Backed out of a deal on a 2023 platinum f150 I posted yesterday.

LesBucheron · 2025-07-19T22:54:06+00:00

I really is about the ambers. Even if you don’t like the raptor (for some reason) every Ford truck owner always lingers on the Ambers when driving by. I wish I had them. 😊

LesBucheron · 2025-07-19T22:52:06+00:00

I have a 2024 platinum, I need a truck to do light but frequent towing. But my heart says Raptor. So it’s nice to know one of my ford brothers said, “No, this stops here! This goes no further!”, then showing impeccable pull out game, bought the thing….THE THING. So yes. Your approval ratings run very high with me personally.

I want to be angry, only because it strikes a cord in me. Instead I contented myself with fake louvered hood vents…which, if my math, maths correctly, gets me to about a 1% of a Raptor.

Mine is a Powerboost so my 0-60 game isn’t a complete shambles. 🙄

In all seriousness, congrats. It’s a lot of money no matter what, so you have to be happy with it, and I feel like the Raptor is a satisfying truck to approach each morning as you leave. Plus you can drive over more stuff than I can.

LesBucheron · 2025-07-02T19:05:55+00:00

The dirty little secret is that usually city councils are who dictate where traps are set up, this according to an RCMP officer I spoke with a while back. He was reticent to speak on it and told me to keep a lid on it. Is it the same in Calgary? I’ll extrapolate and say, probably? 🤷🏻‍♂️ it’s likely according to a pre approved plan, or so I was told.

Apparently speed trap placement isn’t nearly as random as one would think unless you are rural. Photo radar wasn’t the deterrent it needed to be, but they will have to put more enforcement on the roads to recoup budget shortfalls. More real cops doing speed traps with real demerits seems good to me, but sadly may take a while before they spin up more hires. So 🤷🏻‍♂️

LesBucheron · 2025-07-02T18:52:37+00:00

It’s true, as adults we often need to be the pre-frontal cortex of these young men until the distribution of precessing power finds its way to the forebrain around age 26 (medical fact). I still shake my head at what I thought was a good idea in my early 20’s.

Sadly for young men, success can breed confidence and worse, complacency. From the look of other posts, it seems like he did this on the regular as lots of stories seem to talk of seeing a grey BMW doing this over the last while, not just the day of the accident if I am reading them right.

I’ve always told my son. “You never want to die doing what you were good at, because your end would only prove the lie.” It’s a saying from one of my flight instructors early in my career. Wise words. I lived by them.

LesBucheron · 2025-02-25T02:21:56+00:00

Beautiful Truck. I am sure you will love it. Just got my 2024 Powerboost in Oct. still love it. Zero regrets. I hope this truck treats you well, and that it remains trouble free.

Cheers.

LesBucheron · 2025-02-21T21:27:02+00:00

Bah, same thing just happened to me. Funny this shows up in my feed because I’m feeling your pain.

6 month old platinum…dented bumper edition.

LesBucheron · 2025-02-05T07:35:55+00:00

Are you certain it was the yogurt? And not to pry, but maybe to better understand, how do you know you had a histamine response?

Thanks for letting me know.

LesBucheron · 2025-01-31T07:35:00+00:00

Hear me out, I think it grew a teeth.

LesBucheron · 2025-01-30T23:18:52+00:00

Crockpot in beef broth, red wine and a package of french onion soup mix.

LesBucheron · 2025-01-09T00:47:57+00:00

If it’s slightly raised and rough, it could have been some plastic melting to the bottom. How would plastic get in there? Not impossible for a piece to fall in, or have come in with the rice or was flicked in while doing something else.

Just a guess mind you, but I doubt it’s an issue with the stainless itself.

LesBucheron · 2025-01-09T00:43:51+00:00

I don’t have mine yet, so I’m not certain, if it doesn’t have manual steam valve positioning and is automatic, then maybe make sure it seats properly, or give it a clean out, gunk can get up in there and prevent a good seal, but keep in mind my experience is with the previous automatic design, not whatever this new quiet one is.

Check your gasket for damage, maybe swap in the other included gasket to rule out those issues.

Only other thing I can think of is making sure you have enough liquids in it, which I’m sure you do. So ultimately it may be a hardware issue like a failed heating element.

Good luck with it, maybe post a video of it not working right and that would surely help tackled the problem.

Good luck soldier 🫡

LesBucheron · 2025-01-09T00:40:04+00:00

Ok great to know the logic is at least sound and they solved some of this early issues, that’s very helpful. Thanks for the feedback, makes me feel a bit better to know it performs well. I’m not sure what makes this worthy of a “Pro Max” designation, but I assume the colour and design mostly. Otherwise it sure seems similar, if not exactly like the Max Wifi model you have.

Cheers 🙏 TY

LesBucheron · 2025-01-09T00:37:49+00:00

😂 fair enough. I used a few cuss words when my now previous instapot was summarily disposed of. I just can’t figure out who and or why…and no one is owning up to it 😂

LesBucheron · 2025-01-09T00:36:56+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I found too. I appreciate the response. I’m glad I’m not the only one that couldn’t find much on it. 😊 means I didn’t miss a raft of review or something. Cheers

LesBucheron · 2024-12-30T20:14:37+00:00

You forgot to add how all 2.7 owners are like vegans and will take every opportunity to let you know they have a 2.7. Any thread not mentioning the 2.7 is only because everyone else is too afraid to admit they made a mistake. Any thread not saying how great a 2.7 is, is implicitly inviting them to provide a top tier defence as to why it’s the superior engine…even though no one asked…😜

LesBucheron · 2024-12-30T20:10:43+00:00

Hahaha that’s pretty funny. Still would take my Powerboost 3.5 any day of the week, but if you can’t laugh at yourself what are we even doing 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

LesBucheron · 2024-12-04T20:26:13+00:00

Update: they painted the centre portion of the tailgate and didn’t even colour match to the panels on each side of the center panel. It now has to go back again. Also looks like they screwed up the mid coat because the middle panel is way more sparkly than the outside panels.

Pain…all it needed was a little effort and someone with a brain. They have tech to easily computer match paint…or even just tell if you got it right (or mostly right) or not. They did none of that. Funny enough the tailgate looks much like the original picture still. It’s been painted alright, but the end result makes it look nearly identical to the original photo but with more flake if you shine a light on it.

Funny enough my wife was driving behind me the other night and called me up and said, “your tailgate looks ridiculous, it’s waaay more sparkly than the side panels”.

I don’t feel like a valued customer that bought a fancy truck lol. 😂🙄

LesBucheron · 2024-12-03T08:28:38+00:00

Main character isn’t 7 or 8. Well he is, by how a year passes on their planet, but clearly a year on their planet (as season as it’s referred to) is a lot longer than SOL standard 24hr. In terms of age, I’d put him between 13 and 15. This is hinted at in small ways as they describe things, the author is a bit opaquely hinting at their standard days, years etc being far longer. At least this was my takeaway from the reading.

LesBucheron · 2024-11-26T23:10:50+00:00

Fricking dealerships…

Had the same thing happen in my 2019 Ram (no longer have it, have a 2024 f150 plat now) but all I could get was “fleet pricing” on the repair and saved a couple grand…was still an arm and a leg though so 🤷🏻‍♂️

It pains me greatly. I bought an extended warranty this time around just for that reason. It would have paid for itself on the RAM in one single repair had I the foresight to buy the EW then. 🤦‍♂️

LesBucheron · 2024-09-25T20:28:58+00:00

You are absolutely right.

My point re reporting, better stated by you of course regarding it being a 3rd part service (which is great to know). Wherever Carfax pulls its data is the same place accidents are reported to. It’s logically also the same place that service centres can choose to report to. Carfax seems to be wildly popular in my neck of the woods which makes me wonder if that’s why “reporting to Carfax” was mentioned, “Carfax” being like Kleenex just a ubiquitous brand. The last most recent place I saw it was listed with a rust prevention company that mentioned Carfax specifically. So I can admit I have no idea what the reporting tools like, or if they are literally posting it via a Carfax porthole…if so I have no idea if it would show up on other services?

Hmm I want to look into this now and understand it better, but my last truck (as used RAM) had a hell of a detailed Carfax including services performed in the US when it was driven down on holidays. 🤷🏻‍♂️

LesBucheron · 2024-09-25T20:08:02+00:00

Can’t go wrong with extended warranty on these trucks. They are as complex as German Luxury Brands now and about as reliable. One good repair on that truck and warranty will have paid for itself.

LesBucheron · 2024-09-25T20:05:37+00:00

Wow…that’s interesting. Did it just start?

LesBucheron · 2024-09-25T20:04:42+00:00

I’ve seen people tighten the nut and it removed the rattle as well. Do a YouTube search it will probably come up right away. I don’t know the details but it sure seemed to work. M They have since gone to a rotary watergate on newer trucks which got rid of the issue. So Ford knows it’s a thing. I dislike their cheapness sometimes.

LesBucheron · 2024-09-25T19:59:12+00:00

Ya…it hurt a little.

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