The New F150

BigDave · Sep 10, 2003

HEY WAIT A MINUTE!!!! I have an F-150 with a color matched hard torneau cover. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

It is very functional, since I carry my tandem bicycle in it much more easily that I could in an SUV. In an SUV I would need to take the second & third rows of seats out, but then my bike wouldn't have the security of being concealed from the view of would be thieves. The bike is eight feet long but weighs less than thirty pounds, so buying an heavy duty truck would be silly, as if a $7000 bicycle isn't silly enough. The cover also lets me go to the dump on Saturday morning, then follow around the misses shopping all day with the security of locking up the packages after each store. I also have a V6 & 5sp, since I don't really have desire to tow anything other than the occassional equipment rental like a stump grinder. The truly best part was this truck only cost me $14,000 new with XLT trim and alloy wheels back in 97. Much cheaper than the big boy trucks and the SUVs.

Oh yeah, I remember when we lived in Texas one of my wife's macho male co-workers called it pretty boy truck when she described my new truck, well that is until he met me, when he was assured there ain't nothing pretty about me. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

BTW, my truck was built in Canada.

Dozernut · Sep 10, 2003

I've got to agree with Bigpete, what are you so angry about? My son has my old Toyota now, I don't consider him a yuppie or on an ego trip. The same with Bird, Bigdave and several other members who have an F150. Some people simply do not need a big one ton truck, yet the 1/2 tons are work trucks used to deliver bulky items that won't fit in a passenger car or a van. Some people use them to haul firewood, have a lawn service, tow their camper or boat and several other uses. I have big trucks, American made Chevys, a 1964 and a 1965, both one ton dumps, but I don't look down my nose at owners of smaller trucks. I would seriously consider the F150 if I didn't need a bigger truck.

cowboydoc · Sep 10, 2003

No that was a 2002. After the whole deal I wound up getting the 2003. That was not a very good experience at all. The dealer had alot to do with that.

uno · Sep 10, 2003

( F150's, Chevy 1/2 ton's and Dodge Ram 1500's are trucks for the yuppie crowd to take to the grocery store. )

Its obvious you do not know everyone that has a 1/2 ton truck,nor have you seen every 1/2 ton truck in use.
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stvman · Sep 10, 2003

Wow this is the first time I have read this thread and I don't get it /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif How do a bunch of predomanantly Japanese tractor owners bash a Japanese truck, again /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif As far as who is best, to each his own. I think if we let resale value be a determining factor Toyota smokes everybody. With all the incentives the domestic mfgrs. are giving they aren't doing any good for the resale of trucks purchased three short years ago. This I sadly found out when I traded my 00 Silverado in that only had 32000 miles, LS 4x4 paid 29,000 got 14000. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

F350Lawman · Sep 11, 2003

Fellas let's behave and try not to get out of hand. There is simply no reason for knocking others choices. It is wrong to belittle someone or stick them in a category over what the drive. We should respect others choices as we would want them to respect ours.

The bottomline is that Toyotas AND 1/2 ton trucks are BOTH for "girlie" men! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Release the real man inside of you that is waiting to be reborn, buy a big stinkin' American dieslel 1 ton! You will feel a change the instant you sit in that baby, hear the engine roar to life and start eating diesel fumes...aaaah.

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I think all these trucks are good trucks there just not for me. It's nice we have all these choices. They all serve a particular purpose as does my truck.

Docsknotinn · Sep 11, 2003

Daryl, Youre not sore because those F-150's pass you on the road, cost less and get better fuel economy than your "REAL MAN" truck are you ? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I guess some of us forgot this was a strand about F-150's. My 2500 Duramax has a tonnaeu cover thats painted with a chrome ball and all. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif But you wont be pullin that around now will ya ? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Dave

Bob_In_MN · Sep 11, 2003

Daryl,

I'm hoping your post was somewhat tongue in cheek, but the lack of smiling faces suggests otherwise.

My truck--short bed with extended cab (small seat in back). Why does this work for me--becasue I need to take my crew with me and my tools fit in the back. When I'm installing a new job, I pull a dual axle trailer.

Don't fool yourself about the bigger trucks--I see a fair amount of 3/4 and 1 ton diesels being driven by people you would term yuppies /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif The 1/2 trucks don't have the market cornered there.

So--you saying the 1/2 ton truck owners don't do any serious work may be true of some people, but not all. I've got a few guys on my crew that, after a 16 hour day, would tend to disagree with you /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Now I'm guilty of taking my own thread even more off course. Sorry about that.

Bob

uno · Sep 11, 2003

( Wow this is the first time I have read this thread and I don't get it How do a bunch of predomanantly Japanese tractor owners bash a Japanese truck )

You are on the money,I do not understand it either.Go figure. LOL /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

fivestring · Sep 11, 2003

So....
How 'bout those New Jersey Devils??????? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

bigpete · Sep 11, 2003

I ABSOLUTELY think Darryl's post was filled with the same pride we all have in our fueled gizmos. Tongue-in-cheek goes hand-in-hand with that emotion. We all go aver the top on occasion and get a little "brain ego cookie" when we do it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif More so than from the truck we drive, methinks.

I was serious--Darryl's right about me, but only to a point. I don't work with my truck at the level where it would make sense for me to get ANY truck with the capability of hauling or or pulling those loads. That would be like me buying a JD 5000 series tractor with a 12' brush hog to mow my 4 acres of pretty fescue. However, I need a truck that can tow 5,000+ pounds...period. I'm a half-ton guy, no more, no less.

Yup, yup, Yuppie..whatever. I'm sure I've been called worse. I know lot's of people with desk jobs that have names for our blue-collar workforce, but they P.O. me even worse than people who categorize me with Yuppies--I've got tons of respect for any man or woman that works both ethically and morally every day, whether it's with their truck or not.

I think I'm more like a "MUSKY." Middle-aged, under-employed, stagnant-salaried, kind, yard-bum. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Docsknotinn · Sep 11, 2003

Forget the Devils !... Go " MUSKYS ". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Dave

Bob_In_MN · Sep 11, 2003

Pete,

Good point on the blue collar issue. I'm lucky to work a desk job much of the time, but my other company requires hard physical labor--so I get the best of both worlds. In addition, many of my clients are in the precision manufacturing industry.

I have to say--when I'm working the manual labor, it feels good to look at the completion of a new project. I get a real sense of accomplishment. My desk job is good, but it's hard to get the same feeling that you "completed" something when many of the times you don't see the end result.

Bringing this back to trucks--that's all I use my truck for--work. I know if I'm staring out the windshield of the truck, I'm eitther on my way to or coming back from a long day.

Regarding the new 150--I'm not sure I like the looks, but I didn't like the current 150 when it came out and now I do.

Bob

BigDave · Sep 11, 2003

( Wow this is the first time I have read this thread and I don't get it How do a bunch of predomanantly Japanese tractor owners bash a Japanese truck, again )

Wow, I thought my tractor was made in Georgia which happens to have a Japanese engine. Boomers are only built in Georgia & nowhere else in the world, but that doesn't mean there aren't a bunch of parts from all over the world. If my Boomer is a Japanese tractor wouldn't that make Nissan cars built in Tennessee with Mexican engines, Mexican cars? BTW, I really like my wife's Japanese made Nissan.

Anyway, what gives me the right to bash a Japanese truck? I owned one!!! Now I will clarify, that I've never owned a Toyota built in Indiana, so maybe things are different. J's supercharger looks kind of neat, to bad it isn't a Lexus option. I wouldn't mind talking the misses into an SUV.

By using your resale value example - you are doing the same thing as everyone else; saying mine is better than yours.

Docsknotinn · Sep 11, 2003

I Hear That Tractor comein
its rollin around the bend, and I aint seen the sunshine, since I dont know when, Cause Im stuck on The T-B-N website and this strand keeps DRaaaaaaagin on. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif J.Cash

BigDave · Sep 11, 2003

Dave (aka Mr Cash),

I got an hour on the tractor today. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

5030 · Sep 11, 2003

To all you guys:

I think I did a really good job of evocking (I think I spelled it right) some F150 like emotions on your parts. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I am only teasing, that what this thread is all about, besides we all have tractors from across the pond or at least parts of those tractors came from across the pond.

After all, I do drive a Suzuki to work. It was my wifes and she gave it to me when she got her gas guzzling Ranger. She wants it back, but I won't let go. She still uses it on weekends for the groceries and trips to the feed mill. It's rusty, but trusty. It's amazing. I have never replaced the brakes, one set of tires and a couple of headlight bulbs in a little under 200,000 miles.

My 350 Ford on the other hand has had 2 sets of tires, new batteries, alternator, upper and lower ball joints on the front axle and 3 crankshaft position sensors in 85,000 miles.

Of course the Suzuki will fit in the Fords bed, but that's not the point.

The problem with driving the Sidekick to work is that I have to drive through the 'hood to get to the shop and all the cops stare at me when I go by. It seems that pimps drive Sidekicks. It's their car of choice for some unknown reason. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

From now on, I'll put a funny face in the post when I am not being serious.

In closing, I still think color coordinated lids, tool boxes and other gee-gaw on little pickup trucks is yuppieism at it best. Actually, the Explorer Sport Track is the utmost yuppie vehicle, it's bed can't even hold a half sheet of plywood. If you needed a sheet, you'd have to pay the lumberman to cut it up before you could put it in the bed of one!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Egon · Sep 12, 2003

Any chance your wearing a white suit when going to work!!!!

Egon

Mark_in_NH · Sep 12, 2003

( 3 crankshaft position sensors in 85,000 miles)

What exactly does this sensor do, I have never heard of such an item. Maybe it is strictly a diesel thing.

cowboydoc · Sep 12, 2003

The CPS is the cam position sensor. The powerstrokes are electronically controlled and the sensor relates the postion of the cam to the computer to control the valves and basically synchronize the motor. When the cps goes out your truck will stop dead.