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That depends, when I bought mine in 21 I got .9% financing from Ford. I am getting 3.5% interest on my savings. Didn't make sense to pay cash.

FWIW, The term "Pink Slip" has been around for a long time but in my 50+ years of working and driving I have never seen a registration certificate, title or lay-off paperwork that has been pink.

That article is from 2020.

I would venture a guess that the yellow box represents the pit box and all the safety measures apply to those individuals working inside the box. I don't follow off-road racing much so I don't know all the details regarding safety. Here are some photos of the world's largest racing series; F1...

Fire suits are required by the sanctioning body as a safety measure for the driver and pit crew. This is true of any racing body where there are pit stops. The matching attire is a requirement of the sponsors to get maximum exposure for their brand. If this is new to you I would guess you don't...

FWIW, I have never seen a mechanically driven clutch fan stop spinning completely. Also, if you start mucking with the wiring to the clutch you will very likely cause a check engine light and could possibly put the engine into limit mode.

I am surprised that you are just finding out about this feature. It was around 2010 that the auto manufacturers started adding this feature and have marketed it extensively. The nice thing is you can choose to have a message read or not. I don't know if you purchased your truck new or not but...

My Ford vehicles have been reading my text messages since I got a 13 Focus ST in December 2012.

FYI, cell phone reception has nothing to do with your GPS reception, they are two completely different and independent systems. It takes a minimum of three GPS satellites to triangulate your position. If you were in the mountains the GPS receiver in your Ranger likely could only see two...

FWIW, one of the features that the magazine articles touted as a benefit when the 19 Ranger was released was the fact that the Rangers 2.3 had a mechanical fan compared to the electric fan used on other 2.3 applications. The reason given was the mechanical fan could move more air than an...

If you are anything like me you will very quickly become annoyed with it and turn it off. Both my wife's Jeep and my Ranger have it and we gave it about a month and turned it off in both. They never wiped at a speed that was appropriate for the amount of rain falling

There is no legal requirement to be certified but it is certainly encouraged by all the automotive manufactures. You will get ASE certification when you complete GMs specific training. All the auto manufacturers have brand specific training as they should which is certainly more important than a...

Can't believe you would make such an uninformed comment. ASE has over 50 different certifications in all phases of automotive service and repair. Basically if you want a good paying job in the automotive repair & service industry you better have appropriate ASE certifications. Certainly being...

I am going to say that you do not understand engines and the timing needs of the engine under various operating conditions if you believe an engine doesn't require more timing when cruising than at WOT. Simplest way I can explain it is to think of an older engine with a distributor. There is a...

I have been using Sync since 2013 and never had any issues like that. Have you done a master reset on the system? And, is the software up to date? The current version is 3.4.23188

In my 50+ years of driving I have never experienced a difference in fuel mileage between 87 and 93 octane fuel and there is no reason that you should. Higher octane can allow for more timing and/or boost at WOT which will give you more power but your fuel mileage is based on your steady state...

I wouldn't call it dreaded, it's something that is there but not an issue. Every vehicle I have owned over the past 50+ years that had a clutch fan did the same thing when started cold.

Interesting video and I am not surprised that Big D made 5.7 HP. I remember the math James Watt came up with to calculate HP from Physics 101 in college.

Not sure why. You do not want to activate the nitrous solenoids until you are at WOT and the best way to do that is a micro switch on the throttle.

Not sure what you are saying here but the static load on the pawl will be the cosine of the incline angle and will be less than the weight of the truck.. For example you are parked on a 30 degree incline and your truck weighs 4400 lbs. The load on the pawl will be the cosine of 30 degrees times...