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- Ceredigion, wales
I agree. Surely dealers would have enough 3.2 rangers on order. They've been slow coming through for years now. Pretty sure they could sell many more if they had them in stock!
Yet again pickups!
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Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Your local dealer is only a sub-dealer for pickups. The main dealers who distribute to many local smaller dealers are major Transit and commercial truck centres like Days in South Wales. The big Truck Centres usually have stock pickups which they may or may not be willing to share with smaller dealers such as Aberystwyth and Cardigan.
Keepitsimple26
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One coop ag supplier has stopped offering Ranger as a company option. Reliability issues apparently and these do lots of "unchallenged" miles.
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
I don't think there is a reliability problem as such. There is almost certainly a back-up problem from Ford with parts availability and problem solving when things do need doing though. I've heard of people waiting months for body parts to repair accident damage for instance. Ford are not proactive with service issues either. In fact they are probably in the lowest 10th percentile when it comes to customer care and backup. Not that mine has been much bother and my local one-man-band has great experience with Transits, so should keep the Ranger running if he can get parts in a timely fashion.
Is International Motors any better? They don't seem to have got a grip of the regeneration issues or the diesel contamination of lubricating oil. Two major issues which they don't seem to be able to deal with.
ricky_rascal
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- Location
- N. Yorks
Interesting Cowabunga. Thought Ford would have shaped better than that. I was at my local garage when he cleaned dpf out. I started on about getting a Ford next time and he said he'd had 3 in with dpf issues of some sort.
Not really sure how many isuzu's are affected with the dpf issue. Later ones were maybe sorted? Mines an early one pre 3.5t towing upgrade. It's off in on Friday for injectors so we'll see if it's sorted after that. Only became a problem beginning of the year. Livestock market car park is full of them on market day.
New Amorak anyone? Would an aluminium top be an option?
http://pickupand4x4.co.uk/volkswagen-amarok-aventura-exclusive
Not really sure how many isuzu's are affected with the dpf issue. Later ones were maybe sorted? Mines an early one pre 3.5t towing upgrade. It's off in on Friday for injectors so we'll see if it's sorted after that. Only became a problem beginning of the year. Livestock market car park is full of them on market day.
New Amorak anyone? Would an aluminium top be an option?
http://pickupand4x4.co.uk/volkswagen-amarok-aventura-exclusive
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
All I can say is that so far, at 35,000 miles, I've had no DPF issues and only recently had my first problem, which was a sticky EGR valve cured with no parts needed [so far]. It very seldom regenerates as far as we can tell here. Only very occasionally do we catch it 'at it', although I presume it must do so, on the sly, more often than observed.
Parts for Ranger, or many of them, have to come from South Africa and Ford UK are not known for stocking much locally. Dealer parts stock? Forget it.
Yes, Isuzu are very popular. I suspect it has a lot to do with price though, because they are good value compared to their main rivals apart from Navara, which has lost its reputation, and Mitsubishi, which doesn't tow 3.5 tons and looks slightly effeminate from the side and oriental from the front to many eyes.
ricky_rascal
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- Location
- N. Yorks
Not got really into it with Isuzu dealer but he had some work to do to compete with Ford dealer. This was a Ranger Wildtrack against a new dmax Utah.
Other thing local garage told me they had an 18 month old Ranger that they sold. Customer came and part ex his vehicle and drove off with ranger. Got half a mile into village and broke down. Had to tow it back in. Turned out to be electrical and Ford themselves fixed it under warranty! Bit embarrassing at the time.
All down to luck with any vehicle really. More good ones than bad ones by a long way. Farm next door to farm I do some work for run 3 Rangers at a time and don't think they've had bother with any of them. Aforementioned farm I've just got back from (combining wheat) has had a couple of Hi-Lux pickups and they've never had a spanner on them. He's just on swapping it though says it's not one with the smaller engine. Pre registered 17 plate. Don't think I'd ever be worried about buying a Ford. My dad has a diesel Kuga and is a very nice drive. Down side he bought it off a right set of pillocks at York and doesn't stop grumbling about it given the opertunity.
Other thing local garage told me they had an 18 month old Ranger that they sold. Customer came and part ex his vehicle and drove off with ranger. Got half a mile into village and broke down. Had to tow it back in. Turned out to be electrical and Ford themselves fixed it under warranty! Bit embarrassing at the time.
All down to luck with any vehicle really. More good ones than bad ones by a long way. Farm next door to farm I do some work for run 3 Rangers at a time and don't think they've had bother with any of them. Aforementioned farm I've just got back from (combining wheat) has had a couple of Hi-Lux pickups and they've never had a spanner on them. He's just on swapping it though says it's not one with the smaller engine. Pre registered 17 plate. Don't think I'd ever be worried about buying a Ford. My dad has a diesel Kuga and is a very nice drive. Down side he bought it off a right set of pillocks at York and doesn't stop grumbling about it given the opertunity.
fergie35
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- Oxfordshire
Got a new Hilux invincible Auto on demo at the moment with work, out in it today and general driving back roads etc... getting roughly 28.5 mpg, reset it on a motorway journey and up through all the roadworks on the M1 north of northampton for a 2 hour ish round trip and achieved 38mpg. only on the clock not tank to tank, but certainly seems better than the 3.0l invincible manual I normally drive. The auto is nice, perhaps hangs on to gears to long IMO, but I am used to a manual box, feels like it needs a 7th gear. Your views on the auto @nick... ?
- Location
- south norfolk
Yes I really like mine.parking sensors get on my tits on tight spaces and gear box can never make up its mind what gear to be in but certainly no worse than a Mercedes car I owned.too many electronics these days like most other vehicles but that's progress.biggest fault with them are the sh!t Bridgestone duallers tyres which are rubbish of road.mine will be getting some all terrain tyres soon having been stuck on muddy rutted farm tracks
Nick...
The trick with the tyres is to do a part exchange deal with your local tyre firm. I Collected my new ute last year and went straight to get tyres swapped.
fergie35
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
Can you turn the rear parking sensors off when you have a trailer on? mind you i never had it plugged in as i was off road. But it drove me nuts reversing with that beep!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
They should go off automatically, electronically or a switch in the trailer socket.
- Location
- south norfolk
Asked dealer to change them and they did not want to know.
Nick...
- Location
- south norfolk
Yes you can turn them off,front ones too.
Nick...
fergie35
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
How?
Big Button on top of dash.
Automatically disconnected when trailer plugged in
Oh, no, sorry, you'd need to buy an Amarok for that
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- south norfolk
Switch on right hand side of steering wheel on bottom of console.got about 6 switches there.mine is An invincible x if that makes any difference
Nick...
Oh sod the dealer there all useless. Best to find out what make size etc the tyres are and go see your tyre man and do a deal before you get the vehicle. Then once you've got it nip round to tyre man an get them swapped. That's what i did.
ricky_rascal
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- N. Yorks
No use asking the dealer. I did when I ordered a d-max. Got a load of old tripe from salesman saying how they had been on an off road day and it was impossible to get stuck with the bridgestones. I pointed out that parking on the grass at the edge of MacDonalds carpark is not off road. Don't even get me going about traction control either. I was wanting some Cooper ST MAXX fitting - "Oh no they won't even fit".
I'd done 2 or 3 thousand miles before going to T Elsey's Tyre Emporium (for all your tyre needs
) so ended up taking the original tyres home with me. Never thought of trying to flog them to him There is a local lad who sells me feed and has a d-max. Keeping an eye on his tyres and biding my time.Is there an age limit on tyres?