Gizmokid2005
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Welp, add me to the list of former 5G Ranger owners.
It seems that I've been on this plan of "drive for about 5 years or 80k miles per vehicle" since I started driving. I bought my '19 XLT in November 2019 with 34 miles on the clock. I traded it in at the beginning of the month after almost 6 years and just over 79k miles. The dealer gave me just shy of $19k on trade-in and allegedly sold it for around $20k almost a month later.
(Now allow me to wax poetic a bit until the end when I introduce the replacement.)
All things considered, I really enjoyed my Ranger for most things. It took me every place I asked it too, even places it shouldn't have, pulled everything I put behind it (including 8.5x20x7 enclosed trailers totaling 10k lbs loaded), carried multiple motorcycles home, moved cross-country, multiple road trips, plenty of dark sky/stargazing trips, full solar eclipse, camping, chasing cars through canyon roads, surprising people at how fast it is, and just generally from point A to B. Now it wasn't perfect, not by any means, I had my fair share of kinks to work out (and some that never got solved):
Here's a couple shots from the Ranger's progression and final form.
Day after purchase:
Effectively final form (including powdercoated stock rims to lighten things up) in 2021 (during some of the fires in central cali):
Basically final "shoot" here in GA:
The time you've been waiting for, the new rig!
When I originally went looking I was just eyeballing what existed, considering new Broncos and F-150s both, depending on pricing and incentives, it was just time to keep an eye out with my ESP expiring in November (despite having over 50k miles left on it) and with the drivetrain issues I haven't solved yet I was trying to balance potential cost risks. A powerboost was enticing because of the absolutely abysmal power stability we have here now (we've lost power over 3 dozen times in less than 18 month's time), but I hadn't decided.
I wasn't looking at used, but they had a '22 F-150 Powerboost on the lot that was basically everything I wanted. 7.2kW pro-power, twin panel moonroof, crew cab, 6.5' bed (wasn't even looking for this, but a huge plus). ~33k miles, lease turn-in, certified pre-owned. It was hard to go wrong with a $45k price on a $74k sticker. I like to joke that I just watered the Ranger and it grew up
Upgrades are slowly in progress now!
It's been a great upgrade so far. I'm getting better mileage than the Ranger (despite weighing over 1k lbs more and being so much larger) and the space is like a friggin' apartment.
Here's to many more adventures to come! It's been real y'all!
-Gizmo
It seems that I've been on this plan of "drive for about 5 years or 80k miles per vehicle" since I started driving. I bought my '19 XLT in November 2019 with 34 miles on the clock. I traded it in at the beginning of the month after almost 6 years and just over 79k miles. The dealer gave me just shy of $19k on trade-in and allegedly sold it for around $20k almost a month later.
(Now allow me to wax poetic a bit until the end when I introduce the replacement.)
All things considered, I really enjoyed my Ranger for most things. It took me every place I asked it too, even places it shouldn't have, pulled everything I put behind it (including 8.5x20x7 enclosed trailers totaling 10k lbs loaded), carried multiple motorcycles home, moved cross-country, multiple road trips, plenty of dark sky/stargazing trips, full solar eclipse, camping, chasing cars through canyon roads, surprising people at how fast it is, and just generally from point A to B. Now it wasn't perfect, not by any means, I had my fair share of kinks to work out (and some that never got solved):
- Rear brakes squealed multiple times, after the dealer pad slapped and turned rotors multiple times before 20k miles, I finally solved this by just putting my own rotors on it. Never had an issue again.
- Rear driver's side axle seal failed around 21k, they noticed this during addressing the brakes at one of the visits. Warranty fixed.
- Got a clunk from the rear, one of the upper shock mount bolts was loose, this was addressed at the axle seal visit under warranty, they just tightened the bolt.
- Front rotors needed resurfacing and new pads at 29k miles. Had to cover $160 for labor for this.
- EVAP core had a leak and was replaced at the same time the infamous blend door issue hit at 35k miles. All fixed under warranty.
- Starting around 30k miles, I had an issue where my alignment would go out within about 5-8k miles regardless of driving, always the same way (wheel slightly off-center to the left), never addressed under warranty, was a persistent issue that seemed fine for the last 10k or so.
- Developed a valvetrain rattle around 50k miles, between about 2500-3000 RPM under a moderate load you'd hear a rattle that sounded almost like the valves were starved of oil. 2 different trips to the dealer for this and the master tech swears it's "just the nature of the engine" and that nothing was wrong. I never had a catastrophic failure from it, and the issue persisted up until I got rid of it as well. I don't know if it's fine or not, it definitely doesn't *sound* fine to me but over 20k with the issue with no noticeable signs of issues from it.
- At 60k miles I got hit with the infamous water in the spark plugs issue to the point it caused misfiring. I had to fight with the dealer and they had to fight with ford to cover this under my ESP, I paid for spark plugs and they warrantied one coil and the engine cover. Found out later that the dealer had to eat half the cost in the end for <reasons>.
- From the time I brought the truck home, if it was cold enough the first time the truck tried to do the 1->3 or 2->4 skip shift, it would hesitate hard like it lost all gears before picking up the gear and operating normally after that. It had to be cold enough to trigger, which was hard living in CA and GA, so I never got this addressed since it couldn't be duplicated at the dealer.
- In the last 10k miles it developed a slight shudder, sometimes, in 8th gear most noticeably, under a light load, but it was intermittent, so again similar issues with getting it to be reproducible for the dealer to address.
Here's a couple shots from the Ranger's progression and final form.
Day after purchase:
Effectively final form (including powdercoated stock rims to lighten things up) in 2021 (during some of the fires in central cali):
Basically final "shoot" here in GA:
The time you've been waiting for, the new rig!
When I originally went looking I was just eyeballing what existed, considering new Broncos and F-150s both, depending on pricing and incentives, it was just time to keep an eye out with my ESP expiring in November (despite having over 50k miles left on it) and with the drivetrain issues I haven't solved yet I was trying to balance potential cost risks. A powerboost was enticing because of the absolutely abysmal power stability we have here now (we've lost power over 3 dozen times in less than 18 month's time), but I hadn't decided.
I wasn't looking at used, but they had a '22 F-150 Powerboost on the lot that was basically everything I wanted. 7.2kW pro-power, twin panel moonroof, crew cab, 6.5' bed (wasn't even looking for this, but a huge plus). ~33k miles, lease turn-in, certified pre-owned. It was hard to go wrong with a $45k price on a $74k sticker. I like to joke that I just watered the Ranger and it grew up
Upgrades are slowly in progress now!
It's been a great upgrade so far. I'm getting better mileage than the Ranger (despite weighing over 1k lbs more and being so much larger) and the space is like a friggin' apartment.
Here's to many more adventures to come! It's been real y'all!
-Gizmo
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