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Not much you can do to prevent this. When the air temp rose, so did the dewpoint. Everything in your garage is still colder, below the dewpoint. ^= condensation. Heat the garage to raise it's contents above dew point and the condensation will stop. Else, wait for equilibrium to occur...

My biggest complaint with new full sized pickups. If you use one day-to-day, the height is less than ideal. Whether it's the cab or the bed, access is difficult. Can't reach anything in the bed without actually climbing in. Gone are the days of simply reaching over the side. Cab access is no...

All wrong. Hidden value. Good cars for the age/money. Doesn't get much better for a large sedan. Interior is cavernous, especially the back seat. Depending on trim, lots of comfort options like cooled front seats, heated from AND rear seats, massaging seats, heated steering wheel, etc. Ride is...

Doesn't matter. It's a wheel alignment, not a tire alignment. Ever see an alignment target clamped to the tire itself?

If you feel the need to do this (I don't), cheapest oil you can find would suffice.

A perrimeter/ladder framed vehicle is pretty flexy in the vertical direction. Doesn't get that truss-style strength of a unit construction. Normal.

I've a number of Avalon fans around me. I've been told that, if you are into "old man" cars like you mention, this is the most recent generation that offers those traditional characteristics. The later generations are lower, stiffer, get big wheels, and thus get a little more harsh, edgy...

FWIW, A LOT of engines do this. Start a car up, move it a few feet, shut it down, it may tick/rattle in the morning.

Even as old as they are, these trucks are still a dime a dozen. It's not the last you'll ever see. Keep an eye out later on and you'll probably find an even nicer one. Don't worry about it.

I think it depends on what daily life is like as far as driving. Out on the open road, the Suburban is about as good as it gets. But if you do any urban driving, they can be a pain with their size. They're large, lumbering numb. Harder to park, manuever, etc. (why I chose the Tahoe) The...

Stellar benchmark. A real profit driver for Ford :P I guess everyone's good at something.

No, No day drinking. At least not enough to figure out why you are bringing full sized SUVs, sports cars, and even worse modified into a thread about factory full sized passenger cars. You're going on tangents trying to compare Buicks and their 3800s to vehicles they weren't even offered in...

Grand Marquis never came with 260hp. 260(250?) was a fleet only option, and it drank fuel to get it. Then the lower hp Grand Marquis had to be geared down so bad to keep the efficiency up. Total dog. 1-2 shift at maybe 55mph? Too bad the 4.6 was a massive chunk of metal. If it was smaller...

What is similar displacement worth? Displacement is just a number. Why not go further by comparing valve size or compression ratio? Fact is, those numbers don't matter. Per class of vehicle, what end user metrics were the engine architectures able to provide? Anyway, if you want to go there...

****., you got me. Mod motor architecture appeared to reign supreme for 1-2 years while a lesser LS displacement option was available. Later, a standard 6L variant, based on the same architecture would be more powerful and efficient despite its larger displacement, and the mod motor would...

You should know there are no 5.3 4x4. Even if there was, don't play the options. You're comparing base model engine Escalade to best Navigator can offer. At least compare apples/apples. Benefits of a superior architecture Here ya go...

I mean, I saw this. But the Escalade was still the performer by every tested metric. Pretty unanimous results, too. So I'm not sure how the big heavy Mod motor came out ahead, even in the SUV world where this topic doesn't go but you really want to include. I can understand rooting for the...

Since it's low hanging fruit...Which years did the Navigator outperform the Escalade, even in the 5.3 vs 4.6 days? Seems to have slipped my mind. Maybe there's a brief moment during the first gen when the Escalade was 5.7? Are those the straws you're grasping? The 4.6 's 300 horses must have...

1999-04? 4.6 4v was restricted to premium vehicles. In that realm, Northstar V8 and Toyota UZ were doing 300hp many years earlier. And then there is that size, weight, packaging side of things previously mentioned. Why did a 300 hp mod motor car always underperform the 300hp (or less)...

The thread is about comparing "old man cars". You are the only one rattling off statistics about one-off performance builds and trying to link them to a comparison with a 3800 Buick LeSabre... Fact is, in this passenger car application, the Mod motor is runner up to the 3800 by every metric...