Ford Nationwide Employee Pricing - America’s 250th Anniversary

[rusty ol ranger]

Everything F-150 and bigger is aluminum and with a bedliner which most people have the bed thing is a non-issue.

I have had an aluminum truck for four years now I and love it.

I tossed a bag of stone in mine (like landscape stone you get from lowes...50lb or whatever) and it punched a pinhole in the floor. Then had a junk dryer put a dent in the wheelwell.

Granted i dont have a liner....but still. I did get a rubber mat. I do wanna get a spray in at some point.

Other then that i like it though.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I tossed a bag of stone in mine (like landscape stone you get from lowes...50lb or whatever) and it punched a pinhole in the floor. Then had a junk dryer put a dent in the wheelwell.

Granted i dont have a liner....but still. I did get a rubber mat. I do wanna get a spray in at some point.

Other then that i like it though.

My only gripe was how stuff rattled against the bed back there. I snagged a drop in of marketplace for cheap just so it didn't sound like things were rattling on the back window.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

My only gripe was how stuff rattled against the bed back there. I snagged a drop in of marketplace for cheap just so it didn't sound like things were rattling on the back window.

My straps for my tonneu cover wack the header of the bed whenever i hit the brakes....took me a week to figure out wtf the noise was

 

[racsan]

If I was somehow forced to buy a new vehicle during this event, I would want something with a manual transmission. I haven't looked, but a bare bones stick shift Maverick would be interesting. I'm weird and I would still want rolley windows, key locks, and as I'm asking for 15" steel wheels they would kick me off the lot.

I thought the Maverick only came as a automatic?

 

[Blmpkn]

Interest on NEW American made vehicles is also a tax write-off for the next 3 long ass years..

 

[sgtsandman]

I thought the Maverick only came as a automatic?

Your thinking is correct.

 

[Rick W]

I was kicking the idea around about getting back into a Ranger (or F-150) but life got in the way. My wife's been on disability for nearly a year due to a nagging injury with six hospital stays including multiple surgeries and only getting about 50% of her normal salary. Plus with everything going up in price so much, I gotta hold off and just maintain status quo without a truck payment for the foreseeable future.

I’d like to have something new just to have something new. If I could get one with a truck payment, I might do it. Problem is everything I would want to have comes with a house payment these days….

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I’d like to have something new just to have something new. If I could get one with a truck payment, I might do it. Problem is everything I would want to have comes with a house payment these days….

I’ve thought about it too, but the pricing and the looming regulations that track everything and tattle on you is quickly reducing my desire to have something new that I don’t have to work on all the time

 

[Roert42]

2018 was a big killer for me with the mandatory backup cameras too.

The mandate for cameras in the cars watching you all the time is really bad though.

Only makes the same car more expensive

 

[sgtsandman]

I’ve thought about it too, but the pricing and the looming regulations that track everything and tattle on you is quickly reducing my desire to have something new that I don’t have to work on all the time

The technol;ogy, even without the looming regulations has become a big turn off for me. Almost everything is interconnected. One system faults or goes down, it takes out others. With the Ram and Mercedes Benz delivery vehicles, there are a lot of fault we ignore as long as they aren't a safety issue because the repair costs are so high.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

The technol;ogy, even without the looming regulations has become a big turn off for me. Almost everything is interconnected. One system faults or goes down, it takes out others. With the Ram and Mercedes Benz delivery vehicles, there are a lot of fault we ignore as long as they aren't a safety issue because the repair costs are so high.

That too. I’m ok with some tech, I actually appreciate a bit of tech. But what’s being done to vehicles where something relatively minor can cascade to major systems is, well, idiotic. I guess they figure disposable plastic vehicles is better for the environment than something that can run a million miles and still be overhauled to work more? I don’t see the logic there.

My 1950 farm tractor can be completely stripped with a half a dozen wrenches and put back together. Pretty much every part on it is still available. It’s obviously sat outside a lot in its life for how sun-bleached the paint is but it doesn’t have any appreciable rust. Why can’t we build a car/truck like that?

Oh yeah… greed…

 

[SenorNoob]

They did. In 1950...

Now you need 3 different computers just to get it to tell you what sensor is out of range. The radio has control over the transmission and lighting. And every powered feature can be activated remotely by satellite, cell, or wifi. They cancel software updates as soon as the warranty expires. All the "safety" features require alignments so precise you need laser rangefinders to calibrate them. Just so the computer can automatically hit the brakes before you hit the stop sign. IF it works. The metal is so thin for crumple zones that by the time rust is visible it's a hole... Should I go on?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

They did. In 1950...

Now you need 3 different computers just to get it to tell you what sensor is out of range. The radio has control over the transmission and lighting. And every powered feature can be activated remotely by satellite, cell, or wifi. They cancel software updates as soon as the warranty expires. All the "safety" features require alignments so precise you need laser rangefinders to calibrate them. Just so the computer can automatically hit the brakes before you hit the stop sign. IF it works. The metal is so thin for crumple zones that by the time rust is visible it's a hole... Should I go on?

I still say this “progress” is idiotic and not actually progress but some sort of attempt at making pergatory part of Earth

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

That too. I’m ok with some tech, I actually appreciate a bit of tech. But what’s being done to vehicles where something relatively minor can cascade to major systems is, well, idiotic. I guess they figure disposable plastic vehicles is better for the environment than something that can run a million miles and still be overhauled to work more? I don’t see the logic there.

My 1950 farm tractor can be completely stripped with a half a dozen wrenches and put back together. Pretty much every part on it is still available. It’s obviously sat outside a lot in its life for how sun-bleached the paint is but it doesn’t have any appreciable rust. Why can’t we build a car/truck like that?

Oh yeah… greed…

Lack of rust is because of environment.

Find a tractor that has handled road salt or been in a feedlot and report back... unlike a more modern vehicle there is absolutely no rust preventative

Rear wheels are falling apart on my main 1950's tractor because of the calcium chloride ballast and those were galvanized at the factory.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Lack of rust is because of environment.

Find a tractor that has handled road salt or been in a feedlot and report back... unlike a more modern vehicle there is absolutely no rust preventative

Rear wheels are falling apart on my main 1950's tractor because of the calcium chloride ballast and those were galvanized at the factory.

True, environment contributes to a lot, but around here, things seem to rust badly even if not exposed to a corrosive environment. Or at least new things. I suspect the quality of steel has gone down significantly in more recent years.

If you would like a newer example that’s more equal, how about the frame on my 92 Ranger had one small bad spot next to the gas tank where it collected debris over the years. At 172k it was still very solid. Compare that to my 00 green Ranger at 140k that the rear frame looked like Swiss cheese and the front had some holes. We can build stuff that doesn’t rot terribly.