"Pre-COVID" Ranger

[IdahoRanger]

Time to get on with life.

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[Langwilliams]

I think the "pre covid" comment was referring to discount pricing an availability.

 

[C.moore01]

I like my pre Covid parts that was slowly removed in the 2020-2022 trucks lol

 

[Smprfiguy]

Hey you may be on to something i read a lot about long term covid fog and my truck does forget that 10th gear is not ok at 40mph sometimes

 

[Sashimi_Moto]

In our case a pre-covid Ranger is also a first model year so we are in a loose loose situation. Not really, 20s and 21s are 99% just fine.

Is that opposed to being in a "tight tight" situation - where all the nuts and bolts on the vehicle are properly torqued?

 

[OFC Ranger]

man this thread is hard to follow!

Best thing about a pre-COVID Ranger? I only have 12k miles on my 2019 ?

Pfft I only have 8000 on mine.

I also like some people took advantage of the 0% @ 84 months.

I also have a center console tray, all my bed hooks, AND glove box damper.

No engine cover tho....

 

[Msfitoy]

@RANGER PRIDE so what you are saying is we are all dead when we are born eh? our feeble brains don't know it yet? and then "life" is just our brains learning that fact eh? winter depression must be kicking in up north guy

Memento Mori...Amor Fati...

 

[Langwilliams]

essential worker here LOL. I'm up to almost 24K an my commute was only 12 miles each way.

I bought my 19 ranger dec 30th 2019 when I stopped for an oil change. I knew I was looking to retire an figured I couldn't swing a ranger payment an retire the way I wanted. Then there was the $6100 rebate sign on the windshield of the 12 or 20 2019 rangers still in stock. I also qualified for Ford's A plan through my brother so I got about 7 grand off an got a fair amount for my 2016 Fusion. My payment went up about $40. Without the rebates it would have gone up around $150 which I could pay but didn't want to.

one of my twins lease was up an on his 2019 Fusion an he bought it out for 11,500 which I guess is crazy cheap for a low mileage loaded car in the current market.

 

[SILK]

I've described my Ranger as a covid purchase on occasion. Only because the dealership had a supposed outbreak and only one sales person was on-site and a temporary business manager. Also, no one was buying anything due to whatever fears. I got a great deal, lots for my trade and one on one customer service.

Same situation. Saved $13k off sticker on a one-year old truck with less than 3,000 miles because I bought at the exact right time. Every month I get an email from both Carfax and Ford estimating my truck's value. Despite putting on 15k miles since I bought it in May 2020, my truck is still worth $7k more than what I paid for it.

Pfft I only have 8000 on mine.

I also like some people took advantage of the 0% @ 84 months.

I also have a center console tray, all my bed hooks, AND glove box damper.

No engine cover tho....

I think the "pre-COVID" comment was relating to these two situations. They paid far less than otherwise because at the time people thought we were heading straight into the tank economically and at the same time things like tie downs and glove box dampers began disappearing. My brother bought a used 2020 recently and his has the iron knuckle that Ford went to when the aluminum ones became hard to obtain. His knuckle is already starting to rust, as is his frame - another "post-COVID" Ranger complaint I've seen that seems to mainly apply to the 2020+ models.

 

[staryoshi]

When I read pre-covid Ranger, I just equate that with better pricing and availability.

 

[Megawatt]

Purchased my Lariat FX4 in March 2021, today I was notified that Ford is buying back my lemon. 4 months and 7,100 miles of ownership followed by the next 79 days at dealer for repairs to the rear axle and carrier bearing Email, instructions, etc should be in my hands in 5 days.

I will let you figure out what category it falls into.

 

[Delirious]

No one could prove it one way or another unless a properly administered survey was conducted.
But no one can deny that covid brought on challenges unseen before and is a wake up call for everyone.
The only guarantee is that prices won't drop to pre pandemic levels. The greed is now cemented into business plans. We all will pay more for less, including quality.

Its much much deeper than that. But if we laid it all out, there'd be some mama's boy who will complain that he's offended and it'll be taken down. Just like my post that was taken down for being "racist" because I warned that if you want to date a certain ethnic woman who does a very sensual demonstration of a Ford Ranger, she might not be a woman after all. I am sure you can read into this much deeper than what I've written, at least until this is taken down because some little mama's boy who is 40 years old and still living at home (who NEVER left) complains about it.

 

[Delirious]

Purchased my Lariat FX4 in March 2021, today I was notified that Ford is buying back my lemon. 4 months and 7,100 miles of ownership followed by the next 79 days at dealer for repairs to the rear axle and carrier bearing Email, instructions, etc should be in my hands in 5 days.

I will let you figure out what category it falls into.

The sad part is that you will have to pay $.37 for every mile you've already driven. They should eat that for all the misery it cost you as well as downtime maybe days off of work trying to get things fixed.

 

[Megawatt]

The sad part is that you will have to pay $.37 for every mile you've already driven. They should eat that for all the misery it cost you as well as downtime maybe days off of work trying to get things fixed.

Very true. There is a formula for the depreciation. Quick math was something like $2000 less to me for the 7100 miles when it went to the dealer.

 

[Hot Pepper Red Zeppelin]

I'm good so long as no one mandates a tailgate damper. The excrement hits the fan at that point.

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