Thank you.
Increase fuel consumption and pollution in thousands of vehicles rather than replace the springs?
Are springs difficult to replace? Or does such require re-engineering the suspension system?
So not a problem with Firestone tires. Not meanto be run on hot California roads at highway speeds while significantly under inflated.
So let me get this straight. Not only are you using the cheap scissor jackāwhich should NEVER be used for anything besides roadside tire changing, but you arenāt even using approved wheel chocks? Why not get a quality floor jack, a set of quality jack stands, and a set of quality wheel chocks? Why risk death or serious injury, when the proper lifting equipment is only a few hundred bucks, max?
Both were at fault but Ford had the better layers and threw FS under the busā¦ Ford gave FS the specs they wanted for the tires and it was wrongā¦
I donāt know about using āapproved wheel chocksā¦ā but as I was going out to my car this morning, I found a unique āwheel chockā (a Teenage Ninja "box turtleā¦). She (females have āflat belliesā and brown eyes) was just walking across my driveway. She paid me no never-mind and strolled up to my front tire, on her way under my car and onto āgreener pasturesā¦ā
As she passed the front tire, I remembered this posting and the use of chocks to block the wheels and I figured that a āNinja Turtleā could easily perform this taskā¦
And No, I would never do that, I have on occasion stopped my car and "escorted a turtle off the roadway and safely onto the shoulderā¦ But I thought it might add some humor to this postingā¦
In days of yore when I could still drive my Corolla, I was using it to take my mt bike to the trailhead. Out of the way mountain-top location , not much traffic. Right in the middle of this narrow winding road, a big turtle is walking down the road ā¦ lol ā¦turtle sightings unusual here, so figure it is a pet that escape. I stop the Corolla and put the turtle in the back seat, hoping it isnāt a snapping version ā¦ lol ā¦ No turtle snaps, so drive from house to house asking if anybody lost a turtle? Finally somebody says they saw a sign about a lost turtle a couple weeks ago, turtle returned to thankful owner. Iāve never seen anybody kiss a turtle before ā¦ lol . . .
This Box Turtle is one of our neighborhoodās āfree rangeā turtlesā¦ There are two others, both have had a dab of paint put on their shells. The Kids are good with them and try to feed them, some kids even bring them inside for the night, but all seems to be happy with the arrangements. The turtles like mushrooms, cheese, and lettuce.
We do get Snapping Turtles that wander too far from the local creeks and ponds and we round them up so the kids do not try to play with them. They are very bad tempered and are quick to bite. And when they are disturbed, they urinate this really disgustingly foul liquid that if you get it on your clothing, you will want to burn your clothingā¦ This is a Snapping Turtle and it wants a finger or anything else it can grabā¦
To transport them, which in Virginia (as most places) is illegalā¦ we put them in 5-gallon buckets and drop them off in a remote pond. About a year ago, we had one so big it would not fit in a bucket and I had to put it in the back of my pickup truck and it still almost got away by climbing up on the wheel well humpsā¦ I had to do several ābrake-checksā to get it to slide off the hump.
No one wanted to kiss that monsterā¦
When I started hearing brake pad metal rubbing on the disk, I.mmediately stopped at an auto partstore. (They threw me me out when I asked to buy one brake pad.)
Used the vehicle jack to gethe tire off the floor and installed new brake pads.
Later from Goodwilbought a small floor hydraulic jack on metal wheels and 6-ton floor jacks for the RX350.
Still need to find āapprovedā wheel chocks. A 10-inch 2X4 cut into two wedges works well. Just need to hammer them under the tire.
Where do I sell the 2016 RX350 with 385k miles?
Thank you.
Remember, You Askedā¦ āWhere do I sell the 2016 RX350 with 385k miles?ā
Or, they just might sell you that one Brake Padā¦ L 
Lā¦
You advertise it on craigslist
Then all the people with bizarre questions will show up
Youāll all have a great time 
Youāre welcome 
My vintage truck isnāt for sale, nor is it advertised, but I still get folks showing up all the time, even more often in the local store parking lots, asking me bizarre questions. āWhat would it take to sell it to me?ā, āWhy do you want to keep it?ā, āYou seldom drive it, right?ā , āI bet it has a lot of rust, right?ā, āDoes it have power steering? If so, itās not still working, rightā, āThose Ford automatic transmission are always in the shopā, āI bet all the rubber seals are leakingā, āMay I take some photos?ā ā¦ lol ā¦
Nothing Bizarre about most of those questions. Old trucks are a hot item right now and getting harder to findā¦ A lot of people would love to either restore it back to showroom new OR retromod it and put a Crown Vic front subframe/suspension under it and or lower it down (slam it) and turn it into a hot rod or even a Protouring truck, even put a new custom frame under it etc etcā¦
Just the other day it was parked in a grocery store parking lot. Without asking me for permission, I saw a guy open the hood to eyeball the engine ā¦ lol ā¦
That is a good way to get hurt or shotā¦ lol
Not something Iād ever do. This guy looked like a football linebacker, maybe heās deferred to most of the time, felt he could get away with it!
Likely thought he would be leaving before you showed up where he could compliment you on your truck.
Thank you.
We never knowhen we wilbe home.
Wife say, āSell CarMax.ā
With windshield cracks, computer not working, etc, and 385,497 miles I had to pay them !
(They gave us a nice bank draft.)
We.re going to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant when called on a 103-mile stat bloodelivery.
Home at midnight.
If you register the product you bought. Happened to us back when youngest was little. We bought a Greco baby carriage, and registered it within days of purchasing it. About 4 months later there was a safety recall. I saw the report on the news. I planned on calling the Greco the following morning with the number I wrote down from the news report. Before I even called, I received a FedEx special delivery of the repair kit to fix the recalled part with a letter giving me detailed instructions on how to replace the part, or how to return the carriage for a full refund. I opted to just fix it which took me all of 5 minutes.
But I did register the Smoke Detectors and I do most everything that we buy, especially now that almost all products offer this option allow you to do it on lineā¦ You must have missed that in my posting, it was in the next paragraphā¦ (see belowā¦)
I would expect all manufacturers who offer the option to register their product to be proactive in notifying their customers about a product recall, especially when it is Child Related as you bought (and by chance, they did notify you).
But a Smoke Detector, I would expect them to be just as proactive, especially when you read, see, or hear of folks who have died from a fire when the smoke detector did not go off or had a dead battery in itā¦ Our county fire department will go and install a free smoke detector in your home or just come out and test the one you have and I have donated to their āSmoke Detector Fundā because I really believe in that oneā¦
Anytime folks in this area require a permit for something, they usually have to install more smoke detectors. After a roofing permit, even though my abode is relatively small, I now have 6 smoke detectors, all required ā¦ lol ā¦ the old āif one is good, more is betterā. Thereās a safety problem with this idea tough; ,if I only had one Iād make damn sure it was working all the time, battery replaced every 6 months. With 6 smoke detectors, Iām less likely to check any of them, figuring one will likely still be working.
We have four smoke detectors in the house and a heat detector in the garage. All wired for power with battery backup. Since they are wired, they are also interconnected with a third wire and when one goes off, all go off. When a battery gets weak, it chirps, but since it is interconnected, they all chirpā¦ L O Lā¦
But come Christmas, I change the batteries in every item we have that uses batteries and I did make a list of everything (like Santaā¦), so I do not miss a remote, a clock, multi-meter, a scale, a stud-finder, cat-toy laser, flashlight, etcā¦
And to ensure this Topic stays Automotive in nature, I change the Fob Batteries in the vehiclesā¦ Yeah I know some have lasted for decades, but I did a topic a few months ago when a member had an issue with a dead car battery and the fob could not open the door so they could pop the hood to change out the battery. Their door lock was rusted so the fob key was no use. But in the topic I mentioned that I changed the Fob Battery in our 3-year old Honda Fit Fob and that a month later, the carās info screen was notifying me that the Fob Battery was weakā¦ I bought that battery from the Dollar Store; never again, not only are their batteries inexpensive, they are ācheap!ā (Chirp, Chirpā¦)
