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I’ve been on Jalopnik for its complete 15 year existence and this is in the running for the dumbest post I’ve ever seen on here.

My niece did a semester at a French speaking school in Canada - coming from Australia was an interesting experience for her :)

I thought as much - thanks.  The worst we get where I live is occasional black ice.

I went back and counted. I got 52 ads. Every full screen scroll got a new ad. The worst part is how many bronco images I missed the first time through because my phone was too busy loading all the ads. 

I’d love to read this review, but it’s impossible as it crashes my iPhone 12 more than Vin Diesel crashes movie cars.

The sad thing is that someone who doesn’t have six grand on hand is getting a better chance with a low interest car loan for that discounted Journey.

I would be so much happier spending half of that on a used minivan.

I had one of these as a rental once and it is unquestionably the worst car I’ve ever encountered, and I sold used American cars in the mid 00's (looking at you, Dodge Avenger). It was brand new, but it squeaked and rattled and was loud. For 15k though you’d be hard pressed to care about any of those faults.

How is wasting $15k on anything considered a “steal”? like, walk me through the requirements of a buyer sho sees this pile of trash and says, yea I’ll drop $15k (probably over 6 years, but I digress) on this. that seems worth it.”

That’s pretty disturbing. Even $13k is too much to pay for one of these. I was looking at ‘06 Explorers yesterday out of curiosity to see what mine might be worth and one of them was listed for $11k that wasn’t even in very good condition. I got mine in ‘09 (that’s 12 years ago) for $14k. And most others were listed…

Based on the videos, it appears it was just off the transporter, and still in transport mode. It does not appear it was put in there by the new owner, but rather it had not been taken out of the mode yet post-shipping. Also, Transport Mode has no effect on airbag installation.

Victoria,

That’s awesome of you, but my big concern is that her shop is REALLY putting the screws to her.

I really think she needs a second opinion.  If I were in Dallas, I would offer one, however, I’m 5 hours from Dallas.  That’s why I offered to take the estimate from the shop, and re-estimate it using my parts…

It wouldn’t be a rust bucket though. There’s a good chance this thing is simply a parts car at this point. It depends on the condition of the engine and tranny. Might be worth it for them alone. 

Well, prior to clicking on the article, my assumption was that this was going to be one of those 3rd/4th owners who paid maybe upper $20ks for it and then realized that repairs were WAY out of his league and wanted something simpler.

??? where do you get that from? The LNF (and later turbo DI ecotecs) are pretty solid.

Mechanical engineer here. Don’t use these - ever.
The theory that these work on is correct but they will only work with an impact wrench with a specific RPM and certain mass of hammer. Don’t have that specific tool, it won’t work properly. The tightening torque will be too high or too low (usually too high). Shops use…

All of this because he lives in a country where the cost of healthcare would kill him otherwise. This is all great and warm and fuzzy, but let’s not forget that this would not be necessary in a country with a working healthcare system for its citizens. 

Canada has absolutely fumbled it’s COVID response on the 10 yard line. Vaccine role-out has been a joke. And we’re sitting here, with new, significant, restrictions being implemented with exactly the same urgency and need as 13 months ago. It’s absurd.

I’m sure there will be meaningful investigations into what happened and any possibly mitigations that could be put in place to reduce likelihood in future. Everything I’ve ever heard about the organising team has been overwhelmingly positive, and their safety record was pretty exceptional. Maybe there was some…