If it was a horse...

[Phil Yearout]

Pulled out of a parking lot yesterday, heard and felt a terrible crash and came to a rather abrupt stop. Got out and found this. Right upper and lower ball joints failed so basically the spindle was attached by the brake line and nothing else. Waited 3+ hours for a tow (that's another story). Shop found significant play in the left ones too, along with some other stuff, to the tune of 2100 bucks. Guess that's what 200,000 miles'll do to ya, huh? Just glad it happened there and not down the highway at 75 mph ! Also glad I didn't have to put her down (I always compute the number of car payments contained in any significant repair ; I figure this'n is good for about 4 month's worth)...

[mobirdhunter]

Yikes. It's never a good time for stuff like this to happen, but at least, as you say, it wasn't on the freeway.

[Mills]

While nothing that bad, my wife’s new car has had a series of ailments that lead me to believe it is a piece of junk. My 2006 truck is still going strong

[6pt-Sika]

I bought a 2015 Tacoma almost two years ago , and as much as I hate to admit it a pretty decent little truck . Well that was until recently !!!!!! And to be honest my complaints aren’t about the truck not doing what it should but rather insulation on the wires being soy based . The squirrels at my house think it’s a buffet wagon and been nawing the heck out of them . So much so that the wiring harness has to be replaced

[Stan Hillis]

IMO the Ford Super Dutys have the toughest suspension of any pickup I've ever known of, or owned. My 2011 with the 6.2L gasoline engine (power and torque aplenty) was bought new in October of that year. It was bought to be a farm work truck basically. It now has 294,000 miles on it, hard miles mostly, pulling large (1000-1600 gal.) nurse tank trailers and just general everyday field use. There's never been a wrench on the motor except for spark plug replacement and one coil pack, and routine maintenance. The suspension is now needing some attention but it still drives great on the road, with no wandering or "pulling" to one side or the other.

As you can expect it doesn't get great mileage with the kind of usage it gets. The average since the truck was new is a bit under 12 mpg, but the dependability and lack of repairs goes a long way in buying gasoline. I bought another one in 2015, with 23,000 miles on it, from my son. It has the same engine. It now has 170,000 with the same results. They are one tough truck and engine combination.

[Richard Flanders]

My 1990 standard cab 4WD F250 spent a lot of it's life as a contractors truck pulling a 5th wheel trailer. It's my plow truck now and gets a hell of a workout every winter. I bought it out of a Safeway parking lot while phez hunting in Havre Montana in 2007 and brought it north. It has 175K miles on the 351 Windsor(Ford's best ever)now and still starts and runs like new and doesn't use any oil. Great rig and most definitely a "keeper"....

[Hammer Gun]

My 2016 Chevrolet 3/4 ton has served me well also With the Duramax and the Allison tranny use it to pull 10,000 pound trailer

[Researcher]

My 1997 F-150 XLT crossed the country 11 times from when I retired in October 2002 through the summer of 2004. By 2011 I thought I wasn't using it much, so in April we drove it to Alaska, and it has been at our place in Kodiak ever since. By this past summer the salt air had rusted through the brake lines. Getting things fixed in Kodiak is spendy. Back in Virginia, in 1999 I took it to Kip Kilman's for service and my buddy that followed me there to give me a ride home ended up buying a 1999. He moved his to his house on the water in Corpus Christi and this summer it needed new brake lines too?!?

By Memorial Day weekend 2011 I had a new F-150 XLT here in Spokane County.

My 1997 and one of the usual suspects at Dead Indian Pass after the 2003 Remington Society Seminar at Cody.

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[Bill Murphy]

What is that vehicle in the first post. They all look the same to me.

[Phil Yearout]

2000 Toyota 4Runner.