Buying a Ranger? Check for the middle tie downs

[HenryMac]

If it was due to COVID or the resulting shipping mess that is still going to take a year or so more to work through, and Ford had said,

"Hey, we were making respiratory ventilators using F-150 dash blowers* when your truck was built, and the tie downs are in really short supply so we had to ration them. We're doing the best we can. Here's a coupon for them when they become available someday. Thanks for your patience."

I'd have been not only happy to wait, but impressed with their communication & dedication to their customers. Instead what I got from my dealer was a blank expression and a shrug, as if to say, "Should've caught that before you drove it off the lot".

*true story

Well... I ordered my tie downs 11-01-2019... and it took a long time to get them... and that was pre-Covid.

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[P. A. Schilke]

If it was due to COVID or the resulting shipping mess that is still going to take a year or so more to work through, and Ford had said,

"Hey, we were making respiratory ventilators using F-150 dash blowers* when your truck was built, and the tie downs are in really short supply so we had to ration them. We're doing the best we can. Here's a coupon for them when they become available someday. Thanks for your patience."

I'd have been not only happy to wait, but impressed with their communication & dedication to their customers. Instead what I got from my dealer was a blank expression and a shrug, as if to say, "Should've caught that before you drove it off the lot".

*true story

Hi SL,

True Story... The Plant Vehicle Team from Light Truck Engineering stationed at MAP under the leadership of Roger B, who I know personally, deleted the center tie down as a Material Cost Reduction. Roger met his objective and received his bonus and promptly retired to Florida.

So your choices include the following

1. Deal with not having center tiedowns
2. Move the tiedowns you do not use to the center position
3. Beat the dealer too death to give you the "missing" tiedowns as part of the sale.
4. Order a pair of Tiedowns from LevitTown Ford via Benny.
5. Sit here and beat the dead horse and whine and complain

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

 

[JACKSMYDOG]

Ford wanting $136.30 CAD for 2 brackets and 4 bolts is absolutely absurd! ($47.85 for the bracket, $6.23 each bolt + tax).

 

[HenryMac]

Ford wanting $136.30 CAD for 2 brackets and 4 bolts is absolutely absurd! ($47.85 for the bracket, $6.23 each bolt + tax).

Still a better value than a tailgate damper..

 

[THLONE]

Good story Phil, did another engineer retire after not adding the damper.

 

[Augie81]

5. Sit here and beat the dead horse and whine and complain

To be fair this thread was dead and didn't have a response for almost a year until someone decided bring it back the other day to make a snarky remark. I'm not judginig them for it. Maybe they were bored.

Oh and to answer I have used my middle tie downs many times. Glad I got them.

 

[jthompson48]

Thanks to this forum I knew to grab the tie downs and swap the headrests off the 2019 I traded in for a 21.

 

[HenryMac]

Thanks to this forum I knew to grab the tie downs and swap the headrests off the 2019 I traded in for a 21.

The guy that buys your old 2019 probably is going to hate you.... or more likely, he'll never know the difference.

How did you swap the headrests? Right there in front of the salesman?

 

[jthompson48]

The guy that buys your old 2019 probably is going to hate you.... or more likely, he'll never know the difference.

How did you swap the headrests? Right there in front of the salesman?

He helped me do it!

 

[HenryMac]

He helped me do it!

Car Salesman... they're worse than Ford owners.. ?

 

[THLONE]

To be fair this thread was dead and didn't have a response for almost a year until someone decided bring it back the other day to make a snarky remark. I'm not judginig them for it. Maybe they were bored.

Actually I was baited by the web site that brings up old posts at the end of the threads and sends me emails. I am guilty of not looking at the date. My bad. Snarky is a cheep shot. In my humble opinion of course.

PS The web site makes more money depending post count.
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[Tracy Bowman]

Im thinking of starting a small hobby farm.
chickens, goats and some tigers maybe.
Theres a neighborhood yard cat that wanders around acting starved all the time. I'm only slightly worried he will look at my chickens as dinner.
What I am curious about is should I lash down my chicken coop in case there is ever a hurricane that rips through the property.
Should i go with extra tie downs? a set in the middle spiked into mother earth with some big dirt screws? and should i put dampers on all the windows and hatches? I'm really afraid that the rooster might be standing in the door when the hatch swings shut and punts him across the coop in front of the ladies.
I never got any Ford Points. Canada sucked the big one in the beginning and only recently offered them. I have a big fat 0.

Tigers...? ? That’s gonna be quite the hobby farm, RP. Take care!

 

[D Fresh]

I've been trying to buy them with the Fordpass points I got when I bought the truck. Even that is proving to be a headache.

At my dealership the parts folks have no idea how to charge FordPass points. As a workaround they bill the parts to service, and I walk around and complete the transaction with them as they know the FordPass system.

I bought the tie downs, bolts, and swingcases with my FordPass points and some cash.

Seemed OK to me, despite the cost of the tiedowns, as the FordPass points were basically "free money."

 

[JesseS]

I checked with my BIL who is sales GM for Fox Ford, he said that the middle mounting location is for the Link Box system, if ordered, if not then it is left out. He is sending me a set of tie downs as SWAG so I won't have to purchase them at Ford's crazy price.

 

[MountainGoat]

At my dealership the parts folks have no idea how to charge FordPass points. As a workaround they bill the parts to service, and I walk around and complete the transaction with them as they know the FordPass system.

I bought the tie downs, bolts, and swingcases with my FordPass points and some cash.

Seemed OK to me, despite the cost of the tiedowns, as the FordPass points were basically "free money."

Neither one at my dealer knows it. Oh well I have a couple NEW dealers to call tomorrow and see if I can get my tie downs again.

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