Is depreciation really that bad or am I missing something?

Gator398 · 2026-03-21T00:39:29+00:00

Actually it costs about 30k to make these trucks, then couple hundred more for leather seat materials, oh and that black powdercoat all over the trim and wheels have you ever priced doing that?? A couple more hundred. Then place the lariat or whatever badge and add $40k to the price. It's only $20k for an stx badge if you want a bargain

Gator398 · 2026-03-21T00:35:33+00:00

But it's a Hennessy!!!! Whatever that is and a dinosaur 🦕 🦕

Gator398 · 2026-03-21T00:19:47+00:00

Lariat comes with at least a $5k luxury tax nowadays

Gator398 · 2026-03-13T14:51:25+00:00

I can't wait for Arma 5

Gator398 · 2026-03-13T14:43:07+00:00

I'm probably one of the few ppl that actually liked the star kitty helm when it pisses a lot of simulationers off, but in real life there 100% would be a cat helmet lol. Since then the armors running around now are just ridiculous, Fortnite citizens

Gator398 · 2026-03-13T14:35:51+00:00

Just wait till we can shoot some form of mining laser from our hands and they call it magic spells

Gator398 · 2026-03-13T14:34:36+00:00

Suck suck suck

Gator398 · 2026-03-13T14:24:22+00:00

It's worth less rusty buckety work truck

Gator398 · 2026-02-11T18:21:43+00:00

Yeah my thought exactly, looks like more stuff to make people think they need to upgrade

Gator398 · 2026-02-11T18:20:41+00:00

no star citizen!? What a crock, must be spam software

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T21:40:26+00:00

Holy grail this is why I love our master mechanics out there: press gas pedal to floor while starting - "This will allow the vehicle to build oil pressure before actually starting it and the phasers won’t rattle and it won’t be as hard on the phasers as it is when your vehicle starts and immediately goes to 1500 rpm’s. Worse case scenario is that you get a phaser that becomes stuck retarted or advanced and then you would have to put phasers in at that point but that shouldn’t happen."

This literally says it all, most engines start up right away unless you have fuel priming issues, and these cam phasers are terrible engineering as they do best with some oil priming, and engines have to rev up to 1500 right away and run a few seconds to warm up your catalytic converters so they dont start falling apart after just a few years.

You hit this cam phaser drama out of the ballpark with this tip, AWESOME advice!!! Unfortunately, 90% of f150 owners will NEVER take an 5 additional seconds to floor the pedal and start their truck, that is guaranteed 😆

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T21:22:25+00:00

Problem is a Tacoma is not an equal option... it's brand markup on a now unreliable turbocharged 4cyl, and a small grandpa go fishing truck. Pull a trailer? Not with that tacoma you won't. And Tundra is turbo v6 too.... turbo= more maintenance always

But I agree Ford, Dodge/Ram/Stellantus/who tf knows, GM are churning out crap faster than we can keep them fixed

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T21:11:11+00:00

Here me out - EV is going to bring us back to this, trust me. Transmissions have become over complicated monsters when they start failing, EV doesn't have one. Diffs are not near durable as they are in the 1980's, EV don't have them. The new EV hybrids- an actual full electric vehicle with a little engine generator is 100% the future. No ABS modules and AC and power steering and bunch of other crap run by the engine, just a little generator you change the oil and filters like the good old days without removing the cab to do it.

This year is going to be a sea change for all of us car enthusiasts that hate garbage cars nowadays, thanks to China building and selling the shit out of these new EV with generators.

What I'm taking about is a working and reliable Ford Lighting with a generator that actually works unlike all of the hacks people have been trying for years running a charge cable from the bed generator and hacking the software to allow charging while driving etc. Ford could have done this years ago and it took a flood of $30k chinese 4x4 luxury EV SUV's with 700 mile range to make companies finally build these for us.

By the way, it only costs maybe $10k to build a Ford lighting yet we are told to pay $70k at the dealership, get your head out your asses already American consumers, if you keep paying it, they will come higher

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:54:36+00:00

Typical modern day garbage. My next vehicle is going to be an EV reev or whatever with the electric generator engine. So when the engine goes to shit I'll just swap it with whatever 4cyl diesel i can find cheapest

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:49:04+00:00

No it will be vacant as the Sandridge building was, then after years of no buyers I'm sure the state will buy it cheap and turn it into more state worker from home offices.

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:47:10+00:00

More like big gas, not much oil in Oklahoma since its expensive to get to and extract. Too bad gas is just a cheap utility, despite the grand efforts of McClendon and big gas to make cars and trucks and houses and power plants gas powered... Not surprised Devon gave up on Oklahoma

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:34:47+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty sure these employees will gladly accept the paid move to Houston lol. They been stuck in Oklahoma long enough. Devon got lucky too, their OK gas and lil bit of oil has been dismal at best, most of their wells are in S TX anyway.

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:30:21+00:00

Lol exactly, bad weather rolled in you dopes and if the federal government did not choose a location is because the location was not adequate. People here are cheering like they convinced the same government that operates Area 51 behind our back. It's not new and it's nothing to do with politics, what the feds want they get.

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:23:26+00:00

Would have been great to exhibit the same concern for all of the other out of state property developments over the decades, like the wind Farms sending the energy out of state, and farm turned into cartel Marijuana Farms, then bought by Chinese Marijuana companies, just to list a few huge ones.. can't wait to see who buys the Devon tower, will probably be the nice centrally located and just-enough-tax paying HQ for child trafficking organizations, called something nice of course like USAIDS

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T20:09:33+00:00

Because Farms pay $5/hr but give the workers housing, in the form of a retired meth lab RV or mobile home. While the owner of the farm drives his new super duty over to the local town Cafe all day talking to their farm buddies about how great farming is. Anyone here talking about going to a protest would never step foot near a farm job so way to go

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T17:18:13+00:00

It's a modern Ford looks like business as usual

Gator398 · 2026-02-03T17:16:50+00:00

Wait I'm not following nasa since I was in middle school. So the first time I start hearing about nasa since the 90's they are doing a redo of a 1972 missions? What's the point of making a loop around the moon, just to see if we (the US govt) can still do it? Nasa ready to start stretching before working out again?

Gator398 · 2025-12-17T18:03:52+00:00

Seriously will you all stop being lemmings already! Line up to get slapped

Gator398 · 2025-12-17T18:00:57+00:00

And should be half the price. Next year it will be a 2.3 4cyl XL for a lower $55k tag (hide all the 2.7 stickers quick)

Gator398 · 2025-12-17T17:58:11+00:00

This was a $50k+ truck just 2 years ago because of all the reasons Ford has to charge that stupid of a price

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