You know how when you have a doctor's appointment and get up the morning of the appointment and question your judgement and wish you could just wave a magic wand and not need to go?
Our 2019 Ranger did that very thing this morning, waive the magic wand that is. We were scheduled to take it to the dealer to get the evaporation valve replaced, which involves removing the gas tank. Seems like a little access door in the floor of the bed would be better, but what do I know?
So we're about a half mile from home and my wife points to the dash. The check engine light is no longer on.
We go back home, and I fire up the laptop and run FORScan, and ran the diagnostics and it shows that the evap. code was triggered. I clear out the code and then start the truck up and run diagnostics again. No evap code.
I called the dealer, told them to cancel the evap repair, but we would be there to get the new Michelin LTX A/T2 tires re-balanced that they didn't balance correctly on 10-06-2022.
When we arrive, they treat us like royalty, they take the truck back and we're back on the road in about an hour and a half. Before we left the Service Advisor said he asked the tech "Why didn't you re-balance those when you flipped them from black wall to white wall on 10-06-2022?" He said the tech just shrugged his shoulders. I looked at Shaun and said, "I guess that's why you make the big bucks; you have some common sense".
So, I get home and check the torque on the lug nuts. The owner's manual specifies 100 ft-lbs., that seems high? I did some research on this when I bought the truck (Sept 2019) and 85-95 ft-lbs is what most tire shops use. So, I've been torquing them to 90 ft-lbs. when I rotate the tires.
I set the torque wrench to 90 ft-lbs... and only (4) out of (24) lug nuts were tight. The others weren't "loose", but they weren't 90 ft-lbs.
I checked them on 10-06-2022 when we first had the Michelins installed, and every lug was tighter than 90 ft-lbs.
I called dealership and left a message with the Service Advisor, he didn't answer, I told him what I found and told him 4 out of 24 were pretty horrible odds.
I also noticed a scratch on my bash plate (aka skid plate) under the front of the truck. Probably from the tech hitting it with a floor jack.
Whatever... moving on.
The tires were indeed out of balance and are good now.