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Now that I'm without the Mountaineer I've got the following sitting in my garage I don't need. 3.5 gallons of regular Prestone. I've got one gallon of unopened undilluted prestone antifreeze (will yield two gallons), and one and a half gallons of prestone antifreeze that I mixed 50/50. Our...

Went to look at the truck with the insurance adjuster, he and I pried the hood open. Battery came loose in the engine bay and smashed the power steering reservoir. Some oil leaked out along with transmission fluid, and it looks like the engine shifted around a little (or maybe the rest of the...

Well it's an unfair comparison, even a Toyota Corolla is unreliable compared to a 5.0L Windsor and 4R70W! I do share those concerns about the XC90, parts for European cars are more expensive, always need to be ordered, and if a major part fails like an engine or transmission you can't drive up...

My stupidity got me into this mess... and I did thank her and said goodbye. But I will be going back this week to pull the tags so I will be sure to thank her again.

To be clear, I never felt unsafe in the Mountaineer at all, and this wreck shows it is a safe and well made truck. But, it does highlight that technology has changed a lot in the last 15 years. Maybe some of that technology, like stability control, independent rear suspension, adaptive cruise...

Yep, that's blood. As I was sideways I could see the blood pouring out of my head. One of the rescue people said there were some pools of it, and I've got some papers that I pulled out that are completely soaked. My agent almost talked me into cancelling full coverage a year ago. It's only...

At one point I thought about an Excursion as my next truck, but we've already got an Expedition, and I'm not sure I could justify going any bigger. Everybody I talk to that has an Excursion swears they will never give them up. I was toying around with getting an Expedition EL for my wife and...

Hey Guys, thanks for all your well wishes. I feel a ton better. As for some more details and lessons learned, I had cruise control on, wasn't paying nearly enough attention as I was supposed to be, I looked up and I was about a second away from hitting an 18-wheeler. For some reason it...

I wrecked my Mountaineer on Monday. It was an awful scary horrible experience that I hope to never repeat again or wish upon anybody else. I'm not going to go into lengthy details about what happened, other than I rolled the truck at highway speeds, kicked out the windshield when it was all over...