Second most reliable car of mine was an ‘86 Ford Ranger pickup (2WD) extended cab - I
won’t give it a reliability award because it ATE headlights. I had to replace 2 headlights per year, approximately. Years after I sold the truck, I was talking
to an auto mechanic about something else, and he told me: ‘bad voltage regulators - those years of Ford trucks - yup…’
You had to disassemble the entire grill every time to replace a headlight.
A real pain in the rump. But I did get over 250,000 miles on that thing.
Parked it in a GMC dealers lot when I traded it for a new GMC Sierra
4x4, and Pop! Slosh! - the cooling system Went (on the Ford) - coolant all over the lot.
That was the second thing that went wrong with the Ford
before I traded it. But I and the dealer had already ‘signed on the dotted line’
before the cooling system let loose, so no problem for me !
The first problem was the entire exhaust system - front to back - was a rusted out mess. But that was figured into the trade price.
The GMC ran like a Billy goat up & down the mountains of
VA, NC, SC, WV, PA, OR, back and forth across the whole country, and
weekly ‘commuting’ from Richmond, Virginia to Columbia, SC.
My girlfriend would see me once a week. She called me the ‘Road King’, LOL!
Theyre right below Kia.
They received a score of 56- right next to KIA and Buick