First New Vehicle Purchase and 1/2 Ton Truck Review

[D_Eclipse9916]

Almost one month in and 330 miles total.

Love driving this thing around. Been really busy with a bunch of house projects and it's a godsend having a truck again. Moved a fridge between rentals, lots of lighting projects, taking the bike out, shipping out wheels, mounting tires, and general home ownership is just far easier with a truck.

I somewhat miss having a longbed truck as I fill up the bed pretty quickly (carrying an 8 foot ladder was out the bed!); so I am figuring out solutions to get more storage. My tonneau cover Retrax makes attachments for "roof rack" accessories that I am debating adding 2x bike racks and a medium sized basket. It means I still have full access to bed as it is above the cover and is easily removed if I am doing something extremely large. Trying to avoid anything off the hitch as ultimately I want the truck in the garage and it's already going to be a "within 5 inches" type deal.





Wife enjoys the massive crew cab for the kids with plenty of inside space; and shockingly have used both the cooled and heated seats during the month of December. She likes driving this thing around (Although she still prefers her SUV) vs hating driving my old diesel. Ford's Apple CarPlay isnt as good as Dodge's Uconnect; my main complaint just being a little slow on start up.

I still grin like a little school girl driving it around and my wheels came in that I can hopefully get mounted up next week. Averaging 13.2 so far, but should get better as it was 11MPG average only 100 miles ago.