What do you regret buying for your Ranger?

[Deleted User 38384]

I regret buying $400 intake just to sell if for $200 a few months later.

I regret buying an "off the shelf" tune on my 1st attempt.

I regret the +$600 I spent on lighting upgrades just to return damn near all of it. Now I'm stuck with a ½ dozen nearly new LED pods, dual pod brackets, and OEM fog lights.

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[Cabose-1]

Upgraded bump stops, when I upgraded my springs. I should have just kept the stock bump stops since I didn't really have to upgrade them and they are only utilized near full compression events, which is very rare.

At 6 years old the bump stop bolts are a lost cause and WILL break, even with Kroil and map gas. What should have been 5 minutes and 1 easy bolt per side ends up being a grand total of 3-4 hours to drill out the broken bolts from the frame.

 

[4x4 Ranger Man]

The story reminded me of a three day ordeal of a water pump change on a 84 Mustang. I hate aluminum water pumps and 5" long bolt some fool engineer thought it would be wise going through to mount said pump.

 

[jflogerzi]

Upgraded bump stops, when I upgraded my springs. I should have just kept the stock bump stops since I didn't really have to upgrade them and they are only utilized near full compression events, which is very rare.

At 6 years old the bump stop bolts are a lost cause and WILL break, even with Kroil and map gas. What should have been 5 minutes and 1 easy bolt per side ends up being a grand total of 3-4 hours to drill out the broken bolts from the frame.

because of this I still have my Tremor bump stops sitting on the self :/

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