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Even funnier that on my truck, I have no problem with bolting on a push bumper, off road light bar, nerf bars........only to take great pains in taking apart my factory light housings to hide my flashing emergency strobe lights. Sure, the off road lighting and gear looks normal on a pick up truck. But don't let anyone catch on that it's an unmarked response vehicle. So the flashing lights and siren speaker are hidden. Even my sister has a bull bar and LED light bar bolted onto the front of her Honda......thanks to my brother-in-law who thought it would be funny to do that to a soccer mom grocery getter.

I get it. Some guys would rather not have all sorts of extra lights bolted all over their car. Only guys with trucks and Jeeps bolt-on accessories.....winches, push bumpers, lights, nerf bars, et cetera.

Vinyl is good. Easy to clean. And you won't cry over it when it rips or gets a cigarette burn. Plus, pleather, naugahyde, and vinyl gives you that 70's feel.

I get it. You don't want to stick it on. Otherwise, Beta Don\s suggestion would have been great. Dynamat is an excellent product.

A lot of those RGB sets come with a remote control for your "party in the back".

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Imagine crushed velvet. Blood red, lavender, or purple paisley. Like a rolling brothel.

Imagine a porthole. Of course, if you go the maritime theme route, you will also need to install a periscope.

Sounds like it's time to raise the hood, and do some troubleshooting. You will need a factory service manual. Electric fans on modern vehicles are turned on and off by the vehicle's computer system. The computer system monitors the vehicle's sensors to determine when the fan needs to be on. The problem can be anything from a bad sensor, to a loose wire, and as you've guessed, a bad fuse. The fan relay could be bad. The problem is rarely mechanical, i.e. a broken fan. But that could be your starting point. Apply 12 volt direct current to the fan, and make sure that the fan works. Then it's time to carefully check all connections and test the sensors. I worked on a car where the actual mechanical thermostat was stuck. Simple. The spring loaded mechanism was corroded and stuck. The thermostat wouldn't open. None of the coolant was able to flow. The sensors for the fan were inline with the cooling and return lines. Those sensors never saw any temperatures high enough to turn the fan on. Of course not. The hot fluid was stuck in the engine block, because the thermostat never opened. Of course, you might just get lucky and find a loose wire or a corroded harness connection which could be easily replaced. Or maybe the fan is actually broken, and you could just drop in a new fan.

In my 2016, the LED headlights are working without issue. But I do not have a Canadian model with DRL. I believe that the DRL are controlled by the BCM (body control module). If I recall correctly, there was another thread where the DRL was discussed.

How about just mounting extra lighting. Get one of these light mounts which slip behind your license plate, and attach with the license plate screws. Them use any lights you want.

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Replace them with LED lamps. It will make a big difference. I replaced all of mine with red LED, to preserve night vision, and gives the interior more of a 70's shagging wagon ambiance. You could also pick up a couple of 5 meter LED light strips in any color that you want, and just run them on the same circuit as your existing interior lamps. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0145YY9IU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s02?ie=UTF8&th=1

My vehicle does not have daytime running lights, so i did not encounter this issue. I am sorry. I don't know anything about HID kits. When those came on the market, they were just not affordable. Then LED kits came along, and LED kit pricing dropped to a point that I was comfortable buying them. But from what i recall, HID kits come with a ballast of some sort, which is inline between the OEM harness & HID lamp, which is suppose to bridge the chasm. Didn't you get a lighting ballast in your kit?

LA traffic is.....words cannot describe LA drivers. If you don't have to, don't drive in LA. Visiting? Take a cab. Or is that what people say about NY?

Maybe you could also think along the lines of upfitting a cargo van into a prisoner transport vehicle. Build a cage with a locking door, benches, and seat belts. Little locking cubbyholes for storing extra belly chains, shackles, et cetera. Perhaps design the front cabin to be a little roomier by moving the bulkhead back so that the prisoner cage is in the 3rd row area, and the 2nd row area is used to accommodate equipment such as fire extinguishers, flares, jump start power pack, first aid kit, shotgun, et cetera. Prisoner comfort is never a consideration, so you wouldn't need more than a pop-up roof vent. Think marketing along the lines of private prisoner transport companies. Yes, along with private, for profit, correctional institutions, there are private, for profit, prisoner transport companies that extradite arrested persons across the country. And just like private security companies who will put flashing lights on compact cars for parking lot patrols, private prisoner transport has to have fuel efficient vehicles that they can drive across the country. A Transit Connect could be extremely efficient in comparison to transporting one fugitive over 1,000 miles in an Econoline E-350.

Those Explorers are really good vehicles for what they do. I had one until about a year ago, It was one of the packages with the 5.0 engine & AWD. I didn't want to part with it either. It was mechanically perfect, and modded for power. But when a car has rust all over, leaks, and the entire interior is so trashed......it would have cost me so much to restore it that a new car made more sense. Not to mention that the old Explorers were only 5 passenger vehicles, and that the fuel mileage was so bad that my fuel savings alone paid for the Transit Connect.

Interesting viewpoints from the unions and volunteers perspectives. I guess it's not like the police unions. Sure, volunteer all you want. Become an auxiliary officer. Become a reserve officer. There is absolutely no threat to police officers losing their jobs to volunteers. And the fact that more volunteers are actually riding in the car with a full time officer, it only points to the fact that there are not enough officers, and hiring needs to be increased. Firefighter unions can't see that? All of the volunteers justify why the fire department needs to increase the payroll. In order to recruit and retain good people, doing exemplary work, the volunteers need to be converted to full time paid firefighters. That is the only way to keep them. It's in the interest of everyone's safety, to keep you doing what you're doing, and compensate you for it. I wonder if inmate firefighters are compensated in any way for their service. I know. They're criminals and serving time. But the fact that they're willing to put their lives on the line in our time of need, there should be compensation of some form. I've always thought that inmates should be allowed to pay their debt to society via public or military support service. If a guy gets a 10 year sentence for a nonviolent offense, and he is willing to go to Afghanistan, let him. Even if you don't give him a gun, there is plenty of need over there for logistics support, mechanics, labor, service, et cetera. They should bring volunteer inmate crews to forward operating bases. We need barbers, cooks, laundry, warehousing, truck drivers operating room techs.......there must be 25 soldiers doing other things, to every 1 soldier with a gun fighting. Inmates could constructively learn job skills and repay their debt to society. What is the chance of escape? What would an inmate do? Run away into the hills of Afghanistan? About the same risk as an inmate firefighter running away into the hills that are on fire.

Some PVC pipe and tarps could be duct taped together if you really need to.

That would make it awfully hard for you to drive while your wife sleeps.

None of that will work while he is driving and his wife is trying to sleep. He gets up to freeway speeds, and she'll go flying out the back.

Firemen need a better lobbyist. You're lacking political clout. It seems so simple to justify full time, paid, fire fighters in the interest of national security. You're first responders. America needs it's heroes. Somebody needs to lobby congress for Federal Dollars to fund local departments. If the military can hand out surplus vehicles, guns, ammo, body armor, rocket launchers, tear gas, uniforms, and whatever to every police department across the country. They should be able to provide surplus fire fighting apparatus to you. Your department should get military surplus engines, turnout gear, et cetera. And, the military should provide your training so that you guys can be called upon to respond to terrorist attacks, natural disasters, weather incidents, chemical warfare, and be incorporated into some sort of role in defense preparedness. It's the same way that the military provides tactical training to police departments. Imagine those little 3 man sheriff departments in the backwoods where people still make moonshine. They don't have the budget for dental benefits, but now they have rocket launchers, flame throwers, and armored personnel carriers. When Canada invades the USA, are we going to be helpless victims of oppression and tyranny from our French speaking neighbors to The North? You need to get the attention of your local Congressional Representative. Have him argue that when President Trump builds his wall, the weakest link in our national defense will be unpaid, untrained, under equipped first responders. Then set fire to his house, stand by and let it burn to the ground, in order to reiterate your point that you are unpaid, untrained, under equipped: and his family could have lived if you were paid, trained, and properly equipped. I'd like to watch Nancy Pelosi's house burn, and be right there to tell her, "Hell No! I'm not running into a burning building to save anything. Especially your burning building. I don't get paid enough to do that. Matter of fact, I'm not getting paid at all. I won't even save your cat stuck in a tree!"