Our backup lights suck, strong plate lights actually help you see all those pesky shopping carts, toddlers, and grannies with strollers....
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Our backup lights suck, strong plate lights actually help you see all those pesky shopping carts, toddlers, and grannies with strollers....
ExpeditionAndy
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Adieu, you could always get a "Mon back man" to stand behind you when you back up - he'll say "mon back, mon back..."
Adieu, you could always get a "Mon back man" to stand behind you when you back up - he'll say "mon back, mon back..."
After driving a large RV for years, I just start rolling backwards slowly. You'd be surprised how effective driving like a blind idiot can be. There are some situations where you simply cannot see behind you.
star-art
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If you can disable "fast flash" with FORscan, that would be better than installing resistors. The resistors dissipate a lot of power and they can get HOT -- especially when brake lights are involved as they can stay ON for relatively long periods of time.
If I can't sweet talk a service manager into getting a tech to disable it for free, that's my route. I'm going in with the argument that over the past 10 years my family has purchased over $500,000 worth of Fords from the same dealership, the leastvthey can do is take 10 minutes to hook it up and disable it free of charge.
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There's lots of stuff Forscan can do. Extinguishing the headlight and fog light blinding green indicators on the dash made little sense to me until a long drive in the dark this weekend. Gonna set them Off as soon as I can.
Notes here indicate some (many?) dealers don't have a clue how to enable/disable things like this.
-- Chuck
Notes here indicate some (many?) dealers don't have a clue how to enable/disable things like this.
-- Chuck
jeff kushner
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I would suggest that you guys getting into the programming and in some cases De-programming make a sticky thread that you guys can add to. It will keep all that knowledge in one spot for everyone interested to find easier.
jeff
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What's the diff??
ExpeditionAndy
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The torx security bits have the little hole in the center that allows the bit to fit over the pin in the center of the screw. Just another tool to buy. Great if you are a tool guy, which I am.
ExpeditionAndy
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The torx security bits have the little hole in the center that allows the bit to fit over the pin in the center of the screw. Just another tool to buy. Great if you are a tool guy, which I am.
But expy torx bolts dont HAVE that pin
And the ones with pinholes get chewed up into an inoperable mess, FAST, due to structural weakness
ExpeditionAndy
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That's why they are security screws they are designed to make them hard to remove for security reasons. Usually you find them on electronics but you sometimes find them in commercial bathroom stalls where they want to keep the public from damaging equipment and panels.
Huh....maybe THATS why i got a set of those Torx bits from a vietnamese independent auto parts store in the same aisle as the lockpick kits....
I've never had that happen. It was just a recommendation. Odds are that one day you'll need a T-23 security Torx, you'll remember you purchased the regular Torx bits, and then you'll remember this thread......all the way to the tool store.
My utterly shredded kit of Torx Security Impacts, which prompted waiting till morning, making an hour trip and a $30 or so wasted at autozone for that other set, begs to differ...
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Btw most of these were shredded by hand, no power tools no extensions no breaker bars....and yeaaaaah baby, that there T55 is noticeably chewed up too
Please don't take this too critically, but I'd say those tools were crap to begin with, most likely made with gun metal instead of hardened steel. And I must say Torx-style impact tools just seem.....wrong. What is that..an impact T-5 on the far right? Really?
Just about all securely fastened interior parts in Expys are mounted with self-tapping T55
