My Mach e must have insanely bright headlights as I get the 'your high beams are on" flash all the time (my high beams are definitely not on.)
If you drive in Latin America, you will get flashed 100% of the time. They hate anything remotely bright.
And like even if they stop making these headlights tomorrow (lol), all of these vehicles will be on the road for decades. It’s an amazing demonstration of how broken our society is that we can’t do anything about this shit that annoys everyone,
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Are the lights positioning adjustable? They may be set a little too high.
I think they are auto positioning.
The positioning is probably set correctly, tbh. Stupid bright headlights are now just the norm for some new cars whether you ask for it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Idk lets think creatively
Ha there are no lights, so either it never had one or the bulb is blown
Belt is easy I think. the old ones are like old cars, open the hood and there’s enough room for a toddler to sleep comfortably in there. Easy to see and get to everything
My mom had a 1976 Mercury Comet that she bought brand-new off the Ford lot for $3600 lol. It had a straight 6 cylinder and more damn engine space than trunk space it seemed like.
It was a “three-on-the-tree” and I learned to drive a stick on that pos
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Has it always, as far as you remember, kept running after you open the door? Because the same switch that turns on the light should stop it running.
I still have my Onkyo receiver and Polk speakers from college. Receiver remote still works too, and the mechanical drive that turns the volume knob from the remote.
No idea what the shelf-life is on those things, but they’ve been going for 35 years.
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Sorry for the Twitter link, but this is actually funny.
https://x.com/latenightercom/status/1890590070035431640?t=nq50aFY1JUkxHC6ScEcCcg&s=19
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I learned to drive a stick as a teenager on my dads 1970s? Ford truck with three on the tree. He kept it at my grandparents rural place and eventually turned it into dump truck. You had to push the clutch about 3 feet to the floor, it was ridiculous.
The first time i drove a more normal and modern stick car I was shocked. I never owned a stick and really got used to driving them, i still sometimes think I should get a manual but it seems late in life to start that.
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I learned on '75 Camaro 3-speed with super tall gears that was an absolute bitch. Going uphill in stop-and-go traffic on my first day of high-school and stalling it a bunch of times in front of the whole school was fun.
Every stick since has seemed super easy.
Still don’t like sticks. Too much work.
First manual transmission I drove was something like a Honda 200cc motorcycle when I was in 7th grade with no instruction and no adults knowing about it. I shifted gears too. Learned in a car on a little Japanese pickup my friend had when I was 16.
https://x.com/QuakesInCA/status/1890669392050135292
That was a weird one. Hit all at once, no build-up or rolling. I was a little worried because if it wasn’t an earthquake it was my building starting to collapse.
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I learned stick driving my dad’s 72 F-150 4 speed transmission, but 1st was a very low gear canned the granny gear so you would usually start in 2nd.
My hometown was a small town nestled in the bluffs along the Missouri River in Iowa. Very hilly, and lots of stop signs on uphill streets.
I rarely stalled it while I was learning, but I did leave a lot of rubber behind after inadvertently popping the clutch.
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