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civic minded wrote:Ok - ^^ why kind of ranger is it? 2.5TD auto or manual?If it is manual, I currently own a 2006 model ranger and never had the overheating issue. Once good maintenance practice is carried out, there wont be a problem. Make sure and get a mechanic to check out the ranger before you buy. One thing alot of people dont do, is do a complete fuel system cleaning, which involves removing the tank and cleaning everything. Doing this eliminate alot of problems down the road. Remember we have real dirty diesel down here, so they then to do a number on engines.
3stagevtec wrote:shah23 wrote:People the Ford Ranger is a death trap. The vehicle cannot stop sometimes although you mashing that brakes. Fools at Ford don't care and only giving you hot air and old talk. Vehicle vibrating when pulling off, Transmission gear change with a slam or (clunk) Drive shaft center bearing giving up very fast, when driving with your A/C on you smelling other vehicle exhaust smoke inside vehicle although you have the lever on recycle.Man don't even try to talk to the service personal, they will rough you up and tell you go to Port of Spain. When you go to Port of Spain well next problem again, some stupidy tell you that is how it suppose to work. People don't trough away your money.
somehow I don't think the truck is the problem here..
lighthammer wrote:You mean one of these?
shah23 wrote:3stagevtec wrote:shah23 wrote:People the Ford Ranger is a death trap. The vehicle cannot stop sometimes although you mashing that brakes. Fools at Ford don't care and only giving you hot air and old talk. Vehicle vibrating when pulling off, Transmission gear change with a slam or (clunk) Drive shaft center bearing giving up very fast, when driving with your A/C on you smelling other vehicle exhaust smoke inside vehicle although you have the lever on recycle.Man don't even try to talk to the service personal, they will rough you up and tell you go to Port of Spain. When you go to Port of Spain well next problem again, some stupidy tell you that is how it suppose to work. People don't trough away your money.
somehow I don't think the truck is the problem here..
Somehow I think you have been fooled by the service people in MEM.
Am sure when you driving your Ranger and sometimes when you press on the brakes Pedal you hear a sort of a Grating Sound coming from the right front where the ABS unit is situated and your Vehicle keep going. What did M E M say, That is the ABS working.
Well breds it is your back brakes locking up before time and the ABS release comes on and you will be in trouble in case of Emergency. So if you breds or real truck men feel there is no problem, be a real MAN and let's go for a real ruNN MAN!!!!!
civic minded wrote:shah23 wrote:3stagevtec wrote:shah23 wrote:People the Ford Ranger is a death trap. The vehicle cannot stop sometimes although you mashing that brakes. Fools at Ford don't care and only giving you hot air and old talk. Vehicle vibrating when pulling off, Transmission gear change with a slam or (clunk) Drive shaft center bearing giving up very fast, when driving with your A/C on you smelling other vehicle exhaust smoke inside vehicle although you have the lever on recycle.Man don't even try to talk to the service personal, they will rough you up and tell you go to Port of Spain. When you go to Port of Spain well next problem again, some stupidy tell you that is how it suppose to work. People don't trough away your money.
somehow I don't think the truck is the problem here..
Somehow I think you have been fooled by the service people in MEM.
Am sure when you driving your Ranger and sometimes when you press on the brakes Pedal you hear a sort of a Grating Sound coming from the right front where the ABS unit is situated and your Vehicle keep going. What did M E M say, That is the ABS working.
Well breds it is your back brakes locking up before time and the ABS release comes on and you will be in trouble in case of Emergency. So if you breds or real truck men feel there is no problem, be a real MAN and let's go for a real ruNN MAN!!!!!
What you described there - is normal and happens in any Pickup you drive. When the ABS is engaged - the wheels do not lockup , front and back ABS - you will feel a grating vibration - ABS work by rapidly engaging and disengaging the brakes thereby increase control of the vehicle.
For the ABS to be engaged you need to be traveling at a momentum and suddenly slam brakes.
I think your problem is not so much the truck but how you drive it. Is this your first pickup? Maybe you should practice some defensive driving. And by the way - you should not be driving over 80KMph or even 120kmph in a pickup. They are not designed to stop safely higher than those speeds stated.
shah23 wrote:civic minded wrote:shah23 wrote:3stagevtec wrote:shah23 wrote:People the Ford Ranger is a death trap. The vehicle cannot stop sometimes although you mashing that brakes. Fools at Ford don't care and only giving you hot air and old talk. Vehicle vibrating when pulling off, Transmission gear change with a slam or (clunk) Drive shaft center bearing giving up very fast, when driving with your A/C on you smelling other vehicle exhaust smoke inside vehicle although you have the lever on recycle.Man don't even try to talk to the service personal, they will rough you up and tell you go to Port of Spain. When you go to Port of Spain well next problem again, some stupidy tell you that is how it suppose to work. People don't trough away your money.
somehow I don't think the truck is the problem here..
Somehow I think you have been fooled by the service people in MEM.
Am sure when you driving your Ranger and sometimes when you press on the brakes Pedal you hear a sort of a Grating Sound coming from the right front where the ABS unit is situated and your Vehicle keep going. What did M E M say, That is the ABS working.
Well breds it is your back brakes locking up before time and the ABS release comes on and you will be in trouble in case of Emergency. So if you breds or real truck men feel there is no problem, be a real MAN and let's go for a real ruNN MAN!!!!!
What you described there - is normal and happens in any Pickup you drive. When the ABS is engaged - the wheels do not lockup , front and back ABS - you will feel a grating vibration - ABS work by rapidly engaging and disengaging the brakes thereby increase control of the vehicle.
For the ABS to be engaged you need to be traveling at a momentum and suddenly slam brakes.
I think your problem is not so much the truck but how you drive it. Is this your first pickup? Maybe you should practice some defensive driving. And by the way - you should not be driving over 80KMph or even 120kmph in a pickup. They are not designed to stop safely higher than those speeds stated.
Well sorry for you guys who don't know how an ABS works. For you information I did all types of defensive driving courses with the oil company which I work for and I drive all type of vehicles all over the world where I am sent to work. In all type of surfaces, Snow, Dessert, mud, and I know what I am talking about. Even MEM trying to fix the problem quietly so they would not have a recall. So if you own a Ford Ranger you should take it back to the firm and just make a complaint. Or call Joe the service manager at Port of Spain and tell him you having a brakes problem with your vehicle and you will see what I an talking about.... Thank you...
Mr. Red Sleeper wrote:^^honestly tho...I had the same issue that he's referring to. The van doesnt stop on a dime for me either. As a matter of fact, there's part of me that seriously thinks that if there was no ABS that the van would stop better/ sooner, thus INCREASING the control of the vehicle and avoiding accidents.
The van locks up ABS or not, and you will, unless you're a good driver, run into anything that "suddenly finds it way in front of you"...
Having said that, i've learned by trial and error, that you either have to drive it alot slower and/or, mash let go , then mash again to get the required braking that's needed dependent on the situation.
What i think that alot of ppl need to realise is that the back of the vehicle is also very light and that with the incorrect tyre pressure, it will increase the inability to control it effectively.
Remember again, its not a race car,, its a van. Drive it accordingly.
civic minded wrote:dude - i own two rangers - a 2006 and a 2010 - and i never had any issue with brakes - ABS works fine and both stop on a dime when i want them too. So where i stand - i dont have issues with the rangers. Maybe you would be more comfortable with the Ford f250 - since you are familiar with the american Fords. You know that the Fords we get here are from Thailand right?
Th firm of Charles McEarney and Company , while certainly not the oldest, is one of the local icons of commerce, having survived more than nine decades in more or less the same branch of enterprise , that is, the sale of Ford vehicles.The first automobile in the island, a 1900 Locomobile, was followed by various other makes (mostly American) which caused havoc on the roads if one is to judge from the high occurrence of automobile-related accidents with barely two hundred cars on the road. The earliest Fords in the colony were imported by the older firm of J.N Harriman and Company as far back as 1912. Yldefonso De Lima, founder of the organization which still bears his name, owned a fleet of them which he plied for hire. After World War I ended in 1918, the demand for motor vehicles increased considerably, as the oil industry provided an abundant source of fuel and paved roads were connecting all the remoter points of the country. Since 1912, the registration of motor vehicles had begun and by the time Charles McEarney acquired the Ford franchise on March 18 1919, there were already 1,176 vehicles on the road. The enterprising Englishman had originally come to Trinidad to buy coconuts for the Schweppes Company of England, and was impressed by the rapid development of the road network and the oil industry. Even the railway engines were being converted from coal to oil as a fuel because of the abundant supplies , while the new roads were being asphalted with the bounty of the Pitch Lake.
McEarney opened a garage and sales office at 25 Richmond St. in Port-of-Spain where Model Ts were assembled, having been imported in kit form. A branch was established at Mucurapo St. in San Fernando in 1922. In partnership with Melville and George DeNobriga, the firm of Charles McEarney and Co. The cocoa boomtown of Sangre Grande was prosperous enough to rate the establishment of a branch in 1923, the same year that the firm’s great rival Neal and Massey, began importing Chevrolet cars. The rugged, simple design and affordable of the Model T ensured its popularity as of the fifty-seven cars in the hold of the SS Mayaro in 1920, thirty-eight were Fords. In 1936, an elaborate art deco building was erected on Royal Road in San Fernando, in which the architect, John Guppy, incorporated the V8 logo in the finials- a dual tribute to King Edward VIII and the mighty Ford 21 stud Flathead V8. At the time a Model 35 Roadster Deluxe cost $760.00. The company weathered the Great Depression and on one occasion, having sold ten cars in one day, the salesmen staged an impromptu motorcade around the Queen’s Park Savannah, blaring horns, for which they were fined five shillings apiece by the police. The advent of WWII and the subsequent establishement of the American Bases at Chaguaramas and Cumuto had its effect too. Though unable to import new cars (all factories had turned to making munitions and aircraft) the staff was set to work assembling Ford GPW jeeps and trucks for the Allies. With the Independence of Trinidad and Tobago in 1962, a new reality of national self-sufficiency dawned . Charles McEarney and Co. formed and alliance with H.E Robinson and Co. (the local importer for Rootes and BMC vehicles) to erect an assembly plant at Tumpuna , where later, Neal and Massey (Datsun and Vauxhall) and Amar Motors (Toyota) would follow suit. Of the nearly one hundred thousand vehicles assembled at the plant until its closure in 1990, fifty thousand were Fords, mostly English Cortinas and Escorts though a few Japanese Lasers and Australian Falcons were made.
McEarney and Co. was already part of the Alston’s Group by the 1970’s, and in the 1980’s Conrad O’Brien and David Sabga of the Ansa McAl conglomerate incorporated the firm into its holdings . After the plant at Tumpuna closed, Ford temporarily left the local market until the brand was re-launched in 1996. Today the old showrooms still stand proudly , while gleaming vehicles bearing the blue oval occupy the showroom floors.
speedaholic wrote:i quite fancy this alottt!!
marcuantearcop wrote:Hey guys a lil advice!!!!! been looking through the forums since however long, an I decide to get a pickup......only want a ford..... reasons i dont want a hilux or navara is jus personal prefrence among other tings. However i jus wanted a lil advive.....It will be used for highway runs an for carrying materials which are traysize but not heavy..... not really into off roading but I neva know...... so jus wanted to ask.. Should I get the 4x2 at mceneary, the wildtrek at m rampersad or should i just wait till the new ranger comes out next year. An well i know is nex year bcus yesterday i askd a sales rep in sando an dats wat she told me. so what should I do??????
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