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It's good if you like to check your transmission fluid once in a while. It's really good if you do your own work and service your transmission yourself. It's cosmically awesome if you don't like burned knuckles.

Douglas Adams had the inside track on this. In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy he posited a switch on an advanced one-of-a-kind starship that had a sign that read, "Do not touch this switch." When the protagonist of the story flipped the switch a little screen activated. It read, "Do not touch...

Thanks for all the help, guys!

Can you please tell me how I did that?

THANK YOU! That worked. It sure takes a very fast stab on that button, though. 13 years and over 100,000 miles. This is the first time that's happened, and I don't know why it happened. Thanks again!

This just appeared on my 2011 SCAB. Trip A has this yellow rectangle with odd symbol on the left superimposed on the normal screen. Trip B is normal. What does this mean and how do I get rid of it, Please?

I have not owned a Rigid product. However given what has been written about them on FRF, yes I would recommend DD products over Rigid products. DD has exceptional customer support. I had trouble with their LED replacements for the front side markers. They kept burning out. I called the...

Diode Dynamics also has backlit fog lamps. Their quality exceeds that of Rigid (which has quality and customer service problems that are well documented here on FRF), and they are priced quite a bit better than BD. I have one pair of DD fogs and they are excellent.

Whoa, they used RTV instead of an actual gasket?

Not to my knowledge. The chip repair relies on sucking the air out of the site, and the resultant vacuum draws the repair substance into the fracture. I don't think there is a way to suck the air out of a crack.

Those that have had these cracks in the corner of the windshield, do the trucks involved have sun/moon roofs? Just curious.

You have relatives here. Extend the tailgate step and note how the pivoting top of the step causes the hook to disengage from the hook-shaped latch fixed to the inside of the tailgate. If you have used your step appreciably you will probably see where the hook has worn away the paint on the...

My 2011 GEN1 has never done this, so I wonder what changes were made to the F-150 AC system that might explain it.

This may help. I PM'd FordTechOne and he responded as follows: "The blend door clicking means that the HVAC Module has lost track of the blend door position, which is typically caused by a failed potentiometer inside the blend door actuator. If the battery is fully charged and you’ve done a 15...