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Nice Iconic Silver Scab! I feel like folks with Scabs do more work ;) Let the Screw folks have all the fun!

Front end was a little light for sure, but I was really just easing it a few miles down the street. It was unintentional, I even made a thread about measuring squat to estimate max payload and ended up just dropping it to the bump stops by accident haha. Tough little truck.

Picked up some dirt for a gardening project. Two scoops from a skidsteer, maybe slightly less than a yards worth. Only had to go 3 miles on 25mph roads, but it was definitely overloaded. Would have been more careful about payload if I had to go any real distance. Not doing this every day. The...

Whelp, the guy with the dirt turned out to have a skid steer, and I took two scoops of dirt. Measured from the reciever hitch it dropped 4 inches. It was sitting on the bump stops but pretty sure they are dynamic stops because bouncing on the tailgate it still moved quite a bit so I had some...

Sounds like 2 inches is a good estimate of safety. Not trying to overthink it, trying to think it just enough. Thanks to those with serious answers!

If I knew it weighed 1400lbs I would not be worried at all, but I will be shoveling dirt into the bed and have no way of knowing when I hit max payload, which is why I want to get some metric to determine how loaded the truck is and I think squat might work. Dirt is heavy and I just don't want...

Hi I need to pick up a load of dirt for a small gardening project, but have no way of weighing the dirt or the truck before/after (just getting free fill dirt from a fb marketplce ad, not a landscape company). I am wondering if anyone has loaded a known ~1400lbs load in the bed of their stock...

I'm 25 First ford was a 2002 E-250, built it into a camper and lived in it full time from ages 19-24. Learned to drive on a '00 jeep cherokee, first car was a '99 cherokee. Ranger is a 2021 STX

Strikingly similar to me. Bought my truck March 29th last year and am at 21,000 miles.

I drove my Scab over 500 miles with FOUR adult men in it. That's right. Nearly 10hrs on the road with two dudes nearly six feet tall in the back seats of the supercab. We were on a ski trip together and carpooled back. They guys knew what they had signed up for and while they were a little...

My iconic silver supercab base STX is almost due for its third trip across the country. Bought it in Utah last March, and left for Maine with 700 miles on the clock in April. Drove it back to Utah in October and will be headed back to Maine this April! 19,000 on it now, still loving it. Having a...

In the summer, my bone stock stx SCab with two bikes on the rack and associated mtb gear/cooler in the cab averages 23-25mpg hand calculated over a whole tank on my 25 mile each way commute. Its a 55mph speed limit winding Maine back road with one stop sign on the whole drive. I have a tonneau...

How many miles have you put on your truck? Good review, the fuel economy is great if you keep your foot out of it and don't do a bunch of mods. On my 22mi back road commute this summer I was averaging 25mpg. Living in the city this winter and doing a lot more highway/city driving I am averaging...

I went with the Scab for the bed length. I carry skis often and the 5 footer is not even close to long enough. The 6 footer is much better but a 6.5' bed would be ideal. I would have bought a regular cab with a 7ft bed if it existed at the time, but having owned my Scab for a year now I...

It is astonishing how bad that combo is. I valet cars in the mountains and new Tacomas and 4runners are super common. When I see them I always think they look pretty mean, but stepping inside feels like going back in time. The seating position and driving inputs are terrible. Getting in and out...

That is absolutely normal. My 02 econoline rear brake rotors actually seized to the hubs in less than 2 years. I broke two mallets and marred the hell out of the rotors trying to get them off, even with heat from a small propane torch. What did the trick was putting a 12ton bottle jack sideways...

A ranger in 4wd has more straight line traction than an awd subaru. Despite having very similar advertised clearance, the ranger has a much higher "average clearance" and will be able to handle much deeper snow before getting stuck. Unfortunately, roads are not straight. Roads are also usually...

I haven't had any of the new subarus, I was thinking back to an old '06 in regards to ground clearance. Crazy how high the new ones are!

In general the weight distribution of pickup trucks limits how well they can handle in the snow, even with a decent 4wd system, good tires, and terrain management. An AWD wagon is the best vehicle for snowy roads. Our pickups also have a much higher center of gravity which hurts the handling...

My 21 ranger is at over 18k miles now and my main complaints are more preference than anything. I wish the bed were 6 inches longer. Even the Scab 6ft bed is not quite long enough to put my skis in straight, I would have bought a single cab if it were available in the states. Also I wish one of...