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no, for the bronco ford realized in time that they needed a signal for brake activation rather than pedal activation and output that to a normal four wire plug. I can't imagine that redarc had any interest in modifying their generic controller with logic to handle multiple different kinds of...

Agreed: I think this is just a screwup in the parts system, and when you google you get 300 different sites which confirm it because they all use exactly the same data on the backend, just with dealer branding on top. And now you also can stumble across the very similar bronco version which will...

I think it's gotta be that there's no factory tow package involved. @2021Ranger can you just post a picture of the back of your truck?

was this something ever available at retail? I don't recall ever seeing an option for a tow package from ford without the 7pin, it was the same $500 option with the receiver & 7 pin all the way back in 2019.

Always important to avoid nuance and get worked up over the headlines, I guess. You can't have an informed decision or meaningful conversation about a $6bn acquisition on nothing but sound bites.

Retail they're upward of $80k, but AFAIK there's no public information about what Amazon's unit cost is. (Amazon also invested upward of a billion dollars into rivian, which may affect their pricing power.)

They'd have a much more efficient operation that would cover the 60% of the US population which is the most profitable and the other 40% would have nothing. Way back in the 19th century we figured out that having consistent services across the entire country has a value that exceeds the cost of...

To deliver mail? It doesn't matter if they're good for some other task. Ah, an empty government whine. I guess I should have just skipped over.

You're looking for a wire bundle up under the dash on the left, with four loose wires taped to it, often (but not always) with blue tape. Yellow, blue, white, and violet. Yellow is hot, blue is out to the trailer brake, white is ground, and violet is the brake pedal.

So let's talk about why it looks the way it does: visibility and interior height. I know visibility is a dirty word in modern truck fashion (who cares if you run over a kid because you can't see less than 15 feet in front of the hood?) but I guess USPS is less psychotic than your average US car...

The most direct way to tell is to look for the wires under the dash.

the fact that people care more about how it looks than about how it functions is exactly why the manufacturers can keep making crappy vehicles

All retail NA rangers do. The 4pin on non-tow-package rangers uses a subset of the functionality from that module (trailer connected/disable certain warnings) and ford kept the wiring the same until the rear bumper except that there was some confusion over the TBC wire under the dash in certain...

this should be like a $20 diy

I wouldn't do it, but who knows

it doesn't; consider it a periodic maintenance item, like an air filter

there's no point, the build dates reflect when the new software was deployed (they'll just be putting on the same software)

no; you're assuming that taking apart a working (and really complicated) transmission and putting it back together is going to result in a more reliable item, and I don't think that's a good assumption. there's been a good bit of talk that people servicing these transmissions have caused as many...

Yes, that's is the only time my car isn't set to auto, and every single dealer (across multiple makes) seems to do it. I cannot figure out why.

I'm fairly certain that fixing a known UI misfeature is for the better, especially since it would require no new technology, only a change in the implementation of the technology. I know it's really cool to be aggressively cynical, but things are rarely perfect the first time and in the real...