"NOTE: Low mileage!"

"Echo51" (echo2047) 08/22/2015 at 17:28 • Filed to: None

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Then proceeds to write the mileage: 285.000km. That’s 177.091 miles. On a passat B5! With loose stereo wiring run down the middle of it! “Drives perfect!” while needing replacement of shocks!

TheOnelectronic > Echo51 08/22/2015 at 17:32

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We looked at a truck recently that was in “perfect condition” with “nothing wrong” and it was “Like the day it left the showroom.”

It had been repainted (poorly), obviously had been in a front-end collision, the engine made a lot of distressing noises, and the frame was rusting away.

Oh, and it had this stupid auxiliary trailer brake controller that seems to find its way onto every single used truck that’s sold out here. It’s weird.

Sam > TheOnelectronic 08/22/2015 at 17:38

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My dad had an auxiliary trailer brake controller on our ‘09 Tundra, but that was because we towed a heavy trailer with brakes.

TheOnelectronic > Sam 08/22/2015 at 17:42

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What’s weird is how many of the trucks we’ve looked at have had them. Little black boxes that look almost like radar detectors under the dash. The Yukon we ended up getting has one, because the used dealer that HE bought it from put it on. I’ve never seen these before. It must be some weird Pennsylvania thing. (I’m quickly learning that there are a LOT of weird Pennsylvania things.)

Echo51 > TheOnelectronic 08/22/2015 at 17:44

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Taking my car apart to fix some rust and repaint it i found out the entire rear end had been crumpled and fixed up again. And i bought it after a front end collision that i fixed it from myself. So, hopes high that it has seen enough crashes and won’t attract another?

DogonCrook > TheOnelectronic 08/22/2015 at 17:51

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If you are using a truck for it’s intended purpose it has to have one. It’s a farm state.. it’s kinda weird it’s not integrated stock equipment.

TheOnelectronic > DogonCrook 08/22/2015 at 17:53

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I grew up in Illinois. I know all about farm states, but this is new to me. To be fair, we didn’t exactly have hills.

I’ve just never used a trailer that actually had cab-actuated brakes. The closest are the bigger u-hauls that have the tongue-actuated brakes.

DogonCrook > TheOnelectronic 08/22/2015 at 17:59

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Horse trailers and live stock trailers generally have them. It’s not really a hill thing. To be honest it’s probably not even about the weight, more of a humane thing, as in don’t leave anything to chance, and horses can be pretty damn expensive. Like more than a Ferrari.

Edit: actually thinking about it, it may be the law, I’ve never seen a horse trailer that didn’t have them.

TheOnelectronic > DogonCrook 08/22/2015 at 18:01

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You could be right. We didn’t have a lot of livestock back home. They ate the precious, precious corn.

DogonCrook > TheOnelectronic 08/22/2015 at 18:05

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Lol yeah come to think of it none of my families utitlity or flatbeds have them.