fatBatman
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So I picked up my new truck from Granger this past Monday. I saw that the weather for Monday in the DFW area was supposed to be raining with clouds so I decided to forego the eclipse and make the drive to Iowa. As it turns out, the clouds parted and I missed the once in a lifetime view of the eclipse from my own backyard under the totality BUT my sacrifice didn't go without it's own rewards.
First, I'll start by saying that if you don't order and buy from Granger, it must be because you hate money. It's simple deductive reasoning. At nearly 50 y/o, I have bought over 30 new vehicles and have learned to HATE every car dealer on the planet. Granger, specifically Chip and Shelby changed all of that. After this past experience, I will never buy another vehicle from another dealer ever. As many have said before, the pricing was figured out when I made the order and nothing changed. When it came to financing, I had a few dumb questions and Shelby answered all of them and by the time I made it up to Iowa, I was only at the dealership for about an hour and most of that time was slowed down by me asking more dumb questions. One thing I did notice though, damn near their entire lot is completely full of ordered vehicles just waiting on people to come pick up their new hot rods. Yeah, there were a lot of F150's but there were a ton of Broncos, Mustangs, Explorers, and everything else Ford makes. They don't really have a service department to speak of and are more geared to sell cars and trucks to internet customers or at least that was my impression. Overall though, there is absolutely no logical reason why any normal customer in the USA should order from any other dealer...ever. I purposefully excluded Ford employee's from this because I am unfamiliar with the X, Y, Z, or any of the other alphabet discounts. I am the "average consumer".
After I left, I set the Blue Cruise and was blown away. This was truly hands free and felt kinda weird at first. This isn't the normal lane keeping adaptive cruise control where you apply a little weight to the steering wheel and it feels like hands free. This is completely hands free. If you find yourself doing highway drives often, then this is the thing for you and I'd recommend the subscription. If you're mainly a city driver, enjoy the 90-day free trial and let it go. As for fuel economy, it is a new PowerBoost. I'm sure it was learning it's fuel mapping and shift points or where to put the cam phasers. Afterall, it only had 12 miles when I picked it up and that was with the added miles for a factory bedliner. Still, with Blue Cruise (I know it uses the adaptive cruise control), it got low 17 MPG in the beginning (75 MPH) and settled in at around 19 MPG by the time I reached Kansas City's Embassy Suites at the airport (I'm a Hilton guy and it's probably one of the worst Embassy Suites I've been to and they have no idea how to make an omelet). On day 2, I woke and went to the WWI museum in Kansas City (pretty awesome) and then went to Jack Stack BBQ - Freight House and had the best BBQ outside of Texas. If you say (insert you're own brand) BBQ is better than Texas BBQ, then you need to get checked for drugs and fix yourself. That's all I'll say about that. Afterwards, I continued back to the DFW area. I stopped for dinner and fuel in Muskogee, OK and was getting mid 20 MPG before I filled up. When I did get fuel, I got 91 octane. For dinner, I stopped at Hamlin's El Toro Mexican Restaurant. Do not ever go to this restaurant. It was terrible. They say they make everything from scratch and it baffles the mind how they made good ingredients taste as bad as they do but somehow they managed. They said their salsa was a secret recipe and that was probably the best thing I could hear because you don't want this getting out. Further down the road though, I arrived back home with a bump up to 21.9 MPG with just over 800 miles on the clock. The next day, I took the truck to get the windows tinted (last pic).
To make a long story short, I am happy to crawl under the truck to take pics or provide any updates for what comes on a King Ranch since not many 2024's have been released to the wild yet. I will say that the fuses are only pushed halfway in so that is still something that you have to check. My undercoating is great. There are absolutely no issues with the undercarriage. The CCD suspension rides like a cloud and with the massaging seats, it makes you want to start planning your next road trip. Mine also has the "Smart Hitch" and "Onboard Scales" but being a Job 1 truck, I do not have the PAT (I don't really want it either). The only unexpected bummer was that the King Ranch does not come with a camera for the bed (CHMSL camera). Also, I saw another thread somewhere that someone claimed that Ford doesn't use General Tires. Well, I have the 22" wheels and I have them.
With the fuel economy getting better and better the more I drive, I am happy. The other night I drove it to get sushi and out of a 9.4 mile total trip, 4.1 of those miles was electric. This is one of the main reasons you get a PowerBoost and now that I have it all cleaned up after the drive home (no pics of that yet), it's absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't be happier.
First, I'll start by saying that if you don't order and buy from Granger, it must be because you hate money. It's simple deductive reasoning. At nearly 50 y/o, I have bought over 30 new vehicles and have learned to HATE every car dealer on the planet. Granger, specifically Chip and Shelby changed all of that. After this past experience, I will never buy another vehicle from another dealer ever. As many have said before, the pricing was figured out when I made the order and nothing changed. When it came to financing, I had a few dumb questions and Shelby answered all of them and by the time I made it up to Iowa, I was only at the dealership for about an hour and most of that time was slowed down by me asking more dumb questions. One thing I did notice though, damn near their entire lot is completely full of ordered vehicles just waiting on people to come pick up their new hot rods. Yeah, there were a lot of F150's but there were a ton of Broncos, Mustangs, Explorers, and everything else Ford makes. They don't really have a service department to speak of and are more geared to sell cars and trucks to internet customers or at least that was my impression. Overall though, there is absolutely no logical reason why any normal customer in the USA should order from any other dealer...ever. I purposefully excluded Ford employee's from this because I am unfamiliar with the X, Y, Z, or any of the other alphabet discounts. I am the "average consumer".
After I left, I set the Blue Cruise and was blown away. This was truly hands free and felt kinda weird at first. This isn't the normal lane keeping adaptive cruise control where you apply a little weight to the steering wheel and it feels like hands free. This is completely hands free. If you find yourself doing highway drives often, then this is the thing for you and I'd recommend the subscription. If you're mainly a city driver, enjoy the 90-day free trial and let it go. As for fuel economy, it is a new PowerBoost. I'm sure it was learning it's fuel mapping and shift points or where to put the cam phasers. Afterall, it only had 12 miles when I picked it up and that was with the added miles for a factory bedliner. Still, with Blue Cruise (I know it uses the adaptive cruise control), it got low 17 MPG in the beginning (75 MPH) and settled in at around 19 MPG by the time I reached Kansas City's Embassy Suites at the airport (I'm a Hilton guy and it's probably one of the worst Embassy Suites I've been to and they have no idea how to make an omelet). On day 2, I woke and went to the WWI museum in Kansas City (pretty awesome) and then went to Jack Stack BBQ - Freight House and had the best BBQ outside of Texas. If you say (insert you're own brand) BBQ is better than Texas BBQ, then you need to get checked for drugs and fix yourself. That's all I'll say about that. Afterwards, I continued back to the DFW area. I stopped for dinner and fuel in Muskogee, OK and was getting mid 20 MPG before I filled up. When I did get fuel, I got 91 octane. For dinner, I stopped at Hamlin's El Toro Mexican Restaurant. Do not ever go to this restaurant. It was terrible. They say they make everything from scratch and it baffles the mind how they made good ingredients taste as bad as they do but somehow they managed. They said their salsa was a secret recipe and that was probably the best thing I could hear because you don't want this getting out. Further down the road though, I arrived back home with a bump up to 21.9 MPG with just over 800 miles on the clock. The next day, I took the truck to get the windows tinted (last pic).
To make a long story short, I am happy to crawl under the truck to take pics or provide any updates for what comes on a King Ranch since not many 2024's have been released to the wild yet. I will say that the fuses are only pushed halfway in so that is still something that you have to check. My undercoating is great. There are absolutely no issues with the undercarriage. The CCD suspension rides like a cloud and with the massaging seats, it makes you want to start planning your next road trip. Mine also has the "Smart Hitch" and "Onboard Scales" but being a Job 1 truck, I do not have the PAT (I don't really want it either). The only unexpected bummer was that the King Ranch does not come with a camera for the bed (CHMSL camera). Also, I saw another thread somewhere that someone claimed that Ford doesn't use General Tires. Well, I have the 22" wheels and I have them.
With the fuel economy getting better and better the more I drive, I am happy. The other night I drove it to get sushi and out of a 9.4 mile total trip, 4.1 of those miles was electric. This is one of the main reasons you get a PowerBoost and now that I have it all cleaned up after the drive home (no pics of that yet), it's absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't be happier.
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