Joe771476
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Yes, don't floor the accelerator from a dead stop! The CV joint wants to rotate but the tire on the asphalt doesn't want to move as quickly due to vehicle weight/friction. Learn how to predict when traffic signals in your circle of travel will turn green and red. Most PROPERLY operating signals either using below asphalt loop sensors or high mounted cameras detect the presence and absence of traffic. When there is a significant absence on the main artery and/or a presence on the side street, the main drag light will turn red. The side street will get a green light for about 7 seconds if there are no cars, or will turn red about 7 seconds after the last car from the side street has passed through the intersection. This wont't work on a busy Main St. where there's signals at every block. But I can drive 50 miles on a secondary state road with 8 or 10 traffic signals spaced out and very rarely have to come to a DEAD stop! Do you know how much more brake wear is incurred bringing a 2 ton vehicle to a dead stop? Likewise, do you know how much more fuel you use bringing that vehicle up to speed from a dead stop? Don't rush up to red lights. Try to maintain a slow roll. My car is supposed to get 25 MPG. I get 31 MPH! I get 150,000 plus miles on a set of brakes. I keep my cars for 12 to 18 years and get 280,000 to 450,000 miles out of them. I also pay very little for property tax and insurance! Keep the oil and coolant full and don't beat your vehicles! Don't be in such a hurry! Go ahead and laugh. I laugh all the way to the bank!
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Joe771476 replied to Joe771476's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
Just watched an episode of American Greed. The episode was titled "Chasing Tesla. It's about the Nikola hydrogen truck hoax. You gotta watch this show; It's amazing what these various fraudsters will do for the almighty dollar! Anyway, the promos pitching the truck tractor and the Badger pickup truck were hoaxes. The video promo showing the tractor trailer doing 60 MPH on a road was the result of sending the truck down a steep hill and then filming it on level ground! It had no motor! The Badger pickup truck was a cosmetic makeover of a Ford F150! At the time of the episode airing, he was supposedly going to be sentenced in 2023. But the Nikola company is supposedly still in business, but I don't know to what extent and I haven't searched it yet. Even GM was hoodwinked and hooked up with Nikola at some point. -
Biden Admin Considering Delaying EV Mandates
Joe771476 replied to Footballfan's topic in E.V. Central
Finally the insanity is abating?! -
A company in business since 1903 should not have quality issues. That being said, these younger generations can't produce the quality of past generations. The best solution is going back to the Rouge plant: Everything in-house. Bring the raw materials in the back door and spit out the finished product at the front door. How can you ship all these components from other subcontracting plants and foreign countries without the shipping costs negating the labor savings? I don't think you can justify it anymore. Yeah I know some resources aren't here in the USA. But let's give it a try and do as much as possible to not rely on other entities.
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Joe771476 replied to Joe771476's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
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Ford to Rethink Where It Builds Its Vehicles.
Joe771476 replied to mackinaw's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
Let them price themselves out of a job! We won't be able to afFORD a Ford! And if Ford continues its path toward EV's, they will be out of business! -
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Joe771476 replied to Joe771476's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
So I haven't been hallucinating?!!! LOL -
You can't reduce the carbon footprint of a carbon based planet. Don't even try! They're just wasting billions of dollars. Our bodies are made up of 19% carbon. Without carbon and CO2 we'd be dead! Every human exhales 2.2 lbs. of CO2 per day. The population of the USA and the world has doubled in the last 50 years or so. So let's blame people! Trees need CO2 to fight off infestation and disease. I submit the climate change agenda is harming the planet. These scientists came up with this greenhouse effect nonsense and people bought into it?! Really? These scientists say milk and eggs are good one year, second year not, third year good again. Pluto was a planet, now it's not. When a hurricane is coming they draw 10 paths of where it might go. But let's believe these scientists for a moment. They say we've had climate change events (warming AND cooling) for million of years, right? There were no cars and industrial plants back then! All the cars and industrial plants don't emit what human exhalation, rotting vegetation and volcanoes do! Oh sure, I'm all for finding alternate energy sources and we shouldn't dump plastic in our oceans. But leave the chemical balance of the earth alone! Humans take in oxygen, emit CO2. Trees do the opposite. It all happens at low altitude. And this is not by accident. An intelligence was involved! I'll let YOU decide where that intelligence came from. The Earth will still be here long after man. What? You don't believe that last statement? We're building robots that someday will be building more robots. Apparently we've learned nothing from the Terminator movies! Man is the dumbest species on the planet!
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Erratic Message Center
Joe771476 replied to Bob Rosadini's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
This is why I don't buy new vehicles anymore. Too much electronic baloney. I buy 10 to 15 yr old vehicles I can fix myself most of the time and drive them another 200K miles for 10 more years. Mostly Fords. -
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Joe771476 replied to Joe771476's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
We must be living in the Twilight Zone here in New England because F650/750's are booming here! CT DOT bought a bunch. They haven't bought Ford class 6/7 since 1997! I'm seeing a ton of flatbeds, dumps, rentals, box/general delivery. -
2024 Ford Edge Production Will End In Late April
Joe771476 replied to silvrsvt's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
Ford Edge is a huge seller here in New England. Another dumb move by Ford, just like the Fusion and Taurus. Stop building EV's! They're all done! -
The Grumman cube shaped aluminum bodied LLV mail truck based on a 1985 Chevy S10 chassis/engine that's been around for 40 years here in the USA has RIGHT hand steering.That's how they are able to put the mail in the mailboxes on the right side of the road. I know, I've driven them delivering Express Mail even though I was a clerk, not a carrier. I think the new Mercedes (Metris?) van is right hand drive also, but not sure. I will check that out soon
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So why is Hertz dumping 20,000 EV's? Why did CT's governor call off a vote on mandating all EV's by 2035? Why did Ford lose billions on F150 lightnings? Why have they curbed production on them? As to Ford being stupid, giving away the L-series class 8 biz to Freightliner after having retooled and redesigned it one year earlier back in 1997, dumping Fusion and Taurus and handing over the police cruiser sedan biz to Chrysler/Stelantis, getting rid of farm tractor biz all to improve shareholder value which wasn't accomplished, does qualify as stupid.
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Farley Says Boring Vehicles Are Going Away
Joe771476 replied to silvrsvt's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
Gee I see a ton of Escapes and Edges here in New England. And they're going to discontinue them? Well what do you expect from a company that sold off Ford farm tractor, Class 8 L-series truck, and discontinued Taurus and Fusion to name a few! -
But is this to meet DEMAND or just to fulfill a CONTRACT clause? They'll lose money if it's the latter! Also, reducing EV production is a no-brainer since EV's have quickly lost the interest of the consumer. EV's are seeing their mileage distance cut in half due to the cold temps and they can't even be charged in cold temps!
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Joe771476 replied to Joe771476's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
I was watching WORLDS DUMBEST Tru TV show and this episode was about dumbest performers. A fireman in Europe somewhere was demonstrating fire safety and behind him was an old Ford Cargo fire truck from the 80's/90's. The demonstration went terribly wrong by the way!