At 105 mph, 2008 Expedition loses power

Then you can have that epitaph engraved on the urn that will hold your ashes.

I am referring to your repeated claims that you will not encounter any animals/car parts/tire treads/cars suddenly veering in front of you from the shoulder/potholes, or if you do, that you will be able to react in time while driving at triple digit speeds.

If you were a trained racing driver operating a Formula 1 racer, you might be able to react properly and to steer around obstacles in time to avoid an impact. In a top-heavy SUV you will not be able to steer around any obstacles in time. If you attempt to do so, you will overturn that hulk at high speed. After it finishes rolling over for the 5th or 6th time, and after they cut you out of the wreck, you will be quite dead, or you will wish that you were.

You can see clearly ahead.
No animals, no car parts, tire treads, debris, etc., no vehicles oncoming and none exceptwo semis far ahead in both lanes and I coasted down and exited before reaching them.
No need to suddenly swerve or evade.
My biggest concern was getting a driveshaft enema should it flex, become unbalanced and break.

Optimum speed? I thought I had one once. 59. The vehicle was an 84 4WD F-150 with 4.9 engine and auto trans. I came up with 17.7 MPG in 150 miles of highway. 38 PSI tire pressure and cruise control with carburetor. This was great gas mileage back then. Limestone to Bangor Me. in good weather. This has nothing to do with your Expedition. Let’s try for 200 posts.

59 seems much too high.
That is a lot of wind you’re pushing through.

Cruise control is no saver of gas.
I’d much rather have a choke cable attached to the throttle and left at one setting.

Whew! Got through all of the posts to this point! Now where’s the mp3 that has Click and Clack saying,“You have just wasted another perfectly good hour…?”

I’m currently wondering when this thread might end since the original question has been answered several times. Can’t wait to see. Too bad there isn’t a button to monitor the thread and get updates, like when it exceeds 200 posts, for example.

I agree with most of the other replies. Driving that fast puts others at risk. Couldn’t this be transported in a police unit with a trained police driver and emergency flashers on?

There were no others around for the final descent from the hill.
Yes, police could do it faster with lower-to-the ground more fuel efficient cruisers.
But they won’t leave their jurisdictions.
Some police departments now have Expeditions.

They do, but I have never seen them drive fast. I have seen the Crown Vics go fast, though.

I suggest that we all give up on trying to convince the OP of the wrong-headedness of his actions. He has made it clear through his constant rationalizations that he does not want to listen to reason.

I suggest that you no longer read this.

I am not seeking to have you convince me of anything.
Well, actually I am - about 44 psi tire inflation.

Ford people said it OK and explained the the vehicle is conservatively governed at a speed less than it can safely travel.

As one Ford guy said, “Rolling down a downgrade getting up to 110 before costing down and exiting. Big deal.”

42 psi sounds within limits, but a little close to the max for the tire. Our Durango uses similarly sized tires and the label on the door says something like 31psi front, 35psi back. A note in the manual says to add 5 psi if you regularly travel over 55mph. That makes it 36psi and 40psi. When I get it serviced and forget to add the 5psi, I do notice a drop in mpg, (which I calculate at every fillup, ignoring the computer reading). 29-32 depends on the tire. Truck tires, and tires rated for load are not usually that low. Motorhome/semi tires are 85-100psi…

"They do, but I have never seen them drive fast. I have seen the Crown Vics go fast, though."
Ford guy says a police department wants the 105 mph governors removed from their Expeditions.
Says Ford refuses.

In New Jersey our “Governor” (Corzine) didn’t make it much over 90mph before striking a guard-rail. So, Robert… consider yourself lucky.

“In New Jersey our “Governor” (Corzine) didn’t make it much over 90mph before striking a guard-rail. So, Robert… consider yourself lucky.”

Good one!
But he wasn’t driving. Or was he? I forget.
Guard rail? We ain’t got no stinkin’ guard rails.
I had plenty of plain into which to crash and burn!

Actually, that accident took place because another motorist suddenly pulled into the lane where the Governor’s SUV (a Tahoe, I believe) was speeding at around 90 mph or so.

The trooper who was driving took evasive action, but of course, since SUVs are top heavy, evasive manuevering at that speed resulted in losing control, going off the road, and hitting the guard rail. The motorist who “cut-off” the Gov’s vehicle was not charged, simply because the SUV was speeding and it did not have its emergency lights or siren activated.

Thanks, VD.
Even with lights and siren he should not be driving that fast.
Who does he think he is? Me?

I would never drive that fast in traffic.
And what justified his speeding anyway?

Governor was not wearing seat-belts and was badly injured.

The “justification” for going that fast was that the Governor had another appointment to get to promptly.

He could have taken a helicopter rather than speeding on NJ’s crowded roads, if not for the fact that one of his predecessors (Christine Todd Whitman, later the EPA Administrator who lied about the toxic nature of the air around ground zero in lower Manhattan) made a campaign issue about her predecessor having access to a helicopter. The result is that subsequent NJ Governors can only use a State Police helicopter in limited emergency situations.

Still, suppose someone accidentally cuts you off.

Perhaps my biggest concern when high speed driving.
a car ahead may see you in his mirror but NOT realize your approaching speed.
Then he pulls out to pass and – you are now faced with an immediate obstruction with, perhaps, a 60 mph difference in speed ?

The same as attempting to stop from 60mph to zero, but now your faced with the momentum of high speed which negates and side to side maneuvers.

DUDE !

YEAH, BUT CORAZINE CAN’T DRIVE WORTH A DAMN!! AS EVIDENCED BY THE WRECK… HA HA HA