Well I don't have a VIN or a build date yet, I ordered the car on April 17th
We know a lot of the June orders got pushed into July
Now we see the production plans for most of August, and the 5.0 motor seems to be made out of unobtanium.
I can't find a 5.0 automatic 3 stage red 401A package GT...
Here is Fords installation manual for the Ford Performance Whipple kit
https://performanceparts.ford.com/download/instructionsheets/IS_M-6066-M8800_043024.PDF
the best way to hedge your position on pricing is to join MCA for $35 wait 90 days and you can get a X plan number
With X plan it is 99.4% of invoice, and a iirc $275 plan fee, and the Doc fee the dealer can charge you is limited to something very reasonable.
Plus you get any incentives...
A flashing CEL is the sure sign of one or more plugs not firing
If you have an intermittent misfire, with enough counts to trip the light, you will get a code P0300 for multiple misfires followed by P030X with X being the cylinder number.
A solid light and a warning about misfire is you have...
It looks like my Mustang order is going to be built if at all late in the summer, and I needed the car by mid July in order to break it in and get it moved to Florida for the winter.
So I am THIS close for asking for my deposit back as the car is not scheduled and the dealer said 90 days to get...
My Toyota Highlander does the same thing, unless you have a firm touch on the wheel it will prompt you with a message to put your hands on the wheel.
I rarely use the lane centering or other driver assist functions, except for the occasional use of the adaptive cruise on long stretches of...
1994 C4 with 47K miles, and a pristine 2007 Mustang GT Premium ragtop that had 14,049 mile on it when it left my driveway for the last time last Friday.
Once I see what the 60th anniversary package is I will put my order in for a 2024 GT Premium ragtop
Here is my dilemma
I can buy a 2013 Z06 Vette, Anniversary edition, LT4 with under 4000 miles on it for 37 grand
Or I can X plan a GT Premium ragtop with a paint option, Auto, 401A and a spare tire for about 56000
The Mustang is going to depreciate like a rock, the Vette has already eaten up...
I wish.
My 2007 GT Premium came with the higher trim level wheels that made the car look like my secretary should have been driving it
When I got the car in the fall of 2020, it had 8400 miles on it.
I wanted the 5 spoke wheels, and Ford was blowing them out for $94 dollars my cost... a great...
try being a lube tech somewhere and having to drop those shields off of 16 cars a day, and on some cars (TOYOTA !!!) the plastic push clips are almost "single use" items.
In the bad old days when I was wrenching full time, this was simple stuff.
Now it is R&R shields and the reset procedures...
and any collision avoidance system, and other systems require that the steering angle sensor has to be calibrated to match the front wheels.
The steering wheel should be straight and the sensor should be correct too, there is no more Mickey Mousing things to compensate for bad or warn parts...
Someday Ford is going to do what Harley did in 2003, and what Toyota does with their TRD trucks.... yes the parts exist as crash parts replacements, but if you want the dealer to order the parts from you you have to return the damaged parts to the dealer, or if they were stolen we want a Police...
remember folks, even with the Ford TPMS tool, there is a HUGE difference in the programming procedure for rotating tires with TMPS sensors that are already "registered" to the car's computer, vs the procedure to "register" TMPS sensors that are not in the computer.
The way I get around this ( I...