Might finally be jumping ship for a SHO
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DeviLSh
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Please let me know if thats the case. (I will watch this thread as well)
Also, please get the dark green SHO.
Also, please get the dark green SHO.
What year? Try to get CPO car. The PTU units are not very robust. And make sure it doesn't have Hankooks on it!! I can't stress that enough. Pay extra to have them swap them if needed.
I bought a CPO '13 ecoboost flex limited for a the family plus crap hauler and its basically an SHO in a box. I love it; no significant issues for the last year. Great torque but eats tires on the front so rotate frequently. Handling is perfectly acceptable for such a heavy car (SHO obviously a little lighter) even when your used to a lowered LS.
Waiting for CPO warranty to be up so I can throw a 93 tune on it >
What are you expecting for trade value? My LS had so many miles the trade value just wasn't there so I decided to keep it. Glad I did. My father drove it home behind me when I picked up the Flex and despite driving my new car and smelling that glorious new smell, I was equally joyed to see the LS following me home.
I bought a CPO '13 ecoboost flex limited for a the family plus crap hauler and its basically an SHO in a box. I love it; no significant issues for the last year. Great torque but eats tires on the front so rotate frequently. Handling is perfectly acceptable for such a heavy car (SHO obviously a little lighter) even when your used to a lowered LS.
Waiting for CPO warranty to be up so I can throw a 93 tune on it >
What are you expecting for trade value? My LS had so many miles the trade value just wasn't there so I decided to keep it. Glad I did. My father drove it home behind me when I picked up the Flex and despite driving my new car and smelling that glorious new smell, I was equally joyed to see the LS following me home.
Yeah, the trade in value on a 10-year old abandoned car with 144K-mi that needs a diff rebuild, AC compressor/etc, shocks rebuilt (or replaced), and some body work on the front bumper is probably $1000 if that. I'm just going to keep it and play with it. Wait until it's cooler outside and then do that 3.73 8.8" rear conversion and a few other things I've been wanting to do but can't since it was a daily driver.
chris2523
93 Mark VIII
+1 on SHO ptu issues. need frequent fluid changes.
Well I found a deal I couldn't pass up. A fully loaded 2016 Transit Connect Titanium wagon with 12K-mi for $21K CPO. Big enough that I can make trips to home depot while renovating my house, haul servers to the data center, haul a couple of dead bodies around, etc. I drove the SHO and found a CPO with 27K-mi for $32K but I wasn't in love with it and I'm just kind of burned out on high-strung cars at the moment. I wanted something I could just beat the hell out of with cheap pump gas get good mileage and not have to worry about dinging it in a parking lot or with 2x4's rattling around in the back of it.
A pretty big swing, but ohh well. At least now I can do that 8.8" swap I've always wanted to
A pretty big swing, but ohh well. At least now I can do that 8.8" swap I've always wanted to
elephantrider
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i didn't even know what a transit connect was, so had to look it up. yeah.. uh.. that is a difference
from the ls !
from the ls !
Yeah, it doesn't need worked on and I don't care if I run over stuff! Priorities change, I needed something to haul stuff more then I needed a luxury sport car. Turns out the LS doesn't haul 800-pounds of computer equipment very well. Also kind of hard to haul crap back from home despot when trying to renovate my house. So an econobox beater it is.
On the flip side, that thing has more creature features then my LS and my shoulders don't hit the b-pillars. AC also blows nice and cold without having to drive at 30mph for a couple minutes. It actually has power folding mirrors and the panoramic glass roof of all damn things. Why? I've no clue.
Best part is something breaks and it's going to be a $50 part, not searching around to see if some dealer in BFE has it in stock cause it's on national back order again or that it's just EOL like with the LS. The ecoboost engines also have issues misfiring during cold start up because the direct injection causes build up in the heads. Ford's official solution is to reman the heads since any sort of induction cleaning burns the turbos up. The PTU in the AWD is also a maintenance hassle like chris said. That aside, even at a CPO price point for a SHO, I was looking at around $700/mo or more for anything I could find locally. Turns out I'm a frugal (or cheap) bastard.
The dealer did throw in a pair of truck nuts just in case I lost mine though.
elephantrider
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oh man, you GOTTA get a set of truck nutz for that thing !
Those things aren't just vulgar they're classless! They belong in a trailer park!
HAH! The guys I work with already bought me a card that said "Sorry for your loss". I have it sitting next to the truck nuts in my book shelf at work.
Plus I'd probably get the classier version like these: http://www.banggood.com/Cycling-Nig...B-Bike-Rear-Light-Heart-Design-p-1058852.html
FDR
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We have a 2013 and 2014 Connect as shuttles at work. The 14 (new gen) is a huuuuuuge improvement. The 14 also happens to be a Titanium, but with the nonturbo engine, no Nav, and no moon roof. Why did they give yours a panoramic moon? Because Ford really wanted to believe the Connect was going to sweep the nation as an economic minivan (I. E. Mazda 5) and that demand would be out the ass for personal use. Same for the full size Transit, but relying on upfit companies such as Explorer. In reality, they're just another commercial crap hauler. But hey, they do sell really well. They both certainly look nicer than what Dodge and Nissan offer. The full size dodge is also Fwd.... Ew. But Ford isn't catering to new parents who want sliding doors
And yeah, great fuel economy. I can pull almost 30mpg highway/20 town in our 14 lunchbox (not the old one though... God help that pathetic1-2 shift with seemingly mismatched gear ratios. It does 0-60 by sometime tomorrow)
Auto power folding mirrors that fold with the locks is a nifty trick. I can't stand the way Ford matches tan and black interior parts though
And yeah, great fuel economy. I can pull almost 30mpg highway/20 town in our 14 lunchbox (not the old one though... God help that pathetic1-2 shift with seemingly mismatched gear ratios. It does 0-60 by sometime tomorrow)
Auto power folding mirrors that fold with the locks is a nifty trick. I can't stand the way Ford matches tan and black interior parts though
Yeah, the only things this doesn't have is the TouchScreen/Navigation (MyTouch), Blindspot and Cross Traffic Alerts (BLIS), 17" Aluminum wheels (16" aluminum on it), or the tow package. Got pretty much everything else you can think of. I'm enjoying the econobox. The headroom is f'ing AWESOME! Burning cheap gas is also a nice perk. There's about a 70-cents per gallon difference between 93 and 87 down here. $10 per fillup adds up over a year. I figure it'll be about a $500 difference for me. The handling is also surprisingly good, especially when compared to a truck or an SUV like an Explorer.
As a daily driver it's a hell of a lot better then the LS, but it's certainly no replacement for it. Hence why the LS is still in the driveway collecting cats. Every day I walk out there and there's more and more cats sitting on the roof sunbathing. LOL
The Transits were originally dressed up with nonsensical creature comfort features in order to exploit a tariff loophole. If they added those "features" they didn't count as commercial light trucks which are taxed higher than "passenger vehicles". Cost Ford a hundred or three but saved them thousands in tariffs.
FDR
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Decent, but the wheel hop in ours is downright jarring when you punch it in a turn...
Picked up an oddball today. near-base XLT, no windows, cloth seats, but the touch screen nav. The smaller screen made my hands look monstrous. Most of these are 8". The Connect and Fiesta come with a 6" screen
Not quite. They were built outside of the US with glass doors and a second row of seats. That's all it takes to be classified as a passenger vehicle and avoid the 25% chicken tax on imported commercial vehicles (same story with the Subaru Brat). Upon arriving in the US, a specialized shop (in Newark, NJ, I think) would swap out the doors and remove the seats on most of them. Ford was told to stop this practice in 2013.
The additional creature comforts are there because the Connect is the only reasonable passenger vehicle with sliding doors (read: mom van) in the Ford lineup
I haven't had too many issues with wheel hop. I noticed it spin more then hop but I guess I haven't gotten on it hard enough yet. Either that or the tires they put on to qualify for the CPO are crap. Other then that it goes pretty good wherever I point it. About the only time I end up waiting for the 4-banger to spin up is when trying to hit 70 on the interstate from an on-ramp.
I'm glad I don't have the MyTouch radio. Every rental I've had with it just drove me nuts. The touch screen was either comatose or selected the wrong thing half the time.
On a side note, a dishwasher and 6 cu.ft chest freezer fit into it just fine today. I couldn't hardly believe it but slid right in no issues. The way they did the fold-flat seats in this thing was pretty ingenious.
On a side side note, I'm up to 3 cats hanging out on the LS. No clue why they like it so much more then any other car in the neighborhood. One of these weekends it won't rain all day and I can do the valve covers and get it finished just in time for something else to break. Always something with it anymore
HyeLifeLS
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My pops has a transit connect that he uses for work. It's awsome. Great choice.
