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| | | | Re: looking to buy a ford ranger < Reply # 18 on 8/22/2013 6:08 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Ranger is a fairly good choice. The 3.0 engine is pretty stout. My first car was a 93 ranger i got in 2006 that was given to my dad after being essentially abandoned for a while. As such, being 16, inexperienced, and doped up on adderall for ADHD 24/7, I wrecked it about 9-10 times. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. It just kinda kept on trucking, despite all the failed burnout attempts, hill hopping, doughnuts, one laughable street race against a Camry, going possibly 18-24 months between oil changes once, and other teenage idiocracy. It was a 3.0 with a 5speed. Since wrecking it into a tree in 2006 and having it sit with only water in the rad for too long, it had a cracked engine block that would occasionally puke out all the coolant instantly and overheat. So I would just have to put some stop leak in it every month or so when it happened and carried 2 jugs of water and antifreeze behind the seats. Drove it another 45k miles like this until junking it after the ball joint snapped at 70mph (great time to lose steering control and your brakes simultaneously.) and the truck was just generally too shitty to put money in. Until then, it never really broke down on me. Would always get me where I needed to go, and I took it on several trips to indianapolis (110mi away) with no problem. Basically, for the most part, this truck survived me during possibly the dumbest period of my life in regards to treating cars like shit. The only real bother with the ranger I had was those damn leaf spring shackles in the rear. They liked to rust through and break, and MAF sensors. Hell, even the A/C still blew cold.
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| | | Re: looking to buy a ford ranger < Reply # 19 on 8/22/2013 6:34 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by budda Ranger is a fairly good choice. The 3.0 engine is pretty stout. My first car was a 93 ranger i got in 2006 that was given to my dad after being essentially abandoned for a while. As such, being 16, inexperienced, and doped up on adderall for ADHD 24/7, I wrecked it about 9-10 times. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. It just kinda kept on trucking, despite all the failed burnout attempts, hill hopping, doughnuts, one laughable street race against a Camry, going possibly 18-24 months between oil changes once, and other teenage idiocracy. Was a 3.0 with a 5speed. Since wrecking it into a tree in 2006 and having it sit with only water in the rad for too long, it had a cracked engine block that would occasionally puke out all the coolant instantly and overheat. So I would just have to put some stop leak in it every month or so when it happened and carried 2 jugs of water behind the seats. Drove it another 45k miles like this until junking it after the ball joint snapped, and the truck was just generally too shitty to put money in. (handy storage space despite being reg cab) Never really broke down on me in all that time. Would always get me where I needed to go, and I took it on several trips to indianapolis (110mi away) with no problem. Basically, for the most part, this truck survived me during possibly the dumbest period of my life in regards to treating cars like shit. The only real bother with the ranger I had was those damn leaf spring shackles in the rear. They liked to rust through and break, and MAF sensors. Hell, even the A/C still blew cold.
| my dad's 96 Exploder was like that... rusting out so bad that even the rocker cover had a hole rotted through it, but the A/C still worked, cruise still worked, touch-button 4wd still worked... but the body was rotting right off the frame. In fact, he junked it when he went to change the aformentioned spring shackles and saw the frame was so rotten, there was no point in changing them. I think it had well over 300,000 miles on it, but it was a 4.0L V6 with the autospastic.
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