Yesterday we began saying our goodbyes to the Raptor. With those goodbyes comes a survey of the truck's condition -- evidence that maybe, just maybe, we don't destroy everything we drive, as some of you contend.
Have at look a the skidplate. Or maybe a more appropriate name would be the non-skidplate.
But wait, there's more...
The tires -- both front and rear -- show wear, but there's plenty of meat left. The edges are still relatively square, which is important for dirt use as that's what gives them the bite to actually turn the truck in the soft stuff.
There's some grime on the steering wheel's red center stripe. I'm getting over it already.
The center stack still looks new.
And the other bits you touch every time you drive the truck are still holding up quite well. You can't even tell the thing has had grimy editor hands all over it for the last 13 months.
The seats, too, look good -- both front and back. I dig this embossed Raptor logo.
Josh Jacquot, Senior editor
oldno7 says:
12:54 PM, 08/11/11
I don't get you guys. You trash the cars you're not supposed to and preserve the cars you're not supposed to. I was hoping to see a picture of the Raptor on its roof or buried up to its axles at least once.
Shame.
kain77 says:
12:56 PM, 08/11/11
Nice to see the skidplate survived many a trip to Starbucks.
Yes, yes, we know it's been off-roaded a couple of times.
addicted2sp33d says:
01:44 PM, 08/11/11
Oh Man... looks like an Armor-All grenade went off in the back seat!
http://blogs.insideline.com/roadtests/assets/IMG_0414.JPG
allinmyhead says:
01:55 PM, 08/11/11
The detailer should be clubbed for the condition of that center stack.
igeekone says:
07:22 PM, 08/11/11
I really don't like greasy looking leather. That back seat is atrocious; condition it to get the sheen off please.
_feloniousmonk says:
10:31 PM, 08/11/11
This is just further proof that you all wouldn't know what to do with a Defender 90. ;)
fordson1 says:
08:59 AM, 08/12/11
Yeah, that's a pretty greasy-looking interior. And they didn't give you your pine-tree air freshener. I'd complain.
"There's some grime on the steering wheel's red center stripe. I'm getting over it already."
Um, if there's grime on the center stripe, then there's grime on the rest of the wheel - it's just that the grime is the same color as the wheel, so you don't see it. No owner who cared enough to detail the vehicle would leave it like that. Also if you're going to get Armor-All on everything, you have to also get it on the shifter slide plate where the stalk comes up through the bezel.
I don't get the point of this post - so the day after you have the vehicle detailed, you show us some selected photos of the interior and that supposedly establishes that you take care of these things?
I dunno - nobody had said anything about the interior so...? We just wondered why with a vehicle you were gonna sell a year after you got it, you didn't install a bedliner.
In most of the country, once you take it down to bare metal, there is no going back - you're on the road to rust. That might fly in the desert, but anywhere else you are probably whacking $3k off the resale value of the truck by letting it get like that - and then you are going to give us some percent-of-new-MSRP figure
fordson1 says:
09:02 AM, 08/12/11
Yeah, that's a pretty greasy-looking interior. And they didn't give you your pine-tree air freshener. I'd complain.
"There's some grime on the steering wheel's red center stripe. I'm getting over it already."
Um, if there's grime on the center stripe, then there's grime on the rest of the wheel - it's just that the grime is the same color as the wheel, so you don't see it. No owner who cared enough to detail the vehicle would leave it like that. Also if you're going to get Armor-All on everything, you have to also get it on the shifter slide plate where the stalk comes up through the bezel.
I don't get the point of this post - so the day after you have the vehicle detailed, you show us some selected photos of the interior and that supposedly establishes that you take care of these things?
I agree the interior looks OK except for the excess gloss - but nobody had said anything about the interior so...? We just wondered why with a vehicle you were gonna sell a year after you got it, you didn't install a bedliner.
In most of the country, once you take it down to bare metal, there is no going back - you're on the road to rust. That might fly in the desert, but anywhere else you are probably whacking $3k off the resale value of the truck by letting it get like that - and then after you sell it, you are going to give us some percent-of-new-MSRP figure that doesn't mean much.
hb22 says:
11:13 PM, 08/12/11
@addicted2sp33d LOL
latraffic says:
12:54 PM, 08/16/11
LOL! "Many A Trip Trip to Starbucks!"
P.S. Seriously... wayyy to shiny interior... looks like my 75 Olds with the Armor All Vinyl Pleather Seats ! Y' kno?