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The EPA range tests were of course designed for a paper-based information age. Therefore, the information had to be presented in a static view. Nothing wrong with that... yet today with small computers in every pocket, the EPA and similar objective test bodies can also present a dynamic data...

"The 1st one past the [sustained quality + scaled production] post wins the race..."

Try KIMBLADE. Theirs work great all year round, including in heavy ice + snow.

Agree on the Ford Ranger comment... that would have given a lot of people a lot more choice. Including me.

I've had very good luck with two Australian MaxTrax boards the one time we got stuck in really heavy snow this Winter in Newfoundland.. The truck climbed right through with these wonderful boards under the front wheels.

The guy who can't see you ahead in thick fog is the guy who'll run into you from the rear, sometimes at a significant speed. Many horrific sequential crashes on high speed highways around the world testify to this. There was a really bad one in Louisiana several years ago. I remember several...

FYI the wheel You choose must match the weight load classification for the Lightning. I tried hard to find steelie wheels for my Winter tires. Could NOT find any... ended up getting an OEM set from a member here who had upgraded his wheels.

The folding mirrors are the key visual notification for me.

I got it as well yesterday (covered in a related thread). This NHTSA recall update takes a while, even at the dealership with their fast VCM dongles for FDRS work. It does major software stuff to among other things, the SOMDB. I was in for the Trailer Lights NHTSA recall update which takes...

FYI all - the original recall reason I went in for, for the trailer lights recall, was very quick... about 20 minutes total, including hooking up FDRS and access panel removal etc. The recall update programming itself was, like, 10 minutes or so. The newly available Parking Pawl recall update...

To answer Your question about a Plan B: electricity is all around us, in every single building all across North America (all four countries). My Plan B was, and continues to be alternate, non-DC Fast charging. I've charged off a 240V HVAC receptacle (common enough on the back sides of most...

I've seen YouTubes of people chopping out the rear SORB tusks in the front wheel wells to fit larger tires. Not something I'd choose to do... those SORB tusks are there for good safety reasons.

So I brought my 2023 Lightning for the TRM faulty lights recall update this afternoon... and the Tech also applied the very new just-now available IPM Parking Pawl recall software update. The Service Advisor said that the Parking Pawl recall software update for 2023s literally just became...

So now a week after I upgraded my IPC thanks to the many comments of the smart predecessor posters on this thread, I have to say the new improved IPC is indeed a better User Experience IPC. The details are many and some are subtle... and overall the six hours of software uploading pain was IMHO...

WXman, I have to disagree here... the Mid-term elections are in early November, i.e. 7+ months away. And the latest primary elections are, in some cases, as far away as early September.