I have a deposit on a 2024 Ford Maverick with exactly the specs I want at a pretty decent price waiting on the recall to get fixed. (The backup camera can freeze on some.) The salesman contacted me today offering me a ready to deliver a 2025 with similar specs at a “similar” price. It is definitely more. The price was still “okay”, but I started having flashbacks.
All I could see for a few minutes was 80’s car commercials telling me, “Don’t you buy no ugly truck!”
Apologies to those who like the look of blinders on the 2025.
The one I have a deposit on is white, but this picture should show what I mean.
After 6 years the original battery in my Jeep finally died. Dang it! Only six years! Seriously I’ve bought a fair number of new vehicles in the last 25/26 years, and this is by far the longest the original battery has last in any of them. By about double. Arizona is hard on batteries. Most…
I recently had to install new axles on a trailer in order to get working brakes on the trailer… Don’t lecture me about how you could have done this or that and not replaced them. They were oddballs and I wasted a couple weeks looking for other solutions. The u-bolts that came with the new…
I haven’t got enough miles on my ’24 gasser to really tell, but so far it seems okay. I’ve run almost 900 miles so far. 180 or so towing a Jeep JK on a trailer. I towed it over Telegraph pass and it ran great and held speed going down the long grade. Less than…
I wanted something for hauling a canoe or sometimes a ladder that didn’t need to stay on the truck. Its “okay” for the price. I think they say it’s good for 800 lbs. I’m skeptical, but it should be okay for the canoe I plan to carry on it. In retrospect I think I would…