Someone tried to steal my Monte Carlo once, I lived in a 4 story walkup, on the top floor. I could see my car from my bedroom, so I would start it, and then walk down. Someone was trying to get in it while it was running as I walked up. They ran
They ran away, that was pretty much it. I didn't realize at first what was going on until I found all the hand prints in the frost on the door handle and window. The police didn't care, it was an affluent community so it was 'kids will be kids' bullshit.You didnt finish the sentence after They ran.........
I took the same route on my commute home as the lady Saab driver, came across her car, emergency vehicles were already on the scene but I stopped - she said her briefcase slipped and jammed the accelator, but I think she just drove into the abutment - very narrow bridge but anyways her Saab could have well been used in a commercial, the front end was crumpled up to the doors but they still opened, mind you this was in the 80s prior to a lot of the modern safety standards.
I would never admit to any sort of violence, or threat of violence, on the internet. The internet is forever.
Fun fact, -40 is -40 in either C or F.I'm just going to throw this into the mix...
At -40 there isn't an automatic transmission made that will engage and move the vehicle until it has warmed up, trying to move before it has warmed and circulated the fluid will only result in blown seals. Same holds true for the power steering systems in all modern vehicles, the O-ring seals just can't hold at that temp if forced under pressure from frozen, thick fluids. So yeah - we warm them up for 5-10 minutes during the winter.
( YES it actually gets that cold here ! )
The vast majority of these trucks will be sold before 100k when the next flash in the pan arrives. Ford Engineering built these things and has provided documentation for their operation. That's apparently not good enough for the backyard mechanic who is sure they know better because they found an article on the web that agrees with their neurosis. Aftermarket parts manufacturers capitalize on this and the advertising follows. "Install our device, fluid, software or the world will implode."
I suspect that AMSOIL products are mostly comparable in quality and performance to like products from other oil companies. I will never even consider buying them, though, because of their multi-level-marketing business model. Every automotive forum that I’ve joined, going back to the days when all communication was by plain text email, seems to have one or more AMSOIL salesmen who capitalize on every opportunity to make a “recommendation” for AMSOIL products. The effect of this behavior is no different from making a telephone call, and being interrupted by a sales pitch from a third party who surreptitiously monitors the conversation and inserts advertising based on the words being spoken.
