Pickup Thoughts

[balactm]

I voted Chevy, Don't get me wrong, I love my little yota. But in terms of bigger trucks, I'm a chevy/gmc guy. I've seen those frame stiffness videos of the tundra and they scare the shit out of me. I've never been a fan of ford or dodge, although driven both. The dodge in my opinion lacks in the interior a lot. Plastic everywhere, cheap, just kind of...ehh. The ford has a great interior, but i can't get over my exploder actually catching fire on me and having a seriously effed up wiring system. I've driven a bunch of the silverados with enterprise and they are awesome. Super comfortable, reliable, and a really clean, albeit relatively plain interior.

[PDenbigh]

The Fords had this habbit of shooting spark plugs out of the rearmost cylinders due to lack of threads for the spark plugs in the head. The spark plug shooting problem might have been cured by the year-span you've selected.

Mine actually did that ('01) and it was a huge PITA to fix... partially because it was 19 degrees outside! Fortunately, Ford corrected this on 2003+ engines.

BTW, don't get the 4.6L engine if you go the F150 route. It's just not made for a truck in terms of power and torque. I swapped mine to a 5.4 and get better mileage, way better towing, and I can smoke the back tires :-).

[caa337]

Well my dad's chevy silverado gets 24 mpg on the highway when he isnt pulling anything and stuff and it drives really well for a truck. I hate that steering and the jimmys and maybe other cars from around that year are, its like you have to constantly move the wheel to be straight, really weird. I think the japs are getting better at making trucks though.

[Evan]

My dually now has 200k very hard miles, still drives smoother than some new trucks

and got smoked by a jap truck with a pasenger, tools and tires in the bed!

[Ole]

My dually now has 200k very hard miles, still drives smoother than some new trucks

and got smoked by a jap truck that weighs 1/2 of yours with a pasenger, tools and tires in the bed!

Fixed that for ya.

Now, Lets put some real weight back there, like say a 15k lb trailer and then you'll be smoking....

[Jeff]

HEMI > all

[Evan]

My dually now has 200k very hard miles, still drives smoother than some new trucks

and got smoked by a jap truck that weighs 1/2 of yours with a pasenger, tools and tires in the bed!

Fixed that for ya.

Now, Lets put some real weight back there, like say a 15k lb trailer and then you'll be smoking....

sounds like loser-talk!

[fiveoh2go]

Plus I almost puke everytime I see that stupid circley shaped steering wheel in the Ford.

Isn't that the shape it's supposed to be? :lol:

HEMI > all

[Jeff]

Thayer <3 Dodge....should have saved the old truck. We could have rebuilt it....made it better....faster.....STONGER (read: 360 V8)

[NTIman]

There's a huge difference between a Toyota Truck from when they built nice trucks to a Tundra. If you want a truck to use like a man should/would use a truck, you're going to have to go the Ford, GM, or Dodge way.

If you're looking for a truck to haul the trash once a week, go with Toyota. I don't feel that they are much more reliable than anything that the American companies make though.

Plus there is that whole frame wasn't dipped in anti-corrosion long enough and so it rusts to pieces recall thing on Tundras, but I won't go into that