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I drive on a lot of crappy dirt roads with washboards and for the most part the factory suspension in my ranger has been amazing. I have a 94 land cruiser with old man emu and while it's better for "real" off roading the ranger is shockingly more comfortable on the washboard roads I ride. Also...

Dude that is so helpful, thank you! Gives me a lot to digest. At a basic level how can the car hazard lights being on *not* send 12v to what I assume are 12v lights back there?

Also, just did it again with the engine on and still ~5v.

So I have a flat bed trailer that gets a lot of abuse from banging around. I was getting a lot of "trailer connected / trailer disconnected" warnings and lamp light warnings. It's an old trailer so I figured it was the trailer's fault. I pulled the boards/deck off so I could get good access to...

No temp issues, although I could smell some hot metal of some type on the sherwin grade. The engine temps never went above 1/2 way even with the AC on and it being ~95F in Bishop. I didn't even bother with the mpg. Gas is so cheap outside of California that I just went for it and tried to...

Yeah I felt a little stupid giving it a go but with that many miles there were times I could try and it worked. When the hills showed up or I went through construction zones I went back to manual control but the car-spacing feature was probably better than what I could do.

Yeah, the only adjustment I've made since buying it is the brake controller. I tried to get the center of gravity for the tractor right over the axles (without it going too far off the back) and the trailer and my hitch both have adjustable heights. It was surprisingly comfy, as comfy as towing...

I was pretty much right at (maybe a smidge over) max capacity. 2,100 pound trailer, then around 5,500 for the tractor with the loader and backhoe. It towed fine, Illinois to California. Had the factory brake controller installed. On the wide open roads 70mph was comfy, 60mph on some of the...

I bought the controller, scheduled two hours at the dealership for the install. 20 minutes dealer calls me up, says it might take them 6 hours, they've never done it before. I'm in a pretty serious bind because I'm supposed to pick up a heavy trailer in Stockton mid week and bring it back...

Looking good! I think if you're on anything a stock 4x4 can handle the ranger will work. It's the "jeep trail" stuff that would challenge it, but there's a YouTube of a stock ranger doing the broken arrow trail which is a bit technical. It would probably work great for you. Maybe the only other...

That's where this shot was taken, Esmeralda County. As barren a place as I've been able to find. I've never owned a pickup before so I'm not sure if the handling is the same for all of them. It's definitely not the lifted crawler sort of vibe I get from my land cruiser, and it's harder to just...

Took my truck to a really remote lot with no roads. Created everything with my hands (moving boulders, tearing out brush), chainsaw (cutting down beefier bushes), and shovel (wedging out big rocks). Ended up getting augered in a few times. Backed out of it, tossed rocks in the holes, kept...

You're lucky, I'm over in the Eastern Sierra. I've got Bishop or I drive three hours to Reno/LA/Vegas.

Where are you at in California?

Just to add on here that I really like my ranger so far and it's a good compromise between mileage, towing, size, bed capacity, and passenger capacity. You can point to anyone of those and say "Well, see, xyz vehicle is better there" and it totally will be, but you'll give up somewhere else. For...

Thanks for this, never saw it before and just placed my order!

I wish I had known (first day here), got full price via my dealership. Would be it okay in the future if ordered via Levitown Ford and then asked my local dealer to install?

Is it this one? https://accessories.ford.com/module-trailer-brake-12688.html Part# VKB3Z-2C006-A

Hey there, I'm on the phone with my dealer and trying to find the the Ford brake controller, he said he can't find it at all. Anyone know the part number? I see people on this forum installing it so I assume it exists!