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Zep, that toy is in like new inside! It's worth finding out what it's worth; I'd think hundreds at least. iirc, the one I saw 30 years ago went for 450. It wasn't that good.
 
Finally rolling 17's on the T-Bird! Long, hassle of a story getting them on. Wheels are from a late model Maverick which happen to have identical specs (lug pattern, hub bore, offset) to MN12 cars. It's like they had an old Thunderbird or Cougar laying around when they decided to design the Maverick wheels and suspension. I needed 17"s to clear the future Cobra brake install.

These are 215/55R17 Blizzaks ordered through Costco. Took the wheels in this morning to have them mounted. Everything was going fine until they called and told me they couldn't install them because Ford never offered 17" wheels on these cars and my car would promptly drive off the road and explode in a ball of flames if I ran them. Actually, first they tried to tell me they can't install tires more than 3% different in size from stock tires. When I pointed out that stock tire size on these is/was 26.6" and these are 26.3" so it should be fine, then they rambled something about aspect ratio and they could only install 225/60R16 or 205/70R15 tires. I was pretty ticked. Called a shop just down the road from me on my way back and they mounted and balanced them for me. Got them installed tonight.

Took it around the block to disprove their explosion and ball of flames theory. Came around the last corner to my house and a wheel fell off and the car exploded in a ball of flames, nope. Everything was fine. Pulled it back in, retorqued the lugs and put it to bed. Moral of the story: if you plan to go off script with wheel/tire size at a chain store it might be easier to just take the wheels in, find a car that came stock with the tire size you are having installed and tell them it is going on that (in this case a 2016 Chrysler 200 would have sufficed). Strangely if I go on their website, they'll happily sell me 17 or 18 inch wheels for this car no problem. Plan to get a quote for 17" wheels and tires from another Costco and take that to the store I was at today with questions.

Real curious to see how they do in the ice and snow. I haven't had dedicated snow tires on a car since the early 90's when snow tires looked like mud bog tires. Undecided if I'll try to make the Maverick center caps work. They grab onto a lip on the lug nuts which mine don't have. Might rig something up with magnets epoxied to the inside of the caps as I've seen others do.

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My wife is pretty cautious. Especially with the T-Bird. Didn't take long to test them out as we got hit with snow again last night/this morning. She said they are great. Guy that mounted/balanced them for me said he likes them quite a bit. Had a friend that swears by Nokian Hakkapeliitta's, but they were significantly pricier and harder to find in my area. At this point, anything was better than the worn out all seasons that were on there.
 
Winter tires on these are a must, that's for sure! :thumbsup:

I had Winterforces on the 94, they were pretty good although noisy. The Altimax Arctics I've been using on the Marks aren't as grippy IMO but they are much quieter. :zdunno:
 
Those are all individual letters? No way I'd ever be able to get them straight in a line so at least they got that part right.

theterminator93 said:
Winter tires on these are a must, that's for sure! :thumbsup:

I had Winterforces on the 94, they were pretty good although noisy. The Altimax Arctics I've been using on the Marks aren't as grippy IMO but they are much quieter. :zdunno:
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I've only run all seasons for the past however many years. They definitely aren't as great as snows (especially from a standstill), but as mentioned above, I find a lot of winter driving is just not being an idiot and knowing what your car is capable of for the conditions present. Getting a set of Blizzaks for my future daughter in law's Matrix on Sunday since she has about as long of a commute as I do. It's mostly self-serving though. If she gets in trouble with her car I'm probably the one who will have to deal with it.
 
It's actually not perfectly straight. The second E is a little high with a forward lean, and the rest of the letters are raked along with it. Also, the keming (kerning) is off between the C and H, and K and E.

Replacement badges should have all the letters pre-aligned on a backing sheet, so they should go on straight and properly spaced relative to one other. It's the actual placement on the body panel that's hard to nail down precisely. I've seen so many replacement badges placed just slightly off that I can pretty easily tell if a Mercedes or Lexus has been rear-ended and repaired by a shop or individual that glossed over the details.
 
Finally got my tint done. It's not perfect, but most people wouldn't notice the issues. Really need another set of hands to take the backing off without wrinkling the tint.

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Also installed husky liner extended splash guards. The factory ones look nice but are too narrow and short.
 
I am going to the bone yard today cause there's a 1991 Black T-Bird, I don't have photos right now as the junk yard doesn't post any but I can post one once I get there, just for fun, I'm hoping its a non-auto headlight car so I can get the turn signal switch and put it into my car in the spring as I still have the auto-headlight switch that doesn't work quite right.
 
Jae 'Bird said:
I am going to the bone yard today cause there's a 1991 Black T-Bird, I don't have photos right now as the junk yard doesn't post any but I can post one once I get there, just for fun, I'm hoping its a non-auto headlight car so I can get the turn signal switch and put it into my car in the spring as I still have the auto-headlight switch that doesn't work quite right.
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The turn signal switch(mfs) is the same whether it’s auto headlight or not, same with the headlight switch even, it’s basically just a fancy relay with a rheostat controlled timer triggered by the sunload sensor within the conventional headlight wiring
 
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Got a new Model Y the other day. Got rid of our Navigator, Cougar isn't ever going away!

Never expected I would own a Tesla, or any EV. But wife and I went to the dealer to test drive one; less than a minute into the drive we were sold. It was basically "shut up and take my money" very quickly :LOL:! The car is hard to describe it's so unlike any other vehicle I have ever been in.... full self driving is absolutely mind blowing
 
XR7-4.6 said:
The turn signal switch(mfs) is the same whether it’s auto headlight or not, same with the headlight switch even, it’s basically just a fancy relay with a rheostat controlled timer triggered by the sunload sensor within the conventional headlight wiring
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That might be true but maybe it’s a Canadian car difference cause I put an auto headlight switch in and it didn’t work right, the high beams had to be activated to get the low beams to work for some reason, just my experience

Question, would super coupe 16in wheels bolt right on to my car that came with 15 in wheels?
 
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Mine wasn't with the 225s.

Joe
 
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