Work continues on the taillights but I have the startings of the next major project. I bought a second set of headlights to use for the retrofit. Now just need to get the projectors and a few other items.
BTW I bought these from Amazon.com and test fitted them yesterday. They fit very well and sit in as good as any OEM set. I also took the opportunity to see what the light output was, and to put it simply, they are horrible and unusable as it. As you can see in the picture, they have glare everywhere especially at an upward angle where you really don't want it. Thank goodness I wasn't planning on installing them straight from the box.
If anyone is looking for plug and play OE replacement lights, I highly recommend looking elsewhere.
Taillights are tinted and it went really well. They aren't absolutely perfect but I really liked the vinyl and it did extremely well on the bulges. Installed pics will have to wait till I pull the car out of the garage again.
Taillights are tinted and it went really well. They aren't absolutely perfect but I really liked the vinyl and it did extremely well on the bulges. Installed pics will have to wait till I pull the car out of the garage again.
Hello All,
I spent some time last night working on installing the backup camera from eBay into my '13 FE SE. All you need is an APIM with camera capabilities.
Here's the camera I used. Excellent night vision, just a tad more downward pointing than I'd like, but it's great...
BACKGROUND: I am troubleshooting my 2014 Ford Escape 2.5L with 145k miles. I purchased it 11/20/19 and I have replaced the following, (see list below) over the past month and a half.
PROBLEM: The engine idles roughly at under all conditions (warm/cold/in gear/neutral) and engine OBDII code 172...
Manual says this:
Engine oil (2.0L EcoBoost) 5.7 qt (5.4 L)
Motorcraft SAE 5W-30 Motor Oil or equivalent5 WSS-M2C946-A
I took the car to ford and they used regular oil on the 2.0l ecoboost. When I ran the part number, it gives me prem blend synthetic...
I didn't realize that a BSM reset was required when I did the replacement in my 2013 SEL 1,6. (I know, 20 lashes:)!) Forscan shows the battery as 2635 days in service when it is really only 375. My understanding is that the days in service can't be set to a specific value, only reset to zero...
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