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You'll lose most of the usable tread in the first summer, so I recommend a swap every season.

Winter rubber on already? Living atop a mountain?

A minivan has never looked so good before.

Well, it is the same car, Transit name is only reserved for panel vans in Europe, seats and windows mean Tourneo.

This is normal. All speedometers read a few percent too fast if using factory spec tire size.

How much is too much?

Nice, I'm waiting to pull the trigger.

Or the Volvo sourced 5-banger.

1) bright foreground will strain your eyes unnecessarily when keeping your focus on bright background, it's a balance of exposure that's important, just like in a camera. 2) headlights with High/Low in the same enclosure cannot be used due to extreme heat generated in the same space.

The body is solid and pretty much fully rust proof. Mine's 9 years old, done 170,000 miles in the rust belt and has a few paint defects. The metal is galvanized so the bare spots turn white instead of brown. The underbelly has just some surface rust in a couple of spots, much less than expected from a car of this age in this climate. Can't comment on the American drive train as mine's diesel manual (still tight, doesn't burn any oil), had a fuel pump rebuild 2 years ago and the gearbox started making noise this year, replaced it with a Focus box from a scrapyard.

Is it 2.5L? The power description does not sound like 1.6L.

I'm not sure if you're on DRL. My Gen1 has DRL and these are only at 70% or so, rather weak for night driving. Manually switching the lights on sends full power to the headlights and they're awesome, both, low and high beams.

In snow belt the mudflaps let you remove ice buildup more easily as the mudflap is elastic and lets go of the pile of ice easily when kicked.

I understand, here's a plate holder with multiple mounting points for American cars (which I have on my TC):

Euro plate holder backplate is usually made of holes in different positions so you can mount it any way possible in pretty much 10 mm steps. How's yours?

Yeah, get the short OEM ones. You'll rip off the long flaps when reversing into a curb.

If you have a rain sensor and you have some dirt on the sensor then it's normal they do a swipe or two. Rear single swipe on reverse is also normal.

My list of problems: 2012 Diesel pump rebuilt 2013 Refurbished steering rack, new exhaust 2014 New alarm, acting up, problem not found 2015 Repaired the instrument cluster, no power. Replaced the transmission with a Focus unit from a scrap yard. 268,000 km on the Odo.

Which year model?

Anything but the engine and transmission should be identical.

Prefer tinting film, easily reversible if getting harassed by authorities.

There's only one way to find out (y)

Is the fluid level ok? When was it last changed?

I have never named any of my cars but people call it a kiss bus due to the huge mouth on the side.

It's always together with tire changing bits. The attachment is in the front bumper.