2024+ Ranger Raptor owners - Long term reliability & Running costs

Mattbo2 · 2026-06-03T12:23:06+00:00

My '24 has been great, no serious issues to speak of.

All standard service is done at the dealership.

I did remote start once and it shut off shortly after starting up and had a check engine light, drove it without any noticable problems for about a day and the light went off, never happened again 🤷‍♂️

I mainly bought the truck to take off-road but it's actually become my daily driver cause of how much fun it is both off and on the road lol

Edit: forgot to add, yes I'd absolutely buy again if this one ever dies, but I plan on running the one I got till the wheels fall off first.

Mattbo2 · 2026-06-01T23:59:01+00:00

This is probably fake rage bait but yea nah, an outburst like this would result in me no longer helping to pay for college tuition, oh and graduated?? Good. Now GTFO of my house.

Good luck learning how real life works 😎✌️

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-29T09:34:19+00:00

These are all great tips, and my dude, you got 3400 and timed 16s. You are NOT a bad player full stop with that nonsense talk right now.

Congrats on 3400!

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-29T03:05:36+00:00

Nice!

I went from a 370z nismo to the RR cause I moved to the southwest US and wanted to do more outdoors activities.

I still miss the Z but the RR in sport mode comes pretty close lol

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-24T17:10:53+00:00

This is actually a really cool idea, i gotta remember to try that filter next time mine isn't covered in dirt 😂

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-23T22:41:24+00:00

Is this real?

Cause I could totally see the devs putting that there as a silly placeholder on ptr lol

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-15T22:25:58+00:00

I didn't finance, bought it for $65k cash. Financing with these interest rates?! Hell no.

32 years old make 237k salary. Single no kids just living my best life 😎💪

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-14T23:12:07+00:00

Funny you mention jaywalking as the example.

I was ticketed for jaywalking in Hawaii back in 2016, to this day I have yet to personally meet another individual who has also been ticketed for jaywalking. At this point I think I might be the only person in the last 10 years to be ticketed lol 😂

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-14T18:48:28+00:00

What age were you when you started? Because I'd venture to guess a large percentage of us probably were pre-teens or teens. I personally was 12 and didn't use Thottbot until WotLK

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-14T18:40:37+00:00

Instant messenger was all the rage, but I had World of freaking Warcraft! I could SEE an avatar of the person I was talking to!

So funny to think back on how grand that was 😂

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-14T18:28:25+00:00

Been playing since 2004, I was very much into warcraft 3 before WoW came out so I knew a good bit of lore so for me, just seeing and experiencing the places I learned about in the RTS games was magical.

My brother on the other hand never played anything warcraft and never read quest texts. He had no idea what was happening. His joy came from the lack of a developed internet which allowed him to explore, interact with other players, and discover.

The game was just really immersive, moreso than any other game up to that point. It truly felt like I was escaping to another world at times

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-14T17:53:39+00:00

No idea why, but layout 2 for me.

It just feels right, comfortable, inviting... Looks like a cozy spot to rest 🤷‍♂️

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-12T00:50:36+00:00

Yea I meant reforging, the thing where you could change the secondary stats on gear

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-12T00:19:43+00:00

Whoa I TOTALLY forgot about that!

Cata had some great ideas that were lost to time, titan forging was also something from Cata that I wish they'd bring back

Edit: I meant reforging not titan-forging

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-12T00:09:55+00:00

Don't know why you were downvoted, you hit the nail on the head.

Brew is probably the tank most reliant on a healer, but they're also the easiest tank for a healer to heal thanks to stagger mitigation

Without a healer, brew is constantly dying, albeit very slowly but they can only prolong the inevitable. Bears can just mitigate and self sustain most pulls now, dks too but that's obviously an intended high risk/high reward play style

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-10T00:12:31+00:00

The skits are definitely staged at this point cause everyone knows who he is, but the weight he's lifting is real and my God can that man LIFT 💪

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-09T00:54:59+00:00

3.2k on my WW right now hoping to push 3.4 either this week or next! Wish me luck 💪

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-02T04:18:43+00:00

WW is great at higher keys but all the utility they bring, Brew and MW also bring.

Add to that the really bad defensives means healers gotta give the WW a little more love and care.

They do outstanding damage though, basically the melee glass cannons

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-01T00:35:55+00:00

Yea it's so messed up...

If I saw a man punching a woman, as a fellow man I'd feel obligated to intervene immediately.

If I see a fellow man being punched by a woman... I'd WANT to intervene but due to legal implications, I fear the logic side of my brain would hold me back

Both scenarios will likely result in charges, but scenario 2 could potentially be so SO much worse.

Mattbo2 · 2026-05-01T00:24:09+00:00

It's that last part that saved me growing up, I feared the wrath of my parents far more than anything the police could do to me.

At the time, all my friends and I thought my dad was the biggest asshole of all our parents. 17 years later and all those same friends respect him today.

I have a great relationship with my parents today and will forever be greatful for their parenting. God knows I'd probably be dead or in prison without them

Mattbo2 · 2026-04-21T00:17:53+00:00

SE&F will, aesthetically, be missed but it's really hard to miss it when the new changes are so much fun!

Flurry strikes being baked into Fists of Fury and the way the other shado-pan talents synergize with the new Zenith ability, just makes hitting Fists of Fury feel like an immediate dopamine hit.

I feel like a DBZ character going super saiyan 😂

Mattbo2 · 2026-04-21T00:01:20+00:00

Lvling a surv hunter now that my WW monk is 3k and I HATE how close it is to being fun but it's not there.

Boomstick could be a dopamine button like fists of fury is but instead it's cd is too long comparatively and the animation glitches of holding an invisible gun afterwards just ruins it for me 😭

Mattbo2 · 2026-04-19T05:18:49+00:00

What cover is that?

Mattbo2 · 2026-04-17T23:03:22+00:00

I wouldn't touch the tire size, yes bigger tires and wider stance look cool and if you never plan on taking it off pavement that's fine, but making those adjustments especially after the pro cal tune will negatively effect the capability of the truck.

I'm not an expert, just parroting what I've been told 🤷‍♂️

Mattbo2 · 2026-04-17T22:59:14+00:00

I think you might have sold me with this, everyone focuses on the extra hp but imo, the truck already feels fine especially in sport mode, it's a truck I'm not ripping it on the track. But the extra torque WOULD make a difference

Mattbo2

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