Is my truck really a P.O.S?

Question

My new truck (I sold my Mack diesel last month) is a little rough around the edges. I admit it needs some body work, new bumpers, the transmission leaks and the windsheild is cracked. The seat is also torn and I have a beach towell covering the foam and frame, I use a screwdriver to start the truck, the headliner has rotted and both sunvisors fell off. I have good rims but four different size tires -- but that doesn't really matter because my 4x4 system won't engage anyway. Yesterday my exhaust pipe broke in two and now smoke drifts up through the holes in the floor when I drive (I got kinda dizzy this morning when I drove to the gas station). I tried to install a stereo that I took out of my old '98 Chevy but it won't fit so me and my ex-brother inlaw duct taped it to the dash (it's all split and rotted anyway). So this bozo at the gas station was laughing at me and said my truck was the biggest piece of s*it he ever saw. I beg to differ -- what do you think?

Well, admitedly I have had better vehicles but I am trying to survive on a fixed income since that palm tree fell on me in Tampa (you'll have to read my 360 blogs for those sad stories) so I thought I would trade-down to basic transportation. One thing for sure, the truck DOES seem to be a chick repellant as no hot babes seem to be impressed (some do laugh and point). No one ever told me retirement would be so difficult.

To Peaches: the guy didn't even have a car -- he said he would rather walk than be seen in a garbage truck like mine. And, I forgot to mention my tailgate fell off Monday and bounced into the front of a Toyota that was behind me. I didn't even slow down (I knew he couldn't read my tag cause it's covered in old exhaust soot). Does anyone else have problems like I do??

Answer 1

NO IT,S NOT A PIECE OF SH--!! CHANGE THE FUEL FILTER AND BUFF IT OUT WITH SOME MOTHERS CLEAR COAT GLAZE AND YOU.RE GOOD TO GO.. REAL MEN LOVE THE SMELL OF EXAUST FUMES IN THE MORNING!!!

Answer 2

No way! It's an american vehicle - and it is still running, I call that sweeeet. I have been with my wife for 12 years now, and her seat is a little torn, it takes a screwdriver or sometime a martini to get her started, and I get a little 'dizzy' smelling her fumes after she's had Mexican food. But hey, I am not throwing her to the junk yard and getting a new one!! I say keep the old girl and maybe invest a little money once a year on her birthday ... give her a lube every 5000 miles and just smile everytime someone gives you their (OPINION) on your patriotic ride!! ;-)

Answer 3

if i were you I would at least fix the exhaust leak first since you do not have enough money for bills IE doctor bills hint you will get sicker possibly could die from the exhaust fumes man get the exhaust fixed asap now as far as what other people say who gives a hoot if it runs okay gets good mileage and doesn't smoke to much keep it.but yeah basically your truck needs help get rid of it and buy a ford.lol

Answer 4

i appeared and in accordance to specs your transmission does not have a PTO and you do prefer this to make it artwork ,yet look on the fringe of it to make sure,their would be a plate on it if it has one,you nevertheless are going to run in to problems with doing this however,you could exchange all this over in case you have the time to do all of it,yet its going to be time eating,your truck in accordance to a minimum of one internet site says it got here with a PTO unit,so which you would be able to in common terms ought to come across unit to artwork with it,in common terms the heavy accountability automobiles got here with PTO gadgets,yet you could exchange the transmission if it did no longer incorporate one,it incredibly is not any vast deal there,there is a few of those around,look and notice what you acquire till now you start up this one,i've got not replaced any over,yet once you have a tranny with a PTO unit plate it incredibly is finished,good luck on it,i,ll look extra in to this one,and notice on that year of truck what all will in good condition it ,good luck,,playstation that wont bolt as much as a cummins engine however,in simple terms discovered that documents,you,ll prefer a tranny from a cummins for this to artwork precise different than that, its do-able,yet its going to be a great form of fixing each little thing over.

Answer 5

Hey I doubt you have to worry about it getting stolen. LOL. Really I think its past its useful life. Buy a new truck, you'll go broke trying to keep it running.

Answer 6

Sounds fun for off Riding going up in the hills that what i do with my old Chevy and still going.

Answer 7

2 hardest things to replace in life are a good truck and a good dog

Answer 8

your car is the most vauble thing you can own (at least thats what I think) even my '90 honda accord has been to h*ll and back, but its mine and i take pride in it, take pride in yours and besides from what I'm hearing, I've seen far worst
(as long as you can get from point A to Point B, your good)

Answer 9

only a p.o.s. until you get the 4x4 sytem working. cause a truck without 4x4 isn't really a truck.

Answer 10

Sure sounds like a POS. A real beater, huh?