My 2000 5.4l Eddie Bauer 4x4

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Wait, sorry. I had to look in my repair manual to find which wire was positive. And I just looked under the hood but it’s not easy to see.
 

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Ahhhhh, I’ve never seen the sunroof, I’ve had 2 expeditions and both controls were on the ceiling, that’s why I was confused, not retarded.
 
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Could it be?

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It’s not official yet, only because I need to prep it, but its days are numbered.

Stay tuned for the replacement.
 
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Yes! It’s sold. I sold it to a buddy’s brother who needed a truck while he’s in TX on his 3 week rotations. The truck will be used to go to the oil rig, grocery store and wherever home may be.

Sold it for $2000. Not bad considering I bought it for $4500 almost 5 years ago and drove it for 87,500 miles. In that time, I spent over $15,300 in gas alone! It had 262k miles on it at the time of sale.

The new truck is a 2014 XLT. Follow along with that:
https://www.expeditionforum.com/threads/tom’s-2014-xlt-4x4.42823/
 

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Sad to hear that it's left the stable. It was a great, very helpful, informative build thread and can't wait to read about all the changes/upgrades coming to the new one! Congratulations on the clean find.
 

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So after about a month of looking on autotrader and Craigslist, I finally found one that was worthy of me parting with my money.

As you can see, it's a black 2000 Eddie Bauer with the 5.4L. As far as I can tell, it has about every option except the rear parking sensors.

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The interior is rather disgusting but 15 years and 174k miles and the drivers seat is not ripped. That is rare:
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It's got some paint traded on the left wheel flare:
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The bumper chrome looks bad vim not big into chrome so I'm not sure what I'll do here:
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I haven't looked too closely at the motor for leaks. It was dusty though:
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It rides well. Do all EBs come with air suspension?

The left rear tire was at 20 psi. I inflated it to 34. I guess I'll see if it leaks.

I'm not thrilled with the wheels. They are ugly and caked in years of brake dust. I'll probably look into getting new wheels and selling these things. The tires are nearly new Big O Big Foot AT tires.

The brakes are nearly worn out. I'll be putting new pads on soon for sure- possibly rotors.

I've started going over the interior with a Magic Eraser. The center console is not black anymore. The seats are coming along. I had to cut it short because it started raining/sleeting/snowing. Tomorrow will be full of cleaning the interior and adding some leather conditioner to the seats.
 

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If you want to, watch Stauffer Garage on vehicle detailing. I had detailed cars at a body shop along time ago. This guy has some pretty good cleaning equipment and attachments. I will be using some of his techniques with my own. Hope it is helpful to you.
 

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Prolly easier to just replace that carpet vs shampooing it.

I’d like to find a dude like that around here.
 
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I don’t know. Hot summer day. A pressure washer. Another car to drive while it dries.

Pretty easy.

A bunch cheaper too.

If your carpet isn’t super disgusting, I’d wash it.
 

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