Time is valuable. Right now the bed has to come off again, its rusted all around the patches I put in. Then the gas tank has to be dropped, the mid cross member reinforced and a new rear gas tank strap holder made and installed since the original is riveted in place and can't be bought. So I spend 3 days welding it back up and what have I gained? A new lease on a truck thats essentially worthless.
The Ranger is also too small for us, when we travel we have to take a big plastic tote in the bed. A midsize truck like my Dakota would be optimal but there just aren't any we like. We tried the Tacoma and Frontier and didn't like either. I find the ergonomics of the Frontier terrible, it aggravates my right knee but that seems to be a common Nissan thing, they never let the front seats go back far enough for me. Plus for what you'd pay for a Tacoma or Frontier you can have an F150 and the Ford gets better mileage than the Nissan and only 1 mpg worse than the Toyota which has a 4 cylinder engine. The Toyota has lower cargo capacity, lower towing capacity, its got a C channel frame where the Ford (and the Nissan interestingly) have box frame which flexes less. There apparently is a reason the F150 is the best selling truck in the US... -Curt ________________________________ From: Rick Knoble via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: How is this game played exactly? Original Message From: Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 8:23 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Reply To: Curt Raymond Subject: [MBZ] OT: How is this game played exactly? >So I said $25,000. They came back with >$28,000. $28000 would keep the Ranger on the road for a long time. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
