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Big Arse Truck! #2530783
07/17/18 08:36 PM
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I always specify a "full sized car" when I rent cars from our dedicated Enterprise rental car at our office. So I have room for all my stuff and it's big and comfortable on trips. Some times I get the Cadillac or Mercedes SUV or a BWM 3 series or a Chrysler 300, etc... Sometimes I get a full sized Dodge Ram with the HEMI which is also nice on trips.

This time when I picked up the keys at the front desk Monday morning I knew something was strange when there was a note the the "car" was in the "oversized" parking lot at the office. I hiked down to the basement of the parking garage and clicked the fob to see the lights of a Ford F250 4x4 4 door with a bed that looks like it could house a family of Gypsies and the 6.2 liter gas engine. This thing is HUGE. The sill of the door hits me mid-thigh and I have to literally climb into the truck. I'm 6'-0" tall.

So I go to get it out of the parking garage and I had to sit there and kind of plan my exit. One way there was a height restriction of 6'-8". The truck is clearly over 7'-0" tall if not more. There was no doing a 2 point back out move out of the parking space either. This thing is like navigating a battleship on a Putt-Putt golf course. So after a few minutes of strategizing one of my buddies walks up from parking his truck and says,

"Nice truck."
"Oh... It's not mine it's a rental. Ain't it huge?"

To which he says...

"You're not getting it out of here without wrecking it."

So he walks off and I proceed to back all the way out of the parking deck until I get to the gate. At which point I have to make a hard left backwards and I hear a "whump." I'm thinking, "Damn if I didn't hit something already." Turns out it was one of the 6'-8" high warning poles hanging from the ceiling. "Whew!"

So I manage to get out of the parking deck and on the road.

i will say this thing rides great on the interstate and has plenty of power. It is really a nice truck. I have no idea what this thing costs, but it doesn't matter I can't imagine having something like this as my daily driver. I'm starting to get use to it, but still, it's just too much of a pain in the butt to drive around all the time.

Maybe if I had a huge boat or camper or horse trailer or needed to pull some machinery around, but just to have this thing as a truck for the sake of having a truck? No way.

I drove it from Birmingham to Lynn Haven, FL North of Panama city on Monday and when I headed to Mobile today I had to put in $80 worth of gas to keep going.

I love the truck, but damn... I'm getting a 2.3 liter 2 door Ford Ranger as my "extra vehicle." At least I can park it somewhere besides a football field.

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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530797
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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530804
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Haha. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back. I learned to drive in a 93 f350 4door dually. Fast forward a few years and now I’ve got a Dodge 2500 4door 4x4 and LWB. Makes my wife a nervous wreck to drive it, but I whip it around like any other vehicle. It gets nearly 20mpg hwy, so I just don’t see the point of a little truck anymore.


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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530805
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Few years ago we went to Disney and rented a suburban because there was 6 of us and didn't want to take 2 cars. It was damn near brand new, only had 1500 miles on it. That thing was fine, drove well and did surprisingly well on fuel.


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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Bigbamaboy] #2530819
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Originally Posted by Bigbamaboy
Haha. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back. I learned to drive in a 93 f350 4door dually. Fast forward a few years and now I’ve got a Dodge 2500 4door 4x4 and LWB. Makes my wife a nervous wreck to drive it, but I whip it around like any other vehicle. It gets nearly 20mpg hwy, so I just don’t see the point of a little truck anymore.



I agree about the "get used to it" part. I drive a Jeep Wrangler TJ and a Miata. So this is like going from a Boston Whaler Skiff to a Yacht.

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530847
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I drive one like it every day except mine has the 6.7 liter diesel.

It's my daily driver.

Bought mine new back on 1/6/18.

I love it! thumbup


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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530850
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Originally Posted by Irishguy
Originally Posted by Bigbamaboy
Haha. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back. I learned to drive in a 93 f350 4door dually. Fast forward a few years and now I’ve got a Dodge 2500 4door 4x4 and LWB. Makes my wife a nervous wreck to drive it, but I whip it around like any other vehicle. It gets nearly 20mpg hwy, so I just don’t see the point of a little truck anymore.



I agree about the "get used to it" part. I drive a Jeep Wrangler TJ and a Miata. So this is like going from a Boston Whaler Skiff to a Yacht.

I couldn’t stick my arm through a Miata, much less get in one. laugh


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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530923
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Why did you even post this? If that was an aldeer member your required to bitch or beat their ass until you get the Fiat you wanted.


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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530924
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You should drive my Ram 2500 with 37’s. It gets tiring jumping up into it.

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530934
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You won't get anyone on aldeer to admit parking a 24 foot vehicle is difficult laugh

I've asked before. Everyone said Nooooooo problem. Can park it anywhere.

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530946
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Pic doesn't look like that big of a truck to me.

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530959
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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2530975
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I have an 07 F350 (Single Tire) 4 door, long wheel base....It took some getting used to for sure.

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2531003
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Originally Posted by Irishguy
Originally Posted by Bigbamaboy
Haha. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back. I learned to drive in a 93 f350 4door dually. Fast forward a few years and now I’ve got a Dodge 2500 4door 4x4 and LWB. Makes my wife a nervous wreck to drive it, but I whip it around like any other vehicle. It gets nearly 20mpg hwy, so I just don’t see the point of a little truck anymore.



I agree about the "get used to it" part. I drive a Jeep Wrangler TJ and a Miata. So this is like going from a barbie jeep/adult go-cart to a real full size truck.


FIFY

I drive a 2003 dodge 2500 4x4 4 door you get use to it I guess. We've always had 3/4 tons and 1 ton trucks growing up for pulling tractors and hay around. If you thought the stock ford was bad to drive you need to stay away from the ton trucks with training wheels because you'd probably rip the berthing hips right off

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: deerfeeder89] #2531019
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Originally Posted by deerfeeder89
Originally Posted by Irishguy
Originally Posted by Bigbamaboy
Haha. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back. I learned to drive in a 93 f350 4door dually. Fast forward a few years and now I’ve got a Dodge 2500 4door 4x4 and LWB. Makes my wife a nervous wreck to drive it, but I whip it around like any other vehicle. It gets nearly 20mpg hwy, so I just don’t see the point of a little truck anymore.



I agree about the "get used to it" part. I drive a Jeep Wrangler TJ and a Miata. So this is like going from a barbie jeep/adult go-cart to a real full size truck.


FIFY

I drive a 2003 dodge 2500 4x4 4 door you get use to it I guess. We've always had 3/4 tons and 1 ton trucks growing up for pulling tractors and hay around. If you thought the stock ford was bad to drive you need to stay away from the ton trucks with training wheels because you'd probably rip the berthing hips right off


I was thinking about just that very thing on Monday.

I guess the thing for me, having never owned one but seeing them all the time, is I never realized that there is at least a little parking, driving and navigating strategy that goes into owning one. You just don't whip into any parking space. Maybe with lots of practice... I don't know.

Like a said nice truck though. If I had a need for one I would love to have this one.

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2531026
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Back into the parking spots. It's safer and easier.

Ram 2500 crew cab here with 35's

Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2531027
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Drive a F-350 crew cab long wheel base as my work truck and you definitely have to watch where you park



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Re: Big Arse Truck! [Re: Irishguy] #2531227
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Originally Posted by Irishguy
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MrsGomer got put in one just like it a while back. Had to put her minivan in the shop for a few days, so she rented a car. She was supposed to have a "subcompact" (the cheapest thing they offer). They didn't have one when she went to pick it up, somehow all they supposedly had was a lwb 4-door F250. She said she actually liked it and suggested we trade my F150 until she found out that was a $70k truck grin


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I drive 08 F150 Supercrew with long bed and a high cap shell .7' of clearance in parking deck doesn't always mean 7'

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