I have to jam cardboard in front of the radiator on the 240 when it's really cold...otherwise, it won't get over 60°C. The highest I've ever seen it was about 86-86°C and that was on a really hot day and sitting in traffic.

A box is on the way.

Both of my vehicles burn premium, and pump water around. Both the water and heater have no heating problems in the winter and the cooleing and a/c have no problems in the summer.

Had both an Isuzu Trooper and a Range Rover. Think the HVAC was designed by the same person. Neither one had a fan you could tell was even blowing except for the noise. The Trooper was a little better because it could actually pass another vehicle without planning like a race car driver trying to pass for position.

Those old RRCs are just going up in value. I ran across one the other day that had been converted to diesel and just sold for 17k.

Got the ML going, cleared the code and have driven about 40 miles without recurrence.

Bought my 92 RRC for $800 and sold it for $2300. Bought the Trooper for $2500, sold it for $4600.

Basically sold the RR because Mom started having trouble climbing in and out. Before that it was actually good exercise for her. On the Cayenne, customized the air suspension ride height so she could just stand up and sit down, no climbing up or down either way.

She said the 928 was harder to climb down into and up out of, but she liked riding in it so it didn't matter. Said it was fast and comfortable. We could take a 400 mile trip to visit my sister and she would say if felt like we just drove across town.

TGIF guys!

My 80 something MIL changed cars a couple of years ago because of egress and ingress issues. She liked he former car but it was getting more difficult for her to get in and out of. She replaced it with a total appliance car, a Nissan SUV. The biggest reason she bought it was she could get in and out easily, and the owner of the dealership goes to her church. She has known the owner since she taught him in Sunday School when he was a little kid. He promised her he would put her on the "treat her like his mother" service plan at the dealership. She just drops it off, they take her home, and when they are done they come get her.

What I know about iPADs could fit on a 5 1/4" floppy. Is there anything I need to know about getting it started up? Do I need to do a factory reset or did you do that before boxing it up?

Morning all. TGIF!!!

That is the way they treated my Grandmother in the little town she lived in. After Grandad passed she decided the Cadillac was too big. The new Ford was not only HER first car, it was the frist time she ever drove a car. She had to get her DL. AND her SIL was the top car salesman in the town Ford dealership.

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It was kind of a hot rod. Had to replace the dual exhausts every year because Grandma didn't drive it long enough to burn the condensation out. Don't think ever even drove outside of the little town.

It had one of them floaty compasses on the dash with a fuzzy bobblehead pit bull. On the rear deck it had a plush toy green dragon that it's eyes lit red with the brake lights. Granddad's car had the compass. Don't know where the pit bull came from. Grandma and Grandad didn't have any pets until after Grandad passed and Grandma got a cat. Have no earthly idea about the dragon or the hot rod wheels and tires.

A lot of women in that generation were 100% housewife, and their entire world was home making. Raising the kids, keeping the house clean and preparing the meals. My wife's grandmother was a great lady. She raised 4 kids on a farm in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma during the dust bowl days. I can't imagine 100+ degree days every day, and dust blowing everywhere in a house with no electricity, and the only water source was in the front yard and the water well. She would go out and pump a bucket of water, come inside and dunk sheets in the water and hang those on the windows to make some cooler air, and control the dust a little. Then she had to fire up the wood burning stove then cook dinner for her family, and the hired hands during harvest.

My grandparents all lived in the city buy the 1930s dust bowl days, but they all grew up on farms. My dad talked about getting up in the morning and having to light the wood stove to heat up the frozen water pitcher enough to get a drink of water. He said frost on his bed was a regular thing.

I get grumpy when I have to get up in the middle of the night to pee and the heated tile floor thermostat was set wrong and it was not warm enough.

they had it easy back then. No cell phones or computers to mess with........

Now where is that green font?

My Mom's family were dust bowl Okies. Some even moved to California like you see in the pictures. They got land run land, but weren't in the run. They heard about some land still being available. The stories I've heard they were just like Ma and Pa Kettle. She was a big woman and did everything. He was a short skinny guy, smoked a pipe and was just there.

My Dad's family were hillbillies from the clinch mountain area in North Eastern Tennessee. Never heard many stories, but did get to hike to the original log cabin in the woods. It was pretty small. They didn't go to town much due to the terrain.

Yep, no plumbing to bother with, just a bucket for water and an outhouse. No electrical gadgets to fiddle with when electricity was a dream. Telephones were only in the movies and it took several hours on a horse to get into town so no movies to watch. No cars to mess with, just saddle up the horse or hitch it to the wagon and head off. No grocery stores to have to wait in line to check out. No antibiotics to buy, so if you got stuck and a puncture wound with a metal object tetanus just killed ya. Polio killed or crippled millions. The flu 100 years ago killed 4% of all the people world wide between 50 and 100 million people.

Yea, golly the good old days sure sounds great. :rolleyes:

I used to walk 10 miles to school in below zero temps, uphill, both ways. :cool:

Now you sail up wind both ways.

My Dad's first wife died from the flu.

All 6 of my Dad's sisters were school teachers. All of their girls were also school teachers.

That was a tacky comment. :)

It is really amazing how much the world has changed just since I was a kid. I really did walk barefoot to school in the first grade. My brother was in 3rd grade and went to the same school. In my memory it was a mile long walk. I found the address to the house we lived in and I looked it up. It was about 4 blocks to school for a car, but on foot we took shortcuts.

And yes I was really and truly barefoot. No snow as it was in Pearl City, Hawaii. I wore no shoes and no shirt to go to school, and almost everywhere. Mom made me put on a shirt to go to the store or to visit friends. I only wore shoes to go to church on Easter Sunday. One year I did not have any shoes that fit so I wore my "good" flip flops. We were not real PC back then and everyone called I knew them "Jap Flaps"

I doubt there are many children walking to grade school now days. I rode my bike to 3rd grade but that was San Marcos, Texas. I had to get used to shoes. :(

Walked to Kindergarten and grade school. Road my bike from 4th on.
Was bussed in Jr High, but it was only 7th and 8th.
Then I tas back to walking to high shcol for 9th, a whole 1/2 mile and carried my saxophone.
10rh and 11th rode with friends.
12 drove.

Can imaging growing up in some of the neighborhoods today. Besides Elementary and High School being close, we had, 2 parks, 2 Grocery stores, Dime Store, Convenient store, drug store, hardware store, lumber yard, gas station, 2 public swimming pools, 2 hobby shops, 2 banks, a public library, and a Dairy all within a 1/2 mile of our house.

Richard did you see my questions a few back?

About the iPad?