[stouset]

If this were the case, you’d see more trucks with wear and tear on them and fewer with five years in and pristine paint jobs. Most people buy trucks as a lifestyle choice, not as a practical one.

That’s not to say there aren’t real uses for trucks, or people who use them for their designed purpose.

That’s also not to say people should be required to purchase only vehicles that meet their basic transportation requirements. People drive sports cars even without ever going out to a track.

Trucks (and full-size SUVs) specifically push some pretty crappy externalities onto other road users, so it’s not exactly crazy to be annoyed with people who buy and drive big trucks a personality trait.

[Aurornis]

> If this were the case, you’d see more trucks with wear and tear on them and fewer with five years in and pristine paint jobs.

You can tell how few people in this thread have any idea how light off roading or hauling works.

Driving your truck down a dirt road or putting something in the back of it doesn’t destroy the paint job. You can have a work truck and keep it nice.

[stouset]

Sorry, but I have driven off-road and you inevitably get dings, nicks, and scratches from gravel, tree branches, and random detritus.

I know people that use their trucks for hauling for work and they are never pristine. They don’t look destroyed. They look used.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

I'm sitting here smh. Everyone in my (rural) neighborhood owns a pickup truck. Except for the one dude who towed a skid steer with an Escalade. Those trucks are often towing trailers, hauling messy crap, etc. and don't look any different than any other truck on the road.

Hell, I just unhooked a horse trailer less than an hour ago and the year-old truck that was hauling it looks like it just drove off the showroom floor.

[XorNot]

It is wild to me how heavily downvoted this comment is.

I bought by Ford Ranger off my in-laws who literally own a farm, and it got more damage from being parked under a tree with nasty sap for too long then it's 7 years handling hauling and field work (the lesson being, I really should've been washing it more frequently then I was... And then it would really clean and so obviously isn't used real work or something).

[SkyPuncher]

> If this were the case, you’d see more trucks with wear and tear on them and fewer with five years in and pristine paint jobs.

I generally beat the crap out of my truck and the exterior looks just fine.

It's really not hard to avoid damaging your exterior. In fact, you have to have a total accident or be completely negligent to cause actual damage. Stuff goes in the bed of the truck. The bed had a bunch of nicks and dings in it, but you're not going to be seeing that while casting judgement.

Heck, go take a look at the work trucks. Find something like a welding truck, an electrician, or a plumber. These are all trucks that people literally use every single day for work, tossing stuff in and out of the bed. They just don't look that beat up. That's because it's just not that hard to avoid completely destroying your vehicle.

[kortilla]

>If this were the case, you’d see more trucks with wear and tear on them and fewer with five years in and pristine paint jobs. Most people buy trucks as a lifestyle choice, not as a practical one.

No you wouldn’t. Off-roading, hauling things, and towing trailers does not require destroying the finish or exterior of the truck in any way.

[cosmic_cheese]

Yep. Trucks that actually get used as trucks look like it with dings, scratches, and scuffs because they’re tools, not toys.

Ironically they’re also often old small models that owners have been keeping running forever because they’re cheap to fix, practical, and easy to park unlike their embiggened modern counterparts.

[SilverElfin]

> Trucks that actually get used as trucks look like it with dings, scratches, and scuffs because they’re tools, not toys.

Not really. Lots of people use trucks and keep them in pristine condition too. Beds have liners now to keep them looking new. And you aren’t getting random dings on the outside unless you drive into things.

[cosmic_cheese]

The amount of effort required to keep them pristine scales with the quantity and intensity of the work performed, no? The most serious truck drivers probably aren’t going to have time to buff out every little mark when it’s going to get covered in them again on the job tomorrow.

[XorNot]

People who drive a truck for work aren't going to crash it into things all the time, what are you even talking about? Do you regularly crash your car into things while driving it? Like on a daily basis?

Like..you get that mud and dust just wash off, and the reason to wash them off is that once dried they can mess up the paint over a long period which then gives you a rust problem you really don't want?

[cosmic_cheese]

The people I know who drive trucks are doing things where constant small bits of damage are inevitable. Think kicked up gravel, tree branches scraping against the body, unintentionally bumping up against the truck with equipment, etc. Damage is frequent enough that it’s one of the reasons they find buying a new truck difficult to justify and would rather buy something that’s got some visible wear and tear on it already.