I wish I had a positive experience like that. I ripped my dealership, Ford contacted me with a followup survey to make sure they understood the problem. Ford then contacted me 6 weeks later to see if the dealership had reached out to me to correct the issue. They had not.

That’s too bad. We bought a Sonic last year and I actually like it a lot better then the Mazda3 Hatchback it replaced.

Sport seats out of a BMW E39. They will hold you firmly in place and yet I have pushed my car’s 500 mile/tank range and still felt fresh when I got out of the car.

Sorry. Still laughing about the mandatory meeting at 3:30 taking away from teaching the great young minds of America. The teachers at my kid’s school will run you over if you get between them and the parking lot as soon as the ending bell rings. Their union is so in favor of helping the young minds of America that…

I must be driving the wrong type of vehicle. In the last 2 years I have replaced the cooling system on a BMW e39 as well as the upper and lower control arms. In both cases I ended up going to Ebay but all the parts listed on Ebay were the brand name parts. There were no cheaper knock-offs available. I certainly wish…

Curses. Now I have to send a “Thank You” note to Nissan for selling me an extra special Non-Carjackable key fob. My stupid fob fails to “pair” with the car about every third time.

Your setup sounds a lot like mine with the lone exception being I am using an HDHomerun for OTA instead of CableCard.

Nope.

I’m not a big fan of the way that the author threw in the “Oh, by the way there is a fee to use Plex” at the very end of the article and didn’t add that fee to his cost equation. For some people the extra $5/month for PlexPass makes this a non-starter as a solution.

I use the “Channels” feature on Plex. This gives me whatever is on the provider’s website for free and acts as a very simplified DVR. As an added bonus it also cuts out the commercials that CBS and NBC are so fond of adding to their online offerings.

His jump shot looks more like a two handed bounce pass at the rim.

Why is it so ugly? Is it cheaper to design and build an ugly car?

Next year - Cobb Tuning shift kit!

My mistake. I assumed that you had gotten a full-on Honda mower with the composite deck and everything.

I ended up finding the junction box for about $165 at the pick and pull but it took me 18 months to find it. During that time I had no horn.

Wow! Slow down! No one said anything about a fancy Honda mower. I haven’t seen a Honda mower for less then $500. This gives it a $/HP ratio of closer to $185/HP. That’s some fancy power there, young man.

Is it a 2.3l with the 5 speed stick? From my reading that seems to be the “magical” combination.

I had a ‘14 as a rental car and it was a Rolls Royce compared to the tin can ‘04.

Not even Ford reliability. Ford used that 2.3l in everything and had decent succes with it. The Mazda was just a turd.

Actually, that was the most disheartening part of the whole ordeal. Ford has put that exact same 2.3l in millions of vehicles so why is it failing at such an astronomical rate in this particular application?