Recent content by DarthLincoln

Did you see the modular grille pieces before it was all put together? How are the 2nd and 3rd layer pieces attached to the base? Since gloss black with light reflections can look a lot like AMB, matte black 2nd layer would add more contrast with the AMB parts like your earlier rendering. If...

Hopefully, but yeah they have 2 major fires to deal with. Between fires and landslides, the full coastal route has been closed a long time sadly.

I was about to suggest: If you have the time, head down to Big Sur and check out old Coast Road that runs behind Bigby bridge for 10 miles down to Andrew Molera State Park entrance. It was open last weekend, but now the lower half is in an evacuation order zone due to the Timber fire. 🙁 Anyway...

is that pronounced like “puking line”? That’d be a good description of the string of comments so far. 😉

Since the grille is modular, I was hoping Ford would sell it in pieces: sell the base piece, then offer a bunch of different choices for inserts that can be bought separately. Like in their Accessories store. AFAIK Ford makes you buy either the entire 60th anniversary grille, or the entire...

Yeah the airplane cockpit looks very cool, even that passenger airbag light that looks like a commercial jet “Fasten Seatbelts” sign. 😀

Ford’s investigation mentioned in the recall was that the outer skin has areas of delamination and this gets progressively worse with thermo cycling and stress that results in cracking. The MIC top is a paper honeycomb (PHC) form that is milled, then covered top and bottom by glass fibers and...

So speculation, based on parts that are not MIC hardtops and made with different materials. Many people on this forum over the years have posted MIC hardtop cracking issues even tho their vehicle is parked in a garage.

What data or evidence, if any, support your claim?

That’s more colorful than I would have expected :wink:

Date rollback worked for me a couple times a year or so ago, then it didn’t. But then I realized that date rollback didn’t work because my USB dongle’s hardwareID had changed. I dunno if that is because of a Win11 update or something as minor as using a different USB-A port. I was able to...

Good point. Similarly, if Normal or Sport mode is used while driving off-road, Traction Control and Stability Control tuning might not be ideal for the off-road conditions. Sport mode in particular is designed for pavement. I would expect that there is some modification to AdvanceTrac if you...

That table has been around a while, but it has errors. TC is on in Sport, not off. If you go to a patch of dirt and put it in Sport mode and stomp the throttle, TC will fire which you can feel and see the indicator light flash. Also the indicator for “TC Off” is not illuminated. In Sand mode...

I think of the G.O.A.T. modes dial as a simple convenience similar to my TV remote. If I want to watch something on TV, I could hit the power button on the cable box, power on the TV, power on my amplifier, and then select ”SAT/CATV” input. But I have a Logitech programmable remote and i just...

On Friday I drove Old Coast Rd that starts behind Bixby bridge in Big Sur. Nothing technical but it has great views up in the hills, some redwoods and some narrow bridges. Very cool where the marine layer was still crawling over the hills but more dry & dusty later.