What's the push to replace??

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I've got an '06 Silverado 1500 4x4 with just over 83k on it. It's got a few bumps and scrapes, but is generally rust free and runs just fine.

The recent squirrel damage thing (in another thread) caused the shop, the insurance company and just today my dad to point out how "old" the vehicle is and maybe it would be time to replace it rather than pay $2k in repairing the damage. WTF? Is the book value on this thing that low? Somehow I think not. The entire list of things wrong with the truck outside of the fuel repairs include:

- crappy bedliner
- tail light plastic delaminating so it's getting cloudy
- dent in side of bed where the wife hit the carport
- ugly lugnuts (swapped out the old rims for some fancy GMC rims off CL and now the old lugnuts which used to be behind a plastic cap can be seen)
- one of the dash bulbs is out

The junky GM leather seats aren't ripped, the dash isn't cracked, all the power stuff works, not even any leaks. Why would I replace a fully paid for truck with 83k on it for anything else these days? What, no carplay? The extra cab isn't "extra" enough? No forced onstar subscription? The heated seats are controlled by a switch and not a subscription? No TPMS throwing fake readings all the time? No WIFI? No.. uh... our newest car is a '13 and that's actually a cargo van so I have no idea what's actually in modern cars that justifies the crazy prices besides.

Oh, maybe it's airbags, 6 isn't enough these days?

EDIT: and the inspection was just done so I can pay my yearly shakedown money to the crown... $110.15 for tax and tags. They show it's value as... $3970!

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My daily driver is an 06 Honda CRV with 230k. I also have an 86 Isuzu PUP with only 93k. The taxes on it are $6 per year. I will drive them until they quit. That Chevy is just getting broke in. Spruce it up and drive on.
 
I've got a '05 Yukon with 300K on it and I price replacement trucks sometimes.
I could rebuild a lot on the truck and not have 1/4 of the price of a new one in repairs.
 
I'm with ya. My cars are '09, '05 and '77. The '05 is my daily driver. The newest car in our fleet is my wife's 2011. My boys share a '97 and '06.

Granted, with 6 vehicles aged >10 years, one of them is always either in the shop or scheduled for a visit. My mechanic likes me. No payments and insurance is cheap, even with 2 teen drivers.
 
Jayne said:
I've got an '06 Silverado 1500 4x4 with just over 83k on it. It's got a few bumps and scrapes, but is generally rust free and runs just fine.

The recent squirrel damage thing (in another thread) caused the shop, the insurance company and just today my dad to point out how "old" the vehicle is and maybe it would be time to replace it rather than pay $2k in repairing the damage. WTF? Is the book value on this thing that low? Somehow I think not. The entire list of things wrong with the truck outside of the fuel repairs include:

- crappy bedliner
- tail light plastic delaminating so it's getting cloudy
- dent in side of bed where the wife hit the carport
- ugly lugnuts (swapped out the old rims for some fancy GMC rims off CL and now the old lugnuts which used to be behind a plastic cap can be seen)
- one of the dash bulbs is out

The junky GM leather seats aren't ripped, the dash isn't cracked, all the power stuff works, not even any leaks. Why would I replace a fully paid for truck with 83k on it for anything else these days? What, no carplay? The extra cab isn't "extra" enough? No forced onstar subscription? The heated seats are controlled by a switch and not a subscription? No TPMS throwing fake readings all the time? No WIFI? No.. uh... our newest car is a '13 and that's actually a cargo van so I have no idea what's actually in modern cars that justifies the crazy prices besides.

Oh, maybe it's airbags, 6 isn't enough these days?

EDIT: and the inspection was just done so I can pay my yearly shakedown money to the crown... $110.15 for tax and tags. They show it's value as... $3970!

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Once the squirrel damage is repaired, if you’re interested in selling, My 16yo would give you $4500 for it! 😝
 
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It's a keeper!

As someone who's been an exclusively used car owner, there are HUGE advantages to owning a used car...provided, of course, that it's not a maintenance/repair money pit.

- It's paid for.
- You only need to pay for routine maintenance (oil change, brakes, tires, etc.)
- You only need to put gas in it.
- If you bought it used, chances are you saved tens of thousands of dollars over a new vehicle of comparable size/performance.
- Only have to pay liability insurance, if that's what you want. And cheaper due to age, otherwise.
- Annual taxes is dirt cheap.

I typically buy used vehicles which have five figures in mileage...my most recent one being the exception at 160,000 miles. For the several cars I've owned before that, this amounted to about 70,000 miles on the car when I bought it. I typically own the vehicle until it's either given up the ghost, or very close to it. Know what that means for a difference in the number of years between the used vehicle and a brand new one? About two, maybe three, if I had bought a brand new vehicle. Tens of thousands of dollars difference just to get an extra two or three years out of a vehicle? No thank you!

So long as your truck is reliable and not costing you big bucks in frequent repairs, keep it!
 
You want a “newer” vehicle for the tree rats to chew on? I will bet they can do a hell of a lot more damage on “newer” a vehicle that has over a dozen CPU’s (no joke) to cut or short out newer won’t help that. How much vehicle can you get for even twice that $4K? You’ve just broke in the truck and have years more life … even if it were to die in 4 years that would be $1K per year … that’s not even 2 payments for a newer one.

It works … works well. It gets you around … reliably and in comfort. IT IS PAID FOR! Any other questions?
 
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fieldgrade said:
You cannot replace that truck in this market for anything less than $horrifying.

It’s a keeper.
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At our current rate of just over 2k miles/year since we got it, it's going to rust away before the engine dies.

You can only haul so much gravel, hay and bags of feed.
 
Jayne said:
At our current rate of just over 2k miles/year since we got it, it's going to rust away before the engine dies.

You can only haul so much gravel, hay and bags of feed.
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Work Truck! You can add another $1K easy to its value. About any homeowner who can handle a set of tools NEEDS a good truck to haul stuff from places or to the dump … or with that winch on front pull crap out, down or around.
 
Down on the farm we kinda keep up with what will and will not give trouble with the kind of abuse and neglect a pasture truck gets.

My "Sunday truck" from 1992 to 2015 was a Ford, most of them diesel, and now I drive a Dodge...

BUT: Your truck and Chev/GMC gassers in general from the 400 series on will age very well, and remain very reliable. All my silage and pasture trucks are GM small blocks.

You could put three new engines in any of them for what you'll spend repairing the fuel system on a diesel.
 
No way I’d let that go. Especially with the condition you stated. If your yearly maintenance is lower than the yearly payments on a newer vehicle, then it’s a no brained to keep driving it.
 
Some people just want other people to validate their decisions to be fiscally frivolous replacing perfectly good things with newer and "better" by also doing it.
Be gentle on that things interior pieces some are probably hard to come by. The mechanicals should be available for a long while. Low miles, low rust, roll on if it suits you.
 
That truck has a lot of life left in it. I’d fix it and drive it till the wheels come off. That is what I do with every vehicle.
 
I bought a 2006 or so ford ranger about two years ago for $2500 I think it was. Dropped about 1k in some repairs, and it’s my facorite vehicle. It’s like an old pair of jeans. I don’t care if it gets signed up or scratched. I can throw garbage, mulch, or whatever in the bed and haul it away.
 
Beef15 said:
Some people just want other people to validate their decisions to be fiscally frivolous replacing perfectly good things with newer and "better" by also doing it.
Be gentle on that things interior pieces some are probably hard to come by. The mechanicals should be available for a long while. Low miles, low rust, roll on if it suits you.
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I just bought a new truck this year because it made sense for my situation. But everyone is different and I didn't ask anyone else to validate my fiscal frivolity. If my last one has done everything that needed doing I certainly wouldn't have sold it, and it was a heap of junk.
 
yeah, if you're keen on getting rid of it, it's not exactly the sort of truck i'm looking for, but i might make an exception
 
Sounds like the answer is exactly what I thought, just continue to ignore people and do what I want (and keep the truck).

Dumping $60k for a new vehicle that does exactly what this one does is not a good use of $60k. Not hard to see that. :)
 
Jayne said:
Sounds like the answer is exactly what I thought, just continue to ignore people and do what I want (and keep the truck).

Dumping $60k for a new vehicle that does exactly what this one does is not a good use of $60k. Not hard to see that. :)
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The funny part about this is that you can literally dump $60,000 dollars into your own bank account over the five or six years you'd pay on a loan, then sit back and look at that $60,000 you have sitting in your bank account as you continue to drive your old truck!

*laughs in $$ signs*
 
Jayne said:
Sorry, was out busy ignoring people. :)

I'm off this morning to pick up some materials for a project, hopefully this ancient truck doesn't leave me stranded...
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If it does , it could just as easily happened in a new one.
 
BillWild said:
If it does , it could just as easily happened in a new one.
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I should have used the sarcasm font.

If my truck dies on the way, it's something like a bad starter, leaking water pump, blown radiator.

if a new truck dies on the way, it's something like...

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RetiredUSNChief said:
The funny part about this is that you can literally dump $60,000 dollars into your own bank account over the five or six years you'd pay on a loan, then sit back and look at that $60,000 you have sitting in your bank account as you continue to drive your old truck!

*laughs in $$ signs*
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60k in bank account turns that amount in 6 years into 60,072.
Inflation makes that 60k act like about 48k.

You lose either way.

Take that 60k and invest in land. With hardwood trees covering it.
 
I have an 04 standard cab 8 ft bed with less than 50k miles on it. Needless to say, that one isn't getting replaced any time soon. Only ever do dump runs and tow with it!
 
Tailhunter said:
60k in bank account turns that amount in 6 years into 60,072.
Inflation makes that 60k act like about 48k.

You lose either way.

Take that 60k and invest in land. With hardwood trees covering it.
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True.

However, $60,000 in a new vehicle turns into an immediate loss as soon as you take possession of it to drive it away. Then you're left with paying a debt on a vehicle which literally isn't worth the money you just spent on it and for which it never will be. Unless, of course, it turns out to be a classic decades down the line and you still have it in a condition which makes it worth while.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
True.

However, $60,000 in a new vehicle turns into an immediate loss as soon as you take possession of it to drive it away. Then you're left with paying a debt on a vehicle which literally isn't worth the money you just spent on it and for which it never will be. Unless, of course, it turns out to be a classic decades down the line and you still have it in a condition which makes it worth while.
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My truck is paying me back in happiness
 
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