TurboToad

Mine was a 57 Chevy Bel Aire 2 dr Sedan with a 283 and PG I bought in 1964 for $600. First thing I did was bore it out to a 301 and converted it to a 4-spd. As I recall I used to tear up differentials like every 6 months. Loved the car but it was a death trap, those old Tri-5's had the worst brakes for mountain driving. Sold it and got a 61 21 Window VW Samba van and then got drafted in 68. I was car less for two years but not careless, I made it home intact.

Found it, thanks

Thanks for the correct info. Well so much for car the salesmen knowledge of the car LOL It's my wife's car and shes a technophobe so this well be a slow uphill learning curve for her and I'm not a very patient instructor. Her 07 Highlander had 'real knobs' not buttons to work most accessories. For parking lot security reasons I need to find out how to make it unlock only the drivers door with the fob or door handle rather than all of them. Most remotes have you hit unlock twice to unlock all the doors. The owners manual isn't clear on this but I suppose it's in there somewhere.

Nope, no one had access to the fobs during that time (locked in the gun safe). Maybe I'm missing something but the car auto-locks when we park it and walk away with the fob right? If not the salesman explained it wrong but I doubt we somehow accidentally unlocked it before storing the fobs. I'll have to check that out tomorrow, we only had the car 3 days before we left so I have a lot to learn still. I am still surprised the battery stayed above 12V that long, I'll have to put a .01 ohm shunt on the negative cable and see what the parasitic load actually is.

Update: I got back today after 8 weeks and am totally amazed. The battery was only down to 12.08V and it started right up. What's odd is we left the car doors locked while in the garage, with both fobs stored over 30' away, and it was unlocked when we returned. Is this some sort of default program that unlocks the doors if voltage gets too low? That might be an issue if the battery ran down for some reason while parked at the airport, etc. No complaints from me though, I was sure it would be stone cold dead!

That's some nasty looking PS fluid in that pic, I can understand why it corroded the line. Had it ever been flushed?

I used this one to convert my 4P to 7P on my E350 (non tow package). I think you still might need to run a separate #12 brake wire unless that wire was provided with your OEM tow package. Give eTrailer a call, those guys are usually right on. https://www.etrailer.com/Wiring/Curt/C57674.html

Thanks! I guess I'll find out when I get back how long it has held a charge. I'll put a small tender I have on it next time but being away bothers me if something were to fail in the garage. If it's only a few mA it's no problem. I've had one car with about a 75mA drain (aftermarket alarm) and it was a real issue. The battery tender that failed was a well known brand permanent on-board marine charger/tender that didn't shift into 'maintain' mode, ruined the batteries in two weeks. Luckily no fire and the boat was outside.

This is my first tech question here so bear with me. We have a new 2017 Edge SEL w/ Sync and no Navigation. We've had to store it in the garage at our primary home for about 7 weeks while in Oregon and I wonder how long a new fully charged battery will last? I didn't put a battery tender on it after a faulty tender ruined two deep cycle marine batteries on my boat. I have no idea what the parasitic load is during storage since the Edge electronics are much more complex than our old 07 Highlander (that one had about a 8 week limit on storage). Will we return in 2 weeks to a dead battery? I've had cars that the parasitic load was so high would drain down in 3 weeks (Infiniti Q45). TIA

Yeah it's strange but after posting the thumbnail it would only open the size of a postage stamp; now it opens full size doing the same thing...go figure. Our only complaint was the dealer overlooked a bad buildup of dead rice beetles covering the cowl fresh air intakes. After driving it back to Sacramento my wife said there was a bad smell coming from the AC. Once parked it smelled like a festering tuna boat. I vacuumed out 90% and washed the rest. It was pretty gross and I can't believe I didn't see it when inspecting the vehicle. The dealer was quite embarrassed, sent me a new cabin filter, and all is fine now.

Picked up a 2017 Edge SEL AWD w/ 3.5L about a 6 weeks ago for my wife. We only had it one week before we left for Oregon for the Summer and there it sits lonely in the Sacramento garage for 3 more weeks. We had no issues with our 07 Highlander and gave it to a family member with only 46K on the clock. We love the Edge for the brief time we've owned it and look forward to familiarizing myself with all the electronics. We were adamant about finding one w/o the sunroof or Turbo and found one about 100 miles from home. I've wrenched on enough turbo cars for years to know that her low speed use on local surface streets and limited freeway miles would not be great for a turbo. We've been a Ford family for years with Super Duty, F150's, and currently 2011 E350 for towing the boat. I'm not sure on this forum how to post full size images from my hard drive big enough to see that aren't from a URL, must be a Premium member option.