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Sometime I swear you people can do without houses down there.49 yo truck
We’ll wear holes through diff cover or center section dumping oil before rust will do any serious damage to rest of it.My 30 year old trail rig
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you'd better hit it with some por15
fix that right up
How are the rails on that truck? I've got a 4900 with a mint cab, but ridiculously jacked frame rails.Fuck your gloss
Surprisingly still stable. Bit of rust jacking, but not enough to start rebuilding any of it.
Most of the Rangers I pick up with the loader forks do that too. The only difference is no one wants them before they're fed to the shredder where as the export guys are fighting over the junk Toyotas to ship overseas.
I had a 2wd Tacoma do exactly that. While on a lift, no less. Promptly listed it while I was on the other place and a member got it right away.
Thats the real difference. You can sell near every bolt on a trashed toyota. Only folks that would want a trashed ranger, probly have aerostar parts in their front yard
Its a good reason to build an offroad ranger vs a jeep or toyota.Thats the real difference. You can sell near every bolt on a trashed toyota. Only folks that would want a trashed ranger, probly have aerostar parts in their front yard
It's one of few remaining small pickups that aren't on the classic radar.you're going to hurt a lot of feelers with that statement
You know how there's a certain plow guy who has a propensity to run his mouth forgetting that everyone in the room has the experience to call bullshit on his bullshit? Well that's what your dumb left coast ass just did.
Your life path is more or less predicated on the fact that stupidity hurts far too little. Both for you and your customers.
There's 10x as many Rangers still on the road. No need to pick them over because so much shit is still in production. Nobody is picking them clean for the same reason no dismantler is stupid enough to pull and shelve GMT800 headlights.
History repeats itself. Look at what all the worthless boomers who we should have pushed off a cliff wound up driving prices up on.
That's what people said about Chevelles when they were hacking them up to put a tree-fiddy in.
you're going to hurt a lot of feelers with that statement
Yep
I know this is going to be hard for your Iowa Public Schools educated ass to understand but it takes me basically no effort to come up with novel ways to call Steve an idiot.
Do I have to post the statistics again, arse?I know this is going to be hard for your Iowa Public Schools educated ass to understand but it takes me basically no effort to come up with novel ways to call Steve an idiot.
Live in the rust belt. Toyota's never really caught on too much til this new gen of hipster Tacoma's (Ontario, Canada)
There are still quite a few around here. Probably tied with the gmt400, maybe a little less. I assume most are 5 speed... I can't picture anyone spending $2k to rebuild an A4LD for a $1500 truck.
I said your Iowa public school educated ass, not the statistical average Iowa public school educated ass.
As I was 98th-99th percentile by IA standards of the time I don’t think you prove the point you are looking for.I said your Iowa public school educated ass, not the statistical average Iowa public school educated ass.
At least in New England they were everywhere back in the day (like 2005-2015 They easily had parity with the Ranger during that time period. Now you never see the older ones but there's a decent number of Rangers still around.
Pick literally any planet other than PNW hipsterville.
Seems like they're all extended cab shortbed autos, at least around me. Fair number of manuals, but not as big as you'd think.
We still have a fair number of white single cab 2wd fleet trucks which are usually 2.3 + 5spd or auto but it's not like I'm looking under the hood) on the road but they're outnumbered probably 2-1 by ex-cab trucks in various configurations that probably had nicer lives.
I don't think anybody except dumb-ass Toyota fanboys thinks that. Everyone's well aware that Rangers are not quite as nice, there's some not great engine/trans options and they have lived much harder lives. But they don't have the glaring fault of rusting out if you look at them funny so the overall value for money is far higher for everyone who doesn't live in the desert.
Why wouldn't I be? It's a nice well rounded vehicle of it's era with no particularly crippling Achilles heel.
You see more late 90s and early 00s Rangers than you do that generation of Tacoma. Maybe some of that has to do with sales numbers but I think a lot of it has to do with they're trucks you can't replace cheaply and unlike a Tacoma the whole thing isn't roached the time it comes time to do serious rust repair so people opt to do just that.
That's every leaf sprung pickup, SUV or van though. They all go through a set or two of hangers over their life. I wouldn't hold that against the Tacoma either.
