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i hate 5.0s

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Strippt88

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I went and bought that movie just cause of the chick in Strypes signature. And your Mustang is gonna break. Big things, small, stupid things. Not cuz its a Ford, thats why it breaks less, ask anyone with an 82/92 F-body, but cuz its old. Might do better with a car with a warantee.
 

Darkwriter77

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Not hardly. I can break stuff on my '94 TurdBird just as easily. Car age is a factor, but it ain't everything. Plastic is plastic, and generally, it sucks ... warranty or not.
 

FrankenStang

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True. I've got an '04 Mustang sitting in my garage with a plastic piece coming loose on the passenger side door panel.
 

Darkwriter77

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It wasn't me, I swear!
 

FrankenStang

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You were messing with it last...

It was loose before.
 

JustA5.0

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Strippt88 said:
Might do better with a car with a warantee.
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My .02 cents:
As long as you have some mechanical inclination you will save a ton of dough over time versus a new car.
- Sure I might spend $100-$200 dollars a month fixing things on older cars. I always try to fix things as soon as possible, and use OE or better parts as replacement. Therefore, the car is somewhat in new condition.
- I could buy a new car and pay at the least $300 a month for anything more than a stupid Echo or simliar. That's every month, and while the car would have a B2B warranty, stuff still breaks and I would need to take time out to have it looked at. The plus side being working A/C, and no rust to worry about on a new car.

Still, at this point in my life I'd rather pay $1500-$2000 a year getting stuff fixed, than a guaranteed $3600+ (and $3600 a year wouldn't be much of a new car anyways).
 

Darkwriter77

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Not to mention the fact that the only stuff that will ever break on a new car is that which is never covered under warranty ... and even if it is, the dealer will do everything they possibly can to avoid honoring their own warranty, because it cuts into their bottom line.
 

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GTOReturns said:
Think about it. Most people sink 20 grand into there 5.0's mite be able to sell it for 8-9 G's!
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Ouch.. Now that you made me count, I'm in between 8-9k including the car and I've only drove it 4 times.
 

FrankenStang

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JustA5.0 said:
My .02 cents:
As long as you have some mechanical inclination you will save a ton of dough over time versus a new car.
- Sure I might spend $100-$200 dollars a month fixing things on older cars. I always try to fix things as soon as possible, and use OE or better parts as replacement. Therefore, the car is somewhat in new condition.
- I could buy a new car and pay at the least $300 a month for anything more than a stupid Echo or simliar. That's every month, and while the car would have a B2B warranty, stuff still breaks and I would need to take time out to have it looked at. The plus side being working A/C, and no rust to worry about on a new car.

Still, at this point in my life I'd rather pay $1500-$2000 a year getting stuff fixed, than a guaranteed $3600+ (and $3600 a year wouldn't be much of a new car anyways).
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My car payment for my '04 Mustang is $306.84.

I need a hug.
 

JustA5.0

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Yes that's another aspect. I worked in the service department at a dealer for a couple of years. They are shady at best, and always trying to push maintenance items on the customer. If a customer didn't do all the maintenance, they became very unhelpful when it came to warranty claims.
 

JustA5.0

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~FrankenStang~ said:
My car payment for my '04 Mustang is $306.84.

I need a hug.
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That was in Canadian dollars for me.

But still, did you buy it new, or is it a lease payment? $3600 x 5 = $18,000, so about a $16,500 car before taxes. $16,500 doesn't buy a whole lot of car these days besides 4 bangers.
 

ShortThrow50

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Darkwriter77 said:
Of the things I've learned while working on both '89 notchbacks that I've owned:

1. 20-year-old plastic does not like to be held down by a bolt that's anything more than finger-tight ... and sometimes not even that much;
2. The black, gooey adhesive from old electrical tape is harder to get off your fingers than the brake dust that works down into the grooves of your fingerprints;
3. Any modification or repair performed upon a Fox is not considered worthwhile unless the process involves at least one occurrance of injury that results in bloodshed or some other wound that will take at least a week to heal;
4. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and Ford design engineers were the crew that laid the asphalt;
5. Somewhere, a fat, greasy Ford executive is rolling around naked in a pile of dollar bills and laughing insanely for making decisions that led to things like the PCV valve being on the back of a 302 intake manifold, and the wimpy-arsed ashtray door spring that saved them a buck or two per Fox Mustang in production costs;
6. There is a psychological profile survey given to applicants for positions as Ford engineers that includes the question, "Do you strongly agree or disagree with the following statement: I find it very amusing to anonymously play pranks upon large groups of people" (to which the appropriate response is "strongly agree");
7. An exhaust project or tranny fluid change is not complete until you are literally up to your armpits in grease and grime;
8. Rear gear fluid bears a striking resemblance in smell to horse poo ... which makes sense, since they both can come from the rear end of a Mustang;
9. I single-handedly kept UPR, Summit Racing, and Jeg's in business through 2006 with my expendatures (and now I'm making someone at Visa very, very rich, too);
10. Josef Mengele (Google the name) long ago suggested the concept of placing the single most important accessory of an engine (the water pump) in the most obnoxiously cumbersome and hard-to-reach place of all by stacking EVERY SINGLE OTHER ACCESSORY OF THE MOTOR ON TOP OF IT as a means of mind control - subjects would be rendered completely insane and reduced to a miserable, blubbering mess while trying to remove bolts that break off in the block or timing cover and so forth, and those inviduals could then be mentally reprogrammed for use as Nazi stormtroopers ... although this program was never fully implemented until long after WWII when a sadistic Ford engineer stumbled upon this design suggestion in the late 1960's when the Windsor engine block was being created.

So, umm ... in spite of all that, I still love my Notch.
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u sure were not related?
 

Darkwriter77

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payupsucka

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picture this: the afternoon before fun ford weekend, my trans is giving me fits so the tranny i bought that i wanst gonna install until the winter, yeah i decided to put it in that day. no biggie just the drive shaft x pipe and 4 bolts should get her down right? WRONG! stripped the o2 sensor bung, snapped a stud on the header and broke my speedo sensor. soooooooooooo 3 trips to auto zone and about 2 hours drilling out the broken header stud and another god knows how long rigging a bolt to hold the x pipe to the header, not to mention i had no gas in my mig welder to weld the o2 sensor to the bung cuz i didnt have a tap that big. needless to say i drove to ffw that next morning with very little sleep.

oh yeah this was all done in my cousin's DRIVE WAY
 

Strype

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GTOReturns said:
Dude,,, WTF does that mean?

FBD's reply "
If it has tata's or tires, its gonna break and cost you money"
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Womenz and Cars will break and cost you money
 

Turkey Sammich

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Strype said:
Womenz and Cars will break and cost you money
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x 1,000,000
 

skunk21

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I think everyone on here can relate to your fustration. I just picked my stang up and I'm going through my pains has well, it's a fact of life. I have no blinkers, cheap clutch cable etc. got advice fixing it and moving on. I have broke stuff gotten pissed thought about for awhile and found a solutuion or posted for some help. I don't know you but if you are new at wrenching you will break far more than your cluster before you get the hang of things, soon you'll find the fun of dealing with 20 year old rusted suspension bolts and bloody knuckles, they all part of the game.

I'm new here myself but I have been around cars for long time, if I have a problem I'll jump on the boards and gets some help, vent a little, and get to a solution. I think starting a thread that you hate 5.0's opened to door to get flamed instead of getting you some sympathy and help.

I hope you can get your cluster fixed, you may have to pick up a used one and have a speedo shop reset the odometer. I had to do this in my old saturn when my gauges went out. There is a form to fill out to verify the old numbers and the change for the dmv and title etc. real easy.
 

ryan218

In just 10 years, I'll be old enough to drive!!!!
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you want a fine example of a broken piece just look at my car and say to yourself "least i dont got it as bad as that kid"

yeah now you broken screws dont seem to bad huh?

my project..bringing it back from the dead!



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and you think you got it bad View attachment 383295
 

Darkwriter77

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Hey, Frankie! He's got the same paint color as your Capri: Clearcoat-Flaking-Off-Blue! With those Genuine Iron Oxide accents added in for effect, of course, which we're not lucky enough to have out here...
 

ryan218

In just 10 years, I'll be old enough to drive!!!!
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Darkwriter77 said:
Hey, Frankie! He's got the same paint color as your Capri: Clearcoat-Flaking-Off-Blue! With those Genuine Iron Oxide accents added in for effect, of course, which we're not lucky enough to have out here...
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tell me about it..rust sucks mine will get painted soon...a couple months....not that im out of school i can start workin on it more...
 
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