selling the titan...maybe

SmokeyTitan · 01-09-2005, 09:53 AM

im going to be a dad in a bout three weeks with our first child. went to my local fd to have car seat installed. i have an 04 kc and was surprised at how much room was not there after it was installed. would like to here from parents who have their kids in the titan regularly. please include pics of your car seats etc. if possible. my options are sell titan buy either the quest, toyota siena, or chevy uplander, get a cap for the back, or do nothing and deal with no room. also do you guys think id take a beating on the truck if had it for 10 months and have 7000 miles on it. thanks for your input.

dcrobt · 01-09-2005, 09:57 AM

always better to just keep it
get crew cab next

*Titan2004* · 01-09-2005, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SmokeyTitan

im going to be a dad in a bout three weeks with our first child. went to my local fd to have car seat installed. i have an 04 kc and was surprised at how much room was not there after it was installed. would like to here from parents who have their kids in the titan regularly. please include pics of your car seats etc. if possible. my options are sell titan buy either the quest, toyota siena, or chevy uplander, get a cap for the back, or do nothing and deal with no room. also do you guys think id take a beating on the truck if had it for 10 months and have 7000 miles on it. thanks for your input.

First off, congrats! Everything else now is secondary..you'll see. If you are only going to be putting 1 car seat in, I'd wait a while so as not to take a huge bath on the truck. Then maybe upgrade to a CC. The Quest is great, my wife loves hers but I have 3 kids, none of which are of car seat ages though, and the vans ability to keep down the "he's touching me" syndrome is worth its' weight in gold! But a van, to me, with only one child is kind of overkill.
I'd feel out your KC for a while. Lord knows with a new baby, throwing money away isn't the thing to do right now. Enjoy the little one when he/she arrives!

*admorris* · 01-09-2005, 10:15 AM

Well, while the baby is small and his/her feet do not come past the seat...I would hold onto your truck. Once he/she grows up and the feet start dangling out then you will have no room at all and will potentially become dangerous. I would hold onto your kc until then.

And yes, you will take a beating...I know I did and had less mileage than you do.

SmokeyTitan · 01-09-2005, 10:19 AM

my thinking in getting a minivan is that we want 2 or three kids about 2 years apart and dont want to have to buy a new vehicle then. would rather just do it now and pay it off. also my loan was for 72 months at $560 a month, made 10 payments, could buy the quest fro $528 a month for 60 months. what you guys think?

SmokeyTitan · 01-09-2005, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by admorris

And yes, you will take a beating...I know I did and had less mileage than you do.

why did you get rid of yours?

brentsawyer · 01-09-2005, 10:30 AM

Your total loan amount is $40,320. You've paid $5,600. You owe $34,720. You have a one year old vehicle that is worth maybe $26-27K if it is an LE 4x4. You would therefore have to carry over $8,000 to your next loan and your talking about buying another vehicle which will do the same to you in another year putting you around $12-13K upsidedown. That is horrifying. Do the right thing, keep your vehicle and don't let it go until your at least out of danger of being upsidedown. That will occur at about the same time that your planning to have you second child born.

*Titan2004* · 01-09-2005, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by SmokeyTitan

my thinking in getting a minivan is that we want 2 or three kids about 2 years apart and dont want to have to buy a new vehicle then. would rather just do it now and pay it off. also my loan was for 72 months at $560 a month, made 10 payments, could buy the quest fro $528 a month for 60 months. what you guys think?

$528 a month for the Quest and $560 for your current truck?! Both sound AWFULLY high.
If you really don't need the truck, and can somehow afford to lose all that $$$ on a trade, it'll take years to recoupe the difference between the $560 you're paying now and the $528 for the Quest. But if your wife is anything like mine, lol...you have to do what SHE wants anyhow.

tillery444 · 01-09-2005, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by SmokeyTitan

im going to be a dad in a bout three weeks with our first child. went to my local fd to have car seat installed. i have an 04 kc and was surprised at how much room was not there after it was installed. would like to here from parents who have their kids in the titan regularly. please include pics of your car seats etc. if possible. my options are sell titan buy either the quest, toyota siena, or chevy uplander, get a cap for the back, or do nothing and deal with no room. also do you guys think id take a beating on the truck if had it for 10 months and have 7000 miles on it. thanks for your input.

Before I got my Titan CC I had a 2000 Chevy extended cab (about the same as a Tiyan KC)It works fine for small children and babies. My advice is Hold on to the titan, besides as some one else stated in another post, There is somthing about the exaust humming that put's the baby right to sleep.

Brons2 · 01-09-2005, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by brentsawyer

Your total loan amount is $40,320. You've paid $5,600. You owe $34,720. You have a one year old vehicle that is worth maybe $26-27K if it is an LE 4x4. You would therefore have to carry over $8,000 to your next loan and your talking about buying another vehicle which will do the same to you in another year putting you around $12-13K upsidedown. That is horrifying. Do the right thing, keep your vehicle and don't let it go until your at least out of danger of being upsidedown. That will occur at about the same time that your planning to have you second child born.

I agree with this poster. Don't go there! The Titan will work fine for a while. How much leg room do you really need for an infant?

akangl · 01-09-2005, 06:57 PM

When my son was born we had a 1994 Mazda B4000, want to talk about NO room. Couldn't put the car seat in the back, only had jump seats, so we squeezed in the front with the car seat. We dealt with it until he was nearly a year old and I wrecked the truck. We've always had KC trucks, Chevy, Ford, Dodge until we bought the Titan CC. I have 2 kids and both fit fine in car seats in a KC Chevy (less leg room than a KC Titan). I'd stick it out, you may find its not that big of a deal........least you have rear doors that open!

QShip · 01-09-2005, 07:39 PM

I have the King cab SE and I have three boys. The youngest is in a carseat. I put him on either side so that he will have enough room for his legs. His brothers are 11 and 10 and they like riding in the Titan.

For long trips, we take my wife's Durango.

markinho · 01-09-2005, 08:06 PM

Keep your truck.

In relative terms you've got a lot of space to safely transport your little one-to-be. Look at the guy who had the Mazda pickup and handled things perfectly well for a year and a half. I myself am a prospective Titan owner who is looking to move up from my 2002 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner Xtracab because my truck doesn't seem so spacious anymore now since my son was born--and he's almost 3 now! You've got a lot more space back there in your KC than I do in my Toyota, plus you've got two doors, and they open up really wide!

In absolute terms, yeah, you'd be better off with a minivan or something, but why go through the expense and hassle of getting something new when your current ride can fit the bill.?

My advice: concentrate on being the best father and husband you can. Just be there for your family and provide them with their needs. It's easy to feel like you have to go out and buy unneccessary stuff when you're a new father. Keep your Titan, make sure that seat is tight and secure back there and take your kid to the zoo, the park, and wherever else you think they'd have a good time. Oh yeah, and read to them EVERY night before they go to bed. None of the important stuff involves trucks, even awesome ones like the Titan.

Good luck,

Mark

lizardking · 01-09-2005, 08:20 PM

Don't trade it off yet!!! You will take a beaten on the Titan for sure, resale not looking good.

Vinny Singh · 01-10-2005, 08:51 AM

We bought the standard cab even with kids planned in the near future, all our other cars are sports cars, so that's where we are coming from (talk about no space lol).

I'd keep it, I don't ever want to have to drive a minivan, and neither does my wife. What did people do before minivans? They managed. PS: Congrats!