. While I like clicking down to get more info, I don't want all the biziness when just cruising. Also love that you can configure the "My View" to your liking. But I seriously do. I'm probably going to be taking the Tremor stickers off the side of each bed, but the jury is still out. But there's like 3 stickers put on by Ford (not Granger) that suck. See pics below. I have pics of two of them...1 behind the rear view mirror (orange), and 1 low down at the bottom corner of the windshield on the passenger side. Both are really on there, and in hard to reach spots, so it's going to be a pain to remove them (I already tried). The third one (not pictured) is on the back windshield about the spray in liner...who knows if it's going to be easy to take off, but at least it should be easier to get to. 
Initial Thoughts.....whew...were to begin. Okay, random vomiting of thoughts.....
Buying Process Day of Pick Up:
Initial Truck Thoughts:
- Since Southwest doesn't fly direct, I took two flights to get there yesterday (Feb 24). Early start to catch a 8:15am out of Chicago, to St. Louis, then on to Des Moines.
- Chip texted me early in the day letting me know where he was going to pick me up. He was waiting when I arrived. Van was marked with Granger so it was easy to spot.
- Shared the ride with another guy buying almost the same exact truck as mine. It was a pretty short, 30min-ish drive from airport to Granger.
- The buying process took about 1 hour. 11min or less for the financing stuff, since it was pretty much done via email already. The rest of the time was the demo of the truck and me messing with everything before I started my drive home. Super painless experience. Hats off to Granger....all dealers need to take note.
- LOVE THE TRUCK. As a 50 something, those Christmas morning vibes don't happen too often. Was grinning when I was driving it away. First in person pic by me is posted below.
- So much tech!!! The positive of the 5 hour drive home was that it gave me a lot of time to mess with stuff the whole time, and trying to learn what does what.
- Love the "Calm Screen"
- LOVE the CarPlay. I've had it in rentals, now I have it on my huge screen and it really is the bees knees. I use my phone a ton for Podcasts, Pandora and Google Maps so it will be a daily use item for sure.
- First vehicle I think I have owned where putting the seat ALL THE WAY BACK, isn't the most comfortable position. I was actually fighting this. But the long drive helped me realize that moving it a bit forward from all the way back, allowed me a better leg position for the dead peddle. It was almost a pride thing.....I just didn't want to move the seat up a bit.
Any Negatives:
Pics:
- Hardly any, but if pressed....
- I hate stickers!
- The negatives of the 5 hour drive home, is that I really didn't want to break the truck in like that. Tons of time in pretty much 10th gear. I tried to vary stuff as much as I could on a highway, but not my ideal. I would rather have some mix of in town, and highway and much shorter trips to cycle everything. Once I got back home, I think I was over analyzing this a bit, and was looking for issues....like the 10 speed trans seems to wonder which gear a bit when driving slowly around town. Probably not an issue, but now one I will watch.
Effing Stickers.......
Congratulations!!! Beautiful truck! Glad to see you finally get your truck..Initial Thoughts.....whew...were to begin. Okay, random vomiting of thoughts.....
Buying Process Day of Pick Up:
Initial Truck Thoughts:
- Since Southwest doesn't fly direct, I took two flights to get there yesterday (Feb 24). Early start to catch a 8:15am out of Chicago, to St. Louis, then on to Des Moines.
- Chip texted me early in the day letting me know where he was going to pick me up. He was waiting when I arrived. Van was marked with Granger so it was easy to spot.
- Shared the ride with another guy buying almost the same exact truck as mine. It was a pretty short, 30min-ish drive from airport to Granger.
- The buying process took about 1 hour. 11min or less for the financing stuff, since it was pretty much done via email already. The rest of the time was the demo of the truck and me messing with everything before I started my drive home. Super painless experience. Hats off to Granger....all dealers need to take note.
- LOVE THE TRUCK. As a 50 something, those Christmas morning vibes don't happen too often. Was grinning when I was driving it away. First in person pic by me is posted below.
- So much tech!!! The positive of the 5 hour drive home was that it gave me a lot of time to mess with stuff the whole time, and trying to learn what does what.
- Love the "Calm Screen"
- LOVE the CarPlay. I've had it in rentals, now I have it on my huge screen and it really is the bees knees. I use my phone a ton for Podcasts, Pandora and Google Maps so it will be a daily use item for sure.
- First vehicle I think I have owned where putting the seat ALL THE WAY BACK, isn't the most comfortable position. I was actually fighting this. But the long drive helped me realize that moving it a bit forward from all the way back, allowed me a better leg position for the dead peddle. It was almost a pride thing.....I just didn't want to move the seat up a bit.
Any Negatives:
Pics:
- Hardly any, but if pressed....
- I hate stickers!
- The negatives of the 5 hour drive home, is that I really didn't want to break the truck in like that. Tons of time in pretty much 10th gear. I tried to vary stuff as much as I could on a highway, but not my ideal. I would rather have some mix of in town, and highway and much shorter trips to cycle everything. Once I got back home, I think I was over analyzing this a bit, and was looking for issues....like the 10 speed trans seems to wonder which gear a bit when driving slowly around town. Probably not an issue, but now one I will watch.
Effing Stickers.......
I used a heatgun for about 20 seconds on the large "Dearborn" stick and it peeled off easy-peasy!Initial Thoughts.....whew...were to begin. Okay, random vomiting of thoughts.....
Buying Process Day of Pick Up:
Initial Truck Thoughts:
- Since Southwest doesn't fly direct, I took two flights to get there yesterday (Feb 24). Early start to catch a 8:15am out of Chicago, to St. Louis, then on to Des Moines.
- Chip texted me early in the day letting me know where he was going to pick me up. He was waiting when I arrived. Van was marked with Granger so it was easy to spot.
- Shared the ride with another guy buying almost the same exact truck as mine. It was a pretty short, 30min-ish drive from airport to Granger.
- The buying process took about 1 hour. 11min or less for the financing stuff, since it was pretty much done via email already. The rest of the time was the demo of the truck and me messing with everything before I started my drive home. Super painless experience. Hats off to Granger....all dealers need to take note.
- LOVE THE TRUCK. As a 50 something, those Christmas morning vibes don't happen too often. Was grinning when I was driving it away. First in person pic by me is posted below.
- So much tech!!! The positive of the 5 hour drive home was that it gave me a lot of time to mess with stuff the whole time, and trying to learn what does what.
- Love the "Calm Screen"
- LOVE the CarPlay. I've had it in rentals, now I have it on my huge screen and it really is the bees knees. I use my phone a ton for Podcasts, Pandora and Google Maps so it will be a daily use item for sure.
- First vehicle I think I have owned where putting the seat ALL THE WAY BACK, isn't the most comfortable position. I was actually fighting this. But the long drive helped me realize that moving it a bit forward from all the way back, allowed me a better leg position for the dead peddle. It was almost a pride thing.....I just didn't want to move the seat up a bit.
Any Negatives:
Pics:
- Hardly any, but if pressed....
- I hate stickers!
- The negatives of the 5 hour drive home, is that I really didn't want to break the truck in like that. Tons of time in pretty much 10th gear. I tried to vary stuff as much as I could on a highway, but not my ideal. I would rather have some mix of in town, and highway and much shorter trips to cycle everything. Once I got back home, I think I was over analyzing this a bit, and was looking for issues....like the 10 speed trans seems to wonder which gear a bit when driving slowly around town. Probably not an issue, but now one I will watch.
Effing Stickers.......
I have exactly the same thought on the transmission. I have 300 miles on mine and I find that is a great description - seems to wander which gear a bit in the lower gears. I find 10 speeds are unnecessary. Also I am having some slightly rough down shifts around 5-1 on the gears and wandering if that’s normal or it will calm itself down.Initial Thoughts.....whew...were to begin. Okay, random vomiting of thoughts.....
Buying Process Day of Pick Up:
Initial Truck Thoughts:
- Since Southwest doesn't fly direct, I took two flights to get there yesterday (Feb 24). Early start to catch a 8:15am out of Chicago, to St. Louis, then on to Des Moines.
- Chip texted me early in the day letting me know where he was going to pick me up. He was waiting when I arrived. Van was marked with Granger so it was easy to spot.
- Shared the ride with another guy buying almost the same exact truck as mine. It was a pretty short, 30min-ish drive from airport to Granger.
- The buying process took about 1 hour. 11min or less for the financing stuff, since it was pretty much done via email already. The rest of the time was the demo of the truck and me messing with everything before I started my drive home. Super painless experience. Hats off to Granger....all dealers need to take note.
- LOVE THE TRUCK. As a 50 something, those Christmas morning vibes don't happen too often. Was grinning when I was driving it away. First in person pic by me is posted below.
- So much tech!!! The positive of the 5 hour drive home was that it gave me a lot of time to mess with stuff the whole time, and trying to learn what does what.
- Love the "Calm Screen"
- LOVE the CarPlay. I've had it in rentals, now I have it on my huge screen and it really is the bees knees. I use my phone a ton for Podcasts, Pandora and Google Maps so it will be a daily use item for sure.
- First vehicle I think I have owned where putting the seat ALL THE WAY BACK, isn't the most comfortable position. I was actually fighting this. But the long drive helped me realize that moving it a bit forward from all the way back, allowed me a better leg position for the dead peddle. It was almost a pride thing.....I just didn't want to move the seat up a bit.
Any Negatives:
Pics:
- Hardly any, but if pressed....
- I hate stickers!
- The negatives of the 5 hour drive home, is that I really didn't want to break the truck in like that. Tons of time in pretty much 10th gear. I tried to vary stuff as much as I could on a highway, but not my ideal. I would rather have some mix of in town, and highway and much shorter trips to cycle everything. Once I got back home, I think I was over analyzing this a bit, and was looking for issues....like the 10 speed trans seems to wonder which gear a bit when driving slowly around town. Probably not an issue, but now one I will watch.
Effing Stickers.......
Good looking truck! That color looks great on the Tremor.Initial Thoughts.....whew...were to begin. Okay, random vomiting of thoughts.....
Buying Process Day of Pick Up:
Initial Truck Thoughts:
- Since Southwest doesn't fly direct, I took two flights to get there yesterday (Feb 24). Early start to catch a 8:15am out of Chicago, to St. Louis, then on to Des Moines.
- Chip texted me early in the day letting me know where he was going to pick me up. He was waiting when I arrived. Van was marked with Granger so it was easy to spot.
- Shared the ride with another guy buying almost the same exact truck as mine. It was a pretty short, 30min-ish drive from airport to Granger.
- The buying process took about 1 hour. 11min or less for the financing stuff, since it was pretty much done via email already. The rest of the time was the demo of the truck and me messing with everything before I started my drive home. Super painless experience. Hats off to Granger....all dealers need to take note.
- LOVE THE TRUCK. As a 50 something, those Christmas morning vibes don't happen too often. Was grinning when I was driving it away. First in person pic by me is posted below.
- So much tech!!! The positive of the 5 hour drive home was that it gave me a lot of time to mess with stuff the whole time, and trying to learn what does what.
- Love the "Calm Screen"
- LOVE the CarPlay. I've had it in rentals, now I have it on my huge screen and it really is the bees knees. I use my phone a ton for Podcasts, Pandora and Google Maps so it will be a daily use item for sure.
- First vehicle I think I have owned where putting the seat ALL THE WAY BACK, isn't the most comfortable position. I was actually fighting this. But the long drive helped me realize that moving it a bit forward from all the way back, allowed me a better leg position for the dead peddle. It was almost a pride thing.....I just didn't want to move the seat up a bit.
Any Negatives:
Pics:
- Hardly any, but if pressed....
- I hate stickers!
- The negatives of the 5 hour drive home, is that I really didn't want to break the truck in like that. Tons of time in pretty much 10th gear. I tried to vary stuff as much as I could on a highway, but not my ideal. I would rather have some mix of in town, and highway and much shorter trips to cycle everything. Once I got back home, I think I was over analyzing this a bit, and was looking for issues....like the 10 speed trans seems to wonder which gear a bit when driving slowly around town. Probably not an issue, but now one I will watch.
Effing Stickers.......
That would be my second choice of color! Looks great....@Chipkyou need to post some pics of your new truck!Nevermind, I just saw you other post. Sweet looking ride!!!
How did the buying experience go and the drive back?
Very smooth, they could not have been nicer!
Where are you going to go for service?
Maybe try the Ford guy in Merrillville, Art Hill, but I see mixed service reviews...
How do you plan to wash the truck? I know folks swear not to go to the automatics, but I want to keep it clean and would love to just take to Fullers or Gas-n-Was. My buddy has a F250 Tremor that is Blue Jean color, and his finish looks fine to me. Your thoughts?
I have a love/hate with the Fullers, but I also know that I won't be hand washing it as much as I'd like (or when I was in my 20's), so somethinig is better that nothing and I've seen no ill effects on my other vehicles. She's not a show truck with a $10k paint job! Anything to get the salt and grime off, especially this time of year...
Here she is from yesterday......
