re: Another truck shopping thread: opinions needed Toyota vs Silverado

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I have owned Fords Chevys and Tundras.

Tundras are the best.

My last one I put over 250,000 miles on it and the only time wrenches were put on it were to change the oil and to change the brake pads. The friggin Panasonic battery lasted over 7 years.

Never had to have it aligned. Never had to change and alternator or the shocks or the anything.

Bought a 2017 last year. Has the same 5.7 liter engine as the 07 I had. They are reliable and repair free because Toyota is not changing mechanical parts like engines every two or three years.

They have a lot of towing capacity standard.

They are absolutely more reliable.

We own two fords in our company too and neither of them can make it through the year without some repair or another. Electronics, noisy dash, alternator something

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^this.

People saying they get 200000 and 300000 miles out of their Chevy, Dodge Ram and even Ford or totally missing the point. All modern cars will pretty much go for high mileage on the engines. The engines are rarely the problem. It's everything surrounding it. Domestic and British vehicles, especially GM and Chrysler products, fall short everywhere else.

On those makes I can promise you that at 200,000 or 300,000 miles you're going to have a bunch of broken switches, cracked dashboards and other plastic bits, broken window regulators, have replaced a bunch of sensors, air condition flapper doors and vents broken, etc

Also, you can always tell the people who only buy new cars or lease their vehicles because they'll say things like, I have a Chevy Or Dodge and they've never given me problems.

Yeah well, keep them for longer than 3 or 4 years and you'll change your tune pretty quick. All cars, even the shittiest ones, generally don't have problems for the first few years that's why they can offer such great warranties during that time period. There's a reason Japanese vehicles hold their value on the used Market when you can get a comparable GM or Chrysler product for half as much.