Speed limiter
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Speed limiter
My stepson was bought a 2001 Ranger as a gift from a family member. I was against it, but that's neither here nor there.
He is essentially VERY irresponsible and obsessed with impressing the wrong people. This was his first day driving it back from the dealer it was bought through about 60 miles away. We have Life360 and I watched him speed 5-10mph over the speed limit, which equated to about 25 over in the 15 mile work zone he went through. So he clearly did not LEARN a thing from all of our conversations with him. Before I make him pay for his own insurance and stuff, I would like to maybe tune a speed limiter in the truck or limit the RPMs. He doesn't haul anything, so I am not concerned about that.
What program/tool/tuner would you all suggest to use for this purpose? I've only really messed with tunes on a couple cars and it was to increase things. Lol. The Ranger has the V6 4×4. TIA.
He is essentially VERY irresponsible and obsessed with impressing the wrong people. This was his first day driving it back from the dealer it was bought through about 60 miles away. We have Life360 and I watched him speed 5-10mph over the speed limit, which equated to about 25 over in the 15 mile work zone he went through. So he clearly did not LEARN a thing from all of our conversations with him. Before I make him pay for his own insurance and stuff, I would like to maybe tune a speed limiter in the truck or limit the RPMs. He doesn't haul anything, so I am not concerned about that.
What program/tool/tuner would you all suggest to use for this purpose? I've only really messed with tunes on a couple cars and it was to increase things. Lol. The Ranger has the V6 4×4. TIA.
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You'd have to set the limit at 15 mph to ensure all limits could not be exceeded. Then he'd get a ticket or cause an accident for doing 15 mph on the freeway.
If he's under 18 you can just take his driving privileges away. If he's over you can kick him out of the house.
Good luck. I used to be that kid. It takes time.
If he's under 18 you can just take his driving privileges away. If he's over you can kick him out of the house.
Good luck. I used to be that kid. It takes time.
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You'd have to set the limit at 15 mph to ensure all limits could not be exceeded. Then he'd get a ticket or cause an accident for doing 15 mph on the freeway.
If he's under 18 you can just take his driving privileges away. If he's over you can kick him out of the house.
Good luck. I used to be that kid. It takes time.
If he's under 18 you can just take his driving privileges away. If he's over you can kick him out of the house.
Good luck. I used to be that kid. It takes time.
I appreciate the parenting advice, but its not my first rodeo. Lol. He already has rules in place to handle most of the things and he seems to have learned from the *** chewing last night thus far. But I want to have a precaution in place. Taking the vehicle isn't super ideal either as he works and has football coming up. He needs to be able to get himself back and forth to all of that. We have 5 kids all together and they have all of their own things they do plus we both work. So him finally getting a license is a blessing regardless. I think no matter what vehicle he is in, he will push the speed parameters, hence why I would rather just lean to a limiter. I also still have the cobalt. Which he knows he will get if he tries to do the whole dumb **** in the back of the parking lot at Walmart with the rest of the idiot boys. Told him that **** stays at the tracks, which I'd take him to do in my 96 F250 sleeper even. Lol. Get it out of his system a bit.
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Good luck.
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That would be your reading comprehension my guy. The work zone is not 15mph, he was doing 15mph over the work zone speed limit...
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Regardless I'd be setting the max speed in the truck could go to 60mph. Most of the roads average that around me. I came here to ask if there was anything that anyone preferred to achieve this. I can always fall on the tools I already have and getting a tune for it.
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Once he knows your tracking him he will turn off the phone...Been there My Ranger is older with the 3.0 I used a Super Chips tuner, not sure if I could set the top speed, wasn't why I got it LOL maybe Forscan would do it? Again no something I've tried. Good luck!
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