Recent content by Aron

Is US 380 a mapped bluecruise route? Bluecruise is designed to only work on routes that Ford has approved, which in my experience is any limited-access highway. Anything with at-grade intersections or the possibility of cross traffic will not be on the approved network. You should be able to...

It won't melt the ice, but it might act as grit (like sand) to help you get a bit of traction in the meantime.

I agree--I'm holding on to my 1998 Ranger for this purpose, now that my kids are old enough to drive. They don't like driving the "big" truck on suburban streets anyway.

I had been tempted to buy one of those as well, so I appreciate the positive review. My needs have changed somewhat since then, so I'm not really looking at it in the near future anymore, but it's good to know that this is a viable option should I decided to go in that direction in the future.

Wait, no. I didn't watch enough of the video the first time to hear the siren at the end. I don't know what that is. The "do-do-do" is the seatbelt alert. One thing that you might want to check: there have been other situations where mystery audible alerts only provide visual cues on some...

Do some searching on here—someone described the process to set it up back a year or two ago. I do remember that the process described in the manual isn’t 100% correct. If memory serves, the manual gives you a couple options to go about it, when in reality you need to do both options for it to...

Buckle your seatbelt and I bet it goes away.

If I recall correctly, tow/haul will use more gas than in Normal mode because it is designed to minimize temperatures in the engine and transmission while towing rather than for fuel efficiency.

Just use the "external" speedometers. You live in SoCal; I'm guessing that you have as many of these around as I do in Northern Virginia:

One way that you might be able to solve this is to find a big open parking lot. Even if the lot isn’t level overall, it’ll be level in some orientation, even if you’re leaning hard in the other direction. Just bring a level with you to find the exact orientation where you need to line up, even...

What do I use for undercoating? Street grime and the occasional mud puddle, mostly. :p I’ve never really felt the need to add extra coatings. Of course, I also live in the mid-Atlantic where we get salt on the roads for only 2-3 months a year. Even still, my 26 year old Ranger is only now...

Though I’m hardly a Millennial, that was basically my experience when buying my truck, and it mostly went well. Dealers don’t have 6.5’ beds on the lot anyway, so test driving a truck like mine was never an option. (The longer bed length changes how the truck drives much more than I thought it...

What a beautiful location; thanks for sharing it! And it appears to have weathered Hurricane Helene fairly well--I was concerned that that whole area had been hit as badly as western NC was.

As I recall, it came with replacement bolts.

I have about 26k miles on my truck, which I bought in October 2022. I have a lifetime average of about 18mpg, though that includes about 6000ish miles of towing an 11' tall 6500lb trailer, which reduces the mpg to about 8-12mpg. When I'm not towing, I can usually get 24-26mpg on a tank of...