Mustang5L5’s progress thread - Rear window fun

Willybill32 · Wednesday at 6:21 AM

KRUISR said:
On the Marti report for both my 90GT and my son's 89GT they both list "Electric Rear Window Defroster" under the features (options) section. I have seen the odd hatch for sale with no defroster grid in it. I would expect the glass to be stamped with a Carlite stamp as well.

I would expect that cars built for the southern areas of the country would not have the rear window defroster option.

My ‘86 GT came without rear window defrost. During restoration, I went through several replacement hatches, and I think they all had the rear defrost. Mine has it now!

Bill

Mustang5L5 · Wednesday at 10:29 AM

On another note. Explorer ST got rear ended by someone on the phone earlier this summer. Finally home long enough to drop it off at the body shop.

Apparently the others guys insurance company considered a base Escape Active with the 3-cylinder engine to be an equivalent rental.

It’s fine. Been driving my wife’s car or taking my 2000 GT to work. This thing has been mostly sitting

gkomo · Wednesday at 12:16 PM

F'n insurance. My wife was hit over the weekend in her Lexus, insurance was like, "would she be good with a Corolla?". Not a bad car by any means... but definitely not the same.

BlakeusMaximus · Wednesday at 2:09 PM

Mustang5L5 said:
On another note. Explorer ST got rear ended by someone on the phone earlier this summer. Finally home long enough to drop it off at the body shop.

Apparently the others guys insurance company considered a base Escape Active with the 3-cylinder engine to be an equivalent rental.

It’s fine. Been driving my wife’s car or taking my 2000 GT to work. This thing has been mostly sitting

I’m in the collision repair industry and you could return that back to the rental company and ask the insurance company to cash you out on whatever they are covering a day. Cash in your pocket if you don’t need it.

Mustang5L5 · Wednesday at 7:48 PM

gkomo said:
F'n insurance. My wife was hit over the weekend in her Lexus, insurance was like, "would she be good with a Corolla?". Not a bad car by any means... but definitely not the same.

That's what i had for almost 2 weeks in CA. Base Corolla. Couldn't complain much since it was for work.

BlakeusMaximus said:
I’m in the collision repair industry and you could return that back to the rental company and ask the insurance company to cash you out on whatever they are covering a day. Cash in your pocket if you don’t need it.

Not a bad suggestion, but I think i'll prob have intermittent use of it for the next week or so. My wife needs her car and if it's a rainy day I'm not taking the convertible to work.

Willybill32 · 2026-09-03T11:06:15-0500

Mustang5L5 said:
On another note. Explorer ST got rear ended by someone on the phone earlier this summer. Finally home long enough to drop it off at the body shop.

Apparently the others guys insurance company considered a base Escape Active with the 3-cylinder engine to be an equivalent rental.

It’s fine. Been driving my wife’s car or taking my 2000 GT to work. This thing has been mostly sitting

I used to travel a lot (a lot!) and I usually wound up renting something from Hertz that I liked, primarily because I was there often enough that I knew the counter personnel. At the time I liked to rent '90s T-birds, and then wound up getting counseled by my manager that I was supposed to rent something cheaper. Then I started negotiating with the counter personnel. One time I got a bright metallic red Lincoln Towncar with a white vinyl top and white leather interior for the price of a Tempo.

Bill

Mustang5L5’s progress thread - Rear window fun

Willybill32

But at least it's tight!

Mustang5L5

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

gkomo

now i can hopefully expect to receive the shaft

BlakeusMaximus

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Mustang5L5

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

Willybill32

But at least it's tight!

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