Best Winter Truck For $2500?

[Metallover]

I'm hoping for a late start tomorrow. It started snowing at 6 this morning, and it's supposed to stop at 6 tomorrow morning. At 3pm we had 3 inches. The snow is on it's way to you over in wisconsin!

Love the snow. Did some great drifting and cookies in my rwd dakota. Did a small workout this morning powercleaning sandbags into the back.. lol.

I highly suggest getting some cardboard and using sup ties to secure it to the grille. It will run better, get better gas mileage, give you warm air twice as fast, and the engine will last longer. Even though I'm guessing on all that, I love the cardboard on my grille. I left an opening on the passenger side by the air intake...

There are a lot of jeeps around here, and not so many pickups. I think I'd go with a jeep.

[JAILBIRD]

The first toyota isn't road worthy. The SAC is pretty half-assed and the axle needs a rebuild. (looked at this one too.)

-JB

[JThiessen]

Here's a couple Nissans too.
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/1500303287.html

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/1496849875.html

Originally Posted by JAILBIRD

The first toyota isn't road worthy. The SAC is pretty half-assed and the axle needs a rebuild. (looked at this one too.)

-JB

Ditto that. You could tell just from the description that one is a rebuilder.

Lifted trucks with big tires look cool, but they dont do worth a crap in the snow and on the ice. Anything over a 31-10.50 on a pint size truck is going to be a pain in the butt.

[Takedown]

Yea I just dont want something low were I cant offroad.

[shaunjohnson]

actually...
the VW beetle was MADE for this!!
the heater gets to work really quickly too as a bonus. put aside their nazi designed flaws and look at the good stuff, RR engine configuration. EASY AS PIE to fix!! the whole engine comes out with 4 bolts!

edit: he did say truck...so in america that's a ute right? so in that case following my theroy you'll wanna look up the VW bus flat bed thing.

[Takedown]

Originally Posted by shaunjohnson

actually...
the VW beetle was MADE for this!!
the heater gets to work really quickly too as a bonus. put aside their nazi designed flaws and look at the good stuff, RR engine configuration. EASY AS PIE to fix!! the whole engine comes out with 4 bolts!

edit: he did say truck...so in america that's a ute right? so in that case following my theroy you'll wanna look up the VW bus flat bed thing.

Can I add in i want it to be somewhat attractive looking.

[Takedown]

The older toyota p/u's have definately caught my attention but I still would like a jeep aswell. Plus the p/u's biggest engine is a 3.0l v6 at 150hp and the nominal 2.4l I4 at 112hp. I really dont think either of those two would do much when it came to torque, power and offroading.
The nominal 2.5l I4 in the older jeeps puts out 130hp while the 4.0l I6 puts out 190hp and has 235ft/lbs of torque. Thats pretty much double the power of the p/u's engines.

And the jeep GC's nominal weight is around 3100lbs, compared to the 3450lbs that the p/u weighs.