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Yeah, I was kinda surprised and disappointed when I got home and realized not only didn't I have a pair of middle tie-downs, but they'd removed the slots for the crossboards at wheelwell height. There was no reason for it and they were so incredibly useful.

But for just $4,000 more you can get a brand new one? Wait - is yours a special "First Edition"? Cause that makes it a collectors item, you know. /sarc

I wonder if this is connected to the chip shortage so they're selling them without certain features where they can and then taking their cost of the module, harness, etc. off the price?

This looked like as good as any thread about chip shortages to mention: Ford and chipmaker announce noncommittal “partnership” to alleviate shortages My guess - and that's all it is - is that perhaps Ford actually did agree to pay a relatively substantial surcharge to jump to the head of the...

How about a multi-step damper so we can do the Maverick lower-the-tailgate-only-halfway trick? I'd be happy with it even if it didn't actually dampen, just locked the tailgate at the magic height that's even with the top of the wheel wells. Have to be installed in pairs, of course.

When I was growing up, the mid-70's oil embargo and then emission controls had already put the final nails in the coffin of the muscle car and hot rod eras. But we still saw plenty driving around. I never did understand the hood & front fender flames, which were hand painted back in those days...

Check the URL - in 2010 Carparts.com bought what was left of the JCWhitney brand & folded it into their website & business operations. It's just a name now for a certain range of products on their site, looks like a house brand of front & rear light assemblies and a few off road bumpers. No...

The sad thing is real ELM327's are good; the bad clones are terrible. And since it can be difficult to tell which is which, the real one shares the bad reputation. Something similar happened with RS232 to TLL chips some years back and the reputation of the name brand once-standard was trashed.

Very few supply chain software systems that I've seen or heard of through acquaintances have NOT been fully optimized for American-style JIT ordering. Doesn't matter if they are antiquated or state of the art. Meaning, there's a management level assumption that nothing will go wrong because all...

I kinda miss JC Whitney, I bought a number of parts from them for my Baja when I was maybe 18. And if I recall, a "Pseudo Quadrophonic" stereo widget that never made it into a vehicle but upon testing DID do...well...something, to the sound.

Not saying it's a bad idea, as I'm a proponent of frequent oil changes during initial break-in, nor am I disputing it. But, I'm confused as to how samples from the break-in period make for a good baseline? I would think the first few *after* break-in would make for a proper baseline for the...

I live in Northern California. What is this "water" stuff everyone in this thread keeps mentioning?

That sounds like every corporation, government agency &/or non-profit I've dealt with during the Pandemic. Including the one I work for. There's so much more chaos than people realize, it's amazing so many things are still running as smoothly as they are.

How accountants think: A few of THEIR dollars per vehicle x 25,000 such vehicles sold per year would have saved YOU $1000.

That's *exactly* how I feel/felt about my '98, too. It was a good, practical balance of just about everything.

I've long been a proponent of solar, and I much prefer LPG/Propane generators, especially if they're only sporadically used. Less power density but so much easier on the engine. I'm not sure propane/LPG/LNG/CNG "small off road engines" like generators will be allowed when the bill kicks in...

It's a significant amount of smog and greenhouse gasses. No catalytic converters, no fuel injection, mostly mechanical (or magneto) ignition & carbs. "Lawn mowers and leaf blowers are exceptional polluters. Their small engines spew outsize amounts of smog-forming NOx, cancer-causing volatile...

That...is a lot of dog!

Not super useful, but... I used to keep a two-step Rubbermaid step in the garage for the big dog & then toss it in the bed so she could get out, but that was back when tailgates weren't ribs-high on a tall person. My in-laws tried ramps & gave up, also settling on a step stool.

I understand now, thank you! Ever since I was a kid I've loved purpose built machinery. Partly because it's unique enough that most of the time far more work goes into it, partly because it's a mystery trying to figure out why something is different from a mass produced object, and partly just...