ford ranger

Haven't experienced that with ours yet. Would you mind doing a "Pauline" & please explain just what the problem is so I can check it out. Thanks in advance.

I think we can refute the water problem - we have had our Mazda BT 50 through rivers in the alps a few times - various depths, but up to the headlights with no car bra and have had no problems at all - of course we have a snorkel. I would be quite prepared to push it through water much deeper than that with a car bra.
With our trayon camper onboard we gross just on three tonne - all full - and we get (in our language) 25 mpg +. We have air bags to help with carrying the camper, but it does it easily and with the camper off we get about 30 mpg.
We find the power acceptable, but are thinking of a DP chip and exhaust modification, but not sure we can justify the expense.

G'day barry F, here's the "pauline" for you. Recently(I think within the last 6 mths) 4x4 Aust.Magazine ran a drive comparo with the Ranger,BT50,HiLux,Triton,Navara,Tata. All vehicles were subjected the same course and rotated drivers. The water obstacle was a shallow 75 to 100mm deep pond which was driven into at speed range 20 to 30 KPH. Both the Mazda and Ford experienced engine problems and went into limp home mode. Both were auto's. Both had water in the intake, the Ford also having water inside a wiring loom coupling on the engine. Consequently, further testing was impossible for the two offending vehicles. Ford Motor Co. are investigating and have not as yet come forth with an explanation as to why the engines should stop. To me, the water ingress sends alarm signals all by itself. Apparently, the Mazda media test vehicle has played up before and they (Mazda) believe it is a EMF radiation effecting the engine management computer??
BTW the Navara came out on top.

Ha! Ha! Guess I asked for that one
Rgds Russ