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| Thread ID: 95585 | 2008-12-11 01:13:00 | Manual or Automatic | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 727760 | 2008-12-23 22:03:00 | A yank car would be alright on the Royal Oak Roundabout. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 727761 | 2008-12-23 23:09:00 | The new caddys and the Viper aren't too bad as far as having a nice car to drive in a country like NZ, but apart from that . . . :( The new Ford GT . . . . . . . . Good engine though, I believe it came out of the top spec F150 pickup? The Viper ( . dodge . com/en/2008/viper/" target="_blank">www . dodge . com) is just a toy, not for serious road trips . It's a Dodge too: no further comment(s) needed . The Cad STS Northstar ( . cadillac . com/cadillacjsp/model/gallery . jsp?model=escalade" target="_blank">www . cadillac . com) is brilliant! Fast! Nimble - and of course - very hard to insure! Remember we don't drive round and round, but great big distances and we need a long-legged and comfy car to arrive refreshed and relaxed, not all jumbled up and becoming discourteous to our fellow road warriors . That Ford F100/250 V8 engine (4 . 2 and 5 . 2L) is Kea fodder . (Ha! That's funny!) :p It blows timing chains, spits out spark plugs - threads and all - spontaneously; loses EGR port integrity (aluminum and plastic molded together have no real affinity for each other) and the BIG point is that there are thousands of them waiting for engine parts under warrantee in dealers' repair lots that will never arrive from FoMoCo since the company has not paid it's suppliers with much more than promises for the past few years and naturally the sources have dried up on replacement parts . We promise to send all of them to NZ if you are so impressed . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 727762 | 2008-12-23 23:23:00 | Interesting, My old boy just took delivery of a supercharged F150 a few months back. | Metla (12) | ||
| 727763 | 2008-12-23 23:43:00 | Interesting, My old boy just took delivery of a supercharged F150 a few months back . OK . . here's a tip or two then . . . DON'T use any cadmium-plated spark plugs in the engine - even WITH anti-seize lubricant on the threads . For some reason they create a galvanic activity and eat the aluminum heads up when the plug holes fill with water under the COP (coil-on-plug) ignitors . Where the water comes from is open to conjecture, but I think it's from the cowl leaking onto the engine in wet weather . You don't get any precipitation there, do you? The rear-most cylinders seem to be more adversely affected than any others . Make sure that you use black or dark colored plugs only . Check the snugness of the plugs in the head as they like to unscrew themselves and blow out with the COP and generally destroy a few hundred dollars worth of parts . Ford states it's abuse by the customer, but they also say the plugs are not to be changed for 100,000 miles (160,934 km) . Go figger! Change the coolant as a religious experience yearly! I cannot overstress that! ONLY use the "No-Phosphate" type coolants, and preferably the ORANGE coolants . Water purity seems to not matter as the correct coolant is pre-buffered for any or all water conditions and types upon installation . It loses this ability once it has gone through a couple of thermal cycles when the engine gets hot and then cools off and restarts back up to normal temps . The same mileage warning by Ford states that the coolant is another 100,000 mile service interval . Don't believe it . The vehicles themselves are good enough quality-wise, but there are some weak links . The engines (although they make great power and performance) and the transmissions are weak-kittens, so beware of that . OH, yes . . . NO Pennsylvania-based engine oils if you have a turbo either! I cannot speak about the supercharged versions as they are not allowed in the state in which I live for smog reasons and I have no references on their service life and requirements yet . . . . . . . . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 727764 | 2008-12-24 01:03:00 | A yank car would be alright on the Royal Oak Roundabout . If you are driving it, does that mean we should all stay at home?:waughh: I negotiate that infamous roundabout fairly regularly and have no problems . If you are looking for a real roundabout I suggest that you try a roundabout in Paris, particularly on the way to the Avenue des Champs-Élysées - it's a beauty! My recollection is of at least four lanes (clockwise to make things more interesting) and somehow I managed to make it out the other side . A yank tank would be a distinct advantage - manual or automatic!:thumbs: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 727765 | 2008-12-24 01:18:00 | I have no problems going around the royal oak roundabout in a bus. Even numbuts in their jap cars aren't going to take you on unless they are suicidal |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 727766 | 2008-12-24 01:47:00 | We had a traffic circle once . . . but I think it's gone now, at least I haven't been there for a long time . . . wikimedia . org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Long_Beach_Traffic_Circle_5 . jpg" target="_blank">upload . wikimedia . org . wikimedia . org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Long_Beach_Traffic_Circle_3 . jpg" target="_blank">upload . wikimedia . org I once got my 59 Chevy around it doing 90mph and was turning laps of 11 seconds before the sirens became audible and I left . Lots of smoke and I woke up the whole neighborhood . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 727767 | 2008-12-24 02:32:00 | You would be pushing it to lap a nz roundabout at 90mph even in a Ford. The circles you speak off must be a little larger than our roundabouts. Did you know roundabouts get through more traffic than lights quite amazing isnt it. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 727768 | 2008-12-24 03:06:00 | You would be pushing it to lap a nz roundabout at 90mph even in a Ford. The circles you speak off must be a little larger than our roundabouts. Did you know roundabouts get through more traffic than lights quite amazing isnt it. OH yes! I totally agree with the savings in time and fuel. If only all the OTHER drivers took my cue and got those MG and Austin Healey pedal cars out of the way of some real Detroit Iron! Yah! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 727769 | 2008-12-24 04:37:00 | Was it the rear wheels indicating 90 mph or the front ones? ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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