You must still have your old truck; how's the new one doing for you?
Nope don't have "Lil Red" anymore, I donated it to the Kidney fund after the town got mad at me for having an unlicensed vehicle in the driveway.
Too bad too, I had some interesting ideas for it. They wanted me to keep it in the garage, but that's where the Harley and Yamaha bikes live so it had to go.
It had 302,853 miles on the clock when it was towed away, but would have driven itself away if I had left the battery in. It was starting to slow down going up long steep hills, but down the other side wasn't bad at all. Gas mileage was starting to take a dive too. I think it had dropped to about 19 or 20 mpg when I stopped driving it.
The "new" truck, the "Gray Ghost", I have to say is a better truck. Its faster, gets better mileage, 27/28 mpg, and with the fancy interior is much more comfortable on the longer rides I have to do.
But all things considered I miss "Lil Red" it was a good truck that owed me nothing. Just too bad I couldn't have kept it longer, though the wife wasn't too unhappy about it going. She likes the new one a lot better. She can't drive it, I won't let her, clutches are a mystery to her, but she does like the interior better. Decent seats can make a world of difference.
Let's see its about 7 months old now, and has a bit over 25,000 miles on it. Guess I'm not driving it as much as the old one. If I had kept driving the old one at the same rate I had been. It would be closing in on the 350,000 mile mark about now.
Citoriplus, we're not at all a random sample.
True enough, but they were not telling you that the vehicles they said could last 200,000 were bulletproof and you didn't have to do anything to help them get there. They did say that you needed to do regular maintenance and pay attention to the details.
Around here that's the norm, not the exception.
So any vehicle that could last over 200,000 is far more likely to be found hanging around here than to some random slob around the corner who never figured out where the hood latch is on his car.