What’s one truck maintenance issue you wish you had caught earlier?

[lucasjames]

I’m curious what other truck owners have experienced with maintenance. Have you ever had a small warning sign, unusual noise, fluid leak, or dashboard light that you ignored and later turned into a bigger repair? What did you learn from it, and what would you recommend other truck owners check regularly?

 

[Saddle Tramp]

Paint. Here in Florida it peeled like a bad sunburn.

I did my best to fix it but after two years my truck looked like something out of Sanford and son. And rust still kept coming back. They wanted $10,000 to fix it. I traded it in for another truck.