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Interesting... I employ a similar technique often in an effort to make sure my preconceived notions/preferences/irrational tendencies aren't coloring my decisions too much. When we bought my wife's car (an applicable example if ever there was one), the strategy was to make a list of everything...

https://jalopnik.com/top-executive-trying-to-save-nissan-decides-hed-rather-1840657981 More bad news for Nissan... I wonder if it's worth setting up a pool for when they pull out of the US market entirely?

We're doing a reverse Xmas thing here in Colorado. My wife has been 3cm dilated for the past week and a half, yet miraculously no baby... We've been told by the doctors to expect her "in the next week" for almost a month now! That said, I've been compared favorably to Robert Pirsig a few times...

If you can wait, the midsized truck wars are just getting started. It was cold until the Colorado came back, but the arrival of the Gladiator has made it red hot. I think the rumors about the Bronco are 100% true at 10K', though some of the details (critically, arrival date) may be fuzzy. If...

Colorado.

I totally agree. A rubber grommet needing to be pushed down is a tater tot in the pile of potatoes. I disassembled the DSR wheel well down to the filler necks and the back side of said grommet this afternoon once I had some time, warmth, and daylight, and cleaned it all up really well. There was...

Now that I have the Colorado in hand, I can report 2 days' ownership experience. First point of note: that suspension... Ho-lee-wow! We have an issue with our well requiring us to drink bottled water until I get it fixed (super close, lots of code to write...), and I fill 1 gallon jugs at the...

That's a dead ringer for a poor AI-generated article. Essentially just clickbait for ad revenue. It's meaningless crap that's essentially pulled together from a bunch of articles about Rangers, lightly sifted through a thesaurus, then shoved together using a statistical algorithm. The program...

Truck, THEN baby! Done! My wife and I have both been stressing over that one. Truck is in the driveway! For some reason the exhaust relocation and sliders weren't with the truck, and I'll have to go back at some point to have them installed once they show up. That is absolutely OK at this...

Yes. I noticed that as well. Looks like they are installed as part of the PDI process.

This morning I got a text from my salesman saying the truck hadn't arrived as promised... Not a surprise. Dealerships are closed on Sundays (seems like some sort of blue law kind of thing maybe?), and the Sunday delivery date struck me as odd from the get-go. Bit a of a bummer though, because...

7:45 Sunday evening: While not technically over, I think it's safe to say at this point that we made it through the weekend (famous last words?). The only sounds in the house right now are from Sinatra on vinyl. My wife is working from home until delivery day, so that should help keep things in...

04Ram2500Hemi, my truck has 188K. I don't know when the first set started going (I got it with them on their way out), but this set only lasted about ~15K. Jnich77, I agree. I bought my Dakota as the final stop in my tour of the Big 3. I wanted a Dakota with the V8 that was otherwise...

My '04 Dakota has just started letting go of its second set of head gaskets (a big part of the decision to buy a new truck), so they (manufacturers collectively) were still having issues at least 15 years ago.

Halfway through the weekend. Got an inch or two of snow today. Still no baby. I expect to take delivery of the truck Tuesday evening.

I just learned that the Ranger's engine/body were not exactly meant for each other... There's been a thing floating around the interwebs lately about a convoluted oil change process that is simply bananas. I read that a Ford PR guy came out and said, 'It's not that bad...'. Apparently you don't...

Thanks. We're definitely excited. We're also nearly done getting ready. The extra weekend will not go unappreciated. She's due 12/27 according to one method of calculation, and 12/30 according to another. 12/27 is the official one. My wife was born 3 weeks early, her brother 3 1/2, and I and all...

Well... Just got back from the doctor... It's neck and neck, but the truck MIGHT beat the baby... So close... Hard preference to get the truck first, have the car seat installed, and everything set up and settled down there THEN go through all the new baby stuff. Alternatively, a little distance...

I mentioned this to my wife. Naturally, she's been talking to her mom a fair bit lately about how things went with her and her brother. Turns out, that's exactly how things went down when she was born. In Littleton no less... It doesn't seem like the weather we're about to have is going to be...

I got a diesel engine, block heater, exhaust relocation, and Bose. I think invoice is on the order of $51-something for that setup, but that's from my swiss cheese memory. I finally got word that the truck is being loaded on a railcar and shipped today with an ETA this coming Sunday (so...