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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
That's why its good to know a mechanic who does the work for cash out of his own garage.
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We use to take our family vehicles to a guy that does it out of his garage. He was working on my moms early 2000 Ford Expedition and needed to change the spark plugs. Anyone who knows about these motors and spark plugs knows where this is going. One of them takes all the threads with it and in the process of trying to re-thread he drops his tool into the motor or something...I forget exactly what happened. But the motor had to be pulled from the vehicle. It's almost impossible to take out a motor from an Expedition so what they do instead is unbolt the whole body and lift it the air and work on the motor this way. Seriously the whole body.
Unsurprisingly this is also impossible for a guy working out of his garage at home to do. Also unsurprisingly, guys working out their garages are not interested in paying for the tow to a dealership or paying for lifting most of an Expedition in the air.
Anyways, off topic for this thread but my mom took excellent care of this vehicle. When she sold it, it was 12 years old, with low kms and didn't have a paint chip on it. Interior was spotless too. But the resale on this type of vehicle was terrible. A mother bought it for her son who apparently wasn't a good driver and had already crashed two other vehicles. So she thought it would be safer to drive a large vehicle. Safer for her son, not for everyone else on the road. The vehicle is huge and you can't see the front corners at all and the backup sensors weren't reliable. I can only assume he ruined the vehicle. Makes me wish I bought it for myself for road trips/camping/towing.
