ShinerBock wrote:
4x4ord wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
ShinerBock wrote:
4x4ord wrote:
^^^^ What kind of numbers would you be looking at now if you were to trade in your truck for a 2022? (You’re probably hoping/waiting for Ram to put a ZF 8 speed behind the Cummins?) Do you still have the ‘14 or did you trade it for a ‘16?
Nope, still have the 14 and it will be the truck my son drives in the coming years when he is old enough. Don't plan on getting rid of it anytime soon. Only looked at the trade in value in 2016 to compare values for the gaser versus diesel spreadsheet I had.
If anything I will just get a new truck when I hand it down in about 4 years. After all, it has been paid off since 2018 and the $900 payments I used to pay have been going to growing some investments since then.
And Shiner probably changes his oil and air filters and stuff, so his truck should last a long time! LOL
It'll be interesting to see how long it lasts once he hands it off to a 16 year old.:B
My son is very much like me. While he and I don't care about how it looks or how dirty it is, we take very good care of the mechanical portion of things. My brother and wife are the opposite. They keep their vehicles spotless, but will go way over their maintenance intervals.
If my brother and I were selling our mostly identical trucks today, most people would buy my brother's due to how spotless it is not knowing that he would go thousands of miles over his oil change interval, forget to put on his air filter clamp so it was sucking in unfiltered air for 30k miles until I found it and quickly replaced it, never greases his driveshaft, never changed his diff/trans/transfer case oil, and so on. He is the reason why I don't buy used vehicles based on how "spotless" they are.
I’m not saying your son will follow any specific pattern:) but my perception of things is that young men pay a lot more for insurance vs young girls because they tend to be terrible drivers. It seems as though the more the boy loves his car the more likely he is to crash it. Many of the kids I know with lifted and tuned trucks are a lot more likely to wreck their truck than the girl who fails to follow the proper maintenance schedule.
