"TBone" <NoWay@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>> >overall cost of owner****p the gas
>>> burner is cheaper for the first quarter million miles.
>>
>> Let's get real for a minute with cost.. Your going to get 1/4 million
>> miles out of a gas truck? If so, you'll be replacing some serious
>> components imo, that you won't be in a ***mins. I don't think that has
>> been factored in as yet.
>
> But you are forgetting a key issue as well and that is time. Sure, the
> ***mins can run for a long time before it needs any real work but how
> about the rest of the truck? My truck is now 11 years old and still
only
> has 118,000 miles on it and for a while, I was driving it 80 miles a day
> just to get to work. Now if it gets 10,000 a year, that is a lot. To
get
> it to 250,000 would probably take me another 15 years and ***mins or
not,
> what shape do you really think that truck will be in at 26 years old?
>
> --
> If at first you don't succeed, you're not cut out for skydiving
>
>
according to how you treat it... when we buy a truck the first thing we
do
is put seat covers on it. there have been times where finding seat covers
to fit a new body style has been a challenge but we manage. the drivers
side seat cover starts to wear on the left side from entering and exiting
the truck. when the wear starts to show we switch the passenger and
drivers
seat covers from side to side. when the seat covers eventually wear
beyond
repair we replace them.
second thing we do is put those huge rubber floor mats in the floor
boards.
then we tint the windows to keep the u.v. from beating up on the interior
as
bad. when a truck is going to be parked for an extended time we put a sun
block hickeymadoo in the front wind****eld. i have one truck that is 15
years old in which the interior looks almost as good as new. the interior
on my 97 still looks good.
we keep up with regular maintenance using quality materials. when we have
to swap a part we use moco original parts. the trucks get washed
occasionally and they seem to stay looking good. my 93 dak has a paint
issue and we will be painting it before long and it will look as good as
new
again.
here is how the life of a truck works around here. i buy a new truck and
give it to the wife for making deliveries, pick ups and general
trans****tation. after about 5 to 7 years i buy her a new truck and that
truck p***** to me for a daily driver and work truck. i drive it for
another 5 to 7 years and we repeat the process. the 10 to 14 year old
truck
then gets passed down to one of the workers here at the shop. it sees
service 1 to 3 days per week until it gets rolled down the line when my
wife
and i do another rotation.
so as the truck gets older it sees less frequent driving but still sees
regular use and service. we keep them in the fleet until they are about
22
to 25 years old. then they get rolled off to farm duty hauling
fertilizer,
firewood and taking real abusive treatment until they die a natural death.
of course the the 84 mitsubi**** built dodge is sitting in the woods behind
the barn and i bet with a set of jumper cables to get it started, it would
get you where you needed to go and back. of course this truck looks
pretty
rough after living in a pine thicket for the past 8 or 10 years. if it
was
a diesel i bet it would look just as bad.
michael
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