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I'm asking because this past weekend I had to change my thermostat housing for the third time in four years. My stock thermostat housing started leaking around 172K miles in Nov 2017. I took it to my mechanic back then when I didn't know what the source of the coolant leak was. About a year...

Since it's been nice spring weather, I decided to finally do something about the faded gray plastic trim around most of my Explorer. I've long wanted to do something about it anyway since one piece of molding was slightly bent and flawed after losing a clip. I went to the junkyard and got a...

I hope this isn't tl;dr but I want to include all the important details. After having a new radiator, upper, lower, and overflow hoses replaced last Friday, I've been keeping an eye out for any continued leaks and this morning I was disheartened to see a small puddle on the driver side that...

For a few years my SUV has had a small coolant leak from the overflow hose at the bottom end. SUV has never overheated; I've just periodically had to top off with coolant in the reservoir. The other day I noticed a very small puddle at a different area of the garage floor and saw that it was...

After my most recent car battery died after only 15 months in my stock 2002 XLT (and the previous one after 2 years 4 months), I decided to have the alternator checked and check for any parasitic drains. The alternator is fine. With the multimeter, after having the car sat off for several...

This past weekend, I noticed a rather moderate sized puddle of coolant underneath my car in the garage. Attached are pictures from underneath the car where it seems to be coming from (blue arrow). The coolant seems to drip down from where the blue arrow is to the bar in the second picture...

Since about 2006, the rear driver's side window stopped working (wouldn't roll up or down with either the driver switch or the rear passenger switch). I honestly never cared to do anything about it. Then yesterday while driving I accidentally pushed the rear passenger switch when I meant to roll...

Long story short, I damaged my front bumper (was not thinking when it happened and am kicking myself about it). Not horribly, but I'm definitely going to need to replace the front bumper and the passenger fog light cover. No amount of bondo will fix the plastic. I'm planning to DIY and was...

Hi all, My beloved Explorer was side-swiped a few months ago and scraped up along the driver side. As part of the repair, the body shop had to replace the gray plastic molding. Yesterday when I was opening the rear door on the driver side, I felt resistance as the door wasn't opening all the...

So I'm going to Tahoe this weekend and it's supposed to snow. My X is a 2WD so I need to get chains because there might be snow this weekend. I can get a new, unused pair on craigslist for $30 (Cobra Jr) or I can spend $89 for the Z-Chains at Pep Boys. Which one should I get? For the Cobra, I'm...