Wow! I've owned my Ranger since 2019 and I've never noticed this!

[Jhbryaniv]

What's wrong with it's placement?

It's not like playing with your mirrors is a daily thing?

Some people like playing with their mirrors. It brings them pleasure.

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[RedDakooter05]

What's wrong with it's placement?

It's not like playing with your mirrors is a daily thing?

You never fiddled with that toggle switch? Gotta fiddle with something on them long, lonely trips...

 

[D Fresh]

You never fiddled with that toggle switch? Gotta fiddle with something on them long, lonely trips...

Pocket knives serve as my fidget spinner replacement.

 

[Jhbryaniv]

You never fiddled with that toggle switch? Gotta fiddle with something on them long, lonely trips...

Isn't that why you bring you're partner along...

 

[SigOris]

Do they not have bathroom fans in arizona?

Asking for a friend...



FIFY

What did you fix for me ???

 

[pbethel]

Reading these confessions makes me wonder if you folks are really "car guys" or just old farts who stumbled upon the forum whilst trying to find another chrome plated Mickey Mouse, Made In China, POS, DeeZee product to paste onto your pick 'em up truck.

Old Fart car guy... not electronic gadget guy.
First gen Bronco as ford built it my favorite car.
Fuel injection and electronic ignition are nice but not fixable in the field. The rest...

 

[D Fresh]

Old Fart car guy... not electronic gadget guy.
First gen Bronco as ford built it my favorite car.
Fuel injection and electronic ignition are nice but not fixable in the field. The rest...

I can understand that outlook.

But nowadays cars and electronics are virtually inseparable.

Perhaps I'm just more inquisitive than others. I'm the type who plays with shit til I've got it figured out. I'll even read the manual when I can't figure out how to undue something I've done.

 

[Motorpsychology]

I've never understood this, I know so many that do this and have magazines there too. For one it's uncomfortable and then there's the obvious it smells like....well you know. ? I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible.

Maybe replacing the magazine basket in the water closet for a fruit basket in the kitchen would help get folks to spend less time on the thunder mug.

 

[Motorpsychology]

What's wrong with it's placement?

It's not like playing with your mirrors is a daily thing?

For me not daily, but after my wife rarely drives it, everything needs readjustment. Also, on a long drive I like to move the seat all the way back and lower it a little, and adjust the mirrors accordingly. The mirror adj knob on my Mariner is on the driver's door; much more convenient and in plain view. I'm surprised that the Ranger design team didn't go with this switch. In their relentless cost saving doctrine, that control was already in inventory, and would've required one less die cut in the dash panel, for savings of ~1¢ per vehicle.

Same for the instrument cluster dimmer: ..."Where can we hide this so it will be the least intuitive?

And... "Hey! Let's make a totally uneccessary sequential dash bar pop up in the driver info display, so than when they want the cluster lights adjusted brighter or dimmer, they will have to wait 5 seconds for the stupid bars to finish before they can see if the cluster is how they want it..."

 

[Chris M]

I keep gun porn in my bathroom.
G&A
Handgunner
American Rifleman
that kind of stuff.
One of my residents gets them all and gives them to me when he's done with them.

 

[Chris M]

For me not daily, but after my wife rarely drives it, everything needs readjustment. Also, on a long drive I like to move the seat all the way back and lower it a little, and adjust the mirrors accordingly. The mirror adj knob on my Mariner is on the driver's door; much more convenient and in plain view. I'm surprised that the Ranger design team didn't go with this switch. In their relentless cost saving doctrine, that control was already in inventory, and would've required one less die cut in the dash panel, for savings of ~1¢ per vehicle.

Same for the instrument cluster dimmer: ..."Where can we hide this so it will be the least intuitive?

And... "Hey! Let's make a totally uneccessary sequential dash bar pop up in the driver info display, so than when they want the cluster lights adjusted brighter or dimmer, they will have to wait 5 seconds for the stupid bars to finish before they can see if the cluster is how they want it..."

I hate that bar....

 

[D Fresh]

For me not daily, but after my wife rarely drives it, everything needs readjustment. Also, on a long drive I like to move the seat all the way back and lower it a little, and adjust the mirrors accordingly. The mirror adj knob on my Mariner is on the driver's door; much more convenient and in plain view. I'm surprised that the Ranger design team didn't go with this switch. In their relentless cost saving doctrine, that control was already in inventory, and would've required one less die cut in the dash panel, for savings of ~1¢ per vehicle.

Same for the instrument cluster dimmer: ..."Where can we hide this so it will be the least intuitive?

And... "Hey! Let's make a totally uneccessary sequential dash bar pop up in the driver info display, so than when they want the cluster lights adjusted brighter or dimmer, they will have to wait 5 seconds for the stupid bars to finish before they can see if the cluster is how they want it..."

Ok, that makes some sense.

I'm lucky in that my old lady is roughly the same height as me so she doesn't move my mirrors.

On a side note. Why?

Periodically at work I need to drive other people's trucks. Sometimes the mirrors aren't set up ideally for me. But I'm in the truck short term and the guy who always drives it has the mirrors the way he likes them. Do I re-adjust everything to my liking? Nope. I simply move my head slightly to see what I want to see.

Not your vehicle, not your mirrors, don't move them. That's my philosophy.

Share that with your wife if you dare!

Also, you're right about the dimmer bar. But luckily I don't play with that either.

I guess I'm like Ron Popeil in my Ranger. "Set it and forget it!"

 

[Motorpsychology]

Ok, that makes some sense.

I'm lucky in that my old lady is roughly the same height as me so she doesn't move my mirrors.

On a side note. Why?

Periodically at work I need to drive other people's trucks. Sometimes the mirrors aren't set up ideally for me. But I'm in the truck short term and the guy who always drives it has the mirrors the way he likes them. Do I re-adjust everything to my liking? Nope. I simply move my head slightly to see what I want to see.

Not your vehicle, not your mirrors, don't move them. That's my philosophy.

Share that with your wife if you dare!

Also, you're right about the dimmer bar. But luckily I don't play with that either.

I guess I'm like Ron Popeil in my Ranger. "Set it and forget it!"

When I drove semi, a shop kid we had for a short time for lube/oil changes & parts runs used to re-setup our tractors; kind of a driver wannabe. Moved the mirrors, seat height-rake-travel-lumbar, put the radio on to the hip-hop station, and leave the unswitched CB on. All for the long, 700 foot drive from the tractor park to the shop.

 

[Msfitoy]

I keep gun porn in my bathroom.
G&A
Handgunner
American Rifleman
that kind of stuff.
One of my residents gets them all and gives them to me when he's done with them.

And Firearm News...

 

[yamahaSHO]

Old Fart car guy... not electronic gadget guy.
First gen Bronco as ford built it my favorite car.
Fuel injection and electronic ignition are nice but not fixable in the field. The rest...

I'm actually more likely to have some spare injectors and coils in my travel box than I am carburetors. Plenty fixable in the field (race track).

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