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Not the first time this has happened. Happened here a few years ago with the locally built Ford Territory AWD suv. Ball joint separation.

Yeah that's my problem too, it's all hills, ups and downs, and if you make a mistake in the back yard, you're in the dam! Someone offered to mow my back yard when I was injured a couple of years ago - until they looked at it! It had to wait until my leg got better.

That looks safer though. I've used the other tool in the past too, but carefully.

Be careful with that tool. There's a lot of energy stored in those springs. For certain never lean over it.

That looks like fun, reminds me a bit of this one in southern Australia https://www.4wdingaustralia.com/travel-victoria/blue-rag-range-track/

Makes me wonder, hmmm, I'm considering trading my 3.2 diesel on a 6G hybrid Ranger, which uses the 2.3 Ecoboost, but Ford has derated for the hybrid role. If they last this long in standard trim then a detuned one should last longer. Fords, reason for detuning was officially, to improve fuel...

You'd be surprised, some of the better ones will, especially if the failure was obviously manufacturing fault related and not due to user abuse. In Australia we have a consumer law which states that "goods must be of merchantable quality, and perform and last to what a reasonable person would...

It was a long time ago I saw it but I'll have a dig for you!

Sounds like Hiluxes over here, they are a dime a dozen, were in fact the best selling pickup for many years, until the Ranger showed up an pipped them for one year and swapped back and forth since. But by comparison they are THE most expensive for what you get, the base models are bare bones...

Yes that's certainly true, over here with our generally hot climate there is this belief among some that with radiators, thicker is always better. Not so, after a local aftermarket radiator company - one that was criticized by many because they didn't offer Land cruiser radiators with a...

Ha Ha GM did that over here a few years ago when Holden (local GM branch dealers) told Colorado truck owners to just shift to a heavier weight oil when many of their brand new 2.8 diesel utes began to use oil, some alarmingly so, soon after purchase. Obviously their "low friction rings" were so...

Yes back in the Henry Ford days the company was highly vertically integrated. At the River Rouge plant literally coal and iron ore went in one end, and model T's came out the other. The company had quality control over every step of every part, they even made their own tyres and windscreens...

This isn't the good old lead frame speed sensor issue again? We had recalls for that over here 10 years ago on the 6R80 boxes, due to lead frame and speed sensor faults causing the truck to suddenly downshift without warning to 1st or 2nd, even at highway speeds. Ford replaced the faulty parts...

Jim Farley recently visited Australia, no doubt to see why Ranger has recently been losing sales to the likes of BYD and GWM. Most buyers of these trucks report very few quality issues, their main complaint being not about the trucks, but parts availability which both companies are in the...

No the review, I can deal with, although a bit unfair, for a diesel truck it's actually pretty quick, it's the smugness with the current fuel prices that gets me. Along the lines of prices, what prices, I don't look at those signs any more. ( As she plugs her car into our home solar)

At least I don't have that problem, my wife is 6 foot tall and thus only a little bit shorter than me, so we can swap cars easily at any time. But she still doesn't drive the Ranger much, she considers it slow, dirty smelling, noisy (well it IS a diesel I suppose) and hard to park, compared to...

Problem is, as you would know, and I've done similar in my younger, and perhaps sillier past, once you start, you're committed, there is no stopping, or going back! Or as Yoda would say, "either do, or do not, - there is no try"

Nah alternator is likely fine, on Aus diesel rangers they are mounted right up high at the top of the engine.

Would have been a hell of a recovery bill from Matt's if he did, this was shot in Australia! Victorian high country, that water would be bloody freezing if you had to get out and attach a winch or snatch strap. As a bonus though it's too far south for crocodiles!

Yes that's the same system we have here, it has paid for our system many times over by now, but no longer as lucrative as it used to be. At one stage we were getting 40 cents / kilowatt hour for power fed back in to the grid. It's now down to 15 for the first 10 kwh and 4 for every kwh after...