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Funny you should say that. That is the way I felt 10 years ago when I was 69. I bought our first EV, a 2015 Nissan Leaf with an 80 mile range. I bought it at a dealership 100 miles from home and had to stop at an L2 charger for 2 hours to get enough range to make it home. Since then I owned...

Great posting. So on point. Let me add some other things I’ve personally heard 1- my electric bill is already too high I don’t want it to double 2- I travel a lot. I don’t want to loose the trunk space that the huge battery takes up. 3- I don’t want to pat $28,000 to replace the battery...

Lease option was the best for us when we leased a 2024 Platinum on 2/28/25. In addition to the $3,550 plan discount we received an additional $21,615 applied. $2k of that was a ECO and $1k was to opt pit outfits the free charger.

I have loads of points due to a dealer good will to correct an error on their part. I’ve bought Fronk mat swing out storage for truck bed right side Tonneau cover Ford Branded Leer quad fold fronk switch that was damaged when I hit a bird All bought with Ford Pass points from Fairway Ford...

Turn by turn is NOT working for me. No turn by turn on driver center display. Using Apple Maps I get the turn by turn. 2024 Lightning Platinum iOS 18.6.2 Google Maps Satelite view

Used our Lightning to evacuate for Hurricane Milton almost a year ago. We evacuated to our remote cabin in the middle of Florida. Our house, just south of Tampa, took a direct hit as the eye passed over the house. Picture of our $28,000 pool cage damage attached. Insurance denied the...

Steve, PaaK has worked less than 50% of the time to unlock the truck. Once I’ve entered the truck the iPhone has worked 99% of the time to start the truck. This is the same with my iPhone 16+ and my wife’s iPhone 12. The door keypad works 100% of the time so far. iPhone Ford Pass app and...

I mediately do that with every Ford vehicle I’ve owned, even before leaving the dealership lot when vehicle is delivered. I add a personal keypad code of the first 5 numbers of my Social Security number. When I sell or trade a vehicle I always do a master software reset to delete all...

Quick story. I once had a lady call the police on me one hot day in Florida. My dogs were in my Prius with the AC on. I was standing outside the car. She thought I left the dogs in the car with no AC on because she couldn't hear an engine running. She yelled at me and I tried to tell her t...

The dogs know to stay in the back seat whenever we are traveling so no divider is needed. When we travel between our house and cabin we travel with 1 Caged Parrot and 2 Mini Goldendoodles, {25 and 28 lbs) ALL in the back seat. I NEVER leave them in the TRUCK unattended because of the window...

Thanks for the reply. My dogs would escape if left in the car with functioning window switches. Tesla‘s dog mode works great in dog mode. Plus you can monitor the interior camera while away from he car to see what the dogs are up to. Another issue that could be a big problem is the rear...

Doing all this does it disable the window switches on the front doors? The reason I ask is my dogs will step on the switches and open the windows. I have the window switches on the rear doors disabled all the time so the dogs don’t open them when driving. Dogs stay in back when driving but...

It depends on the residual stated in the Lease contract. It may possible that the truck will be worth more than the residual buyout if the residual is low enough. Per my lase contract, my $91,735 MSRP Platinum, has a $88,181.36 Cap cost after X-PLan discount. It has a 56% residual of...

What wire is used to your 14-50 receptacle? Is is Romex® or separate wires run in conduit? That makes a difference on the rating!

If you are wiring with 6AWG NM-B, aka Romex®, then you are correct. 6/3 NM-B is only rated up to 40 amps. If you are wiring with THHN in conduit, such as FMC, LFMC , EMT, PCV etc then 8 AWG is good for up to 50 amps. Another mistake people make when wiring 60 amps is using 6 AWG NM-B...

An Industrial Hubble 9450A is only $57 now https://www.amazon.com/Hubbell-HBL9450A-Wiring-Grounding-Receptacle/dp/B0137HMGGS/ I installed a Bryan 9450FR for $60 is equivalent to the Hubbell and made by Hubbell. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003A2R9RM Both require a different wall plate due to...

First you need a 100 amp circuit to power an 80 amp charger. Like I tell everyone, It takes me 10 seconds to charge my EV. That is the time it takes ME to plug it in. By morning it fully charged regardless of what rate I change it at. To replenish a 131 kWh ER battery the 85 kWh's from 15% to...

As an owner of a 2023 Lariat ER you can take advantage of 80 amp chargers. That is assuming that your electrical service has enough headroom to accommodate it. An electrician will be able to tell you. The 80 AMP chargers require a 100a dedicated circuit to deliver 80 amps to the vehicle. A...

@MrLoganRoss As far as negotiating a lower buy out price, rather than stated residual: I once leased an Acura RL. At lease end it was worth 5000 less than residual. Acura refused to budge on price. They parked it in the back of the dealership along with 20 other RLs and put them all on the...

I have the same Vinyl siding on my cabin and The north side looks EXACTLY the same. You picture reminded me that I need to treat mine. :)