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All "working" diesel engines with turbos, are using them nearly all the time, and are making power efficiently, so there are no big non-turbo diesels left, as they are too inefficient. In theory, these small gas DI turbo engines should work the same , but are not so good in reality for some...

Maybe not directly caused by it's small displacement, but that engine wasn't very good. Turbo was probably pretty busy and had some issues, and it couldn't keep the coolant in the right places, and also the wet oil pump belt shredded and clogged the oil pump. Ford only recalled them for the...

Maybe there is a little resonator piece on the bottom of the air box that's fallen off?

I think the New Yorker came out a bit too well to be realistic which no scratches on the trunk lid. But the frame is a lot of steel so it could flex within its elastic limit and come out the same. The KIA is designed to blow up the front end to absorb energy as well, so the peak loading on the...

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-model Scrolling through these turns up some interesting results, but you also have to consider the average driver of a specific vehicle. Don't ask me how a 17-20 WRX has a lower death rate than Mercedes CLA 2017-20, but it did. If...

My little fwd '81 Olds Omega had shock absorbing bumper mounts on the back at least. It was a pretty solid chuck of chromed aluminum. I saw my MIL back into it pretty fast with the corner of a Camry, and the whole bumper moved in 3-4 inches and then moved back out like nothing happened. The...

Yes I did the same, and got it maybe a half inch higher than the full mark before I figured it out.... Didn't seem to matter than I could tell?

Focus needs 4.3l but it gets 5 every time, Outback is 4.8l so it gets 5 every time too. The Focus does seem to use some oil now, maybe a quart every 3-4k miles, so for an 8k miles OCI I usually add a quart of something, often 15W40 these days as the pail is always open and handy and I don't buy...

That's pretty nice looking, where as this is the only fenced front yard in the towns near me... I'm pretty sure he's never getting any casual burglars visiting though!

Yeah, in our area, I'm sure not all people with those types of fences that are an actual deterrent, are in criminal biker gangs, but the ones I can think of sure are... :LOL: Maybe that's your strategy, just look like you are a high level member without any of the real signs(you don't want...

I guess I probably did use around $1000-1500 in parts from my old smashed Focus wagon, onto my current one, but I was maintaining the old one pretty well, so it had newer shocks, struts, brakes, alternator, battery, headlight, etc... It is handy for little odd parts on hand, like the hvac...

Locally, I don't find that the case here. I think in the upper levels of crime we might find a larger percentage of second generation immigrants in the larger cities, running things, but they sure aren't the ones poking around cars at night. There are mostly white poor people doing this stuff...

I think the fundamental problem is that we have more people that feel society has abandoned them, and they can see no path or have no belief that they can become a functioning member. So they take control of their lives and do petty crimes, maybe to feed an addiction or their stomach that day...

Has she DD'd your pickup for a regular week or two? Just to get used to the size of these vehicles. They aren't for everybody. I would just get the 2-3yr old $100k used Escalade, that looks almost new. I'm sure there are lots of them that clean up just fine. If you plan have 5 people in it...

How many miles on the 10W30? It may have been pretty thin at the end of a long OCI? If you do track mileage, it would be interesting to see if there's a measurable difference in mileage over a whole OCI? With 90F cold starts, I don't think there's any downside to running 15W40 except...

I don't think this is necessarily true, in terms of them staying rich. Lots of places have had very wealthy people controlling the economy, with very poor populations consuming almost nothing but producing something of value to keep the wealthy folks in luxury. But in the past, the wealthy...

Yes I've found the mid-level suspension stuff at most parts stores will last 80-90-100k miles. TBH I've never even considered OEM or bothered to get price for them, but I guess will at least call next time.

It seems my cars with hydraulic power steering are all beaters, so once I ran out of old ford transmission fluid from the 90's, I just put in whatever tractor fluid is handy. The pail of Petro Canada duratran has a couple litres left so that's what I used last time in Focus. Probably a bit...

That's interesting, I think about 20% of the ones I see advertised locally are either with blown engine, or with a new engine, for the Focus's at least. I guess an "adult owned" ones do better. I guess like the WRX, most guys I know that used to have them are professional engineers, and they...

These are 2024 numbers, so far in 2025, Tesla is down 13% in both Q1 and Q2.