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I purchased the Carlin CarPlay wireless adapter for my wife to use in her Jeep. It works pretty well but once in awhile it doesn't connect when see gets in the car. Unplugging and plugging it back in always fixes it.

You would need to purchase a wireless adapter to use Android Auto wirelessly. The Ranger does not natively support wireless AA.

The dealership that I have purchased my last 5 Fords from built a new building around 2005 and the kept the old building to use for their body shop and new car prep. All new vehicles get delivered to the old building and once prepped they are driven to the new building for delivery or to go out...

My 15 Mustang had it and I must have laid on the fob just right and opened the widows with out knowing. I was greeted to 6" of snow on the front seats the next morning. Needless to say I turned that feature off. When I got my 17 Mustangs I turned it off before driving off the dealers lot. I...

FWIW, the dealer we bought my wife's Cherokee gave us free oil changes for the life of the warranty. They use Pennzoil Synthetic for these oil changes.

But they certainly can increase the labor charge making it more cost effective to use their oil.

FWIW, the ECUs in Fords Ecoboost engines are tuned to produce the most power on 93 octane but have the ability to "detune" to allow you to use 87 octane with a corresponding decrease in power. The owners manual for the Focus ST I had listed the power on 87 and 93 octane (10 HP difference). The...

It's an appropriate word. The Ranger owners manual states that a minimum of 87 octane is "required" and using gas with lower octane can result in engine damage. When you tune your engine for more performance you give up the ability of the ECU to adjust for lower octanes than the stated...

Gee, I have owned 7 vehicles since 2011 with capless fillers and haven't had a code thrown by any of them.

Yes and No! Yes all threaded fasteners stretch when you apply torque, any amount of torque. The torque specified for most fasteners is around 80% to 90% of the fasteners yield strength and is within the elastic region so when the torque is removed the fastener returns to its original length...

FWIW, there is no reason to expect higher octane fuel to net better fuel mileage, more power but not better mileage. A 4 cycle engine is most efficient and makes the most power when maximum cylinder pressure occurs at approximately 20 degrees after top dead center (it will vary some based on...

Well it does vary by region so it may not be very "wintery". I remember back in the 70s when they first made the switch to low volatility gasoline and didn't adjust for the winter everyone had to carry a can of ether starting fluid. By the next winter they allowed gas to have the higher...

In the winter the gasoline is blended with more volatiles like benzene and butane to help the vehicle start easier. This winter blend has less BTUs so you use more, combine that with thicker oils in the cold, longer running enriched and increased rolling resistance of the tires it is not...

Actually what you see rusted is the trunk extension. Any where the filler pulled away from the sheet metal was un-rusted.

When you use a performance tune that requires 93 octane the ECU does not have the ability to completely compensate for the lower octane. Drive it easy until you can dilute the 87 and you won't have any issues. I went to an 87 Performance tune over 16k miles ago and don't miss the extra power...

X-Plan is 4/10s of a percent below invoice plus a $275 fee. The numbers in your chart are correct. The other thing that you get with X-Plan is the $500-$600 documentation fee the dealers charge is limited to $100. You can usually do better than X-Plan but it is a very reasonable deal that does...

You don't have to remove them unless you are at the memory capacity of the device so there is no reason for them to have told you to remove old tunes. As a matter of course I do the factory reset each time I am changing vehicles kind of like doing a master rest on Sync everytime you update...

FWIW, there are two ways to clear all tunes from memory in a SCT device; 1. Do a factory reset on the device. This erases every thing in memory and sets all device parameters back to the way it left the factory. When I purchased my SCT X4 from Steeda with a tune for my Focus ST, Steeda had...

I have been using the same SCT hand held device since 2012 and started getting tunes from Unleashed in 2013. Never had an issue. Can't say the same with the FP branded Livernois device. I had programing issues three times which required me to go through a recovery procedure each time before I...

As much as folks poo poo using body filler the previous owner told me he had patched the quarters in the late 80s when I purchased the car in 97. So the fact that it was holding up just fine for over 30 years is a testament of how good the work was. About 1/4" of the filler in contact with the...