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I've put the daily paper & grocery ad flyers from the mail in the dead space as a sort of time capsule whenever I've remodeled a kitchen. Never thought to make it a literal dead space. This is brilliant!

It's solar powered!

Here's an indication: On February 17, 2021, Ford announced that all commercial vehicles in Europe would be zero-emissions capable – all-electric or plug-in hybrid – by 2024. https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/2023-ford-ranger-plug-in-hybrid-confirmed also, this from a few days ago...

Check out that instrument cluster, though...

When I was in my early 20's I drove a '73 MG Midget for a couple of years. The parking brake was nearly useless (as were the rear drum brakes) so I kept a folding Toyota wheel chock behind the seat. The car was so low and small I could reach the rear wheel from the driver's seat to place &...

Nice! Looks like you added an ornament to it, too - congratulations!

My drivers training as a teen was by a retired CHP Sargent. He drilled so many things into our heads and one of them was parking on a hill: 1. curb your wheel so the curb is taking the load 2. set the cable / emergency / parking brake 3. if you are driving an automatic that day, put it in Park...

In the older cars I've driven the emergency brake was cable actuated, to the back wheels only. Just in case the hydraulic brakes stopped working you'd still have rudimentary braking in an emergency, thus the name. Guessing on this part, but because they had a ratchet and we were instructed to...

Looks like North Carolina is banning the squat (for all trucks, not just Ford as the headline might suggest). https://fordauthority.com/2021/09/ford-trucks-banned-from-getting-the-carolina-squat-in-north-carolina/

That's some nice woodworking. But it's the engineering of some of the little details that stand out and clearly make things so much more usable!

Honestly, I don't think they had a clue as to how chip foundries in east Asia operate, or the business environment they operate in. It almost felt like they were treating the chip suppliers the way they do their local (Canada, USA, Mexico) manufacturer-suppliers that might fold without their...

Toyota Finally Hit By Chip Shortage, Will Shut Down Production https://www.motor1.com/news/527908/toyota-chip-shortage-production-pause/

Toyota invented Just In Time ordering nearly 50 years ago. But their version is complete and accounts for predicted shortages as best it can with redundant suppliers and caches to tide over during shortages. When the system was adopted here, most of that was slowly discarded one feature at a...

Thank you for the clarification! Honestly, at my local dealer there are few enough F-150's to count on one hand, about the same number of Edges...two Bronco's, one as a demo the other waiting to be picked up...and some windblown scraps of paper blowing across a large expanse of blacktop.

My local dealer has zero in stock but of new Rangers on dealer-order, they're pricing above MSRP. Example: XLT 2x4, non-FX2. MSRP: $35,385 Advertised starting price: $40,384 Advertised "Final price": $38,384 You might have to burrow down in some of the links to other forums in this article...

Hey Phil, Off topic-ish, but on the very off-chance case you weren't aware of it, there's a subforum on blue oval that's only for Ford retirees. Looks like mostly retiree news & communications regarding administrative, pensions, programs, problems, etc...

And...a whole swath of Mavericks are being put on hold. Along with slices of pretty much everything else including Rangers. https://tfltruck.com/2021/09/report-new-2022-ford-maverick-hybrid-orders-are-being-halted-until-further-notice/

That tailgate, though. It looks...puckered? I just can't think of another word for it. It's like an angry welt. Or like those scraps of beef that won't go through the grinder.

Maybe it's because I don't have a Lariat, but mine has a boost gauge right in the middle of the dash, between the tach & speedo? Seems to be hooked up backwards, though. (It's a bad joke. Turbo boost & mpg are inversely related. Boost goes up, mileage goes down. )

Sorry for the delay. I've attached a photo of that section of the IPC module. But also, I noticed on the F-150 there are four locations that store Forward Collision-related settings. They are: 720-01-02 (IPC) 720-03-02 (IPC) 726-13-01 (BCM) 7D0-09-01 (APIM) Again, that's from the F-150 so I...