Rob I would keep the Bronco & sell the Santa Fe. I have decided that buying newer is not a good idea. There are way too many defects built into these newer cars. Our 98 Jeep GC 5.9 Limited is as new as I'm getting. In fact I have kind of been looking for an older Explorer say 91-94 to replace our Blazer when the time comes.
Craig

 

Morning AZ...rise and shine!!! I'll start some coffee for 'ya!!!

 

You still have the green blazer?


Morning Ken, and everyone else

 

I'd really prefer to keep the Bronco, but at this point it's a matter of which one sells first. There's nothing wrong with the Santa Fe, other than the fact that I don't like it. Don't get me wrong, it's a great and reliable vehicle, but it's not for me. Gotta do what we gotta do, though.

4 days down, 4 days 'til I come home. Gotta love the 50 yard line.

 

Craig reading your post I thought you were referring to the dodge grand caravan I just finished 2 days ago. (long story)
it is my Aunt's car, they were coming to Arizona for Thanksgiving, stopped in Tuccumcari New Mexico for breakfast. when they tried to start the car to leave it would crank but not start, local mechanic looked at it and couldn't figure it out. my father took my trailer and hauled it to my shop and the work started. being Thanksgiving no parts stores open, they had to get home so they took my wife's suburban home (Weatherford Oklahoma)
so back to the car, I tested the CPS, bad signal, change it car starts but misses on 2 cylinders. test the TPS about 5 degrees of dead spot, change it still misses on 2 cylinders. change coil pack still misses on 2 cylinders.
remove wiring harness disassemble check every wire, re assemble.
remove all grounds clean re attach.
talk to 2 dodge techs both say change computer. order computer, install computer it blows all associated fuses.
warranty computer car starts but 2 different cylinders miss and when driving I get a code for random miss fire.
order "known good" computer from wrecking yard in LA, they run up my credit card bill on online gaming, spend 5 hours on phone with credit card fraud protection closing account and getting new account! "known good" computer is fried! I don't dare send it back and give them my new credit card number to run up!

talk to another 30 year dodge tech he says has to be a ground issue! remove harness again dis assemble open ground unions and re solder all of them. no change.

install another new CPS, random misfire goes away! still misses on coil pack #2
go out in morning car starts and runs fine!!!!!!! drive to Prescott and after 8 miles starts missing and sets a CEL! limp back home head hanging again. put on lift bang head on grill!
than I get to thinking it must be electrical if it works cold! right? no sh!* ! so I pull the new coil pack off and throw it in the freezer and go eat lunch. take coil pack out of freezer re install and runs fine for a few miles.
order new coil pack, install and car runs fine!
in total
4 computers
3 cam sensors
3 coil packs
I quit keeping track of shop time after 50 hours. through all this I kept all the defective parts and after I got the car running I put them back in one at a time and all were defective.
what a PIA

 

What a Nightmare! and thats why i will never own a newer truck with all them computers and junk.
But....I will pay for my lovely wife to drive one though

 

Happy Friday fellow FTE'ers.

 

Hi Bill, when are you going pig hunting?
I was going to get a tag but it is 220 miles round trip to azgfd, and than 180 round trip to where I would hunt! too many miles for a rodant.

 

I'm going unit 33 right before peppersause campground. feb 19-25th. LOL on the rodant!... yes there not the best tasting, i'm gonna debone and have the meat made into chorizo.
cost 60 bucks last time, the butcher adds beef and pork to it. so not so bad lol
mainly getting more intune for mule deer season. its been a long while since i been hunting for real.

 

Hey All...all this rain is depressing...I think it has rained more days in the last 7 weeks than it did in the 11 years I was in Az...no wonder I am bummed out and not sleeping.

more rain this weekend!!

Take care and I will try to post more often!

 

Just stopped in to say hey from "rain country" ... So much here we have our own rain forest ... Anyway, just curious if anyone was familiar with the Golden Valley/Kingman area ... Gotta friend down there that is trying to talk me into moving down ... I need somewhere to dehydrate a bit ... I an starting to rust ...

Jim

 

Morning AZ...Welcome to the Weekend!!!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL???

 

Good Morning everyone, were doing some claim jumping this fine day!... hope we dont get shot. actually were going up in the wash where we used to pan for gold when i was in boyscouts, while nobody is looking were going to fill a couple 5 gallon buckets and skydattle out of there!

good time to glass for pigs also.

 

Five gallons of nuggets would be great. Gonna share?

 

all i got was a bucket of dirt.

Can the CARDS make a comeback?