Ranger Sam
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Hi everyone, I purchased my '21 XLT Tremor from a dealer in Colorado a few days before Thanksgiving and have loved driving the 2,000 miles I have put on it so far. I did extensive research on this forum when I was deciding between this and a Tacoma. I am glad I went the ranger route as overall I feel it is a better truck.
I got lucky when I started to seriously look for a truck to purchase. I had a specific build I wanted: XLT (hated the dash in the Lariat), Carbonized Gray, Tow package, Tremor package, remote start, and 301A. I would have liked the manual rear sliding glass, but I didn't want the power seats and $2,450 was too much to justify it, and I also did not want adaptive cruise control with the tech package. No dealerships in Utah or Idaho had a tremor at all, so I decided to look at a dealer I had previous ties to in Denver, and to my great surprise, they had the exact truck I wanted in transit. I called them up and had them install the dealer-installed spray-in Bedliner and trailer brake controller. The truck was ready to be picked up right before Thanksgiving so I flew up to Denver and drove the truck home to Utah. The drive was wonderful and I fell in love with the truck. There was some sort of communication issue at the dealer and they had not installed the brake controller, but cut me a check for the labor and gave me the part. A little annoying, but I will get that installed myself this summer.
That first week I had the truck I installed the Revolver X4s rolling bed cover (I wanted something to protect my great in the truck, bed, but was easily removable and that wasn't a tri-fold.) I have enjoyed this cover so far.
I then installed the rough country LED light bar in the front grill and wired it up to the up fitter switches. I have enjoyed using that so far as well.
After Thanksgiving, I drove the truck back up to Idaho where I live and it was a much more comfortable and enjoyable driving experience coming from the '06 Nissan Xterra that I had before.
Over Christmas, I installed the Baja designs SAE Amber fog lights and they have worked well in the snowy conditions here in Idaho. In fact, the whole truck has done well in the snow. I pulled my friend out of a snowbank last week and the truck did amazing.
In love with the truck so far and looking forward to many happy years and many more modifications to come.
Future modifications:
-12v bed power, ditch lights, performance exhaust, performance tune, air compressor, maybe a decked drawer system, and very far down the line a roof rack or bed rack.
I got lucky when I started to seriously look for a truck to purchase. I had a specific build I wanted: XLT (hated the dash in the Lariat), Carbonized Gray, Tow package, Tremor package, remote start, and 301A. I would have liked the manual rear sliding glass, but I didn't want the power seats and $2,450 was too much to justify it, and I also did not want adaptive cruise control with the tech package. No dealerships in Utah or Idaho had a tremor at all, so I decided to look at a dealer I had previous ties to in Denver, and to my great surprise, they had the exact truck I wanted in transit. I called them up and had them install the dealer-installed spray-in Bedliner and trailer brake controller. The truck was ready to be picked up right before Thanksgiving so I flew up to Denver and drove the truck home to Utah. The drive was wonderful and I fell in love with the truck. There was some sort of communication issue at the dealer and they had not installed the brake controller, but cut me a check for the labor and gave me the part. A little annoying, but I will get that installed myself this summer.
That first week I had the truck I installed the Revolver X4s rolling bed cover (I wanted something to protect my great in the truck, bed, but was easily removable and that wasn't a tri-fold.) I have enjoyed this cover so far.
I then installed the rough country LED light bar in the front grill and wired it up to the up fitter switches. I have enjoyed using that so far as well.
After Thanksgiving, I drove the truck back up to Idaho where I live and it was a much more comfortable and enjoyable driving experience coming from the '06 Nissan Xterra that I had before.
Over Christmas, I installed the Baja designs SAE Amber fog lights and they have worked well in the snowy conditions here in Idaho. In fact, the whole truck has done well in the snow. I pulled my friend out of a snowbank last week and the truck did amazing.
In love with the truck so far and looking forward to many happy years and many more modifications to come.
Future modifications:
-12v bed power, ditch lights, performance exhaust, performance tune, air compressor, maybe a decked drawer system, and very far down the line a roof rack or bed rack.
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