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By Wubster100 · Posted
I have the shutters that are in the second photo with the Tasca watermark. The first photo are shutters for ACC vehicles. I will try to remove the piece of plastic in the center of the lower shutters that is in the way of the CCM. I think the only purpose of a new lower grill is to provide protection for the CCM. Hopefully I can get a signal to the IPMA through one of the connectors in the engine bay. If not, I might have to splice into the IPMA inside and run a wire out the door and under the hood to test LOL. I have attached a photo of the front grill removed (not mine). You can see the CCM installed right inside of the active shutters and the lower grill removed. -
Looks like a good quality valve. Wonder why they state that it's not supposed to be connected to an air compressor..?
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Daughter called me yesterday, needed help to put new wiper blades on her 13 Escape. Ol' dad ran over to show her how simple it is. Who in the hell designed the wiper blades on the Escorts...???? Evil bastard sitting at the back of the office, pissed off over being passed over and forced to design wiper blades, snickering quietly while he thought of all the helpess suckers who are trying to figure out the Escort's reversed informalflummox blade adapter. Blades came with five adapters and instructions written in Pig Latin. Oh sure, there were pictures, but nothing that matched the five adapters. Took 20 minutes..! OK, finally figured it out, simple when you get the right adapter, and connected to the arm properly (can connect in more than one way.) So next we check her tires. I drug out my 20 volt Dewalt air compressor that I carry on my aft storage compartment. Made the job easy. After she finished the four tires, I told her she still had one to go. She argued that she did all four, I smiled and kept saying one more. Then a small light bulb lit and she figured it out. We checked the spare and, .... 5 psi. Never been checked since it was put in the car at the factory. Even Ford dealer wasn't checking it. It pumped to 60 psi and held, so all good. Think everyone forgets the spare. Out of sight, out of mind. Every tire can lose 5 psi a year, even if it's not used. (Especially if it's pumped to 60 psi to begin with.) I checked mine last year, 5 psi. Used the Craftsman compressor and couldn't get it over 12 psi. Looked closer and discovered that the fill valve had dry rotted and cracked. Took it to Ford to get a new tire valve installed, and was told that no one ever brought in a spare to a new valve before. (At least they couldn't remember anyone asking for this.) "No one ever checks their spare".
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I got lucky today - my negligence didn't get me stranded, but it was close. I haven't been checking my emergency wheel pressure and when I needed it today it was at 40 psi, and the second near miss was the fact that only a couple of weeks ago I installed the new lug nuts that the dealership gave me when they damaged the original ones back in 2017. If I still had the old damaged lug nuts on, the emergency wrench would have been useless. On the way home from work on the I71 about 10 miles from home the tire pressure warning came on. I got off at the next exit which wasn't too far and by the time I got to a safe place to fit the emergency spare the TPMS was indicating 5 psi. Got home, plugged the puncture and all is good again. Also, got to use the new great chuck that I installed on my tire inflator.
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I have a 2019 ST with ACC and the shutters are not a problem. Getting a solid and adjustable mount without buying the lower grill might be an issue. But it is not an impossible task. Hopefully connector 193 is already there. Hopefully you can see if 192 has the needed wires when you have the bumper off.
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Were there this many problems with the Nautilus when they were built at Oakville? Seems almost every day there's another service bulletin or manufacturing defect.
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Once I retired, I stopped buying new because I can (or willing to) pay cash for a 4 year old, low mileage vehicle. When I moved to AZ in 18, I realized a higher profile was needed in a world of fast moving, high riding trucks and semi's, so I traded my 17 Fusion for a 16 Edge and never looked back. A couple of months ago I replaced my 16 SEL for a 2020 Titanium, then in 4-5 years, I'll update to a 2024, if there are any good ones available.
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What does the transmission ID on the sticker on the lower B pillar state, 8 or F. F indicates it's the 8F57, 8 is the 8F35.
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Trying to find out more info on my ptu. I believe I have the 8f57 tranny on my 2919 bi turbo diesel Edge. Was the ptu oil change easy? I'm reading conficting info, some that says there's no drain plug on this model......
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