What's the most reliable vehicle you've ever owned?

YellowSnow said:
For me it was "Old Blue", my 2006 4th Gen 4 Runner, SR5 4WD. Sold it back on 2023 to the little old lady down the street for her loser, tattoo artist son. It was a purple unicorn of sorts @flatus . Only had 103K miles at 17 years of age.

Only issues were a bad water pump at 55k under warranty and needed a new radiator at 17 years of age and 102K miles (pretty normal). Other than that just the usual fluid changes, brakes and spark plug maintenance.

I do think Dave Ramsey (TITTT) is full of shit on a lot of things and much of his advice only works if you live in cheap flyover country, but I like his take on cars and avoiding expense here. Gotta get 20 years out of these things @BleachedAnusDawg !!

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Have several. 1982 Chevy Step side Chevy, with a 1 ton rearend, Detroit lockers front and back, 456 gears front and back, 10 inch lift, steel rims caus of the power from the 350 HO motor and the gears would warp aluminum, granny gear, 350 high output motor with holly carb and headers, 44 Super swampers, Tulsa 12,000# wench, to name a few on that truck. Beast and tough as nails. A tank. I didn’t go in a clear cut and cut firewood and haul it back. I drove to it and drug it back to the road and cut it up. Like a Timberjack or skidder.



But it wasn’t as “reliable” or tough, as my 1993 Toyota 4wheel drive pickup. That sumbitch has been more than thru hell. It’s been there and back. My son killed it. Totaled it. Wasnt his fault. But it was about done anyway, was almost brand new when I bought it in ‘95. I put that fucker through the paces, every swamp from MS to CO you can imagine. And then some. It finally died, cosmetically. But not the engine. I just happened to find another ‘93 to take that engine out and put it in this truck…so the engine is in it that one now and lives on. I’m driving it now at my hunting camp. I’ll have to send pics later.
 
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DerekJohnson said:
About five years ago my car was running terribly and I took it in. They told me rodents had built a nest and eaten wires in the engine. The bill was over $5,000, but fortunately Geico covered all of it. I spray the engine every couple of months now with anti-rodent spray.
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We have that problem a lot around here. Rats getting in shit.

I have a M5700 Kubota 4 wheel drive tractor. Stays in the barn. I’m not actually “here” everyday. At my camp. Or second home in the rural country of MS as one would say, so to speak…

Went to fire it up a few years ago and nada. I’m like, WTF, over??

Got to looking and rats ate all the wires and actually built a nest under the hood. Loaded that big mfker up on one of my trailers,
hauled it to the dealer and they called me a few days later and quoted me some astronomically amount of dollars for a whole wiring harness. Thousands. Ummm, yeah, fk that. Hauled it back and we don’t need a key no more. It’s push button and starts. And runs like a champ.

Getting back to @YellowSnow thread about “tough”…Every Kubota we’ve ever had is tougher than a woodpeckers lips. It’s parked out back of my camp where I am right now and there’s no fkn doubt, if I need that bitch, whatever I have hooked to it, a bumper, axles, front end of something…or anything…it’s coming with me..don’t care what it is.

If I have to pull someone out, or another tractor, truck, don’t matter…I always tell them better tie that bitch to what you don’t want or the whole thing. Caus whatever it’s tied to, is coming out or apart.
 
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BleachedAnusDawg said:
This is why America is dying!

Also why the Camaro is extinct. Nobody wants to be cool and impractical anymore. It's a shame. Personally, we have the family rig that fits people and stuff, and we only need one of those kinds of cars for taking family trips, etc.

Also, anybody who has a third garage bay should be legally required to have a muscle car or sports car in the third bay.
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I would kill for a 3 car garage.
 
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