- Joined
- Sep 19, 2022
- Messages
- 10
- City
- Albuquerque
- Vehicle Year
- 2011
- Engine
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hello, guys and gals. First off, I hope I’m posting this in the right place, being my first actual “Ranger stuff” post!
Long story short, my “raised it from a pup” ’05 Edge was totaled after 16 yrs, I replaced it with this current ’03 Edge that I don’t like and am selling, and I’m looking for an ’06-’11 Sport to be my new long-term baby. Basically, the new Sport will be the “keep it forever” truck that the ’05 should have been. OK? *grins*
To the question: I just looked at a 2011 Sport that turned out to be a rustbucket, so I walked away. However, while checking it out, I discovered that it had that idiot running lights/headlights on all the time stupidity going on. My ’05 wasn’t like that, and of course the ’03 isn’t, so my first question is what year did Ford first decide to leave the lights on all the time?
Worst case, I can always go to the Stealer and pay them $175 to “black out” the truck as I did with my 2012 F-150. NO lights would come on unless I made them come on, and it wouldn’t chirp, flash, or any of that crap anymore! I could get in and out of a silent, dark truck at night!
But I need to know if I can avoid all that by buying a 2010, for example, if that started in 2011. Or an ’09, ‘08, etc.
Thanks.
Long story short, my “raised it from a pup” ’05 Edge was totaled after 16 yrs, I replaced it with this current ’03 Edge that I don’t like and am selling, and I’m looking for an ’06-’11 Sport to be my new long-term baby. Basically, the new Sport will be the “keep it forever” truck that the ’05 should have been. OK? *grins*
To the question: I just looked at a 2011 Sport that turned out to be a rustbucket, so I walked away. However, while checking it out, I discovered that it had that idiot running lights/headlights on all the time stupidity going on. My ’05 wasn’t like that, and of course the ’03 isn’t, so my first question is what year did Ford first decide to leave the lights on all the time?
Worst case, I can always go to the Stealer and pay them $175 to “black out” the truck as I did with my 2012 F-150. NO lights would come on unless I made them come on, and it wouldn’t chirp, flash, or any of that crap anymore! I could get in and out of a silent, dark truck at night!
But I need to know if I can avoid all that by buying a 2010, for example, if that started in 2011. Or an ’09, ‘08, etc.
Thanks.