noted, booties. Funny that today, she is so arthritic, can't leave the yard and that photo was taken just 3 years ago. Yes, she's on arthritis meds.

 

[Torvy]

My dogs hated those things. Just ripped them off. Fortunately, that is not a problem down here.

 

[Pleease]

I look at short bed trucks with 4 doors as 'Wannabe soccer mom trucks'.. Status symbols for suburbanite dwellers that want to role play and the only 'cargo' hauled in the back are grocery bags anyway. Totally useless for me. I like 4 doors and a backseat but I have to have an 8 foot box as well and of course a GN hitch in it.

I have a 4 door truck with a 5' bed that gets used very frequently - at least weekly, often more. Sometimes carries only weedeater, cement bags, etc., sometimes furniture, appliances, push or riding mower, and sometimes it tows the ATV or the SCUT. And it has a locking trunk, usually containing toolbox, saws/drills, sometimes a chainsaw, small air compressor, and so on. Payload capacity is like 14-1500lbs.

No skin off my nose if you think it's a "soccer mom truck" - married 40 years/feelings eroded away, lol - but from experience I'm just saying they can be pretty darn useful. Not the same as a big Ford/Chevy/Ram of course, but it does most of what a large portion of pickup owners use theirs for.

 

[4570Man]

I look at short bed trucks with 4 doors as 'Wannabe soccer mom trucks'.. Status symbols for suburbanite dwellers that want to role play and the only 'cargo' hauled in the back are grocery bags anyway. Totally useless for me. I like 4 doors and a backseat but I have to have an 8 foot box as well and of course a GN hitch in it.

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

 

[Jstpssng]

A truck has 22.5 tires. Anything else is a soccer mom truck.

22 inch tires on a pickup is just for looks. You can't even drive down a rough road with those low profile tires without trashing the wheels.