[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).