When braking any road vehicle, the weight of the vehicle ALWAYS transfers from rear to front. That's why front brakes are always larger (with more swept area). Therefore, depending on their overall design and on the driver(s)' input, brakes either wear +/- uniformly, or wear more on the front...
As it happens, I helped a friend last week adjust his 2023.5 Mach E Premium system to include Beosonic.
At 1st we both heard some slight changes while sitting in his garage. However, after my friend drove the car for several days, he definitely heard the Beosonic changes and loves them. It...
Interesting mod, thanks. Two questions:
1. What was the mileage on the truck at shock change?
2. How worn were the OEM shocks You removed? Hand-compressible? (yes my old Fusion rear OEM shocks were actually hand-compressible when I changed them for Bilstein B6s). Body-weight compressible...
Folks,
I busted one of the door latch cable plastic ends while taking the read door panel off and on. I now have a replacement double-cable set (the black and blue set) and I can't figure out how to disconnect and reconnect the inside-the-door cable ends with their angled cable terminals. I...
For anyone who uses a Mach E rotary shifter for this mod - are the Mach E shifter "box" dimensions too different from Escape rotary shifters to allow fitment into the 3D housing?
Hard to tell this from Ebay pictures...
I want to give a BIG SHOUT OUT to one of the products here... the door block-off plates from Sounds Good Stereo. The URL is listed in this 1st post above.
I am upgrading my six-speaker XLT audio, one step at a time.
Just installed the four door block-off plates. Holy Crap! What a darn...
Here is my thread from September 2024 describing both actions, with pics.
FYI it took some hunting by the Service Advisor to find the correct way to order a lock which could be keyed to my car skeleton key... see below...
I installed a spare tire OEM lock on my truck, keyed by the dealer to my fob key.
The Youtube back-of-lock defeat method can be blocked by capping the rear lock circlip with waterproof epoxy or with Liquid Electrical Goop, or similar self-hardening coating material. That's my method.
Most...
Yeah. When I tested my chains, there was the potential for interference at complete full turns. From memory, the potential interference was with the ends of the upper control arms. The wheel had to be at full lock for this to even potentially happen.
I tested the range and, personally, being...
Gotcha. I've had them on already this Winter.
The issue, if any, lies with the front wheels and a narrow chain clearance on the outer limits of their turning radius. The rear wheels are fine with the chain clearance.
A trick known amongst some off-road drivers to significantly increase traction of OEM or basic street tires for temporary off-road use across rocky (i.e. slippery) or muddy terrain is the judicious use of modern thin snow chains with diamond-shaped segments that limit surface slippage in many...