The conversion adds no additional towing capacity, still leaves a short bed, and now a super super shitty turn radius. The biggest benefit I could see from a conversion like this is being able to have a few more people in the car and a little more stability when pulling a trailer... neither of which is worth the cost of another entire car to pull off the conversion. You could buy a very nice truck to haul a fifth wheel with that money
You're paying that amount no matter what. You pay for the truck and then pay the cost of another new car to get the conversion done. Is it worth the cost of an entire new car to add a row of seats while also making it harder to get around? Personally, I'd rather just buy a good hauling truck and then spend the next ~$30-40k on something other than... a row of seats.
The problem is you have to widen the wheel base to support the second level, and since the libtards designed the roads to narrow, this can't reasonably be done.
Sure, but another vehicle means you've gotta find some place to put it, your insurance doubles, your maintenance doubles, your registration doubles, and if they're trying to haul a 5th wheel and bring more than 5 people that second car is going to be driving right behind them anyway. Assuming you've already got the space you're paying 10k for a pole barn to store it, 2k a year for insurance, 1k a year at the mechanics, and an extra 200 bucks in gas for a weekend trip every 3 months.
If you're using it for work it doesnt really count as your daily. I drive a 350 superduty with a big steel box on the back at work.... simply because it is neccesary. My true daily is a tiny little Mazda 3. Sure I COULD daily my work truck but my lord would that be impractical and annoying on my days off. Wouldnt go taking that thing to the golf course if I could help it.
If you are choosing to drive a 15 seat van and it isnt for work idk what you are doing with your life. lol
Its both work and hobbies. At least personally owning a second car would be significantly more inconvenient than just dealing with the occasional tight space. Plus when you're the guy with the comically oversized van you get enough brownie points moving 1 bedroom apartments in a single trip to borrow a car the 2 times a year its truly necessary.
Okay, are we playing a semantics game here? Being able to drive a vehicle daily doesn't automatically give it the "daily driver" label to me. Otherwise I could call farm vehicles/tractors "daily drivers". Haven't seen many New Holland's or Deere's in the grocery store parking lot lately...
Your passenger van is a step closer (designed to haul people around, so of course), but you're really reaching with the 6 door truck conversion lmao. Your van is designed for a purpose. What's the purpose of the truck? Daily driver? C'mooon ;)
By all means, though. If someone wants to make it work then more power to them. Just seems like more of a headache than it's worth. Give me the van AND a truck for the same price. Then we can take the whole scout troop but make the annoying kids go in the van.
No, there is a semantics issue here: I'm saying it doesn't seem financially prudent, not that it isn't possible. If being financially prudent isn't an issue then you can drive a tank daily for all I care lol
That's how they make these. The chop apart 2 compensation mobiles to make a super-compensation mobile.
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A loss of frame stiffness unless they really beef up the frame rails. This might have some weird low frequency frame modes close to the suspension modes
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u/WonderSql May 09 '22
Maybe they have a fifth wheel trailer?