Ford Ranger Years to AVOID — and the Years That Last Forever

[TJC]

They mentioned several problems with my Ranger including the crazy vibrations over 65mph and the transmissions.

Ford Ranger Years to AVOID — and the Years That Last Forever

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[Deleted User 38384]

They mentioned several problems with my Ranger including the crazy vibrations over 65mph and the transmissions.

Ford Ranger Years to AVOID — and the Years That Last Forever

Interesting video. It makes me happy to have a 2022. But the video praising the 2022 shows a 2024 model.

 

[mtsoxfan]

I watched the 2019 review, so glad my 2019 only had the transmission issue. And it really didn't have severe issues, just the one time when cold (under 35ish degrees) going up a hill, under slight acceleration, it would fall on it's face. After that one faulter, it shifted smoothly. All new parts internally, it's been fine since.
I don't watch enough of his videos to know if there are Consumer Reports type biases, but then again, don't really care. Love my '19, and it has 6 bed tie downs...

 

[ControlNode]

Not a good video. looks like someone had chat gtp write, scrape the internet for video clips and compile the video. Info may be accurate, maybe not. I'm not sure some of the info is not some AI hallucination.

 

[TJC]

Not a good video. looks like someone had chat gtp write, scrape the internet for video clips and compile the video. Info may be accurate, maybe not. I'm not sure some of the info is not some AI hallucination.

I've seen far worse in corporate meetings where AI is used by non thinking corporate lemmings. Compiling and presenting failure statistics isn't necessarily bad. And I agree that the presentation could be better.

My last 3 Rangers and my son and in-laws last 2 (covering years 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2020) seemed to follow the pattern. The 2004, 2006, and 2020 all had the issues mentioned. Electrical wiring issues in two different Gen 3 models. And my 2020 transmission issues fit right in. (Still working on that one.)

So I do think the overview is generally accurate.

I've caught AI making some serious mistakes, even in simple mathematics. I have routinely informed it that it was incorrect, it apologizes and corrects the data. And again the curious thing is that there was usually no ambiguity... it was a straight forward calculation. It should not have missed on that result. Hard coding would never miss on something like this.

In one particular test I asked chatgpt to present a calendar with milestones at 36 hour increments for a month. The first 2 or 3 milestones were correct, but the later points were at 48 hour increments. When I reviewed and informed it, it agreed and corrected the data output.

I am just inquisitive and suspicious enough to consider that the mistake was intentional, and that maybe the tables were being turned and that I was being evaluated.

 

[Jason B]

Interesting video. It makes me happy to have a 2022. But the video praising the 2022 shows a 2024 model.

It's a ROW Ranger. They started the new model in 2022, NA in 2024.
Here in NA, we get the 10R60 in 24+. Only time will tell how it holds up, but in the year that I have had it, it's a lot smoother shifter with hardly noticeable shifting in normal mode.

 

[underwhelmed]

I didn’t click the link. Is it 2019-2022?

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