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Brian: Hi Nunzio, I think you misunderstood part of my post. I wasn’t trying to convert atheists into believers of God. I was...
to5: M3 all western countries are now fascist countries. No different to Germany or Italy WW2 at all. We are ruled by corporations, not...
to5: I’ve no doubt that the EV vehicle will be used to put lots of small hotels out of business as they can’t afford the...
to5: That is mind boggling all the planning that went into this to travel just 300 km in an EV. And all the troubles he had getting...
to5: Great to hear the inside story, dutch. I worked on a few Ford vehicles and got attacked by them at every chance. What was easy to do...
to5: Union Carbide in the 80s ran on a platform of the safest chemical company on earth and that they were deeply committed to safety....
to5: A tyre dealer explained to me that the placards are designed for softer rides. I was running my 16 inch tyres at 28 psi when he...
to5: I have word from a Ford employee that the problem with the tires was caused by chains on the assembly line rubbing against the...
Ernie: I have owned first and second gen explorers, and liked them both. Most of the comments about the first gen are bang on, the...
BrentP: Remember too that when the SUV craze started the NMSL was still in effect. Nobody was supposed to go faster than 55mph. It...
ReadyKilowatt: It’s not the 20% oxygen, it’s the water vapor. Water vapor will condense and expand at a greater rate than dry...
brazos_bend: The old tire plant in Waco is now a Baylor/Private Business research facility.
Jeremy: Hi Zane, His story is really interesting but, I second your point, paragraph breaks are very helpful and make it more likely that...
gtc: I’m glad someone who worked there has finally said this, instead of me. I have worked on automobiles since I was 13, just over...
Zane: Word of advice buddy; break up the wall of text! I’m sure you had a great story to tell, but it’s hard to read it when...
Zane: I don’t mind them ironically enough, one of the few nannies I’m couldn’t care less about, though I’ve...
Zane: So I’m late to this party, but I do wonder what in the hell happened myself Can’t go on the mainstream sites without...
MarkyMark: Since WHEN is beige or tan even REMOTELY similar to burgundy? Since when is it even remotely similar to any shade of red?!...
Nunzio: Some choice- commies(Antifa) or Nazis(Nationalists)! The KKK or the SPLC…. CA. vs. NY. Muslims vs. Pat Robertson[shudder]...
Jeremy: Hey Eric, Are you taking about those Antifa creeps? They seem to wildly outnumber the few actual white nationalist fascist types...
Nunzio: Hey, Brain![sic- on purpose! 😉 ] I just wanted to respond to a few excellent points that you made, very briefly for now, as...
Eightsouthman: Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone were BIL’s. Ford’s have been shod with Firestone’s since day one. I...
swamprat: Ditto, awesome input. I remember when this was all going on, I started to buy Firestone tires to install. I got good deals at...
swamprat: I put the blame for all of this squarely on Ford Motor Company. On their door placards, they recommended air pressure of 26 psi...
Anonymous: $120,000(aus) for a POS that can’t match a 1984 Hyundai Pony for convenience and overall time to destination if it is...
Eightsouthman: Morning eric. Here’s an article on G’s latest victims of censorship. If this isn’t proof positive...
ken: “That TPM light won’t save you from a company that has proven over and over that your life is less concern to them that next...
brazos_bend: Holy smokes, epic input. Thank you for this. It is why Ford lived to see another day and why Boeing after killing 350+...
ken: Eric,,, Ever heard of Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) fatwa. It is being blamed for some terrible...
dread pirate anonymous: Ok, thanks for the tip about the door! The outboard boots(covers) were split on both of mine and one or both...
ken: Those same ‘better idiots’ are going to put the USA back on the Moon in five years or less according to VP Pence.
Dutch: Some memories aren’t meant to be dragged back up. As a 25 year old, newly minted Firestone tire engineer, I found myself...
anarchyst: There is more to the Ford/Firestone fiasco. Drivers who complained about the “harsh ride” were told to deflate...
MarkyMark: I only knew of airliners using 100% nitrogen for tire inflation.
michael67: A revival of the International XT – excellent!
brazos_bend: A daily dose of dementia can be found on https://electrek.co Some truly delusional people
brazos_bend: I’m sorry, but today but not maybe back then, Firestone tires are garbage and not well respected in my neck of the...
brazos_bend: Same here, you feel it in the steering wheel also.
brazos_bend: MY wife was sold that crock when she got her Xterra and for the first year we had to take it to tire shop or car dealer to...
tom: Two comments: First that my ’14 VW Jetta Sportwagen has TPMS. However, it is based on the RPM’s of the wheel further...
Eightsouthman: dread, don’t move the door far away from the body when jacking it, maybe about a foot. And new strikers help to hold...
Zane: I’d agree to a point, except for a Wrangler/Gladiator, Challenger or a Ram, which I got 3 months ago. Still, lusting for a...
Oskar: In reference to the nitrogen gas tire inflation: The earth atmosphere is approximately 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen so really what...
gtc: Of course. This is how politicians “create new jobs and revenue”, at gunpoint, as usual. They will get either...
MarkyMark: I don’t know about anyone else, but in every car I’ve had, I can TELL when the tire pressure is too high or too...
michael67: This is a typical government drone response nowadays: force engineers to come up with an idiot-proof solution while the...
gtc: TPMS is not just a crutch, it is a broken one! I fight with these pieces of garbage almost daily. Some new automobiles have...
Anonymous: This cross anyone’s line in the sand? https://www.activistpost.com/2 019/04/police-state-madness...
MarkyMark: Eric, I’m aware of what’s happening in Portland. Did you see The Battle of Portland, in which Rufio Panman of the...
eric: Hi Mark, Most people are unaware that there are street battles going on in certain cities – e.g., Portland – between...
dread pirate anonymous: I need to try that door jacking trick on mine. I replaced the hinge pins and bushings and it didn’t do much...
Brian: The is always much discussion on this site about the increase in tyranny, the decline of the West, and the slothful ignorance of...
Eightsouthman: While that may technically be true, in real life it’s often the difference in getting a ticket and not. Most cops...
Eightsouthman: MM, I can’t deny statistics. It’s the 12 districts Republicans lost to the dems. I am and have never been a...
MarkyMark: Well, considering Bob Frank O’Rourke, aka Beto, lost to Ted Cruz by 3% tells me you all are too close for comfort to...
Eightsouthman: Them’s fightin words MM. But we have a couple dems going for Cornyn’s job in the senate and money is funneling...
Eightsouthman: Say it again Farmer. OK, I’ll say it again. The Just Us system works for only one group of people. How do you know...
OppositeLock: I have a newer ford, thankfully, it recognizes the wheel rotations all by itself, without needing to reprogram the ECU. My...
Gary: Still driving the 85 W150 Prospector 4WD. 318 2 barrel Holley, 727 transmission. Wife hates it. Told her she’ll have to bury...
Chris: The Explorer rear tire issue was not a tire issue. They sold it as that. The oem tire manuf. was laid out as the culprit. And then...
FarmerChet: You are correct there. The auto parts industry has known this for at least 15 years, but since it would impact parts sales...
FarmerChet: YOU do not want cars going over an arbitrary speed in a place where there are children. There are many Adults which do not...
MarkyMark: At least until the illegals and escapees from CA turn TX into another CA…
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I could give you enunciation lessons and learn you up!! ha ha Move here and you’d soon understand Come and...
ken: And then you have to flash the ECU for the new wheel locations if you rotate tires like you should.
Jason Flinders: True enough – though if you select a VPN service that keeps no logs or records (and some have been put to the test)...
Anonymous: The Galaxy Note was singled out because it had a design flaw (or multiple flaws, I don’t recall in detail) that gave it...
Nunzio: Even if those things are not run/controlled by the gov’t…..they’ ;re probably the first place they’d look-...
Zane: Agenda 21, UN2030, whatever you call it, it’s all part of the plan to control the masses and take away our transportation and...
Nunzio: Yeah, Mark, I can’t see living the rest of my life here, where things are not only already so bad…but getting...
Jason Flinders: You can at least make them work for it. If you use an offshore VPN and tunnel TOR through that they’ll need to do...
Nunzio: ‘Zactly 8. This is what some here are not seeing. There are Jews behind every one of those events- as is the case for just...
tom: Yes: Combined with driving a realllly old car, and the cops think you are a drug user! So then, it’s just an excuse to pull...
Douglas L Self: Actually, the traffic citation is a sort of “consolation” prize…they’re necessary for the officer...
Nunzio: Heh….I know about being a foreigner! Lived here 3.5 miles from a town of c.250 people for 18 years…..and still, every...
Douglas L Self: I’ll hazard a guess that the “Jidge” (how some of Babe Ruth’s teammates pronounced his given...
Nunzio: Anything on the internet can be traced- regardless of whether something requires registration or not- via IP address and machine...
MarkyMark: WRT the cell phones, only one was prohibited on airliners: the Samsung Galaxy 7. That phone was called out BY NAME in the...
MarkyMark: Eric, If nothing else, Donald Trump’s campaign and subsequent election to POTUS SMOKED OUT all these people such as Mr....
Jeremy: Hey Eric, I refer to Kristol as the Paul Ehrlich of the right. Being wrong about everything, as well as being transparent moral...
eric: Hi Mark, I have been a Burrite for a long time. The guy was hip, in on the con. I part ways with him over his becoming part of the...
eric: Hi Ernie, Back in the ’90s – when I was still on the reservation (working in DC, as an editorial writer at The...
MarkyMark: I was only talking about the efficiency of extracting the potential energy on board the car itself-both for EVs and ICEVs.
Nunzio: Mornin’ Eric! You know, I’d like to check out Argentina. It’s such a big country, with so many very rural,...
Anonymous: I think you need to redo your calcs. 60% efficiency at the electric motor. What about all the losses getting the electricity...
Eightsouthman: I’ve seen mowers in the last 20 years that had an engine hooked to a hydraulic pump and everything else operated off...
MarkyMark: You’re right about the people not being brow beaten down there. When I was there, they let former dictator Alberto...
Nunzio: Mark, I wouldn’t presume to say where to go, unless I had been there personally….and I ain’t been nowhere yet....
Eightsouthman: I said the hood cylinders were gone on the Tundra and the hood hinges on the Chevy were fine. I only had to replace the...
BrentP: Since the objections are determined by software they are intentionally omitting the information. The software could easily...
Blake: Hi Eric: Great article. Although I’m not excusing Telsa from responsibility, I do recall some news articles on some Ford...
Ed: Brian, here’s a working link for that ebook: http://www.mensenrechten.org/w p-content/uploads/2014/05/Endo fallEvil1.pdf
BrentP: I am not saying TM should get a pass, only that they do. TM vehicles have IMO glaring defects that shouldn’t be tolerated...
Eightsouthman: Ed, I have no power to the switch key. I can’t figure it out. It started and died and has never cranked since. Of...
Eightsouthman: Ed, I have no power to the switch key. I can’t figure it out. It started and died and has never cranked since. Of...
Nunzio: I agree, Mark. It wasn’t long ago (a decade or so) that there used to be no property tax in Central or South...
MarkyMark: I was thin in HS too. I was on our swim team, plus I literally rode my bicycle EVERYWHERE; I could knock of 12-15 miles...
Jeremy: Hi Ernie, Despite his protestation to the contrary, Levin is an extreme Statist. His core belief, that government should be...
Nunzio: Hey, Mark, Yeah, good theory, and interesting, and maybe that does play a role in some cases- but I think Eric makes a good point...
Ed: Yeah, that series of F’s are called “bumpside” by enthusiasts. Mine is a ’68 F250 Ranger Camper Special and...

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