How long to allow someone else to drive your Ranger

[IdahoRanger]

Hi Anthony,

I am facing a rare occurrence where my wife has to drive me home after my eye surgery as my left eye will be tapped shut. She is a dear, but she hugs the white line to the right of the road instead of the center of the road...drives me nuts... So she will have to drive me back up to Tuscon the next day for the check up of my eye... White knuckle both home and back up the following morning... Gotta take a chill pill, eh???

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

Put an eye patch on and sleep

Sponsored

 

[NickTheEnforcer]

Hi Anthony,

I am facing a rare occurrence where my wife has to drive me home after my eye surgery as my left eye will be tapped shut. She is a dear, but she hugs the white line to the right of the road instead of the center of the road...drives me nuts... So she will have to drive me back up to Tuscon the next day for the check up of my eye... White knuckle both home and back up the following morning... Gotta take a chill pill, eh???

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

First God be with you on the surgery, and St. Michael on the commutes both ways! Im sure she will get you both where you need to be safely.
Worst case tape other eye shut and hide under a blanket in the back seat.

 

[John Lyman]

Hi Anthony,

I am facing a rare occurrence where my wife has to drive me home after my eye surgery as my left eye will be tapped shut. She is a dear, but she hugs the white line to the right of the road instead of the center of the road...drives me nuts... So she will have to drive me back up to Tuscon the next day for the check up of my eye... White knuckle both home and back up the following morning... Gotta take a chill pill, eh???

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

Just set lane assist and the highest level that should push her off the white line some - when my son first started driving he was the same way can't say how many pair of underwear I had to throw out.

 

[Indy650]

My wife & 16 year old son both drove a ranger when we took one out for and extended test drive about 2 hours from the stealership. Thats it, it was an XL 4x2. I ended up buying an XLT Sport 4x4 so neither have driven mine on the road. Once I was in the driveway behind the wife's 2016 escape so she moved it over and totally jacked up my seat adjustment...she adjusted it to her 5' height like she was driving cross-country. Son has my 2009 Ram and as a new driver I wont let him near the driver seat for at least a year though I am more at ease with his driving [maybe because he's half 'me'] than my wife. She's a good driver but I just get un-nerved when shes the skipper...She had a major wreck in the Escape to the tune of $13k, is was determined to be 100% other drivers [also a chick] fault. Shes kinda a bad luck magnet because same car been tapped three times in the rear, nothing major but still enough for an insurance claim and re-paint.

So 'no' not interested in letting anyone drive my truck, drove the Dodge 10 years and for now its all about 'me'...

Damn bro if I was stuck in a Dodge 10 years it would be all about me too! LOL just kidding

 

[hawk43]

I let my friend drive it after I had had it less than two weeks...I even let him do a wide open throttle in D to 60...before I ever did.



edit for the wife hasn't driven it yet but it would be no problem...

 

[Tracy Bowman]

I let my aunt drive it as soon as I got it home. I beg my mom to drive it but she is terrified of it. She has drove it a few times and hates it. She can barely figure out her Ipad so the touchscreen might as well be in a different language and she has always drove standard so she doesn't like that. The auto lights and wipers freak her out even though you literally can ignore them they do the work for you. It's extremely confusing to me how some people just can't figure out technology.

Though he is welcome to drive it anytime, my husband is like your mom. He loves the Ranger , but hates the technology (doesn't hurt MY feelings). Needless to say, when we get his, it will NOT have all "that stuff".

 

[Indy650]

Though he is welcome to drive it anytime, my husband is like your mom. He loves the Ranger , but hates the technology (doesn't hurt MY feelings). Needless to say, when we get his, it will NOT have all "that stuff".

ya i love it myself. more tech the more i like it

 

[NVHoonigan]

My wife is the only other person to drive it because my friends know better than to even ask haha! She loves it as much as I do and loves to show it off.

One time she ran to the store in it with a friend who has an Audi. The story went something like "Jamie said it was comfortable but wished it felt a little more sporty." So she shifted into sport mode and Jamie couldn't wipe the smile off her face.

 

[John Lyman]

Love that sport mode - makes the truck get up and get out

 

[r1ch999999]

My wife is the only other person to drive it because my friends know better than to even ask haha! She loves it as much as I do and loves to show it off.

One time she ran to the store in it with a friend who has an Audi. The story went something like "Jamie said it was comfortable but wished it felt a little more sporty." So she shifted into sport mode and Jamie couldn't wipe the smile off her face.

Is sport mode really that much of a difference? I hadn’t noticed.

 

[IdahoRanger]

Is sport mode really that much of a difference? I hadn’t noticed.

Totally different IMO

 

[NVHoonigan]

Is sport mode really that much of a difference? I hadn’t noticed.

I think it makes a difference for sure. The shift points are a little more aggressive and fun.

 

[Gizmokid2005]

Damn. Get better quickly man!

Thanks! I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Ouch - hope you get your truck back or you may just have to get another

Haha, not worried about that, she doesn't like how big it is, she prefers her Outlander Sport (which is currently up where I busted things up, but I'm heading up to trailer it back this weekend, so we'll be back where we belong).

 

[en13]

Ha, my daughter drove it 2 days after I bought it. My wife still hasn't though, and I've had it a month now. I don't worry too much about vehicles, so I'd let a friend drive it anytime.

 

[Jon Olivier]

I've offered to let the wife drive it, but she's a bit intimidated by all the tech. She drove my previous truck, an '02 Silverado, but the only tech it had were automatic headlights. No power locks, no power windows, nothing. Anyway, my son was home from college during winter break, about 2 and a half weeks after I got the truck, so I let him drive it, with me in it of course!

Sponsored