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Finally had to do a brake service on the Ranger at 103.5K. So the only reason I am posting this is the fact that my front brakes are still at 70% pad life and my rears were at 10%. I left the front alone for right now, did the rear and had the system flushed......wow....I would have never thought these pads would last like that.
Nice on the length of wear. I do wonder if the rears wearing faster than the fronts has anything to do with the adaptive cruise control usage (Lariat issue). I've heard that uses the rear brakes more to control following distance.
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Nice on the length of wear. I do wonder if the rears wearing faster than the fronts has anything to do with the adaptive cruise control usage (Lariat issue). I've heard that uses the rear brakes more to control following distance.
Or if you are using too much right pedal and it's using brakes to control wheel slip.
 

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Nothing was really done to the Ranger but to the garage. Found that my wife also put the corner of the bumper into the garage door as well. I popped the dents out of the garage door and I will clean up the bumper later.
BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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Now to clean up the bumper...
...no biggie!
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I think its 18. So the manual says. Imagine my suprise when i filled up with 18.7 gallons. Lol

Fun fact I found out recently when this same thing happened to me; At least here in az you can call the department of weights and measures and report the gas station and pump. They'll go out and check it and fine the gas station if the pump is found to be too far off. I suppose I could have gone back to the gas station for a $3 refund for the amount they overcharged, but I was happy just knowing they got caught cheating customers.
 


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Some days ago Forscan gave me almost normal data results about adblue and SCR and system. “Almost” enough to still keep one eye on her. Since yesterday not so good again, but she still doesn’t activate light on dash but plays with error codes and data I get from her makes no sense at some point. Next week will hopefully provide some answers.
Time to place your bets, who’s not functioning not quite ok here - Forscan, Ranger or me. :crazy:
 

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Ughhhh! I want to finish my fender flare project, but it keeps raining! I don't want to paint in the high humidity or rain. Boooo!

In other news, my wife had off from work yesterday for Juneteenth, but I still had to work (from home), so she took the Ranger to the beach. It's not often I get to see my beloved truck drive away, and I have to say it looks cool as hell!

When she got home, she warned me that she backed into the driveway really close to the garage. When I left for work this morning, I looked at how close she got to the garage and was really surprised. She couldn't have gotten any closer to the garage...

...BECASUE SHE HIT IT!

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There is a dent in the garage door, and I found that my "shower tube" had been shoved back in the mount all the way up against the glass at the back of the cab. I readjusted the PVC tube off the glass and went to work, and I'll try to knock the dent out of the garage door later.

On my list of things to do to the truck is actually shortening that PVC tube and re-doing the end cab a little better.

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Don’t show her this ;)
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Nice on the length of wear. I do wonder if the rears wearing faster than the fronts has anything to do with the adaptive cruise control usage (Lariat issue). I've heard that uses the rear brakes more to control following distance.
I don't have the adaptive cruise and I have only used the cruise control on a trip to Texas last summer. I don't usually use cruise, even commuting the 53 miles to work everyday....too much traffic!
 

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This is from yesterday after I finished the front half of the truck...

I finished the back half this morning... She looking good. I'll post more pictures in the coming days as it needs to stay dry for another 12 hours....

Did 2 more foam and rinse cycles followed by foam and wash, followed by iron remover, clay, another wash to get off all the iron remover and clay residue. Than a prep wipe down and a 1 step polish to make sure I got all the previous sealents off the paint.

After the polish I did a coat of kamakazi miyabi topped an hour later with kamakazi ism 3.0.

Alot of work, but the results are amazing.
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In other news, the pod arrives Friday and we start putting furniture in it, house closes the 28th and we head west July 1....
That color is just beautiful! :)
 

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Finally had to do a brake service on the Ranger at 103.5K. So the only reason I am posting this is the fact that my front brakes are still at 70% pad life and my rears were at 10%. I left the front alone for right now, did the rear and had the system flushed......wow....I would have never thought these pads would last like that.
hmm do you tow a lot or have a lot of weight in the bed? i ask thinking front brakes typically take more of a hit than rear unless a pickup has a load. but thats old school stuff. all these newer trucks are beyond my knowledge
 

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hmm do you tow a lot or have a lot of weight in the bed? i ask thinking front brakes typically take more of a hit than rear unless a pickup has a load. but thats old school stuff. all these newer trucks are beyond my knowledge
I never tow and don't even have a bed liner....so no added weight in the rear. However, I do have a leveling kit on mine that I installed at about 20K and I've been running 1.5 inch wheel spacers since 20K also. Maybe one or the combination of both are what this is about. Very weird though....
Whatever....I'm good with doing brakes every 100-150K.
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