How Many Miles Until You Swap?

How long will you keep your truck?

 

I will probably hit years before miles. 2 1/2 years old and just hit 8k.

But it will all depend on what the next gen looks like for me. I tend to not keep vehicles long.

 

We bought it for our GSD & did a lot of research before happily choosing the 4Runner. At the current rate (2 yrs & just shy of 10k miles & 4k was one vacation) it seems we will never need a new one!
The style is timeless & the 6th Gen will likely have more TSS & who knows what else. Which is why we bought a '19 over waiting for the '20.
I could see them putting in blind spot monitoring and that would be great on trails with close trees...!
I'll keep the dinosaur that we have & love!
Ryan

 

Made the mistake of getting rid of my '96 4r, not making that mistake again.

 

I keep my 4Rs for 12-18 years. Sold last one (3rd Gen) at 249K miles.

 

21 months and 16k miles so far. I'm already thinking of selling it. The Runner is fine, but I want to get out of the payments. With the equity I have in it, I could sell it and buy an FJ for cash. Other than the tailgate on the Runner vs. the rear door on the FJ, I actually prefer the FJ and really regret selling the one I had.

 

Closing in on 7 months and 10K. With a big 2 week road trip/camping trip planned this summer. At least once a month I'll take a weekend trip to the NC mountain or to the Atlantic Coast, on top of normal everyday driving. I imagine we'll get about 20K/year. My youngest is 6 and loves my 4Runner. She will most likely be the recipient of a well cared for 10 year old ~200K 4Runner... (provided I can find a comparably reliable replacement, if not, I'll find her a Rav4).

 

Depending how the 6th gen looks whenever it’s relaxed, 2-3 years after that if I like the new gen. I drive about 20k-25k miles a year so it’ll be at 200k in a couple years.

 

You must have a lot of equity. Talk about sticker shock. I think the only thing that holds its value better than a 4runner is an FJ. I wanted one badly before I bought my 4R but it wasn't in the budget. My runner is a 3rd vehicle, albeit my daily driver and I sold my 88 Wrangler YJ that I used for a toy to buy it. I don't believe in car payments so I had to buy for what I got out of the YJ, or put some cash with it. As it turned out I sold the YJ for $4600 and bought my Runner for $3000. Left me with $1600 to mod with. 05 SR5 with 263K at the time. But in excellent condition. I got very lucky.

 

Well, I wouldn't be buying the nicest FJ for cash! But yeah, the FJ's hold their value very well and I was able to take advantage of that when buying the Runner.

 

You'll have to fight my daughter for mine when I'm gone...

 

I am in the same boat went from 1996 to 2006 and now 2018 usually at 200k look for a new one

 

In the perfect world, I’ll get a different daily driver one day and this will be my OffRoad - road trip truck for the next 20 years.
Perfect world never works out in my favor, though.

 

Any reason you picked 200k?

 

Gives me an excuse to get another vehicle

 

2020 Super White ORP. Purchased Nov. 2019. 32,279 after I parked at work this morning. I made the deal for trade in on 2021 a few weeks ago. '21 super white ORP on a boat somewhere in Pacific, I think.

Why? They offered way better interest rate on a '21 and the '21 I'll get has a few more options I'd like. Seems they really wanted my 2020 to resell it. Annnnnnd the mileage, the mileage, 100 mile round trip work commute. I see perhaps a GEN 6 in my future, if they don't F it all up.

 

That's probably my plan, too. Keep the 4Runner for fun duties, add a new DD to the stable.

 

Last ride.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZT_OxPRmSw

 

Cool to hear that blast from the past! Better to burn out, than fade away!

 

Longest I've ever kept a vehicle was 3 years. However I've spent so much fixing up my '08 by now though that I'm reticent to even think about getting rid of it. 242k miles and runs like a champ. I'm more likely now to pick up a second vehicle and keep this T4R, waiting to see what the new Tundra looks like.

 

It will outlive me. Till I'm dead.

 

I plan to run mine until it runs no longer.

 

Since I retired I only drive around 7500-8000 a year, so it may be my last vehicle.

 

I think the only thing that will keep me from keeping my 4Runner until it's untenable to keep it running is moving to a country where I wouldn't be able to import it. And even then, I might end up with a Land Cruiser Prado. A Suzuki Jimny would be tempting, though. I actually would have gotten a Samurai (US Jimny) if they were still available. I swear, I was the last person in the US who didn't know that they stopped making the Samurai for the US market 25 years earlier when I went car shopping just before the pandemic hit in 2020.

 

2018, and approaching 90k
I just started driving it...

 

I just got it the way I like it. To many mods to take off and swap. So it’s ride till it dies for me. 18 with 65k

 

When you say die do you mean motor or transmission failure?

 

Yeah to an extent it isn’t cost effective to repair.

 

All of them? Or until the frame rots out, so next week.

 

The reason we got a 4runner is that they last and I keep cars a long time, no plans to get rid of it any time soon.