celly
disturber of the peace
- Joined
- July 28, 2004
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- City, State
- calgary
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 99 eb 5.0 awd
I did the deed. Traded in my beloved '00 Sport today. It was hard to do. I love that thing. Ever since we had a kid just over a year ago, I realized how much I need a 4 door. Avoided it. Until recently.
Scored a '99 Eddie Bauer. 5.0 V8 and AWD. Excellent condition but a tad neglected. It's the green one. Only 53,000 km (just under 32,000 miles) or about 5,000 miles/year. It was priced similar to many 2000 Eddies I've seen with the same specs, but with 120,000 km+ (72,000 miles). Couldn't resist. I did a Carfax on it and it came back pretty clean. We figure it must've been a little old lady who never drove it. A few nagging issues:
-it came with the stock top-end stereo (changer, sub etc). Display keeps vanishing. I seem to recall reading about that somewhere. I plan to put in my old system, but not yet. Any ideas what's up with that?
-Took it in for a quick oil change at "Mr. Lube". They found a leak at the junction of the tranny and engine. It's definitely sweating a bit and I'm hoping it doesn't stain the driveway! I'm contacting the dealer tomorrow morning on that one. Anyone know what it might be? We figure a gasket may have shrunk because the Ex has been sitting around for a bit. Everything else looked great under the hood and the tranny fluid looked OK as well.
-comes with that funky built in garage door opening thing. Anyone have any ideas how to program it? No owners manual included.
Overall I feel I got a killer deal. Only drawback is some of my mods are no longer compatible. I'm going to try and use the Volant box and filter and maybe my C&L MAF. Obviously the intake tube from the Volant won't work. I've already contacted our good friend Doug at Bama about re-programming my XC2 and will be researching exhaust soon. I've heard Magnaflows work well on the 5.0. I'm thinking of Flowmaster 50 series. I'm trying to avoid too much cabin noise. May consider a 70 series, but they seem too tame. Any input is appreciated. I did a lot of searching this weekend and didn't really find a consensus as to which works best with the 5.0.
I'll take some pics eventually. It's dark now.
EDIT, I updated my avatar with the "for sale" photo.
Modding here we come!
Scored a '99 Eddie Bauer. 5.0 V8 and AWD. Excellent condition but a tad neglected. It's the green one. Only 53,000 km (just under 32,000 miles) or about 5,000 miles/year. It was priced similar to many 2000 Eddies I've seen with the same specs, but with 120,000 km+ (72,000 miles). Couldn't resist. I did a Carfax on it and it came back pretty clean. We figure it must've been a little old lady who never drove it. A few nagging issues:
-it came with the stock top-end stereo (changer, sub etc). Display keeps vanishing. I seem to recall reading about that somewhere. I plan to put in my old system, but not yet. Any ideas what's up with that?
-Took it in for a quick oil change at "Mr. Lube". They found a leak at the junction of the tranny and engine. It's definitely sweating a bit and I'm hoping it doesn't stain the driveway! I'm contacting the dealer tomorrow morning on that one. Anyone know what it might be? We figure a gasket may have shrunk because the Ex has been sitting around for a bit. Everything else looked great under the hood and the tranny fluid looked OK as well.
-comes with that funky built in garage door opening thing. Anyone have any ideas how to program it? No owners manual included.
Overall I feel I got a killer deal. Only drawback is some of my mods are no longer compatible. I'm going to try and use the Volant box and filter and maybe my C&L MAF. Obviously the intake tube from the Volant won't work. I've already contacted our good friend Doug at Bama about re-programming my XC2 and will be researching exhaust soon. I've heard Magnaflows work well on the 5.0. I'm thinking of Flowmaster 50 series. I'm trying to avoid too much cabin noise. May consider a 70 series, but they seem too tame. Any input is appreciated. I did a lot of searching this weekend and didn't really find a consensus as to which works best with the 5.0.
I'll take some pics eventually. It's dark now.
EDIT, I updated my avatar with the "for sale" photo.
Modding here we come!