[SkyPuncher]

I’m seeing the same thing in my area. I’m a software engineer. I make good money. Well above my areas income.

I’m considering buying a truck (to put a small truck camper in), but cannot get over the price. Dozens and dozens of used trucks that cost obscene amounts of money. Lift kits, custom rims, tints, etc. I just cannot imagine how people are affording these things.

[randomdata]

I thought about upgrading my farm truck and the sticker shock got me too. I'll stick with my old truck for a while longer.

On the other hand, the amortized yearly cost of the truck I have is basically nothing. It is not surprising that there was room for the price to go up.

[ChainOfFools]

> Lift kits, custom rims, tints, etc. I just cannot imagine how people are affording these things.

Much of this crap is what also makes them completely unsuitable if not outright useless for genuine truck utility purposes, which reveals that the motivation of those buying these trucks was never to do anything practical with them in the first place, but just to project large menacing presence to other people who have to share the road with rhem.

[dude187]

None of that listed makes them somehow "useless" and many are useful upgrades

[SkyPuncher]

In this case, he’s correct. These are often excessive lift kits paired with low profile tires. You lose a good portion of your towing capacity, while basically killing all of your offloading ability.

These aren’t people improving capabilities. They’re only going for a look.