Had that problem on my 2004 - I hosed down the latch first with brake clean to get all the old lubri-fudge out of it, then hosed it down with WD-40. Worked great!

Well, we’ll take it from the top here, because all of my shit has quirks:

Judging by the exhaust, no. No lift, no fear, just balls to the wall!

Take a star for that. LOL!

We decided we’d NEVER be happy with the monthly, LOL. Compounding the problem, I have several friends with them, one of them a Hellcat, and while all of the engines have been sterling, the rear axles notably have been less than optimal in the quality department...along with a few other “expected” FCA quality…

The island of Mod Motor Guy - whereupon everything else I looked at was crap, my family didn’t really fit, or didn’t have enough power to pull a sick whore off a bedpan - or my wife hated it. (Like that Expedition King Ranch I took a liking to that was brown on brown on brown on brown.)

My 2006 Explorer actually does very very well in extreme cold (defined as single digits). Well, pretty much. The engine starts immediately, and runs without complaint. My house is right on a rural highway, so I have about a quarter mile to drive before that highway. The first few shifts, you would think the Exploder…

The car business did this to themselves. The average price of a new car was $35,000?! Really? Here recently, I needed a new car. I had my choice - a brand new Dodge Charger R/T, which would entail me eating crackers for lunch, and skimping on EVERYTHING else for the next 72 months, or a very nice used Ford Explorer,…

What the fuck, Oregon? To start, I haven’t SEEN a full serve station in my neck of the woods since Falcon Crest was on prime time, and the last time I felt all baller and whipped into Full Serve, the snot nosed little shit charged me an extra dollar a gallon, didn’t check under the hood, and dribbled gasoline down my…

Right now, I’m between “hot” cars, so I had to get something to do it all at once, as best it could anyways. My 2006 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer seems to work well, better than I thought, really. It’s a V8, with 292 horsepower, and the automatic 4wd ensures I can keep moving in bad weather, or get the move way harder…

I still play CD’s in my Explorer. It has the in dash 6CD stereo, and it sounds incredible. I did this on purpose, really. It also has the sat-nav system, because I hate cords lying willy-nilly all over my car. When I have a hankering for a certain type of music, I burn a CD, boom, in the changer it goes. It saves me…

I see your points, but as far as investments go, you’re not comparing apples to oranges here. You will ALWAYS make better money on money than any other tangible object. As far as CARS go, a guy could do a lot worse with his automotive pick. You guys don’t get that cars are typically not investments, and as such, the…

Here’s the dealio - this is not a drivable car. THIS is an investment, and frankly, a damned good one. This is the first year of the factory hot rod, with appearance of careful storage, and very low mileage. If you consider what classic car pricing has done over the last several years, in another ten years you can…

Here’s where I spin wrenches:

The LAST thing you want to do with the “Start-U-Bastard” is to spray a shitload of it down the air horn, crank the throttle wide the hell open, stare straight down into the manifold, and calmly say:

“Hit the key.”

Pretty sure I set a record in high school shop class for largest fire-belch, and largest amount of facial…

Color me a little jealous, but......what the fuck?

I can tell you exactly how it wold go down if I were in this situation:

“Maybe you shouldn’t be such a fucking asshole!”

“Is that a felony or a misdemeanor?”

My two coppers on this:

I have to say.....the frame structure looks remarkably good considering how the sheet metal is pretty much blowing away.

Hobbyist meteorologist and storm chaser checking in. My personal thought of what is causing this whole thing.....first off, the car still puts out some carbon monoxide. If the cats cleaned it ALL out, that would mean you could park in the garage, leave it running, and it would never asphyxiate you. We all know that’s…