Hey all -
I'm going to be mounting a battery charger/tender under the hood of my wife's Bronco. Ol' Chaos is simply not driven often enough to keep the battery where it needs to be, and we often get messages from the Ford Pass app that the remote features have been turned off to save battery...
Here is my wife's 4DR BadSquatch with our Boxers, Jensen & Gunner. AJ was fun to work with and turned around the art in no time. I was most impressed how detailed he was with our Boxers; I sent him a picture of the two of them together and he matched the white on their chests almost perfectly...
@StickerFab - just got our satin black ones in the mail. A suggestion if I may....perhaps take everything and roll it up in bubble wrap before throwing it in the mailer. Ours were loose and everything was bouncing around in the package. Or better yet, they may fit into a cardboard tube...the...
My wife and I went this route:
Small Key FOB Faraday Case
Fits in a pocket and keeps the scum bags from cloning your key FOB or using a signal booster to start the vehicle without the key FOB present.
We even keep the key FOB in these inside the house. I don't care if it goes inactive after...
I understand your frustration. We ordered our Bronco in June of 2021, it was built in December of '21, and we took delivery in late January of 2022.
Why we ordered and received ours in 7-8 months when people ordered theirs a year prior (when the order books first opened) - and STILL haven't...
Thanks for checking...due to a very gracious and generous offer from @Oden502 it looks like I may be good to go!
My question is this...if you work for a Ford dealership (I'm assuming) and can search the system, why couldn't my dealership do the same? The people at my dealership seem nice, but...
Copy, thanks.
I didn't refresh and look through the new threads before posting, elsewise I would have seen the other post from earlier this morning that stated a bunch of others are looking and can't find it either.
Thanks for the reply!
Tried to order through my local dealership...initially was told it would be in within a week. I went ahead and made an appointment to have them install it. Wife's vehicle, she wants them to do it so if it turns to a brick it's their problem, not ours.
Go back and drop it off a week and a half...
You can understand that even on a box with wheels aerodynamics apply at both the macro and micro levels, right?
I.e. - macro: box on wheels. Not very aerodynamic.
Micro: radio antenna and side view mirror whistle. For the antenna, let's add some twist into it to affect air flow. For the...
To you, what is the 'standard life' of a vehicle?
You must not keep vehicles long-term.
A turbo...in this case, two turbos...will definitely need to be replaced before the engine. Just because the manufacturer doesn't say to do so in the owner's manual doesn't mean I'm going to wait until...
Very familiar with the differences. Even back in 2014 I was running 4 type 31S AGM batteries in my Kenworth. Besides being better at taking deep amperage hits, they are also a lot better in a high-vibration application like a semi-truck compared to standard lead-acid batteries.
Having said...
Actually, yes....auto start/stop is turned off as soon as I get into the vehicle, and my wife and I drive with minimal acceleration/deceleration (i.e., minimal turbo spool) for the last 2-3 minutes of every leg of the trip.
That is NOT what is happening in stop-and-go traffic around the city...
Not so sure about point #3, but he is right or at least partially correct on points #1, 2, and 4.
A starter, like a clutch, is a wear item. Only has so many spins until the thing wears out.
Turbos DO NOT like on/off without cooldown. Keep that oil clean and circulating and it will last a lot...
Boundary layer control. In the picture above, those little tabs are referred to as vortex generators.
You'd be surprised by how small changes in surface shape can affect aerodynamics and as a byproduct the resultant noise.
There's a reason why vehicle manufacturers put their designs in wind...