Opinions needed. Old truck or trade for glad

[StaindReality]

My new job has a need for a truck. I am really torn on trading the wrangler for a gladiator or finding an old truck. Has anyone else has this difficult situation? Thoughts? We love the wrangler. I’d miss not driving it everyday. We all need a truck now and then also. Old truck allows us to keep wrangler. Unfortunately I have not been able to get it out to mountains yet so have not been able to take off-road like I would like. We are getting into camping more. I feel like the glad would be better for that also.

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[aldo98229]

There are too many blanks for any of us to recommend anything.

Will you be using the truck for work...as transportation or as a work truck?

If the latter, I’d get an old truck. IMO Gladiators are too pricey and pretty to use it as a beater truck.

 

[TrailScooter]

I hope you are not equating old with cheap.

 

[StaindReality]

It will be a work truck. Hauling tools. Wood. Material for building. Possible pulling trailer with larger material. It would be daily driver also if went gladiator route. If not. The wrangler would be for when I didn’t need the truck for that day (although moving tools back and forth would suck). The wrangler would prob not be driven 3-5 days a week. I don’t like the thought of that also. Which is another reason why contemplating.

 

[LiveToWork]

Work trucks get beat up, no matter how careful. Jeep doesnt have a big box either. And the 20k of depreciation you lose on a trade is worth about the price of an old truck.

And who says the new job works out? Honestly just sounds like youre trying to justify a trade, cuz i know i sure would be!

 

[LITTLE WILLYS]

I am not anti Gladiator, but I do not think they are really for being worked, and they are too expensive to be abused that way. I would look for an older truck for sure. Silverado, Ram, F150.

 

[omnitonic]

I'm going to sell my newer truck and keep the Jeep and the old truck. My old truck is a 1977, and even a truck that old is perfectly capable of doing work if you keep it maintained. The nice thing about the age in which we live is you can get parts for old trucks. That thing has all new brakes, including the parking brake components, new U-joints, new bushings, new kingpins, new wheels and tires, new power steering pump. We're getting ready to put on a new water pump. It has new body components too. Anything you break on that old truck, you can get parts and fix it.

I would not trade this combination for a JT, but your situation may be different.

 

[Outrun]

It will be a work truck. Hauling tools. Wood. Material for building. Possible pulling trailer with larger material. It would be daily driver also if went gladiator route. If not. The wrangler would be for when I didn’t need the truck for that day (although moving tools back and forth would suck). The wrangler would prob not be driven 3-5 days a week. I don’t like the thought of that also. Which is another reason why contemplating.

Could you get by with the Wrangler and a trailer?

 

[EJWF11]

Easy… old truck. Find you a gem, may look like a dog, but she’ll take care of you no matter how much you beat her!! ?

 

[rallydefault]

I'd go with an old truck for sure.

 

[zrickety]

Old truck vs a trailer for the Jeep...that's what I would be thinking. The right trailer would even outdo the truck.

 

[Sidspider]

Old truck! Having a second vehicle you know, no matter what you’ve done to or with your Jeep, you’ll still be able to get work on Monday morning.

 

[StaindReality]

Thanks everyone for the opinions. I’m leaning older truck and keeping wrangler now. I think I was just bummed that by doing that I wouldn’t get to enjoy A Jeep as much.

 

[JasonInDLH]

My new job has a need for a truck. I am really torn on trading the wrangler for a gladiator or finding an old truck. Has anyone else has this difficult situation? Thoughts? We love the wrangler. I’d miss not driving it everyday. We all need a truck now and then also. Old truck allows us to keep wrangler. Unfortunately I have not been able to get it out to mountains yet so have not been able to take off-road like I would like. We are getting into camping more. I feel like the glad would be better for that also.

Hands down I’d keep the JL and get a beater pickup. When I worked construction I had a beater (that I used pretty much all the time even for groceries) and kept my nice vehicle in the garage and kept it in good shape and always clean. I always found it fascinating to go back and forth from vehicles. Call me crazy, but I think I enjoyed the beater more since I didn’t care about dents, rust, or scratches!

 

[VAJeeper]

Older truck!

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