I saw a couple pics on here last year of Grand Marquis, I'm guessing 2000+ that had a trunk that looked like a continental style. It has a fake hump for a wheel. I think it looks tits personally. Was this factory? What years and models trims have it?
I have a set of OEM wheels. I'd like to purchase a set of aftermarket wheels. Is there a tool that I can purchase to measure my wheels to get the proper width and offset and backspacing? Don't say a ruler or a tire fitment jig. I don't want to to get an empty tire and put it on the tool and then bolt that to my hub. I want to measure my actual wheel that I currently have because it fits perfectly and I want to replicate that with a different style.
I have an 03 and I'm debating on aftermarket wheels. A lot of companies on eBay etc will custom cut a rim etc and they are fairly reasonable. Aside from hub diameter and bolt pattern, does anyone have personal experience about what sizes fit well, what width rims work well etc on our cars? I'd like to jump to 20's but I don't think I need a 9.5" wide rim. Would 8" be right? What back spacing and offset? Has anyone jumped to 20's and hated the ride from the shorter tire?
If anyone has lost a dog in Poughkeepsie,Ny on 6/26 around 930pm please contact me. I found her walking along the highway with no collar. We have her safe and sound.
If anyone wants the part number to the good green gates belt for this car is Gates K060910HD.
Tldr: don't buy Midea and buy from a local appliance store if possible.
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I buy a lot of appliances as I am a property manager by trade. I learned years ago to buy from local shops for a variety of reasons but the biggest one was service after the sale. To keep it short, I usually get much better service and an easier delivery experience with locally owned shops.
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My story about Midea. My father had an upright freezer from 1984 that ran until 2026. It just worked right up until it didn't. It was a Montgomery ward freezer. It died suddenly as they do and my father just HAD to have a new one on a Saturday morning. I looked at the only places that would have a unit on hand on a Saturday and it was Lowe's and home Depot. I've had slightly better luck with Lowe's so I ran over with a. Trailer, and grabbed a Midea upright freezer. Came home, plugged it in and it got cold. Success.
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5 days later and we had Frost inside of the unit and being a frost free freezer this is a problem. Now we paid cash for the freezer, we did not finance it though a Lowe's card. If you finance through a Lowe's card you get like a month of time to return directly to store etc and the store will help support you. If you just buy it cash or on your own card their return policy changes considerably and you only have 48hours to return or exchange... Ok... I also purchased the additional warranty in store that covers the freezer after the initial 1year manufacturer warranty expires.
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I called Midea. It took an hour to get a person on the phone. They created a ticket number and said someone would contact us. Nobody contacted us for a week. After a week I gave it a go. They said no ticket existed under that number and I should go on to the website and create a ticket using their tool. It's a chat bot. After an hour with it, and taking pics and scanning the receipt The chatbot determined that I needed a ticket number so it opened a case. They said that we would hear from their local service center within 1 to 3 days. Two days later I heard from the local service center. I'm saying that using air quotes. The local service center was in Brooklyn, New York. I am about 85 mi North of Brooklyn. That might as well be on the other side of the planet. Their phone number is from New Jersey. It's an all Indian call center. The lady called us up and said they could have a rep at our house the same day. I said sure they gave us a window. The person never came. I called the next day they said we need to be patient and they will call us back to make the appointment. Another day passes. I hear nothing. I call them back a day after and they said please we'll call you for an appointment. I wait a day with no call. This basically goes on for over a week. They will not call you back to make an appointment end of story. After 2 weeks I called them one last time and they assured me somebody was going to get back to me. I've never heard back from them.
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Midea is contracted with this company to do service for a very large area probably and for whatever reason they are doing a horrendous job.
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Now fast forward to a little over a month of owning this thing. And I figured out what the problem was. The door gasket is not sealing perfectly all the way around the entire frame. That lets in moisture and it freezes. This thing is sitting on a solid concrete floor on an indoor porch. It cannot be more flat and level. I wound up adjusting the two front feet to their Max adjustments to try to get this thing to seal. The issue is the freezer is so flimsy if you push on it with your hand it flexes the entire frame of it and the door will not seal. I wound up using shims and little pieces of wood and blocks and I've shimmed the freezer in a way to where it tweaks the frame to get the door to seal perfectly. Now remarkably it's working fine. The door is sealing and there's no Frost inside so I'm glad that it has kind of been resolved. But the point of the matter is the warranty is absolutely useless. Also, my father's point which is not wrong is what kind of a piece of s*** did we buy? If it's so flimsy like this. He's not wrong. The build quality is pretty chintzy. Now I'm not a freezerologist but I don't know if there's better quality freezers out there like that are sturdier I guess? But this is the first time I've ever encountered this. I bought refrigerators from everywhere and just thrown them into apartments on wooden floors in 110-year-old houses and I've never even had to think about worrying to level them to get a door to seal. All I'm saying is Midea is doing horrendous on their warranty and customer service, I'm stuck with a freezer that even though it works right now, I'm praying lasts until a year from now when the Lowe's warranty takes over. If you actually need to get this thing serviced, it's going to be impossible.
I never should have bought this thing and I really feel like I paid for a cheap freezer. I kind of feel taken.. normally you could just go to the store and return this thing but because of the return policy nonsense with Lowe's which I'm really surprised about Lowe's as a company is doing, I can't.
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I don't know that's my experience, your mileage may vary
Just figured I'd drop a post about my intake. Maybe it can help someone. I have an 03 with 68k on it. Ran perfect, no leaks I could see. Been driving it for about a year . The other day I was just under the hood checking the oil etc and I caught a whiff of coolant smell. No steam, no leaks, nothing I could find. I flushed and filled it all last year but I know I never smelled coolant before so my theory was that it's a micro leak that was vaporizing instantly on a hot engine.
I had the time and the intake already, purchased the summit one as I like the threaded bosses for mounting the coils way more than self threading screws.
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I don't know why people make this job into such a big deal. The book time is 6 hours I think, maybe 8. Either way, it can be done in two hours. People take way too much apart. Unbolt everything, unbolt the EGR, no need to attack that EGR tube nut, just take out the two bolts on the side where it goes to throttle body, remove all brackets, and connectors, flip the tb over to pass side. Lift up rails with injectors in them, flip over to side, remove alt, slide intake out. You're done.
I also removed the water pump because it had a squeak. No leak though but a squeak is a sure sign it's getting old. All that, plus alt and water pump removal was exactly 1 hr flat.
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When I removed the old one plus it's gaskets I could see the gaskets were definitely getting ready to fail although there was no coolant leaking I could see but it was close and I'm glad I caught it. I discovered pitting around the 4 coolant passages right around where the gaskets would seal. After a thorough cleaning with gray scotchbrite and degreasing with acetone I filled the pitting with JB weld high heat and squeegeed the excess off with a razor blade. Filled the voids perfect. Yes I will clean the edges up tomorrow.
Now tomorrow I just reinstall everything.
If I did not have to do the jb weld this is a 2 hour job with no power tools, maybe less if you don't remove the water pump.
Here are pics
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Somebody here has to know the actual molex part number or series for this.
They make male and female connectors that are blade terminals in the shape of a letter t. Here's a picture or two.
I can't find this thing on the molex website. I'm doing something wrong.
Does anybody know the actual part from molex?
I'm very confused by the whole gliders/ floaters thing. When I Google stuff like this I'll find a thousand websites with a million pictures of rims and either no way to buy them or no way to confirm. Fitment. They also don't explain how they work. I understand that there is a base rim, and then there is a bearing and a front face that is weighted so it stays put while the vehicle's wheels roll forward or backward. I understand that. How do I actually purchase these things? Is there an easy website that I can go to to actually look at these things to purchase them? Are they actually in stock anywhere or is everything dropshipped from the manufacturer? How many manufacturers are there? Who are the good manufacturers? Who are the bad manufacturers? Are there knockoffs? Are there Chinese gliding rims on Temu that I should be aware of?
I have a very beat 2005 Yukon XL Denali. The front end has been very damaged. I needs a hood, bumper cover, the works. Truthfully, I could not care less about it being a Denali aesthetically. It's a work truck. I'm gonna raptor line the thing this summer.
Does anyone know if you can convert the front end to a non Denali front end? Basically it's to save money. It seems all the Denali parts are just way more expensive.
Has anyone done this?