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[Broken External Image]: This is wrong on so many-all-levels. :banghead::smack:

When the sunlight hits the display in my 2012 Fusion just right I can see that it has an External Temperature display built into the radio. This currently doesn't function. My fusion has bazillions of functions but lacks this basic one. Does anyone know if I could just buy a thermometer...

Maybe I'm :btddhorse: here but I heard that the Sync system couldn't be installed aftermarket for any modern Fords, but now I have doubt. Just for grins, I went to Torrie's site and lo and behold, there's Sync being sold for the 2012 Fusion SE after all. So now I wonder if I could actually...

Has anyone heard any success stories of adding Ford Sync to a modern Ford aftermarket? Ford claims that sync is so popular that they don't offer it as an upgrade kit to modern cars, I think their kit only works on 09 mustangs. I've emailed Ford (after going through the maze that is their...

I'm considering exchanging some of my Fords in due time, but despite all the cool new stuff Ford is bringing to the table, I'm noticing some things that I really don't care for. One of which is the electric parking brake. The 2013 Escape is shown to have a handbrake (much desired IMO over...

I remember seeing "gas caddys", gas containers with wheels that held up to ~13 gallons of gas. Some of 'em even had a "gas pump" like nozzle that used air pressure to work. I remember seeing these things in Harbor Freight and Pep Boys years ago, but I can't seem to find 'em now. Am I just...

What is it with Ford and dangerously soft, sloppy stock suspension? I'm starting to think that it is a fact of life that Ford's stock suspension setup sucks, like the Pope being Catholic or the Sun rising in the east. We all know that the ST's stock shocks were awful. The Fusion is pretty...

Any ideas on why the Ford button systems aren't standardized between models, specifically the steering-wheel buttons? In my Fusion, the controls for the Info Center (which is pretty cool IMO) are on the left side of the steering wheel, with the cruise control. On my Escape, the controls...

So I've been looking into what I can do with the underpowered 4-cylinder 2012 Escape I've acquired, and I believe I've found that the 2013 Escape and Fusion both share the same engine options, none of which include any sort of 6-cylinder engine. Even if the 2.0L 4-cylinder EcoBoost engine...

I have recently inherited a 2012 FWD Escape which is loaded with a few features (leather, sunroof, heated seats, basic Sync, colored interior lighting) but is equipped with only the NA 4-cylinder engine. As far as I can tell, this is the same 2.5 NA engine that is in the much smaller and...

On the Ford Sirius Radio it is possible to save song information as the song is playing and the radio will alert you when it detects that song playing on any satellite radio station. Is it possible to do this for artists, so that it'll alert when it detects any song from X artist? I have...

I'm pretty sure that the endlinks I just took off of my 2002 ST had been on there since 2002. They were the old type where the metal cylinder sticks out further than the endlink itself, with very degraded rubber bushings. I put on some new ones, with the cylinder flush with the endlink, from...

It seems that Roadmaster Active Suspension has come out with a new kit which doesn't require the installer to screw with the U-bolts at all? The project on MyST is for the older, original device. Has anyone used this new kit on their ST yet? Perhaps more importantly, does anyone know where to...

I saw a marathon of the American Top Gear, and it was decently entertaining. In one episode, the premise was to find 3 vehicles for 2000 dollars or less which were "economical replacements for a truck". One guy got an 1970s Ford sedan (not fuel efficient by far) because it was rugged and...

The RSX 5000 came with poly bushings, but the RS comes with cheapo rubber bushings. The only Energy Suspension poly bushings I can find are half the thickness of the rubber ones. FYI Rancho, I want poly ;) I have those poly bushings on there now, but I'm thinking the ride would be better with...

On the back end of the front drivers' side B-pillar, on the inner edge which touches the "B-pillar" on the rear drivers' side passenger door, there are a few small places where the black paint has gone and rust has set in. What's the best way to fix this?

I looked at my leaf spring bushings (left side) while I was pumping gas*, and I noticed that those suckers are seriously puny looking, and they're cracked and faded besides. Those rubber things are probably as old as the truck (~10 years). I think they could stand to be replaced. Where...

I just made a run across the Ohio Turnpike, and noticed a couple of speed traps, and people getting pulled over for speeding. These were no where near work zones. It seems to me that if you have to pay to access the road then there shouldn't be any way you can "speed" on it. If their...

I used a nut splitter to smash the rusted shock nut off of my front passenger shock. The thing was a "one time use only" tool, for while it split the nut, the shaft with the bolt & chisel broke. Inspecting the pieces, I found that the bolt and the chisel were 2 separate pieces of metal...

Well, after 3 years of slamming through corners, hauling loads, frequent yet not extreme off-roading, long mountainous roadtrips, city commutes, bad ball joints, and just generally driving it like I stole it, my Rancho RSX 5000 shocks seem to be shot. 3 years, 41,000 miles. That seems a...