Stupid frakin' Ford Cars

Charli

Charli

cool little "title"
I was to spend the day with my son up in San Jose. We were to drop his
Camaro to be sold at this cool consignment shop. We are only a few miles
out of Santa Cruz and that stupid, frackin' Ford Explorer of ours acts likes
it's running on 7 cyclinders. Same problem as before.

Stupid car has been in shop way too often. We just bought this car.
Cosmetically it looks great. It's a '98. Stupid frackin' car however has
its problems.

I'm really starting to dislike Ford products.

ARG. I'm going to have some lunch and walk the beach.

Charli
 
NIce day in san jose today. I think ill leave the office for a bit and walk around downtown San Jose
 
Cynic821 said:
NIce day in san jose today. I think ill leave the office for a bit and walk around downtown San Jose
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That's nice...it's hot down here...88 with a projected high of 95. I thought summer was over. Oh well, that's the Santa Anas for you.

Charli said:
I'm going to have some lunch and walk the beach.

Charli
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I imagine the beaches down here are going to be crowded (given the time of year) because of the heat.
 
What's an American car and what isn't? Hondas are built in Tennessee, Fords are built in Mexico, etc. Ford owns Jaguar, and Mercedes owns Chrysler. Even Japanese cars aren't built in Japan, now a lot of them are built in India...
 
My Ford focus has not done one thing wrong in three years except go really slow around Taco Bell. I believe they are a German design originally. I see this car as a proud feather in Fords cap.
 
Im a FORD guy, almost every Chevy i see has a rooster sticker on the door. Tho Dodge has made a huge comeback in my mind and every one of their cars/trucks screams 'ill kick you ass' my brother had a Dodge Ram 1500, those things are bad ass.
 
Here's the final moments of the last Ford I owned... 1987 Cougar. This was in 2003 -- picked it up for $2,500 I drove it all through college... until the final months that is.

The temp light came on so I pulled into Exxon to get some water, which is when I noticed the flames coming out of the hood. Oops. Too late to move the car now, so I scrambled to get my video gear and computer outta there. The photo is after the smoke cleared. You couldn't see anything at the gas station for a while... until after the fire truck arrived.

The station owner was not happy... then again, neither was I.

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You can see some of the last few flames under the tire there.

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Poor car... :(

I ended up selling the car on ebay for $100. Somebody came from 400 miles away to tow it off. That's my Ford story. Too bad it was my pre-DVX days. Would've made for some decent footage.
 
My '99 Taurus hasn't given me any problems since I picked it up in 2003.

And the built in car phone is pretty spiffy. I tell ya guys, you want to pick up the ladies, get yourself a non-working car phone bolted into your dash. It's like a freakin' Axe commercial when I drive around. More vehicular related deaths however...
 
I'm extremely happy with my PT Cruiser. Only two small gripes with it- I would like a little more pep than the 4 banger puts out, and would really like a tad more space in the trunk area. But as small as it is, I was still able to load two kids, two dogs, a cat, a bird, a lizard, food, clothes, and evacuate during the hurricanes in '04. I also get about 300 miles to a 12 gallon tank.
 
Look, the Telsa myth is well travelled, its one of those Zero Energy aka "Free Energy" Stories floating on the net.

I remember the time and effort I wasted with one of these stupid claims:

MEG (Motionless Electromagnetic Generator), I EVEN joined into their close groups of builders, and was given plans and stuff, and you know NOT a Single guy had anything near working, a year later I gracefully left the crackpots , you know why, because behind all the nice "fluff" and *maths Candy* the reality was clear this was just another Free Energy hoax !! [1]

Damn, you Telsa! you could have left us the secret to Zero Point Energy! ;)

Probably the reason he did'nt leave anything behind is because It breaks the basic laws of physics (laws of continuity):

Engery In = Energy Out

To get over unity is Impossible, it has been the W*t Dreams of many a young nerdy guys (including myself, though I was more of a Cool/Smart/Popular/ dude than a nerd).

Anyway Pure EV's technology means a car that can do almost 400 mile to the charge (The Sunrise Solectra, shame it was dropped from the Guiness Book of World Records), also at a Charging cost of about £3.5 ($7.00 approx) about four to five years ago [1A]

Also Toshiba has demonstrated that these Lihium Ions can be charged in under 60 seconds (using nano-technology) [2]

The only thing holding these technology back is economics, it just cost too much to make Lithium Ions for a typical EV (about £20,000, $40,000) per car, which is kind expensive. Still mass production could easly make it viable.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn
[1A] http://www.evuk.co.uk/
[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/29/toshiba_li-ion_battery/
 
I'd certainly never want a car that draws its power from current Li-Ion technology. Imagine that thing catching fire? Only solution would be new technology such as Nanotechnology, like mentioned. (http://www.a123systems.com)

It's probably no suprise that there's job opening at Tesla Motors for: Manufacturing Engineer - Energy Storage System Development! :)

Still a great car though...
 
Dude, you have a mobile/cell phone *probably* on you right now as does millions of people around the world, further it is probably powered by LI-ION batteryies (unless its a really old model). When was the last time your battery in your cell phone ever caught fire out of curosity? not often I hope :)

Riding in a conventional car that has peterol/dielsel storeage that is HIGHLY flameable chemical is not worrying to you?

But I understand your concern, most probably due to the recent fiasco over the "Burning Laptops" but to the reason why this has occured its due to the fact of Consumers demand for ever smaller batteries, hence the "Seperator" has been made thiner to allow further size reduction However at the cost of increasing the risk of battery damage and failure. But normally this is not the case.

See:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dell-battery-fire.htm

Dude, as an engineer, it boggles the mind, today we are running around using ICE's its just utter madness. When It takes over two tonns of machineary to move a 70Kg (avergage guy) around, something has gone badly wrong
 
" When It takes over two tonns of machineary to move a 70Kg (avergage guy) around,"

Aye, indeed!

By the way, we make our own Li-Ion battery packs, and know their limitations and strengths well. The concern is a MASSIVE amount in one place. There's a good reason transportation authorities have restrictions on the weight of Li-Ion batteries during transport.

And to answer your question: "When was the last time your battery in your cell phone ever caught fire out of curosity? not often I hope "

I'll quote Andrew Phillips who said it best: "You've got lithium-ion batteries in all sorts of things -- cell phones, iPods, and other household goods. But generally none of those run into each other at 100 kilometers per hour like cars do."
 
No need to worry about cell phone or lap top batteries exploding any more- Good news!

Last issue of DV magazine reviewed recharge your own Hydrogen batteries! I just can't wait for those puppies top start popping!
 
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