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Little update - Toyota and Ford BOTH have an app for your phone. Nice. The Toyota is a 1 year free subscription to the app - Ford the app seems to work indefinitely. I hit the 1 year anniversary with the Taco a few weeks back and now the phone app wants $80 a year to keep it working...

Plugs are cheap and easy. Mine let the coil packs sit in water. Once the CP goes, then you are starting to look at some $$$. Mine was $900+ for the first one even though the part is $64 on Rock Auto Retail Pricing.

Let me ask you this? How long before it becomes a reliability and safety issue? What happens when the malfunction is no longer an inconvenience and it leaves you stranded in some nasty cold weather? It is a tool, a machine. It has no loyalty to you and you owe it no loyalty. The contract...

I'm sure this will be an episode of Great Moments in Unintended Consequences.... Now that people are stuck driving boring speeds their minds are free'd up to multi task. Since texting is illegal people take up doing jigsaw puzzles while they drive and accidents triple!

POTUS Mandated that all Wildland Fire Fighting Vehicles be fully electric by 2025. There's talk it will push to 2028. I can't, for the life of me, see how off road vehicles carrying tons of water are going to do this, and for the very reasons you are citing. Electric vehicles are FANTASTIC at...

You were at the dealer. Nuff Said. Used Car Sales are the HIGHEST profit market in the Auto Industry. It's the highest profit because they buy low and sell high. They know they can give that Ranger the obligatory 102 point inspection and a car wash and move it for $35K. Bonus Points if they...

Hey Dennis! Good to hear from you. I miss the old gang here. How do I like the Yota? Eh. It's a truck. Does everything I need and want it to. Took some getting used to on the engine and transmission - driving mannerisms and whatnot. Suspension is cushy nice off road. That's the best part...

Already bought the decals, put them on the truck, wheeled the truck, sold the truck, got another truck, and put bigger flags on the second one. Shout out to AZ Auto Graphics! https://azautographics.com/home-2/misc-stuff/flags-w-install-kit/usa-flag-decal-set-detail.html

Not really..... He has more space an a lower height to load in and out of and if you have ever had something heavy sink into the seats then you know it can be hard to get it back out. He also has more private storage under the seats. I see nothing but upside - especially if he doesn't want to...

After Ford was unwilling to cover it or do anything to prevent it from happening again, I went down the street and found out that Toyota had a solution. Dumped that truck on their used car lot and said Adios Muther Effers to Fords ridiculous service. Now my truck doesn't have this issue any...

Or as I did just PARK in the rain.

I was within the warranty (40K) and because plugs and coil packs are "consumables" they exempted themselves. Got raw-dogged in the @$$ by Ferd and had to pay $700 / $800 some odd dollars. Fought it all the way up to Corporate and sent letters to the NTSB and congressmen (might as well while...

We'll see when we see. No real plans. I like to keep vehicles about 7 to 10 years normally. May give / exchange this one with my daughter if she needs a better car at some point.

Hope he's not on a vacation at the Grippy-Sock Resort. But, then again moderating an internet forum will put you there faster than anything.

I busted a gut laughing at that one. To an outsider, my 3" a year more doesn't look like any difference at all. Inside Arizona you and I both know it makes this a swamp.

Better site and not one of those icky Taco Sites :wink: https://tiresize.com/comparison/

That's one of those "it depends" things. For the most part a steel bumper can keep your vehicle from soaking up damage, but once it exceeds a certain threshold, it will bend the frame, but it would have bent the frame if you had a squeeshy stock bumper too. Totaled is Totaled at some point...

https://www.rexingusa.com/product/v1p-pro/ Yes it is $150 to $225 depending if they are running a sale. Yes it means you are paying to protect yourself from something you shouldn't have to or from someone who should be more courteous and responsible.. As someone who has been involved in 6 rear...

^^^ This... Had a Recall on a Ford Fusion. They took FOREVER. Eventually I told them I would need a Loaner. As soon as I started racking up a daily expense, they prioritized fixing my vehicle.

As long as we are going down the "if money was no object" path... As it sits off the lot with minimal mods (and I'm a minimal mod kind of guy), my preference is for the Taco (not trying to convince others, just where my needs align). The few mods I do want are cheap and easy. But if money was...