so - he is appealing to bad parents who want to game or "make PC gaming their work"

he's appealing to make "school the county lottery, every cheater in the pay system wins, everyone outside the system looses"

he's appealing bad parents to look away funding fiascos and pay and illegal nazzi rulings (school systems that believe the Constitution doesn't apply to them), and to vote for whoever promises their kid can wear purple hair and play with asian electronics during class. which, of course, IS BACKED BY CHINESE MONEY

ALL THIS SHIT IS MADE IN CHINA, illegal while driving to use, and NOT AT ALL NEEDED for give me point A to point B people tired of auto maker bullshit

And under the hood is no better: engines aren't made in USA, EPA "stuff" has come to flood the engine compartment with crap that breaks easy, hard to replace (due to awful design), and was un-necessary to begin with. chinese forced sales.

this was a basic car and had a low sticker price - it got BETTER GAS MILEAGE even with epa not working than any of today's cars (it was 2k lb lighter than today's ford focus?)

you could care for these cars without "a dealer", they didn't need repairs often and didn't have an epa system

a basic low cost Made in USA TRuck it's exactly what chinese least wanted to compete with and can't compete with

you could jack the suspension to help with (snow) - today's you cannot because they have put Porche suspensions in trucks - which is just an awful thing to do to a work truck

repairs on a "good" ford truck: either make a frame or have a neighbor help you

1) slide the bed off (it comes off letting you access everythign WITHOUT A DEALER LIFT)

2) lift off the cab (it comes off letting you rebuild / replace engine WITHOUT A DEALER LIFT ALSO WITHOUT AN ENGINE LIFT)

the parts were HALF THE PRICE OF IMPORTS because they were made domestically. (today - parts are only low cost if you buy chinese imported non-OEM replacements - which still cost MORE than yesterday's parts)

THE PARTS FIT A MUCH WIDER RANGE OF USA VEHICLES - standards and compatibility and jailing "cancel culture types" allowed this

little red riding hood

actually the ESCORT had an asian engine, asian lights, really was an asian car

it was very basic: cheap interior, no gadgets on dashboard, no power windows - everything that was stupid was an option (infact there were laws about that on the book - that stupid chinese shit was must legally be an option)

hopes that it would become popular and made in usa - are forgotten. it never happened.

1970's porche 911 suspension: which btw really wasn't new at the time nor was it invented by germans - it was the case it was first applied to production on sports cars for the rich

it became installed on light trucks where it has no business being there - it's also used on all compact "mostly made in china" passenger cars built today

it makes repairs awful, causes tire damage due to alignment issues once a pothole is hit, it increases base price, it causes lower road clearance (trucks like to drive over things like sidewalk curbs to access something), it prevents "lifting" the truck to use larger tires, it means using sealed bearings (LOWER GAS MILEAGE harder to replace), more expensive shocks and parts

* were built so a farmer could leave it in a field

* these things went over curbs to get work materials closer to where they were needed - ie beside a home

* they made going to the hardware store or grocery store or Sears easy - just throw the stuff in the back.

* IN THE 1980'S AND BEFORE - were commonly seen in parking lots. most (men/women) rarely needed a passenger car with 4 people. they either stuck the kids in the bench seat or didn't all go to the store at once. only large families who had "money to frequently go to town", or city dwellers who worked in offices only, had passenger cars

i liked the escort - but i found i needed a truck and once i had a truck i realized "i never needed a sedan really, not really"

TRUCK ENTHUSIASTS no doubt hoped the 1990's would bring smaller fuel efficent trucks (like Ford Ranger) price down and still be Made in USA

THE OPPOSITE HAPPENED - trucks became less farm worthy, got a 9/11 suspension, chiense gadgets, epa gadgets, and CANNOT BE LIFTED, and have

A WHOPPING STICKER PRICE OF $40,000 (ranger) to $120,000 (king cab but not even a duelly)

(you could get a new truck well under $20,000 in the 1980's - a used one for a song and a dance at times)

TIP OF THE DAY

You don't need that shit and shouldn't be forced to have it on your truck.

i can't even find a photo of two guys lifting off the cab (for easy to work on engine) - DATA CENTER have insured "history that's pro-American has been erased", with germans and chinese moderators in control of google "images" controlled by "nazzi committees"

but today it's harder to lift the cab off than to remove the engine with a $1,5000 cherry picker (which btw requires removing the transmission and loosening 100 bolts)

THA'S AWFUL.

sure ok - CAT in the muffler system - but they had those in the 70's done smart. they certainly did NOT have to be installed where it makes lifting off the cab impossible. BUT TODAY THEY ARE placed specifically to block getting the cab off.

sure ok MAYBE carbon canisters COULD save fuel in the future: THAT WAS why they were required before they had been proven - the EPA was never forced to prove on aberdeen proving ground - far from it. FFU HAS A STUDY. their carbon footprint is IMMENSE - a huge chinese part forced purchase scam + dealer/stealer scam that wastes allot more fuel than it saves - not a little a ton economic moneys - and of course failing parts and absence of ease to fix (obstructions to replacing parts, engineered obstructions to diagnosing - all chinese and german designed) are prolific.

$$$ YOUR_ASS to replace - you need to get another credit card

they tell you it's automotive electronics so never fails - they lie like chinese they fail and if one tiny part failes the whole cluster fuck has to be replaced by the dealer

((unless you are a gov worker on the dole with biden helping him steal))


GM

Low cost replacement a child could do. The only "nonsense" part was the ODO but it wasn't required to be working - only the speedo was.

THOSE GUAGES WERE ADDED they were not stock. some owners added them to prevent un-necessary repairs - while others took the risk.

Ford: these saved money and were low cost to replace

THEY WEREN'T JUST LOW COST TO REPLACE ...

* It was easy to determine IF they needed to be replaced

* they were REPAIRABLE

* you didn't need dealer manuals to figure out what they were or how to make your own

you didn't NEED a sedan because you could get more than two people in safely - and hey if it was just a family outing to the park for BBQ your wife could drive the truck back to get the rest of the kids and neighbors to the park

BOAT GRADE VINYL - could get wet and muddy and be cleaned. could leave window open and not get modly



you get this cheap fabric with chinese foam wet: you are going to have a mold problem you can't get rid of possibly

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/4047325/4047359.html#msg-4047359

messed up the post - the main article is above

That dash how stupid !! if i have an iphone and it bluetooth for $7 can read all my engine sensors and computer WHICH IT CAN

why the fuck do i need an awful android which CANNOT MAKE PHONE CALLS built-in to a hugely over-priced dash? i'm already holding all that in my hand

stupid - and simply there so you have to buy it so it isn't optional to help chinese force sales of bullshit

Many who are looking to access their Ford Focus's diagnostics, live data, or even code their car, know that an OBD2 scanner is the best tool for this! With an OBD2 scanner, you will be able to have full control of your Ford Focus and know its health state at all times.

ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU PUT IN ALL THAT CRAP AND IT REFUSES TO SHOW REPAIR DATA - so that dealer / stealer can tell me lies and so i have to buy a german/chinese OBDII-e-327 reader?

i'm going to fucking kill you

Car not starting & OBDII Scanner won't talk
Focus Fanatics Forum
https://www.focusfanatics.com threads car-not-start...
Aug 21, 2011 — First of all I have a Ford Focus TDCi 2003 115bhp So I have a ... but also his OBD Scanner will not talk so we cannot get the fault code/s.

IN THE EPA REVIEW on FFU - i have a small investigation on obdii scanners on ffu

IT UNCOVERS THAT CHINA+GERMANY+UK OBDII SYSTEMS have been re-designed to be incompatible with Ford cars. reason why obvious - to try to kill the ford company

who made a computer dash that has no OBDII in it? says china when the box arrives. crap even in the 1980's the computer could show you codes with no computer display and ALL OF THEM DID. what a damn scam

ANDROID (uses USA taxpayer money, google, but are mostly chinese&german uploads funded using our taxmoney and moderators eliminate any domestic inquiries by ip banning)

FOR STUPID MILLENIALS - the ELM327 BLUETOOTH IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH FORD

you don't know it yet, but that's important because china is going to stop MFG of the cheap handhelds that work with ford - and the omission from elm327 is no more a mistake than Ubuntu deleting Win10/Win11 partitions on install (despite being on a seaparte physical disk) is a mistak.

i just know these things ahead of time because i'm smart

i know chinese+german+uk "war like reverse engineering to attack usa" backwards and forwards

"you have to have it, it's factory installed, it's not an option, and only if your a democrat can you afford it", ".ce+.de+.uk control it

you are cut out of business by it

THEIR WET DREAM - what they spend stolen counterfeited money on - replacing americans with anythign except americans using american money. (ubuntu, google, highly integrated dash board - they keep getting away with this shit!!!)

DON'T LET THEM DO IT

1970's ford need 100mph on the speedo?

no. they didn't no they couldn't. it just made up for the fact 0-60 were hard to read. but they didn't cost much to make.