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It does alter the shift points for the auto slightly, which does make it a bit more 'fun' to drive. I tell you this though - Sport mode in the wife's Expedition Max (with the 3.5)...is almost a night-and-day difference. Throttle response is drastically improved, shift points are...

Dunno if that's true but would not surprise me in the least. When they do a full refresh there won't be one offered, mark my words. The tooling is too expensive for sales to cover the costs.

I forget the name of the cleaner we got with our pontoon boat, I'll have to look when we do our 'spring cleaning' on it...but that's what we use on the Bronco seats too, since they're essentially the same stuff. It's meant for cleaning marine vinyl.

Given the intended purpose of the Bronco, and how its suspension is set up, I'm surprised it was offered with a hitch at all that was bigger than a 1.25" receiver. It's not meant to be a heavy-hauler, it's not even rated as high as an F150 in that regard. The MAX payload is 1300 lbs, I suspect...

Yeah, not something you can just put in in stock form. If you have it tuned to run on E85 you could probably get away with it.

That's a lot more than I was expecting...but honestly shame on me, I should know better than to expect OEMs to release something at a decent price.

Okay but now for the money question - can they be retrofit into an older one? I get that the mounting holes in the steel aren't there (that can be addressed), but does all the plastic swap over for a clean install look?

The fact of the matter is, the US-based OEMs still do this stuff, even though no, there is no 'fixed mandate' for it. It's part and parcel of their testing. Call it planned obsolescence, call it cutting corners and/or costs, call it whatever - but it is still happening, and greedy investors are...

But did they actually drive it for 500k, or did they just set it on a dyno and let it rip for the equivalent of 500k? One puts more wear on the engine than the other. And I have a hard time trusting an oil brand's results...give me something from an independent lab that has absolutely no skin...

This right here is the answer. I have worked for American OEMs, Tier 1, and Tier 2 suppliers. They'll never publish that they plan for things to break at a certain point, but it is absolutely true, in a round-about way. See, they force themselves to meet 100k testing for as many components as...

It suggests 10k based on a couple things - tighter tolerancing of the engine itself, and planned obsolescence. They really want people buying new cars at 100k and after that they just don't care about them, they could go to a landfill or recycle yard for all they care. All that said, the list...

On a heavy, steel-bodied truck or SUV, they're probably fine in the rain. In a light vehicle, after 5-10k you've got to watch it. The last vehicle I had KO2's on was a '99 GMC s-series Jimmy, 2DR, a little sport model with the spare tire carrier. At first they were great all around. After 5-10k...

Ah, LaFontaine...Shady group that is, in my opinion. I've visited a couple of their dealerships over the years and I swear all their employees are the same. They'll try to sell you sunshine and rainbows, until you start asking hard questions...then they almost get offended that you even know to...

I haven't had KO2's in years, not because they were a bad tire, but because I found the General Grabber AT2's to be better. Almost identical tread pattern, but the slightly softer tread compound made them better in all situations (including the dreaded 'wet traction' issue - that doesn't rear...

Considering it only has a few upgrades over our BD SAS V6 2-dr, I would say it's priced WAY too high. I once did a comparison between those and ours, and you definitely weren't getting almost $25k in extras. The price you got it for (presuming you got it for the $65k number) is more in line with...

That's a dealer-specific thing. I can see a normal dealer offering less for a vehicle with open recalls, but even then that's shady because they just get the recall work done, the OEM pays for it, and everything moves on. It might sit an extra week or two before they can sell it but otherwise...

They do, but it's absolutely how it's done.

No, he's not contradicting himself. I am tall enough to get in our Bronco or my truck without using a grab handle to hoist myself up, but after DECADES of using an A-pillar handle on the passenger side, or the steering wheel on the driver's side, the dash-side handle is in such an awkward...

We tried it out once, on a snowy/icy parking lot over gravel. It works as advertised, and makes an incredibly tight turn. But there wouldnt be many places I would recommend using it, because you've got to be in some seriously loose or slick ground to make it safe enough that you won't break...

While all of our vehicles have the built-in Nav, we don't use it. We use Apple maps (IIRC powered by Google maps anyway) and have only occasionally been led astray. And you can download an area to your phone, so if you have terrible service it will use 'offline maps' to get you through. Had to...