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Best wishes for a speedy recovery !! There are a lot of us in PHX metro on this forum. Help is literally around the corner, just holler if in need !

I love my Leer shell, it is my second one. The first one I owned was on 2005 Nissan Titan and was black in color, I upgraded to a 2008 Titan in Midnight Blue, being in the insurance business I used a contact to paint the shell blue, think I paid 500. That shell stayed in pristine condition...

Captive agents for National companies are almost always 1099 subcontractors, not employees, therefore contractually the policy is between you and State Farm, the emails are great, but an agent has no legal authority to change a contract. Just to be safe, I would email the agent your receipts...

Thanks for the heads up to the readers of this forum. I have been an agent for 26 years, for a different national company. Most insurance companies do not use Blue Book, there is another industry based valuation tool, in a market like this companies will also look at “comps” selling at local...

I have an XLT and it suits me just fine. Personal preference on the push button start, my wife has it and I always need to double check if the engine is running as I exit the car, it is so quiet. Pulling a handle to move a seat is no chore, it is a truck. More fluff, more to go wrong, keep it...

Knock arguments aside, from my personal experience going back and forth from AZ to CA burning a full tank and comparing 91 to 87, 87 gives me better MPG, this isn’t a one off, made the 375 mile drive fourteen times so far and will do so shortly. All my CA peeps can vouch for CA gas prices, got...

Best wishes for an enjoyable and stress free retirement !! You are an integral part of this community and probably it’s most respected member. Thank you for the valuable advice given so freely and in abundance.

The guy is a good dude, actually I don’t mind it, it is fun to see your own truck drive past you going the other way. Beats rubber necking looking at your own truck when driving past mirrored glass, many of us are vain like that ?

Funny story, my Ranger is unique, blackout package with black wheels removed and chrome Lariat wheels put in their place (I am disco like that... lol) and a Leer shell with surfing stickers on the back. So I am five miles from home visiting my daughter, looking out the window and I see my truck...

You bet !! The other thought I had was the clamps are loose and the shell actually slid back. In my old Leer shell that I had on my Nissan Titan for 13 years the bolts were placed in holes drilled through the rails to prevent sliding, this generation of shells uses clamps as in the photo...

I have the exact same shell, no leaks. Very simple the shell is mounted too far back. We have had monsoons in the desert so the truck is dirty, apologize for that, but again no leaks.

Not sure I buy the good for mulch at Home Depot runs argument. A car with a trunk and plastic bag work just fine for the few times a year the average person buys mulch. People who shop at more than one store at a time or folks that go to the gym prefer a trunk to hide and keep goods secure...

Being an insurance agent for over 26 years I have seen a lot. A hail damaged car has diminished value by definition, it will never go away EVEN if fixed because State Farm will report the payment on a ACL report which could feed into Carfax. So there are really two good options here. Keep...

In my experience you will get the most for it if you trade it in on another, just a timing issue, if you know the sale is 100 percent a done deal, trade or sell it first. With CarMax that will force your hand. I made the mistake of trading in my truck with the understanding that the shell was...

Just buy some take offs from another Ranger owner, they will fit for sure and the prices are extremely reasonable. There is another section in this forum about it. I swapped wheels last year doing it and am super pleased on both sides of the transactions.

I travel between Phoenix and San Diego on a regular basis. If I drive at 75ish I average about 30 MPG for first 200 miles or so, as I come upon the Cuyamaca mountains it drops as I climb to 4,000 feet. Overall 26.7 MPG for nearly 400 miles. Have done this drive 12 times so far, that is the...

I understand your points and they are relevant. Here is the deal, forums can be strictly informational like a cookbook/encyclopedia or they be a community where folks come on for a nice distraction with folks who have a few things in common. Personalities will naturally reveal themselves in a...

No... call around and see if someone will squeeze you in earlier. If you have to ask, deep down you know the answer. It isn’t only the blow out scenario, but general loss of control on slick roads. If you have prior knowledge of a potentially dangerous situation and you drive anyway and...

Lowered Hondas with a trash can muffler are a San Diego specialty ?. I can actually envision your exact experience.

Thanks for the insight, loved to learn about who you are, forums can be restrictive in showing the total person. Maybe the solution is to build your own fun truck from a junker with some of the money you save, there a lot of satisfaction in that.