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What if you get a call from your dealer on April 1? 🤔

I'm actually really surprised mine was scheduled given the constraints on the spray in bed liner! Email came in at 8:58 AM PST. Build is scheduled for week of March 7. It's a velocity blue XL hybrid and the spray in bed liner is the only option. It's coming to Mossy Ford in San Diego and the...

Getting to know a good mechanic is well worth it. One time when I had to replace a battery in my current truck, he gave me all the tools to do it and didn't ask for a deposit. I had most of them, but the one tool he gave me that saved me a bunch of scraped knuckles was a socket extender so that...

Well, I wasn't going to put it that way, but the analogy about the six inch fish being called two feet long was deliberate.

It hauls as much as my Silverado does, which is definitely a truck. Just because the guys who buy huge trucks they'll never do anything more than haul groceries in say it isn't one doesn't make it so. I mean, they'll tell you the fish they caught is two feet long when it's six inches at most.

If you're in California and you've got an old car, you can get a grand for it in our version of cash for clunkers. You do need to fail a smog check which isn't unlikely for a really old vehicle. I told the mechanic who got my truck to pass smog that I was going to give it to the State and get...

But the effects of the shortage of that chemical are real. For almost three months, it was next to impossible to get any of the plastic cups for iced coffee drinks. Now we can't get straws. So it's not a made up shortage they're using as an excuse. Supply chain constraints are a real thing and...

What would you have Ford do? Build a chemical plant themselves in order to produce the chemicals needed for my spray in bed? Not that this would speed things up at all because that would take years just to get the permitting done, assuming Ford has a site to build it.

Tell your kids to shut up or they'll be sitting in the bed. Yes, I know it's illegal now in many states. But they don't know that.

Ford only has enough material to complete three percent of the orders with a spray in bed liner. Until that changes, I'm just going to have to wait.

My pigheaded insistence on getting the spray in bed liner is likely going to make my mid-August order show up around that time this year. As long as I don't have to smog my old truck and pay the registration again, I'll be okay with that.

Looks like mine except I've got the spray in bed liner, which means I'll be waiting a while. Oh well.

The biggest threat to the Maverick is a ten year old Ranger with low miles. But you only save a couple of grand going with a ten year old vehicle, so why wouldn't you buy the new one if you really don't need a six foot bed?

Nice write up and if I don't say so myself, those steel wheels do look nice!

If I'm going to drop $60K on a vehicle that I'll never use to its capabilities, I'll buy a Porsche Boxster, not a F150. The Boxster will also be a whole hell of a lot easier to fit into a city parking spot.

Sounds like it hasn't changed since the 2015 Mustang. Every time you turn off the engine, it reverts to standard. And if you think about it, that's not the worst thing in the world. Say I had it in track mode because I was racing (not likely, it's a convertible and I'm not in the mood to spend...

Any idea on the timeline for the spray in bedliner to get resolved? Is spring a reasonable time? Summer? If you don't know, that's cool.

As long as both parties walk away happy, it's all good. If they want to give me five grand to walk away from my order in addition to refunding my deposit, I'll turn around and say how long until you can get a Transit Connect cargo van in here?

You know, I'm kind of glad I saw this thread. I've been buying premium gas for my Mustang GT. I just looked at the owner's manual, and it specifically says it will do just fine on regular. I've been pissing money away and not even knowing it!