If you drive a pickup truck in the suburbs, why?

[Anonymous]

I hate the stupid pickups in the tiny parking garages, it takes 5 minutes for them to manuever in and out of a space and they hold everyone else up and its impossible to see around them when you are trying to get in and out of your space. If you live in Arlington, where all the parking is underground parking with narrow aisles or parallel onstreet parking, you don't need a pickup truck. If you use one to tow stuff, fine, but then don't take it to the Teeter or Giant that only has a parking garage where you have to maneuver around a bunch of posts and ramps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My HOA bans commercial vehicles and trucks.
It’s in the registered documents with the county depository.

If it’s tagged as a truck (registerqtion) it’s banned.

Same for cargo vans. Any name on it or ladder rack it’s banned.

This keeps the community values up.

There is plenty of county streets for overnight parking.

Low class is low class. No thanks. I like the UMC rules.

I use my pickup truck to haul my horse to dressage shows. Sorry to be so low class!

Real class would use a Range Rover or Bentayga. Sorry pleb.

Old money would use a truck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My HOA bans commercial vehicles and trucks.
It’s in the registered documents with the county depository.

If it’s tagged as a truck (registerqtion) it’s banned.

Same for cargo vans. Any name on it or ladder rack it’s banned.

This keeps the community values up.

There is plenty of county streets for overnight parking.

Low class is low class. No thanks. I like the UMC rules.

I use my pickup truck to haul my horse to dressage shows. Sorry to be so low class!

Real class would use a Range Rover or Bentayga. Sorry pleb.

Old money would use a truck.

Sam Walton, of Walmart fame, drove an old Ford pick up until he died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You're a moron if you think two vehicles with tow ratings 7700lbs+ can't easily tow a horse trailer, and you're obviously a middle-class schlub too as real money would have the help drive the horses and have a chauffeur transport you in a separate vehicle.

You are a fool. Real horse people are laughing at you.

[Anonymous]

DH drives an f150...great fuel economy, it's basically a raised luxury vehicle. He also tows our boat when we go from ocean to lake, hauls all of the sports gear from place to place, etc. Beautiful vehicle. And, it will last forever. Sorry it's a lot bigger than your kia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You're a moron if you think two vehicles with tow ratings 7700lbs+ can't easily tow a horse trailer, and you're obviously a middle-class schlub too as real money would have the help drive the horses and have a chauffeur transport you in a separate vehicle.

You are a fool. Real horse people are laughing at you.

The lion does not concern himself with the opinion of the sheep. Enjoy hooking up your own trailer, pleb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You're a moron if you think two vehicles with tow ratings 7700lbs+ can't easily tow a horse trailer, and you're obviously a middle-class schlub too as real money would have the help drive the horses and have a chauffeur transport you in a separate vehicle.

You are a fool. Real horse people are laughing at you.

The lion does not concern himself with the opinion of the sheep. Enjoy hooking up your own trailer, pleb.

Failed troll has failed. Again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH drives an f150...great fuel economy, it's basically a raised luxury vehicle. He also tows our boat when we go from ocean to lake, hauls all of the sports gear from place to place, etc. Beautiful vehicle. And, it will last forever. Sorry it's a lot bigger than your kia.

lol, Ford's V6 ecoboost is probably the lease reliable engine on the market right now...good luck keeping that thing running outside of warranty.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ecoboost+engine+failure

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH drives an f150...great fuel economy, it's basically a raised luxury vehicle. He also tows our boat when we go from ocean to lake, hauls all of the sports gear from place to place, etc. Beautiful vehicle. And, it will last forever. Sorry it's a lot bigger than your kia.

That's great, but this thread is about people who drive pickups that don't need them. No horses, or yardwork, or weekend trips to the lumber yard. Just white-collar drones who could just as easily be driving a compact car. What's up with Joe Account Manager tooling around in an F-150 Crew Cab?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH drives an f150...great fuel economy, it's basically a raised luxury vehicle. He also tows our boat when we go from ocean to lake, hauls all of the sports gear from place to place, etc. Beautiful vehicle. And, it will last forever. Sorry it's a lot bigger than your kia.

lol, Ford's V6 ecoboost is probably the lease reliable engine on the market right now...good luck keeping that thing running outside of warranty.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ecoboost+engine+failure

Yep. Eco-Boost engines are engineered to basically operate about ~10% away from catastrophic failure thresholds with regardless to intake manifold pressure, cylinder head temps, compression ratio, and exhaust gas temps.

Their design lifespan is incredibly short if they are used hard (like say, in a TRUCK!). All that high pressure boost, high compression ratios, and high temps from the turbochargers are all working together to beat that engine to death.

If I were getting a new F150, the ONLY engine I'd get is the 5.0 liter naturally aspirated V8. It won't destroy itself from within at 100,000 miles.

[Anonymous]

DH and I both drive crew cab Silverados. I grew up on a farm and work in Ag processing now, and DH just likes having a truck.

To the seatbelt question, my truck has the front jump seat and there is a seatbelt. More likely that your son just couldn’t locate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH drives an f150...great fuel economy, it's basically a raised luxury vehicle. He also tows our boat when we go from ocean to lake, hauls all of the sports gear from place to place, etc. Beautiful vehicle. And, it will last forever. Sorry it's a lot bigger than your kia.

lol, Ford's V6 ecoboost is probably the lease reliable engine on the market right now...good luck keeping that thing running outside of warranty.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ecoboost+engine+failure

Yep. Eco-Boost engines are engineered to basically operate about ~10% away from catastrophic failure thresholds with regardless to intake manifold pressure, cylinder head temps, compression ratio, and exhaust gas temps.

Their design lifespan is incredibly short if they are used hard (like say, in a TRUCK!). All that high pressure boost, high compression ratios, and high temps from the turbochargers are all working together to beat that engine to death.

If I were getting a new F150, the ONLY engine I'd get is the 5.0 liter naturally aspirated V8. It won't destroy itself from within at 100,000 miles.

PP here...I’m originally from Waldorf and my cousin Arliss (died of a heroin OD...may he rest in peace ) had a 1998 F150 that lasted 150k miles before it completely rusted out from the inside. I’m confident the 2018 my husband drives in suburban Maryland will last the same amount of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH drives an f150...great fuel economy, it's basically a raised luxury vehicle. He also tows our boat when we go from ocean to lake, hauls all of the sports gear from place to place, etc. Beautiful vehicle. And, it will last forever. Sorry it's a lot bigger than your kia.

lol, Ford's V6 ecoboost is probably the lease reliable engine on the market right now...good luck keeping that thing running outside of warranty.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ecoboost+engine+failure

Yep. Eco-Boost engines are engineered to basically operate about ~10% away from catastrophic failure thresholds with regardless to intake manifold pressure, cylinder head temps, compression ratio, and exhaust gas temps.

Their design lifespan is incredibly short if they are used hard (like say, in a TRUCK!). All that high pressure boost, high compression ratios, and high temps from the turbochargers are all working together to beat that engine to death.

If I were getting a new F150, the ONLY engine I'd get is the 5.0 liter naturally aspirated V8. It won't destroy itself from within at 100,000 miles.

PP here...I’m originally from Waldorf and my cousin Arliss (died of a heroin OD...may he rest in peace ) had a 1998 F150 that lasted 150k miles before it completely rusted out from the inside. I’m confident the 2018 my husband drives in suburban Maryland will last the same amount of time.

NP but you know that’s not a whole lot of miles for a car to last and just be done right?

[Anonymous]

the new F150 is aluminum, so they won't be having body rust issues like older trucks.

[Anonymous]

I remember reading about a farmer back in maybe the 60s who couldn’t afford a pickup truck, so he removed all the seats and the trunk hood of his sedan, and just sat on a 5 gallon bucket when he drove it.

Sometimes I think it would be hilarious to embarrass my kids by doing that to our car.