Someone hit the back of my truck and didn't leave a note. We live in a society of asshole degenerates.
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Same shit happened to me within the first week I owned my current truck. Hopefully yours is minor like mine was.
Shitty GM!
GM. To be fair how many people still carry a pen and paper in the car? I do, but haven't used in at least 7 years.
Having a trailer hitch installed helps. It ensures they will at least have a non-functioning radiator before you get the smallest scratch on your bumper. Has saved me lots of dings. Also big ass push bar bumper on the front. I've watched 3 people back into it and just drive off while I sat in the cab. Two of them busted their tail lights completely. Didn't hurt me so I didn't care I just laughed.
What about the idea we live in a jungle, as in never left it? Works for me. No expectations, life as a practice of impeccability. Now that's an adventure, never boring, constant learning.
Kind of fair... And maybe they went looking for a pen at any of the stores I would have been at yesterday... But let's be real. They most likely just took off. I've had this happen several times. If you really wanted, you could contact local PD with the plates and have them contact for you. How many people don't have phones. I would find a way.
And if I couldn't, I'd wait there.
I'm sure a trip to Harbor Freight will fix it. The question is whether I can avoid spending so much money that I could just buy a new tailgate 😂
This is one reason I'm okay with having an older truck.
On the hitch thing, I don't because it really isnt good etiquette to leave them on, but maybe I will now.
I don't because I don't want to be mistaken for one of the larpers I've seen around here with towing gear on a truck that clearly never tows.
The funniest I've seen so far was a 2 1/2 receiver with a 1 1/4 hitch in it. I also regularly see spotless new balls, balls completely rusted over with no rub marks, and d rings hanging on a receiver that has 0 rub marks from taking hitches in and out.
Yup for sure, I hope you appreciated the humor though XD
If I didn't tow I wouldn't own a truck. Definitely seen some goofy stuff like that for bike racks, but if you have a receiver plug or it's still got paint on it, sell your truck you don't need it XD
> I don't because it really isnt good etiquette to leave them on,
It isn't? XD
Nah I'm keeping it. I don't do everything for need. I like using the bed.
I do. I usually incorporate laughter into bad situations.
No because they hurt knees. But that's my opinion. I don't know if it's a written rule necessarily. I could be the only one who thinks that 😁
I originally switched to a pickup so dirty shit would be in the bed. Firewood, muddy gear, other stuff that could go in an SUV or van but was a bitch to clean up. Amazing how quick I goldfished into towing regularly once it was an option.
I think the funniest thing about the LARPers is that non truck people don't care and real truck guys can spot a fake easily. We usually are looking because guys who work are always curious about the work other guys are doing. So the only person you maybe impressed was another LARPer.
If you have a 1/4 ton pickup like an S10 or Ranger or whatever, that's fine they have their use case. If you have a full size 3/4 ton or bigger, get rid of it. 1/2 ton stuff is a gray area. Most people own them to get groceries and a few bags of mulch in the spring. So that's what their built for and targeted at, so they have Cadillac features with a tiny box on the back.
But I don't tow. I may fill the bed, but that's always done it for me. I'm considering a very small tow camper but that's the extent of my towing needs right now. It's a small truck anyway. V6 but not exactly towing a lot of weight
Ah yeah very true. Shin buster 10000.
I wouldn't say my low trim 13 Frontier has any Cadillac features. Lol I'm keeping that fucker until it turns to dust. Love that truck. Unfortunately, it's considered small by modern standards.
Yeah I definitely don't give a fuck. I used it as an electrician but honestly I didn't need it even then. Purely a luxury for me. I'm southern. I can make anything work 😂 I can get materials home in a fucking Corolla if I need to. Might get pulled over but I *could*
Nah those little guys are fine they're smaller than most modern SUVs. I've been looking for a little single cab to daily, while still being able to throw a set of wheels or whatever in the bed. They're hard to find and spendy.
100%. But... I'm going to sit here and lie though. When I fist picked it up I was a kid and wanted some fun. It was a project. I like to go fast, while also occasionally pulling heavy shit.
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My wife and I were just talking about this. I got her a RAV4 (not even the older smaller ones either) and she was concerned it would be too small for her one ass to get to work and occasionally pick up groceries. Then she saw the Highlander she thought might be a better option and told me I was right. She had no clue just how big they actually were in real life (she'd been screen surfing). I told I wouldn't even want bigger than a 4runner and even that would be more than I'd almost ever actually use (although this may be changing in the coming years). At that point I'm happier in the smaller truck I already have. Modern vehicles are way too fucking big. And I won't even go into the many old men who can barely walk having these gigantic luxury trucks (remember when people laughed at that idea?) they can barely steer or get into.
Yup. They're huge man. My pickup has a 6" lift (I didn't install it, and I'm too cheap to remove it XD) and It's still lower than a 2023 all factory. Newer suburbans and Escalade are bigger than Excursions used to be. There's nothing luxury about my 99 XTL. Might as well drive with the windows down everywhere XD
I actually got my truck when I was in my early 20s. I'm glad a small truck was my dream at the time. But I'm finding lately that I want an older Tacoma to putt around in. I really dig those smaller pickups from the 90s/early 2000s. But I have what I have and love it so haven't done anything to change it. Might fuck around and restore something cool when we get a bigger place.
Yeah and it really kills me when I hear those people at work talking about gas mileage. Like you bought a fucking tank dude. And then they use these smaller engines with a turbo slapped on it and people wonder why it's all going to shit. Values and actions are totally misaligned in this space.
Don't worry they're almost impossible to find in okay shape, and they can bring more money than newer and/or larger trucks. Parts are getting harder to find and they're getting to the age where everything rubber is starting to rot and leak, and wires are starting to crack. A whole new class of issues XD
What most of these people *actually* want is something like a RAV4 at the largest. Even the older RAVs were plenty of space for daily driving. I had a 99 Rodeo before the truck and I would still have it had I not been a young dumb fuck at the time I broke it 😂
Yup. This is a long discussion, for a lot of reasons. Mostly regulation again. On the topic of you don't need it, it's true. But when you do need it it sucks not to have it. I mean I guess I'm that guy for my friends who don't have a truck XD
It's nice being able to pull a 38' 12klb camper without feeling it behind you.
Yeah my goal is to completely rebuild something as a learning experience. My dream is to have a large enough garage that I can do a complete tear down, or in reverse, a total build from junk yard and aftermarket parts. But, you are definitely right. It's hard enough to get parts for newer stuff. However... I hope we see more people desire those older designs once they tire of paying more for vehicles than they do their housing. Maybe (I really hope) we'll see reprinting of those simpler designs, in turn promoting more parts for those types of vehicles.
I'm being naive. A foolish optimist, if you can believe it from my notes 😂
I remember working at a thrift store at 18 and a dude bitching us out to not scratch the bed LINER in his full size luxury truck as we loaded in a used sofa.
Those mother fuckers are the types we can all unite to make fun of.
Now that I'm older, I figure he was probably a broke ass truck poor bitch buying a sofa at Goodwill. At least that thought gives me a chuckle
It's takes a pretty sizeable dent for me to even notice 😂
> My dream is to have a large enough garage that I can do a complete tear down
Your hoping for the dream any of us car guys are hoping for.
My engine needs an oil pan and it has to come out to do it. I say an extra prayer every night it hangs in there a little longer.
What the fuck lol that's such a dumb design
Is there some good reason it's that way? Seems dumb.
XD Yeah that's what the liner is for, it IS the protector. I can promise you, that my bed is way too filthy for a sofa. It's kind of my moving garbage can until I clean it out in the fall
I only care about the long term stuff like rust. Inside the bed, as long as it's hanging on idgaf. It's a tool.
Yeah rust where I live is the major concern. Everything else is meh
Lol same
It's largest light duty diesel engine ever sold in a pickup XD They put a cross member below the pan and they had to set the engine practically on it to fit it under the hood.
Yup. I have to rust treat everything twice a year to keep the thing from turning into red dust.
Guys have done it in frame. You can unbolt everything and tear the entire top of the engine down and jack it up 6" to pull the pan, but you're already 7/8 of the way to pulling it. Just need to remove the hood or pull the front clip which is already disconnected.
Tragic. Maybe you can use the time to do other preventative work. Although, with parts quality, I'm hesitant to touch anything hard to get to that currently works. Chances are the working part on there is better than whatever you'll replace it with these days. I'm hearing of OEM parts being DOA in increasing numbers.
And as I learn more, it seems that dudes who work on shit boxes have this general attitude. If it works right now, keep fucking moving lol
Those fuck around and find out parts are a dilemma though. It's different if you know it's a leaking pan or something like that. Could lose an engine
What are you using?
There it is. Makes more sense lol
OEM and aftermarket for these engines (not the trucks) is great in some areas still. Regulation has killed a lot, but for now it's still fine, spendy, but fine.
Yup i ground it down, treated it, and sealed it, but some spots were too thin to grind out so there is only so much I can do for now.
And then there is always - well it's a worn 270k mile engine and still had plenty of original parts on it, how much is going to need replacing if I pull it. Then I might as well do a full rebuild on it XD
Yeah I think that's why the attitude is to just not. Because you can very easily justify this and that until you and up in some shit filled hole you didn't plan on being in.
It was that way when I decided to fix someone's bullshit in a website back when I did that. You pull one little thread and somehow end up naked 😂
Well I tried to do a frame on wire wheel and POR treatment, but I only got the outside of the frame done while I was still in school. I gave up on that dream and switched to Fluid Film. I hate the mess it makes but it really does keep stuff together with constraints that most consumers have.
Beyond that I always keep an oil can topped up with 1/2 engine oil and 1/2 ATF and lube joints, and anything that looks like it can hold junk or moisture - pinch welds, drain ports, cab corners, folds that kind of stuff. Sandwich metal like the gooseneck hitch and airbag mounts.
Yeah, sounds like we live in similar regions lol The southern US states are far easier on vehicles in this sense. Sun and heat damage there, but a lot less destructive on the actual safety and function long term. Just looks bad after a long time but who gives a fuck
That's why I rarely offer "fix" or fork other people's stuff. I'm not good enough at anything to fix someone's mistakes without completely redoing everything.
Fun part about being the computer dork at a performance shop. The other guys turned wrenches most of the time, I watched and beep blooped stuff to make it go faster.
yeah fuck rust dude. Unfortunately it stays off the road as much as I can help it in the winter. Salt and road treatments be like.
😂 exactly
I'm a fan of woolwax or fluid film.
I think I have woolwax on my list from a previous recommendation.