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- key largo, fl
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- '98 sport
I am not a "wrench-on-the-car" guy.
Used to be a stoned slacker, who did little of anything.
But... Four years ago, I found the right girl, cleaned up, have gotten in shape, started taking my job seriously and magically got promoted(I am now the bar manager at a private yacht club in Key Largo, Fl, to which people who knew me five years ago cannot believe), eventually turned thirty, ditched the drugs, and... ditched my piece of crap car that I had been driving/ neglecting.
I found a really nice Explorer Sport (98), that was in perfect condition three years ago, and got it for a steal, and it has treated me like a king. My girlfriend has never had a car, so we sort of shared mine, which was fine. Like I said, I'm not a car-junkie. I can change a tire, check my fluids, identify a few basic engine parts, and can tell when somethings wrong. Thats it. I certainly don't have a grasp on how things work under the hood, and with the exception of a car-wash now and then, never gave much thought to how it looked on the outside.
Well... my girlfriend finally bought a car. It's a black Jetta, with smoked tail lights and fancy sport headlights, and a fine set of black rims and low-profile tires (sorry my terminology is so bad). It's not an awsome car. But the couple of mods that were made hit home. And now that my explorer is finally ALL MINE, I'm geeked to do a few things to it myself. I found this forum and I'm now more than aware of how sweet my X can be.
Sooooo, first- sorry this was so long winded. Second, I'm going to give her a new paint job. She's going from black and gray to all black. I'm also removing the back wiper and the running boards, and this (finally) leads me to the experts on this forum. Obviously to disassemble the rear wiper you have to do it from the inside. My very beginner-ish question is ... I thought getting to the inside of my tailgate would be easy. Its not. IS there an easy way to get to that wiper assembly? I mean, you don't really just rip off the innterior plastic and hope it snaps back on, right? Or do you. Thanx for your advice and time, and I will have more (less long-winded questions) in the very near future
Used to be a stoned slacker, who did little of anything.
But... Four years ago, I found the right girl, cleaned up, have gotten in shape, started taking my job seriously and magically got promoted(I am now the bar manager at a private yacht club in Key Largo, Fl, to which people who knew me five years ago cannot believe), eventually turned thirty, ditched the drugs, and... ditched my piece of crap car that I had been driving/ neglecting.
I found a really nice Explorer Sport (98), that was in perfect condition three years ago, and got it for a steal, and it has treated me like a king. My girlfriend has never had a car, so we sort of shared mine, which was fine. Like I said, I'm not a car-junkie. I can change a tire, check my fluids, identify a few basic engine parts, and can tell when somethings wrong. Thats it. I certainly don't have a grasp on how things work under the hood, and with the exception of a car-wash now and then, never gave much thought to how it looked on the outside.
Well... my girlfriend finally bought a car. It's a black Jetta, with smoked tail lights and fancy sport headlights, and a fine set of black rims and low-profile tires (sorry my terminology is so bad). It's not an awsome car. But the couple of mods that were made hit home. And now that my explorer is finally ALL MINE, I'm geeked to do a few things to it myself. I found this forum and I'm now more than aware of how sweet my X can be.
Sooooo, first- sorry this was so long winded. Second, I'm going to give her a new paint job. She's going from black and gray to all black. I'm also removing the back wiper and the running boards, and this (finally) leads me to the experts on this forum. Obviously to disassemble the rear wiper you have to do it from the inside. My very beginner-ish question is ... I thought getting to the inside of my tailgate would be easy. Its not. IS there an easy way to get to that wiper assembly? I mean, you don't really just rip off the innterior plastic and hope it snaps back on, right? Or do you. Thanx for your advice and time, and I will have more (less long-winded questions) in the very near future
