Advice. Around $5000 to spend on a pick up.

[frekeyguy]

For that money GM or a Ford, not a big fan of Dodge's with higher mileage. I would lean towards a GM with those kind of miles (I see a lot of 4.6/5.4 Fords that have some rod knock) but for $5000 I would look at as many trucks as possible and just pick the one in the best condition.

yeah, those sierra's / silverado's without the z71 package, just basic work trucks/fleet trucks have high miliage and last forever....dont see too many older dodges around anymore.

[Fiery254]

Well, I went in a bit of a different direction and bought a 2011 Nissan Frontier SL with the crew cab and 6ft bed. I took it to the track yesterday towing my new 6 x 12 trailer and it was good. Great drive, tows easy and was relatively good on gas for what it was doing. The surprising thing was that the gas consumption between towing the trailer empty and loaded with 2 bikes, 2 canopies tool boxes etc etc was basically the same. Shame I might have to sell it!!

[Kool]

I was lookin to buy a new full size truck...went in a different directon too...bought my daughter a 04 Civic for $3500 and spent almost $2500 on my old 04 Canyon 5cyl. to fix her back up...front tires front end work ...pulling the hub$ and brakes. Runs and drives great and so does the Civic with new timing belt and waterpump as it just passed 200k. Guess the new truck will have to wait.