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I definitely dont have much (if any) travel at all before i can feel the brakes engage. The brakes on the Ranger feel rather "normal" to me, but my "normal" consists of low-end Ford lease vehicles so i unfortunately cant provide much of a perspective here. I will say vehicles like the Edge ST...

Every vehicle i've driven (way too many fusions...) has had ice buildup in the wheel wells during winter. Rangers is probably the best vehicle for this that i've driven. The plastic bits inside the wheel well make it easier to knock the ice off than the felt that many other vehicles use.

Dealer delivery seems to be really poor on the ranger. I had read the manual cover to cover before picking my range up, and when it was delivered i was told that the terrain management system "Only shifted the truck between 2H, 4H and 4L" They also skipped over the locking rear differential...

I've been having the front left sensor go off intermittently on occasion. It's always while i'm coming to a stop. When i check for sensor obstructions there's never anything covering it.

I forgot to check on the video, but it got posted to youtube so here it is starring my Ranger doing some casual offroading:

The Autodimming mirror has to look forwards and backwards. Look at the back of your mirror and you'll find a little port with a translucent piece of plastic in it.

IIRC, Ford uses the same camera for the auto-high beams, rain wipers, and lane keeping. but then they use a different sensor for the autodimming mirror

Most of the vehicles i see rolled-over during the winter here are either old beater cars like the one in my previous picture where it doesnt have TCS nor ABS or pickup trucks. For the former it usually is some dumb teenager has decided to change lanes and gunnit around someone. For the latter...

I'm excited about the snow this year with the Ranger, I had to survive the polar vortex here in Michigan with a Fusion Hybrid. Got used to shoveling out the vehicle before even attempting to back out of a parking spot. Only thing i'm not looking forward to is dealing with all the other...

Well, i went and added another expensive hobby to my portfolio. Below is my Bulgarian Makarov. But at least i can now hit the broad side of a barn at 7 yards in addition to my 9mm holepunch, i also got a 5.56mm hole punch, but havent gotten to the range to shoot it. EDIT: bonus makarov...

How much does something like that cost?

I'm at 2000 miles on my ranger, and been throwing the door open fairly hard but have no issues with my door check. I suspect this is a defect/assembly issue.

Probably not, if that part there costs $0.20 to make and the steel version costs $0.50 then Ford saves $1.20 per vehicle they switch over. If Ford sells 600,000 vehicles then they just saved $720,000 in manufacturing costs. If this part is standardized across vehicles then the cost savings go up...

At work i'm actually working on the conversion of a part from steel to plastic. Switching this part will save about 30 grams of weight (which is actually about 25% the weight of the entire related assembly), and since any vehicle it'll be on will have two, it's 60 grams total. This is pretty...

I'm replacing my Fusion which had a high tendency to get stuck just about anywhere Yes, that fusion is indeed so badly stuck in mud that it cannot budge an inch. It wasnt even worth attempting to back over this since the result would be rather obvious.

They did 50% torque, then 75% torque, then the final torquing

Somewhere at Ford's engineering facility the Wheel engineers are getting headachs... Even the official service manuals explicitly say to not use antisieze on the lugs. While using Oil on a threaded fastener is a more consistent way to obtain a more repeatable preload on the fasteners, when you...

Ranger uses 19mm lugs, 12-point sockets are not approved for use as they can damage the cap of the lug. Make sure you also use a socket which is deep enough to fully grip the lug.

Tire pressure and washerfluid are both on PDI, yet both are wrong on many people's rangers across the country... Also, Torque with a torque wrench and a dynamic torque that you can get from a proper powered tool are going to vary significantly. Static friction is always higher than dynamic...

just last weekend drove to the other side of my state and back. 140 miles each way. On the way there i got 25.5 mpg probably due to a ~8mph tail wind. On the way back i had instead a ~10 mph crosswind and got only 21.6 mpg. Both were with me driving between 75-80, and my truck has around 1600...