Recent content by LDM

Awww, what a cute response that has nothing to do with modern vehicles and especially Teslas terrible quality control and other issues. Even then, I've seen Teslas with worse build quality than my 89 Camaro had. And if you want to pretend 90s Fbodies had bad build quality, you really need to...

Fixed that for you.

For a lead-acid SLA battery? You can get them pretty cheaply from Amazon, usually in the $10-30 depending on size. I've replaced numerous ones over the years in both old jumper packs and UPS devices that use lead-acid. You can test them just like a car battery if you have a tester that goes...

This is why I always do out the door pricing. They can arrange the numbers anyway they want on their sheet, if it isn't the price I agreed to when I go to sign the paperwork, they are either changing it or I'm walking out the door. Until you sign the paperwork you can walk anytime you like...

Its amazing that anyone would buy this pathetic excuse for a vehicle. But I've said it plenty of times that Elmo is the worlds greatest con artist, so I guess he will find someone to buy his garbage somewhere.

I have a 7000SLX with all the extra accessories, like the extensions for longer vehicles, the crossbar adapter for any vehicles with different lifting points, and the various blocks for all the types of lift points (regular, pinch weld, and truck) for a few years now. Probably ones of the best...

Yeah, I knew better than to do that. I always made them bring me the PC and I told them they would get it back when I was done. If they didn't like it, find someone else. Told them the price beforehand, if they didn't like it, find someone else. Friends, family, friends of friends, didn't...

Yes, its amazing what people will think is a "fair" price for things. I used to do a lot of PC saves back in the day before smartphones took over. Someone screws up their PC somehow, I pull all the files they need off it, reimage it with whatever Windows it had on it at the time, and get it...

The customer is almost never right. The majority of time the customer is an idiot who has no clue what he/she is talking about. Especially in retail, service, and the IT world.

Hit a deer doing 70MPH on the interstate. 11am in the morning, in my work van driving from Champaign to Bloomington. Doe comes out of the tall grass in the middle of the interstate divide, the only thing I have time to do is think "Well, I'm hitting that" although their were some other words I...

Yeah I tried just turning VATS off first with my Tunercat OBD2 but it didn't work. Still wouldn't let the truck start without added the bypass module. And it was a pain to get installed as the PK2 box is up under the dash where it is almost impossible to get to. I just managed to get enough...

No one stole these cars when they were new and they aren't being stolen now. That said, just bypass it. I've had to do multiple passkey bypasses over the years, the early PK1 seems to fail eventually no matter what. At least they were very easy to bypass with some simple rewiring and...

Standard DOT3 is a synthetic fluid. Just because they add the word synthetic doesn't change the fact that all DOT3 fluids were synthetic to begin with.

Yeah this one is definitely a pain but you can get it without pulling the cowl off. Seems like Ford wanted to add as much stuff as possible on top of the manifold so you couldn't get it off without pulling everything. I also remember some bracket around the throttle body also being a pain to...

I did the intake manifold on a 2000 Crown Vic a few years back. It isn't a terrible job, just takes some time to get the old one off and the new one on. Issue with the pre-03 intake manifolds were that all the coolant passages were plastic, the updated manifolds they used aluminum so they...