truckin.... continued
Dec. 15th, 2004 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietannSo Ben now says he is leaning towards the 4Runner SUV rather than the Tundra truck :(
It's mostly because he is worried about having enough secure storage. We'd have to get some kind of a lockbox for the bed of the Tundra, and who's to say someone wouldn't figure out how to steal it anyway? (Not that there would be anything of much monetary value in there; it would mostly contain tie-downs and spare parts for the trailer.) And he says a cap for the bed would bring the cost up close to that of the 4Runner. On the other hand, a Tundra is much better for transporting sheets of plywood, bags of mulch, and other big and/or messy stuff.
Nonetheless, I Still Want The Truck. We are doing more test drives tomorrow. Wish me luck :)
It's mostly because he is worried about having enough secure storage. We'd have to get some kind of a lockbox for the bed of the Tundra, and who's to say someone wouldn't figure out how to steal it anyway? (Not that there would be anything of much monetary value in there; it would mostly contain tie-downs and spare parts for the trailer.) And he says a cap for the bed would bring the cost up close to that of the 4Runner. On the other hand, a Tundra is much better for transporting sheets of plywood, bags of mulch, and other big and/or messy stuff.
Nonetheless, I Still Want The Truck. We are doing more test drives tomorrow. Wish me luck :)
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Date: 2004-12-14 09:22 pm (UTC)Er, luck! Luck! ... :)
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Date: 2004-12-14 09:30 pm (UTC)*giggle*
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Date: 2004-12-14 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 09:29 pm (UTC)I agree. The back seats would get in the way of a lot of stuff, and a 4Runner isn't *that* big. Furthermore, in New England, one cannot get a 4Runner without a sunroof (which we don't want) and also without a third row of seats (which we don't want).
Ben is probably watching this conversation, so I hope he picks up on some ideas...
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Date: 2004-12-14 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 10:01 pm (UTC)Get the cap, then you have a closed-in safe and dry area for most of the time, but those times you need to haul something long and bulky you will have the ability to convert your vehicle into something ultra convenient (and not have to rent a vehicle to transport stuff, with the associated annoyances). I wish I had enough money for 2 vehicles, I'd have my small honda for trotting around and a pickup for those times when you NEED something to drag around something big, bulky and potentially dirty.
Heck, get a SUV and when you put your first bale of hay for the critters in there, you'll regret having to pull out all the little pieces stuck in the carpet. And just think of it, if you had a truck you could have just put the Ostrich in the back and drove it home yourself!
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Date: 2004-12-15 04:46 pm (UTC)One of the reasons not to go with the SUV is that it has a real interior, with upholstered seats and all. We'd destroy it in no time.
Destruction is a real problem
Date: 2004-12-17 02:47 am (UTC)truck duty, like a Ford F250. A Toyota? Probably rust to pieces in 3
years, even garaged.
Re: Destruction is a real problem
Date: 2004-12-17 10:14 pm (UTC)And if they rust that badly, why would our carpenter, who lives in Vermont, have had his for 8 years and 100+ K miles with NO rust problems? (In fact, no problems at all until recently, when a dead tree fell on it...)
Re: Destruction is a real problem
Date: 2004-12-19 07:10 am (UTC)*blush* yeah
Date: 2004-12-20 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 11:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-15 04:41 am (UTC)My father has always driven a pick up truck, he had one of those locked heavy duty boxes in the back, it was a huge steel box filled with heavy tools, with a chain and padlock securing it in the back of the truck and a padlock on the box. Well, lets just say, instead of cutting the lock and stealing the tools out of the box they cut the chain that was holding it in the back of the truck and walked away with the whole box. It must have taken three or four people to lift it, that sucker was huge. What is amusing about this whole story is that my father never ever locked the cab of his truck and they didn't touch anything inside the cab, not even the unconcealed handgun lying on the front seat. (Backstory: We lived in Florida, at the time it was perfectly legal to carry a gun, as long as it wasn't concealed. As long as it was in plain sight in the vehicle,lying uncovered on the seat or dashboard it was perfectly legal. If he accidentally threw his coat over it, he could have gotten in trouble. My Dad worked for a service station that had been robbed at gunpoint several times, he kept it for his own safety.)
And well, I hate SUV's, and wouldn't recommend one to anyone unless you were an off-roader. Or someone who needed it for rough terrain. I doubt the roads up there in your town are unpaved or considered rough terrain. But I will say that if you are at an event, sleeping in a cushy SUV on a wet rainy night will be a bit more comfortable than the back of a pick-up even with a cap on it. Pick-up caps often leak, and may be lockable, but are very easily broken into, so if you want secure, it's not the way to go.