DasFord

I've financed a lot of cars over the years. Great rates with BMI Federal Credit Union and Columbus Metro.

My mother-in-law has a 2010 or 2011 Enclave, it's got 75000 miles, she's getting about 14.2 MPG mostly driving from Worthington to Polaris pkwy or Delaware. It's had a transmission replaced in the last two months. I would advise away from it, but if she absolutely wants one. The traverse tends to sell for a little bit less for the same amount of options. Just strongly encourage a warranty.

Reading this I look back to myself 10 years ago and hope I was never that lame.

Coughlin had some Caprice PPV's for a long time that appeared to be for sale to the public.

Something that is pissing me off about my Merk. At 25, I decided to give the car a little refresh and love, the entire freakin engine block was covered in old dirty motor oil, it was time to replace the valve cover gasket, I have a new silicone one, it works great. While removing all of my intake manifold, I snapped off a connector for a high pressure line to my fuel rail. It's a short line that runs from the fuel pressure regulator to the fuel rail, not a big deal, or so I thought. I went to Advance purchased a replacement Nylon line, the instructions say "let line sit in hot water for 10 minutes until pliable." I put the line in the hottest tap water I could find, no luck. I then boiled that bitch for about 12 minutes put the line on, put the factory rubber around it and hose clamped it. That worked great, for about a day, then I went out for a little joy ride and could smell gas, stopped off and it was dripping, so I quickly went back home and pulled the line and regulator. I thought i'd take a stab at it one more time. I boiled the lower portion of the line for 15 minutes on high heat, placed the line on, clamped the rubber hose as tight as I could get it without breaking something, I tried to turn the line by twisting with my fingers and it did not turn, checked with a flashlight to make sure there were no obstructions to the line, hook it up, dripping like a damn leaky faucet. I'm no expert mechanic, but, I felt as if this was fairly straight forward. Please help, I'm lost.

That's not my area, but I'm pretty sure I know who it is. If it is, that Merkur is ridiculous.

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Hello CR, My name is Jim. I am the recent owner of a 1988 Merkur XR4ti. First off, let me say, I love this car, it's the first turbo car I've owned and it was a gift from my friends (yeah I have some awesome friends), some people thought it was a sick joke from my friends, but I'm trying to pay for a wedding and don't have the funding to spend on buying a toy. http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r767/jimittner/merk_zps69056c7f.jpg A couple of cool things about my car first off is that no one really knows what in the hell it is. It's unique, it's a fairly quick and it's comfortable. Recently I took on the upper portion of the engine gaskets, primarily the valve cover gasket. All in all, don't ever take apart an 80's Ford that was developed by the Brits and built by the Germans, in the process I broke one high pressure fuel line, the right cowl by my windshield, and a few various clips and plastic pieces. http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r767/jimittner/merkengineapart_zpsa34fbae5.jpg While it was apart I decided to paint my Valve Cover Ford blue with white accents and painted my factory air box Ford Blue. I will be posting pictures of the XR4ti in the next week or so. I'll most likely be trying to network with some Ford 2.3 turbo folks (if there are any), I picked up an intercooler from an 87' Thunderbird Turbo Coupe that I'm going to try to figure out how to pipe it in. Thanks for reading.