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[9th Island raptor]

What's up everybuddy. Just purchased a new 2019 raptor 802A. 21,000 miles. Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm born and raised in Hawaii and now in Vegas. Found this raptor forum when I was researching ideas for my truck. This forum Looked legit! hopefully I can join some raptor runs sometime in the future. Looking to get this truck dirty! Aloha!

 

[MurderedOutSVT]

Welcome to FRF!

You are near vegas.. beware of @John M

He'll get ya broke in and durty

 

[John M BUNMAN]

Beautiful Raptor. PM me with your info. I’ll give you a shout when I hit the Trail.
I’m waiting on my loan approval for some gas so I can go out again

 

[9th Island raptor]

Lmao! Yeah dude da gas is no joke. Ma bradda I stay back in da islands right now closing up some loose ends but as soon as I get back up to Vegas I will definitely hit u up. Quick question though. I like do something with this truck. I like keepem 100% stock but i feel like it's needs something . help!

 

[smurfslayer]

Welcome to FRF
#OneLessprius

before changing anything, take trip with @johnm.
assess what you like and don’t like. Then decide what to upgrade

 

[CoronaRaptor]

Welcome to the place, congrats on a beautiful Raptor. I would upgrade some lights first and/or recovery gear.

 

[9th Island raptor]

@smurfslayer Yeah, getting out there first before I move forward with anything is a brilliant idea. I'm a dirt/off road vergin. I never did any of this before so getting out there and getting a feel for things is smart. @CoronaRaptor what's up killah, yeah I'm looking at some gear right now mostly the recovery gear. The lights I'm clueless actually I'm clueless with all of it. But I'll keep searching the threads. Let me know if u have any wisdom that you don't mind parting wit.

 

[EccentricRaptor]

Welcome! Love your Raptor - that's sharp!!

Curious - what brought you to the Vegas area? Is Hawaii not as beautiful as I hear? I hear the cost of living is killer though.

The cost of gas certainly is an interesting conversation lately. When I bought my Raptor, I did the math beforehand to make sure I could afford something like this and then some. 92 gas is almost $5 where I'm at. Just an extra $10-15 to the overall bill than before the issues in Ukraine. I've heard it's much higher than that elsewhere though. How bad is it out there?

 

[9th Island raptor]

@EccentricRaptor what's up ma bradda. Well there's a long answer and short answer I'll give the short and quick. Both me and wife are born and raised here on the island of Oahu. Hawaii is beautiful no doubt but we both decided that it's not worth the cost of living. There is other major factors on why we left but cost of living is amongst one of them. From what we have seen the cost has gone up everywhere but still Hawaii is next level rediculios. I can fill you in with a lot more on why we are leaving our home here but then it'll turn into a huge rant. But why we chose Vegas was because I felt that was a happy medium 6 months of flesh frying heat and then 6 months of sitting in a ice box. Win win I'm clueless on what to do here though in Hawaii I was a professional kayakfisherman for Hobie. But here there's no fish. But Now this is where the raptor comes in. I have been eyeing up the raptor since 2010 but I could never come to pulling the trigger on it. I felt it would have been a total waste of money buying something so capable and just using it to drop of kids and pick up groceries which is absolutely fine theres nothing wrong with that. but it's not what I wanted it for So I put that dream on the side for the time being and bought a Tacoma. I felt the Tacoma was right for the job. But now that I'm in the desert the dream resurfaced and it was time to replace the Tacoma with an ecobeast raptor. Now here the truck can be used to it's full potential if I'm capable. LoL Now it's worth it. I gotta say though the timing of buying itcouldnt be anymore fked up

 

[smurfslayer]

it. I gotta say though the timing of buying itcouldnt be anymore fked up

For real, economically it’s a bad time but if the Raptor is a life goal or ambition then you owe it to yourself to do it and perform your civic duty to rid the world of the SCOURGE of the prius one Raptor at a time.