What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[underwhelmed]

Got out of the house for the first time in a week due to our one week of real winter in east TN, ?

Drove out to change my cell cam batteries at my small farm hunting permission. Tried to make a u turn on a narrow intersection ond dropped into a snowy ditch. Thought I was going to have to call a buddy to pull me out, but after trying 4 hi remembered had a rear locker and Terrain mode…backed up a foot or so and got right out. Close one lol. Learned that my tires are not aggressive enough. Going to switch out to 255/75/17 Firestone XTs this spring.

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[Cabose-1]

Got out of the house for the first time in a week due to our one week of real winter in east TN, ?

Drove out to change my cell cam batteries at my small farm hunting permission. Tried to make a u turn on a narrow intersection ond dropped into a snowy ditch. Thought I was going to have to call a buddy to pull me out, but after trying 4 hi remembered had a rear locker and Terrain mode…backed up a foot or so and got right out. Close one lol. Learned that my tires are not aggressive enough. Going to switch out to 255/75/17 Firestone XTs this spring.

Good tire size for the ranger!!

 

[My12SecRanger]

I got me a Catch can for the truck

 

[Cmar]

Wow you guys are currently in the midst of a deep freeze and we are in a heatwave with cyclones and floods. It hit ~40 Deg c here last Friday. It's been consistently above above 30 for weeks now only cooling down briefly for the odd thunderstorm, of which a couple turned into tornadoes. Tornadoes are not common in Australia and are usually transient. But one flattened some areas of the Gold Coast just before Christmas.

 

[pbethel]

Wow you guys are currently in the midst of a deep freeze and we are in a heatwave with cyclones and floods. It hit ~40 Deg c here last Friday. It's been consistently above above 30 for weeks now only cooling down briefly for the odd thunderstorm, of which a couple turned into tornadoes. Tornadoes are not common in Australia and are usually transient. But one flattened some areas of the Gold Coast just before Christmas.

Our extreme winter weather is weather. Your extreme summer weather is climate change.
Funny how that works.

 

[Cmar]

Our extreme winter weather is weather. Your extreme summer weather is climate change.
Funny how that works.

Sadly I think you may well have a point there, when we first moved to the rural area we live in now, due to us backing onto the mountains, although the summers were typically sub tropically hot, the winters were quite cold - well by our standards anyway. Usually a couple of weeks in July where we had nightly frosts, and even icicles under our tin verandah roof. This was about 30 years ago, we put in a wood stove because it was so cold, which typically got used nightly from late may until early august.

The last few years it's lucky to have seen more than a couple of weeks use each winter, and the summers have become noticeably hotter with more common, and more violent, thunderstorms. When you get a storm now you almost expect massive hail, rain dumps causing flooding, and cyclone type winds. My wife has taken the Ranger to one of her jobs on a number of occasions lately rather than her e-car, and thanked me later as she has a low floodway to cross to get in and out of the place.

Could be climate change , could also simply be a regular cycle in weather patterns, remember we have only lived in this country overall for 230 years, and this area for about half of that, and reliable weather records have only been kept since about the mid 1800's so could be part of a natural cycle too. I guess time will tell.

 

[Crow_of_judgement]

Drove Shelly to pick up the wifes new to us suv.

After kia replaced the engine on our optima, the brand new engine started using 3 quarts of oil per hundred miles. So it got traded in on a Mazda cx5

 

[Chris M]

Drove Shelly to pick up the wifes new to us suv.

After kia replaced the engine on our optima, the brand new engine started using 3 quarts of oil per hundred miles. So it got traded in on a Mazda cx5

Ooooh!
How do you like that?
My wife has a Honda HRV she's not in love with and wants to go back to a CRV...I want her to at least drive the Mazda to see how it compares for her.

 

[Crow_of_judgement]

Ooooh!
How do you like that?
My wife has a Honda HRV she's not in love with and wants to go back to a CRV...I want her to at least drive the Mazda to see how it compares for her.

It's extremely nice, this one is a 2020 touring model so its got all the bells and whistles, when I hit the go pedal it doesn't disappoint.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Drove Shelly to pick up the wifes new to us suv.

After kia replaced the engine on our optima, the brand new engine started using 3 quarts of oil per hundred miles. So it got traded in on a Mazda cx5

 

[subquark]

Drove Shelly to pick up the wifes new to us suv.

After kia replaced the engine on our optima, the brand new engine started using 3 quarts of oil per hundred miles. So it got traded in on a Mazda cx5

Kate loves her CX5 so much that even Cheech isn't allowed in it! But he's got me and his pimped out supercab rear seat.

Hope your wife's as happy with hers! =)

 

[Crow_of_judgement]

Kate loves her CX5 so much that even Cheech isn't allowed in it! But he's got me and his pimped out supercab rear seat.

Hope your wife's as happy with hers! =)

Do yall have the turbo engine? Ours has the N/A engine and I'm still impressed. For fun I checked the fuel mileage and even after a spirited 50 mile drive (gotta have fun with the first free tank of fuel) it still averaged 30 mpg

 

[subquark]

Do yall have the turbo engine? Ours has the N/A engine and I'm still impressed. For fun I checked the fuel mileage and even after a spirited 50 mile drive (gotta have fun with the first free tank of fuel) it still averaged 30 mpg

Yeah, she has the turbo and while it's peppy it doesn't have your gas mileage. I think her average is about 22 mpg. She's not heavy on the pedal, no big acceleration, but she commutes 86 miles each way, 90% is highway and she does about 80 mph the whole way.

But, what impressed me isn't her turbo but how great the traction is up here in New Hampshire. She doesn't use the different modes because she says she doesn't understand them, but just in normal mode, the traction over bad roads is fantastic.

My Ranger is only 2-wheel drive and I'm good with it. Growing up in Canada back in the day when every thing was rear wheel drive, I'm used to the Ranger and use chains sometimes, but her car feels really secure in all conditions.

And I'm impressed with the fit and finish on the Mazda. I've been a huge Toyota fan, haven driven an FJ40 for 30+ years and two Corollas, one that we put 360,000 miles on in 10 years, but I have time say Mazda is great so far (about 18 months).

Have fun! =)

 

[underwhelmed]

I have had the truck 11 months. I just figured out I have power folding mirrors. ???

 

[LawnMM]

I have had the truck 11 months. I just figured out I have power folding mirrors. ???

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