Best pickup for under 10k

[Jerseybassnbow]

I recently got the ok to purchase a pickup truck within that budget. We have a 3000 pound boat trailer package and I will need it for occasional odds-and-ends back and forth from Home Depot ect. It won't be a daily driver but a secondary vehicle. What is the best option for the budget and why?

[Axiom]

A Toyota needs no justification..

[mattg1500]

With a $10K budget pickins are slim on a "good" truck. You are limited to a high mileage tacoma or an even higher mileage 1/2 ton. I would go with a silverado with a 5.3. If you can splurge to get one with the 6spd it will tow better than the 4spd the pre 2012s had, dont hold me to that year but Im close. Maybe you could even find an old toyota t100 in good shape. I personally stay away from chrysler products I had way to many issues with them, but you will be lured in to the low prices of a Ram. I now own a f150 which replaced an 05 ram that rotted from top to bottom and can say for sure you get what you pay for in a truck. But I would try and land in a 1/2 ton just because towing will be easier on it, it will haul 1000lbs of stone or fire wood and a yard of mulch is no issue. Good Luck!

[Haskell_Hunter]

I still have my 1999 Dakota.  Can put 1800# in the bed (probably not anymore with all the rust), and it has a class IV hitch on the back.  I've overloaded it, and I've hauled stuff way too heavy with it.  Got it with a 3.92 axle ratio to haul sh!t.  Still chugging along.

 

New trucks are stupid expensive, and I refuse to buy one at the absurd prices they want for something that is more luxury than truck.

 

So I'm one of those people who is a Dodge fan.  All trucks come with their issues, I was okay with Dodge's.

[Jerseybassnbow]

In doing my homework I found some early 2000ish Tundras and F150's with over a hundred thousand miles for under 10 even 7 K. Again, I'm not doing high mileage. I am not using it as a primary vehicle. I'll be towing with it back and forth to the lake every once in awhile and back and forth at Home Depot. Tacoma's only have a 3500 pound tow rating. If I put 2000 miles a year on it it'll be a lot. I have heard that the F150 have 4 wheel drive issues up to 2010 whatever that generation is. Any info on that? I'm really not a Chevy or Dodge fan. I have a 71 Bronco and I just couldn't stomach a Chevy.[emoji12]

Edited June 12, 2016 by Jerseybassnbow

[mattg1500]

you have to watch out for the 5.4 triton mid 2000s thats when they had issues with the spark plugs stripping the threads in the heads. If the previous owner changed them already you should be ok. As for toyota I dont know any issues, my friend had an 04 and just traded it he used it as a 3rd vehicle and had 0 issues. traded for a 2016 tacoma

[Axiom]

Toyota needs no justification.. Any model, and year, any mileage, any price, and condition..... You cant go wrong..

[Jerseybassnbow]

you have to watch out for the 5.4 triton mid 2000s thats when they had issues with the spark plugs stripping the threads in the heads. If the previous owner changed them already you should be ok. As for toyota I dont know any issues, my friend had an 04 and just traded it he used it as a 3rd vehicle and had 0 issues. traded for a 2016 tacoma

Changed what, the heads?

How do you identify if it's a Triton??

Edited June 12, 2016 by Jerseybassnbow

[mattg1500]

the plugs not the heads, sorry. The truck will say triton v8 usually on the fender where it says f150. I believe 04-08 were the culprets. The fix was replace plugs early, if any stripped there was a helicoil kit.

[mattg1500]

From Consumer Reports

Replacing spark plugs has been a no-brainer for most passenger vehicles for, say, the last 100 years. But for millions of owners of V8-powered Fords from the 2004 to 2008 model years, a spark-plug change can lead to an expensive, hours-long ordeal.

Why? Because the original spark plugs can weld themselves to the cylinder head and break into pieces when someone tries to unscrew them, leaving the bottom of the plug stuck inside the cylinder head. Fishing out the broken section requires special tools and a trained technician.

The engines in question are three-valve V8s, mostly 4.6- and 5.4-liter powerplants, found in many Ford Explorers, Explorer Sport Tracs, Expeditions, and F-Series pickups, and Mustangs, Mercury Mountaineers, and Lincoln Navigatorsand Mark LTs.

At the heart of the problem is a unique Motorcraft spark plug with a two-piece metal shell that’s vulnerable to corrosion over time and to breaking apart on removal. The original service interval was 100,000 miles, meaning that the first recommended service would take place long after the vehicle’s basic warranty expired.

Ford has known about this problem for a long time, and in 2008 issued an 11-page technical service bulletin (TSB 08-7-6) with exacting instructions for handling three different ways technicians could expect the spark plugs break on removal.

[Jerseybassnbow]

Ug thanks bro!

[mattg1500]

 Good Luck on the hunt!

[Jerseybassnbow]

You saved my ass I was actually going to look at a 2003 with a Triton in it. Not anymore. Going Toyota Tundra

[mattg1500]

That should do the trick just fine

[NJSOG]

Toyota needs no justification.. Any model, and year, any mileage, any price, and condition..... You cant go wrong..

Until the frame rusts away.

 

 

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