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Ford used to use asbestos pads. They switched to non-cancer-causing hygroscopic pads on all their vehicles since about 1980. Unfortunately in high humidity, they tend to grab. The aftermarket pads are typically better built, and do not exhibit this behaviour. So you're pretty much stuck with...

LOL, lots of cancer-causing chemicals in the air outside your house.

I don't think that you going to want to install a catch can if you live in a northern climate without cleaning it out very, very often. Almost everyone posting pictures shows that the contents are mostly water. There are videos circulating about people who have a lot of water freezing in their...

It serves 3 purposes: (1) keep crap off the bottom of the drivetrain components, (2) minor noise reduction, and (3) improve your mileage by about 1mpg. In the case of the FX4 and Tremor models, it also provides a bit of a rock shield. I'd put it back on.

Its learning how things work the best, what fuel you're using, etc. Its also training you how to get the best mileage, so there are two things being altered as you break in the new drivetrain.

The average age of vehicles in the U.S. is currently 12 years, and 10 years in Canada. So it is probably reasonable to assume that half of the vehicles will be older than that, some by quite a lot. I sold my 87 Ranger in 08 with 744k on it, albeit with some major replacements like rear axles...

They turn the used vegetable oils into jet fuel by cleaning it, catalytic cracking and the addition of a small amount of acetone. They can also make diesel the same way.

Yes they are, but only in a relatively minor way. They are one of the items that create backpressure and all the fuel management tricks that entails. Most places will fail your emissions check if you have altered anything in the exhaust, including the pipe size. Of course they have to catch...

Ok, my dealer tried that trick and it does not work. Here is what he gets: So, how do you get the priority up from 10 to 3?

The Euro-yellow penetrates fog and heavy rain better than white light. You don't see many vehicles with the correct fog light colour, as most people with driving lights think that they are fog lights for some reason. Both of them will not reach out nearly as far as the headlights, as they are...

I just re-confirmed with the Sales Manager at my dealer (Cambridge Ford), that they can only set the priority between 10 and 19. Anything lower than 10 is set by Ford, not the dealer. So, how are you setting the priority to 3?

The dealers are only capable of setting the highest priority at 10. Anything higher priority than that is only able to be done by Ford. So no, a priority of 2 cannot be set.

It looks like the awd Mavs got the summer-only A/S factory tires and the fwd ones got the more aggressive A/T tires, maybe to even up the traction. I guess it worked.

Having a physical key is reducing theft. Almost every pushbutton start in my whole neighbourhood has been stolen, mostly by using the relay attack. Why on earth would you want one?

So what I get from this is that Firestone Destination tires are a poor choice for replacements.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the fwd and awd use the same rims but different 225/65r17 tires. The one that shows as unavailable looks like its the awd one. The hybrid has no engines in the pipeline and the awd has no tires. Since you can't get a fwd 2.0 anymore in 2024, does that mean that...

This spreadsheet optimistically assumes that the plant will not be idled due to a parts shortage. If they don't get a LOT of hybrid engines and transmissions and 17" tires in soon, that's what is going to happen in about a month and they end up rolling a huge number of the orders over again...

You don't want steel. The whole idea is that the plastic crushes and it sacrifices itself to absorb some of the impact instead of crushing in the frame rail and giving you a writeoff.

I have a 12 year old Fusion with this system. It has never malfunctioned or filled with dirt. Maybe it would if I got the truck covered in mud every day, but I doubt it.

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