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my sympathies - I got rear-ended a year or two back, similar story - cover cracked, bumper pushed out of straight. Couldn't get anyone to replace it except at unreasonable prices, need to go haunt the wrecking yards and see if I can pull one somewhere.. recently put on new tires, went from...

handsome truck, very nice.. also interested in details of that ammo can console.. my console bag got stolen, now I have a random assortment of ballcaps and other junk that mostly falls out and disappears under the seats..

excellent ! that's a really nice-looking Trac.. mine is 2004, black, and very rusty underneath ;-) taking it and my son hunting tomorrow.. pic in Palisade CO on a peach farm, my truck also takes me fishing and peach-picking.. truly allpurpose.. ha

busted my arm rest by leaning on it to reach something in the back seat, stupid. It's a silly little piece of plastic under there, not surprising it busted. The replacement part appears to be about $150, that is silly too. part # is 3L2Z-78047A20-AAE available a few places, some Ford dealers...

my 2004 had extensive rust on everything underbody when I got it in 2017. Oddly the body is still in good shape, no tailgate or door problems. I'm not sure if it ever lived in a salt state, thought it was in Colorado mostly, but I've never seen rust like that on any other car I've owned in CO...

calipers can be tricky.. my son's WRX had leaky calipers but I couldn't see anything at first, had to clean everything up, calipers, lines etc then inspect a couple of times, to pin it down..

can confirm, just replaced 20 lugnuts on the Acura MDX with Dormans, because the OEM lugnuts are the two-piece ones and they are swelling up looking nasty.. my 2004 has standard lugnuts and I expect them to last the life of the vehicle, which quite possibly will be mine too..

as Powly says - shouldn't be too hard to find bumper parts in the scrapyards ? 127k miles is just getting started ;-) Also, fairly sure a back-in to the bumper will not have done structural damage. My bumper is bent down from a rear-end collision and I'm just driving it, frame is straight and...

my 2004 has two ground cables between body and frame, located roughly below driver and passenger door on each side. If these are badly corroded this will cause the battery light flicker, and strange fluctuating voltages when doing the checks that Dillard mentioned. I was seeing 11v to 17v...

my service manual says for 100k: plugs, replace coolant, pcv valve. I also did wires with the plugs, have had too many experiences with weird misfires in wet weather after the wires cracked invisibly. The coolant is every 50k after 100k. In my case I had a radiator leak meantime and got it...

yes, think I'm going to get it replaced by the cheapest bid and then seal as necessary - silicon can cover many problems..

sorry, I guess windscreen is English for windshield.. I do ok on hood/bonnet and trunk/boot, still working on it though I'd rather have a leaky windshield than one disintegrating at 70mph because of all the cracks..

weird problem - tried to get my windscreen replaced. The paint has come off the bodywork just above the screen seal. There is some surface discoloration but no actual corrosion or rust flakes that I can see. But they refused to replace my windscreen, said there was too much rust to get a good...

Maverick, if I could find a hybrid for anything near MSRP..

my rear diff was rebuilt by a previous owner at 85k. I did a differential oil change at 150k, it came out looking pretty nasty. So I plan to do it at 200 and 250k, and will re-evaluate after that.. ha.

the first set of tires I had, thought I could get another trip out of them. Down in New Mexico on a Sunday evening taking the canoes out, noticed the steel belt was showing.. didn't tell my wife and drove, carefully, back to Denver..

Get well soon Ed.. replaced the alternator, and found out the 2004 model year had two different alternators.. the first one I ordered didn't fit. Returned that for a refund, and took the old one down to the local auto parts place to make sure I got a physical match. Most of the local places...

Clearly alignment problems.. the tires on mine were worn like that, I got an alignment and some new tires which wore exactly the same way. After the second alignment (at a different shop) the second set of new tires is doing much better. As Kale says, need to get the before and after spec...

that's what I'm doing ;-) at 162k so far.. Not sure if my tensioners were ever changed but previous 2 owners were both engineers, and one of them replaced the plastic thermostat housing with a nice alu one.. so I'm hopeful they did it. Most every interaction with the nuts and bolts on mine...

see previous thread, https://sporttrac.org/threads/anybody-else-replaced-wheel-bearings-5-times.86588/#post-748864 I replaced both my front wheel bearings with Timken from RockAuto. One rotor was replaced and those bearings have been fine for about 40k now. The other reused the old rotor...