Sold my Tacoma in 2019 and bought a jeep.....I love my jeep but as a home owner boy do I miss my truck bed.
I underestimated the need for it.
Kinda stuck at the moment because I don’t wanna give my left nad for a truck right now.
As long as you have a tow package on your Jeep, you can get a decent cargo trailer at Lowe's, Home Depot, Tractor Supply, etc. for less than $2,500 and have way more utility than most pick-ups.
“Sold my Tacoma in 2019 and bought a jeep.....I love my jeep but as a home owner boy do I miss my truck bed.”
We bought both. Both are an EcoDiesel with real-world ~29 mpg.
We also bought a Toyota Corolla for the grocery and errand trips so we didn’t wear out the truck and Jeep. The Corolla gets 36+ mpg and is perhaps the highest quality cheap car out there, well equipped too. We’ll put the miles on that thing. It’s practically disposable, but I bet with car prices going up we’ll do well on resale.
We’re afraid that replacing the truck and Jeep won’t be easy in future times as it was hard enough to find the ones we wanted just last year.
Do you have a hitch receiver?
I find that much of what you can do with a truck, I do with an aluminum rack in the hitch receiver and tie downs.
When I really need a truck I rent it.
get a trailer
“Sold my Tacoma in 2019 and bought a jeep.....I love my jeep but as a home owner boy do I miss my truck bed.
I underestimated the need for it.
Kinda stuck at the moment because I don’t wanna give my left nad for a truck right now.”
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I purchased a new 2020 Tacoma in Sept 2020. Mine is an SR with access cab 4x4, 3.5L V6 and nice wheels. Pd 31K for it which I think is high. Carvana will give me 33K right now even with 23k miles. The the local Toyota dealer has a 2019 same except a few less miles, a 4 cyl and steel wheels for $35k
PUs tend to hold value better than cars but this is silly. I have owned 2 Rangers and a F-250 in the past but really love the Tacoma. It is though actually for me not a necessary vehicle, I have put about 2k miles on it since labor day. It is for us literally the only debt we have and thinking about selling it. Either way, keep it or sell it I intend to pay it off by the end of the year, not that that has anything to add to this conversation.
I have a 94 Mazda B3000/Ford Ranger truck that I mostly keep at my farmhouse. It came with 202k miles on it, but I only paid $1000 for it about 7 years ago. I’ve put a few thousand $ in normal maintenance into it since then, but we’ve since built 2 rental houses, moved our primary residence and done countless other projects requiring it. It’s been an absolute workhorse, easily paying for itself many many times over. I’ll never go without a pickup truck again.
This one looks good...