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The headlight clusters are not designed for p'n'p HID or LED (HID projectors are not reflector dependent, just need a clear lens). The best legal and cheap option is to get a set of Osram Nightbreakers and be done with it. The factory halogens are yellowish and I'm going to replace them when it gets darker. Have had Nightbreakers in every halogen-equipped car I've had. Big difference.

I had WS70 for one winter, too soft for me. Really mushy handling. So right now I have the following (usually swap late November and back in March): TC 2012: Kumho WinterCraft WI31 studdable, I run them without. Toyota: Kumho I'ZEN KW22 studded. Both within acceptable handling and wear limits. No winter tires for my Ecoboost yet. PS: Nokian is Finnish.

I'm amazed that the Astro survived daily use that long.

I get it. The feature I am talking about is probably made for smokers for easy venting.

Oh, so it only moves 2" at a time?

I think a big part of the problem was Explorer's terrible handling. It drove like a cow on ice.

Yeah, no bbcde support, this is one of those WYSIWYG fora. Use "Insert other media > Insert image from URL" to insert pics. Glad you joined us.

The 2" down is some kind of vent feature. Had it in my Mazda. It took 30 seconds to disable it by the instructions in the manual. Check yours.

Yes, Metris is called V-class here. Much larger than the Connect and it's available in luxury trims.

Mercedes-Benz already has a direct competitor for the TC: the Renault Kangoo based Citan It's more like a cheaper Fiat/RAM/PSA competitor and not luxurious at all. The design is a bit cheap, including the materials.

Something's wrong here. DRL should not turn on the dashboard lights, that's how you notice the actual lights being off. And are you sure the DRL runs low beam? It's a dim high beam in mine.

Now that you mentioned it, just xovers, sedans and SUVs here as well.

I got a camera with a 4" screen for €35.

I'm 99% sure the Ecoboost model does have a dipstick.

Been driving windowless cargo vans for the past 10 years now. If you really need more than wing mirrors you can get a rear view camera and have it on all the time. Perhaps even connected to a dash cam, somoeone here had done it. They're really cheap now.

European manufacturers figured this out quickly and simultaneously started to produce sportwagons, you can have AMG Mercs, RS Audis etc. I think Alfa Romeo 156 was the original sportwagon giving the kick in the butt for everyone. Now there are sportwagons available from Cadillac, who would have thought. Pretty nice for a 20-yo design: I drive to Germany a couple of times a year. The leftmost lane on the Autobahn is occupied by Porsches, Lambos and wagons.

I'll get me Dremel.

The 2.0 Ecoboost is rated at 240 hp over here. That would be mindless fun in a TC.

That's why the passenger models have a liftgate and cargo variants come with barn doors. A liftgate would block a forklift access.

With regards from my former Kiss Bus

Of course they do.

So a plate is never issued without the existence of a specific car + owner it's stuck onto?

Fifty150, are you ex-military?

Why do they need to ship the plates separately in a week, don't the DMV have stock just to hand them over to you right away? Minus the wanker plates, of course.