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I'm curious what motivates you to manually lock out 9th and 10th gear? I've pulled a 20 ft travel trailer in a lot of conditions and I think the only time I felt compelled to use lockout was when I wanted a touch more engine braking coming down a pass in CO. Usually with no override it stays in...

I have no idea what the XLT headlights are supposed to look like, but it's my understanding that asymmetric pattern between driver and passenger side is intentional and broadly common in modern vehicles. Take a look at the IIHS headlight test results for the Ranger or virtually any other vehicle...

You probably know better than me, but I based my assumption that your trip was net down hill on multiple sources, including the Breckenridge website, that listed the town as 9,600ft with areas up to 13,000ft elevation.

Purely anecdotally I haven't seen much MPG penalty from repeated up/down in hilly or mountainous areas as long as you're not using the brake much on the way down. Would depend on your exact starting and ending locations but I think it's plausible Woodland Park could be about 1,000ft lower than...

That is a fantastic question... I can say with some confidence the first and third image are the essentially the same thing but with different silk-screening: The first for vehicles without the "Advanced Towing" option and the latter for those with it (center button engages reverse trailer...

Also, if you dig around with the search on the forum here you should be able to find a PDF, presumably distributed to dealers, that is the 2024 buying guide and it lists in great detail the additions and removals from the previous year. I found that very helpful. They also can be used to track...

I could have given a much better answer a year ago when the differences were still fresh in my mind. I went from a 2021 Lariat to a 2024 Lariat with 2.7L engine (US spec). Here's a certainly incomplete list of things that I noticed: Memory settings – Button pad with 3 programmable memory...

I don't doubt that. But if you gave up on even trying the manual settings in the past it might be worth trying them again. I can't vouch for it being great in all conditions, but at least in the few I've found myself in it did exactly what I expected/wanted.

I’m not sure I follow what you’re saying it can’t do. Just a couple weeks ago I used the manual control or high-gear lockout to force the automatic into 3rd gear so I barely had to use the brakes coming down Pikes Peak in 2HI. Is there some condition where it doesn’t allow you to manually lock...

I'm not sure what your aversion to having the WDH is, but count me in among those recommending it over suspension mods. I've towed a 20ft travel trailer for a few years, first with a 2021 Ranger and now with a 2024 Ranger. We got the BlueOx TrackPro when we bought the trailer, but I've skipped...

I’d be surprised if there is a position encoder since they don’t support the feature some of my German cars have where you tap the stalk to raise them up with engine off and they stay there in service position. The manual says that if you want to move them up you’re supposed to start a wipe then...

That’s exactly what mine did the one time it occurred.

FWIW I had a steering assist fault message once about 10 months ago in a 2024 Lariat and it’s never occurred again. I’d hold off on replacing the battery unless the issue is reoccurring often.

FWIW that’s kind of where I recall the bare wires for the TBC being on my 2021 5G Ranger. For those struggling to find the TBC wires in the cab, I’m curious if you’ve checked to see if there are all 7 wires going to the 7-pin connector in the back? If not, then probably a bad sign for finding...

I couldn’t find any official sources but I read around tonight and found some credible-sounding explanations. It implied that there was a normal controller responsible for the chime, blinker, and various alert noises but also a totally separate controller that can act like a backup in case the...

If you wait long enough all of the software-based recalls seem to have become available over-the-air so no dealer visit required. I got burned with a 2021 Ranger when they had to drop the headliner to fix a piece attached to the roof: Put a hole in the fabric and then tried to fix it but made...

I did not notice this after the ITRM update but I may have an explanation for what you’re hearing: I think many modern vehicles primarily rely on the same speaker system as the radio, etc. However because some noises are safety-related they have a backup audio path with its own speaker if...

My reading of the BCM update notes is that what you’re describing is the behavior it’s meant to fix: That the BCM interpreted activity during software updates (probably even of other controllers than itself) as a fault and logged a trouble code. So hopefully this was the last time and future...

Do you know what the tongue weight of those trailers are when loaded how you’d use them? The general target tongue weight is 10-15%, so assuming it’s in that range then for a 5,000lb load the low end of that range would basically be the Raptor’s max rated capacity with no margin.

I can’t predict what will happen if they’re unplugged or continuously covered but I do know that in my narrow garage before I’m finished parking it throws an error about sensor being blocked and shuts off the whole system: Front and rear sensors plus cameras.