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Handles Full-Size Tasks - 2015 Chevrolet Colorado Long-Term Road Test
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Handles Full-Size Tasks - 2015 Chevrolet Colorado Long-Term Road Test
It may be smaller, but our 2015 Chevy Colorado truck can still handle many of the same tasks as its full-size brother.
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Why the heck would you rest the lumber on bare paint like this? You don't have a couple of towels that you could have placed between the bundle of baseboards and the 3 contact points that it shares with the truck's paint? It's like you intentionally try to damage the vehicles you test (the Silverado with engines and random things sliding around the bare painted bed). Stop treating the trucks like step children, heck, they may even be worth MORE when you try to sell them off once your testing is done...
I can't think of anyone that I know (and most of my friends aren't car people) that would subject their vehicles to this type of use. Maybe it's because the vehicle is owned by Edmunds and not you. In that case, I put even more shame on you. You should always treat other people's things better than you would treat your own.
I'll step off my soapbox now.
The best thing you can do with a new "utility" vehicle is to key the driver's door. Then use the darn thing.
But that was back when trucks had vinyl floors, plain steel wheels and vinyl bench seats and came in colors like "white" and "brown". This thing cost $35,357 has navigation, Bose audio and Cyber Gray Metallic paint. It is a "vehicle with utility" more than a "utility vehicle" and an average owner if not just concerned about overall appearance would at least be concerned about resale value. Not too many people buy $35,000 mid-sized trucks to drive them into the ground like was common with basic, simple, bullet proof trucks back in the old days.
I suppose we could go all Car and Driver and blow up some Corvette engines, LOL.
With my luck, twenty minutes after I Zaino'd a car, some turkey in a Colorado would T-bone me.
There will be all sorts of levels of care and neglect but I'd think we could eliminate the put a pallet on the hood people and the spend every weekend detailing it people and come out somewhere in the middle.
I've got an 11 year old truck with 211,000 miles on it that the paint still looks good on and it has hauled dozens and dozens of loads of dirt, rock and gravel; as well as countless runs to the dump with entire kitchens worth of old tile countertops and anything else projects generated. I'd say that right there puts you in the minority as I doubt most people buy new cars and keep them 10 years. The average age of a car on the road may be over 10 years but most that buy new then buy another new on in a much shorter time than that. But that doesn't make sense to me either as nearly half the cars we've owned were taken away on flatbeds when we were done with them because we drove them until they just couldn't go anymore.
I'd just think if someone truly didn't care about the appearance of their vehicle it would make a lot more sense buying a $12,000 or less used truck rather than a $35,000 fancy new truck.
Paint's also a lot better these days too, and our last two vans have been silver, so they don't show dirt too bad, even if they are slab sided. And scratched.
With car sales booming, the average age may be declining - this article dates back to '13 (and doesn't specify how many are one-owner vehicles):
Average Age of Cars in U.S. Jumps to Record High of 11.4 Years
(Funny, I am on the hunt for some pallets to make a compost bin. Pallets fit in the back of the van easy though).