williaty

Ford's 6F35 has been an unending shitshow as well. I seem to recall they lost a lawsuit over it one already. It is 100% the worst acting automatic transmission I've ever driven on any car or piece of agricultural equipment of any age. It would have been embarrassingly bad in the 1930s. In the 2010s, it's nothing other than negligent.

I think no front plate is a primary infraction (or whatever the real term is) meaning that they can pull you over for it and then go fishing to see what else they can ticket you for. I've been pulled over multiple times for no front plate, though never ticketed for it.

Well, if Uber is supporting it, you know it has to be evil.

I've been pulled over twice in the same month before for having a plate they didn't like. The first time it was a normal Ohio plate but I had it folded up so just the numbers and county sticker showed (keep it out of the airflow to the radiator). Then I unfolded it and they pulled me over because they had a hard time seeing it with the light bar on the front of the car. I actually got pulled over 4-5 times in the course of about 3 years for that one. Every time they'd pull me over, walk up to the front of the car and look at the bumper, suddenly look really surprised, then run my license and registration anyway just to see if they were going to get lucky. Yeah with it being such a short time, buying and flipping the bracket or just putting it on the dash I think is how we'll handle it.

The tow hook mount that actually keeps the plate out of the way of the parking sensors is like $100. The cheap mount causes the parking system to fault out every time you start the car. I mean, in the end I'm pretty sure that what we'll do is just get the expensive mount and then sell it on the Alfa forum once we don't need it, but it still is annoying. Given the number of times I've been pulled over for having a front plate but just not having it in a way they liked means I don't think she'd make it a year without getting at least one ticket, sadly.

I'm frustrated that the change is taking so long to go into effect. Hopefully, in May or early June my wife's new Alfa will be delivered. It sucks that we're going to have to drill into the bumper to mount a front plate for 13 months and then be left with nothing but holes for the rest of the life of the car.

The title pretty much says it all. I'd like to talk to someone who works in Ford dealer service department. I have a software thing I want done to my van and I have a TSB number and some other information from the van owner's forum. I'd like to confirm that I'm providing enough info to actually get the change made but the dealerships I stopped at today won't even check to see if they can do what I want until I pay them $120 up front, whether or not they're able to do the work.

The car's computer can be programmed to accept new keys without a trip to the dealer since I have two authorized keys to show it first. I just need someone to physically cut the key.

I will never do one cent of business with the criminals at Ricart. What is "High Tech"? Googling it doesn't help because it's such a generic phrase. Thanks

I want to duplicate the key for the used 2014 Transit Connect I just bought. I have 2 keys that came with it, so I can use the car itself plus those two keys to get the new key programmed into the computer. All I need is someone to cut the key, but after an hour of calling around, I'm striking out. My current keys look like this: http://www.michaelhyde.com/assets/images/525981-web.jpg And the pattern is cut into the face of it like this: http://www.eurocarkeyshop.com/image/cache/catalog/Ford/Deursloten/FRD404/frd404-ford-complete-leftdoor-barrel-lock-set-with-1-key-hu101-for-ford-focus-1374-600x451-w-25-middle.jpg The part numbers for the blank are: Old Ilco Number HU101T17 New Ilco Number H94-PT JMA TP33FO-24.P Original 164-R8062 Strattec 5915237 Does anyone know a place that can cut these keys for less than the $100+ the dealer wants?

#1 diesel stays liquid down to colder temps but has less energy (meaning the engine makes less power and gets worse fuel mileage). #2 diesel gels up at sooner (meaning at warmer temps than #1 does) but has more energy (engine makes more power and gets better fuel mileage). If you know how fractional distillation is done to turn oil into diesel, kerosene, gasoline, etc, #1 just comes off the tower a little higher/hotter than #2 and is more similar to kerosene than normal diesel. Effectively, everyone wants to run #2 diesel whenever possible but when winter comes, #1 gets blended in as necessary to keep the mix from gelling up. Some stations buy diesel from the distributor as a pre-mixed blend of #1 and #2 to suit the forecast winter temp and some stations sell both #1 and #2 to allow the driver to mix as they want (someone driving southbound might buy mostly #2 and plan on driving to a warmer place while someone driving northbound might choose to mix in more #1 to deal with the colder temps). Thank you for checking that out for me.

Over at the diesel pumps, they should be labeled "#1 Diesel" or "#2 Diesel" just like the gas pumps are labeled Regular, Premium, etc. Also, since the one guy said the gas there is E0, why don't you check the gas pumps too. They should say how much ethanol they have in them. I'm probably the only one interested in the diesel, but many people on CR would be interested in finding E0 gas. Thanks a bunch for doing this!

Well, to be fair, he said his main power product (percherons) are a few million years short of being diesel. Oh, that's pretty close. I'll go check that out this weekend sometime. Thanks! (well, pretty close in terms of how far I've had to drive to find oddball fuels like E0 and 1-K with good quality)

Nah, I'm not trying to chase ag diesel, just normal road diesel. I tried googling, but it was spectacularly unhelpful. I figured here on CR enough of the guys might have a diesel pickup as a 2nd vehicle that there was a chance someone knew where I could buy some.

I'm looking to store a bunch of diesel for my tractor. Since I need to fill up now (I'm out), I want to blend #1 and #2 diesel to get the cloud point low enough to tolerate anything we might get this winter. #2 is easy to find on any street corner. Where can I get some #1 at the pump? Bonus points if it's on the east side of Columbus or between Columbus and Newark. Thanks.