I think youāre on to something - the wrangler has a strap and these ... donāt. A flat spot to react that spring tension or serve as a hard-stop for the mechanism: This far and no further would make a lot of sense from a design perspective. Get it to 90 to take on/off and have it also be the...
Iād have to examine it but probably so the flat areas can transfer load in certain conditions. Fully round has a point of transfer but a flat surface you can safely assume the whole area shares the impact. Will make the structure more reliable even when built to a ālooseā tolerance.
So Fordās āproblemā is they know some of us will pay *a lot* more for a Bronco, but theyāre not sure how many. The way to get the most cash out of us is āsecond degree price discriminationā where they use bundles of options to force our hand. If you *want* the 2.7, you must take the automatic...
The core problem I have with this approach is how badly the local metro dealers treat their customers. I could NOT find a decent dealer within 20 miles of our home in Houston and I am going 26 miles to get to the one I have chosen to work with for the Bronco in the Seattle metro. I get why sales...
Gladiator (concerned w safari bar and headroom)
Macan
2022 Golf R
X3M40i
GLC43
The last two are based on home desires, not my own. Gladiator looks are a tough sell.
After reading about their āreliabilityā on the ranger forum... Iāll pass. I use the one on the F150 to lock the doors sometimes. I liked the one on my SportTrac but it was not a battery one.
@grewhi Iāve never had a turbo failure on mine. I know someone who had an expensive repair on an MKT with the 3.5, but those are anecdotes mine was good his wasnāt. Itās one more spinny part. Iām not sure how reliability can be answered in a clear empirical way. Both engines have been used on...
Thereās a video earlier in the thread of a guy who bought one that looks like this: https://mrkustom.com/shop/electric-retractable-flip-license-plate-holder/
Google maps and the color of the dirt west versus east indicates this is the likely candidate:
Hidden Falls Adventure Park
7030 Ranch Rd 1431, Marble Falls, TX 78654
(830) 798-9820
https://goo.gl/maps/6tHgEQ17CTBmpJZ47