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The is a true statement. Check out your manual. I believe it is under driver assist.
I was testing out the Driver Assist Lane feature and took my hands off the steering wheel as the truck moved me back into the center of my lane. I was surprised to see a message pop up instructing me to put my hands back on the wheel! Not expecting that to happen... Caught me by surprise.

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Don, once the wizard of tailgate dampers, the God Damperounious, mandates thou must installith a damper you cannot for sake him. The Grand Pubah of dampers "The Dave" @AzScorpion will be along shortly to indoctrinate you. I suggest you just close your eyes, and let it wash over you. I won't hurt. May the force be with you. :)

Long live The Dave, long live the damperites.......(now y'all remember the tag "Damerites" was Phil's @P. A. Schilke idea. ;) )

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Our Rangers are like a faithful and loyal friend watching out for us. Mine talks to me too.
I think he was actually watching you as opposed to listening. A camera watches the driver to detect tired or inattentive driving.
Yours isn't talking to you it's crying because it doesn't have a damper! It's getting so bad I can now hear it all the way over here in AZ. Al for the sake of your Ranger's future get him a damper for Christmas. ??

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Hi Al,

Night time meds kicked in...time to give it up...Sorry...

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Damterite dämp´• ter• iyt: (noun)
  1. A rare earth mineral found on the continent of Antarctica (atomic no. 131). Minute quantities are used in the manufacture of control mechanisms to regulate the movement of extremely heavy machinery or complex devices.
  2. A person who digresses into non sequituriala as a result of slower brain function induced by a pandemic. See also: "Motorpsychology"

from ancient Lamurian: dampt past participle of damper 'slow'er down awreddy'
 

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Don, once the wizard of tailgate dampers, the God Damperounious, mandates thou must installith a damper you cannot for sake him. The Grand Pubah of dampers "The Dave" @AzScorpion will be along shortly to indoctrinate you. I suggest you just close your eyes, and let it wash over you. I won't hurt. May the force be with you. :)

Long live The Dave, long live the damperites.......(now y'all remember the tag "Damerites Damterite " was Phil's @P. A. Schilke idea. ;) )

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Jim, words are important and they become especially important when we are blessed with new terminology from "The Phil". The proper term is "damterite" (not Damerites). I fixed it for you above.

Does this forum have a terms and acronyms sticky thread? "Damterite" must be added.
 
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Yours isn't talking to you it's crying because it doesn't have a damper! It's getting so bad I can now hear it all the way over here in AZ. Al for the sake of your Ranger's future get him a damper for Christmas. ??

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He can cry all he wants. He ain't ever getting one. Never surrender!
 
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No damper for me, no bed liner either, scratches everywhere.
This no job crap is cutting into my Ranger budget.
 

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Yes. Weird, but fun. :clap:
Without the damper wars this forum would be borderline boring! :giggle: I think it can be safely assumed that this is the one and only online forum with a raging damper war. That makes Ranger5g totally unique.
 

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The lightheartedness of it is a relief. It’s good to laugh.:like:
I've been here long enough along with Dave, Tracy, Terry and numerous others to remember that this lighthearted damper war actually began because there were heated (not lighthearted) debates about the merits of dampers.

Fortunately, that morphed into the current damper war that makes me laugh each day. I tell my co-pilot about it and she laughs too. She thinks "the Dave" (@AzScorpion ) and Vader (@FoD) are crazy.
 

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