Recent content by TexasFunRunner

Bingo, I drove my last car for 17 years, I'm at 8 years for the current one. Funny how Google and Yahoo tracking cookies get the keywords in your history, a timely story to parallel this thread: Americans have ‘a shot’ at being millionaires — but people in 5 professions stand the best chance...

My way of looking at things, YMMV, it's not about the model or capability, it's what makes sense economically. If your income level allows you to "upgrade" vehicles like you "upgrade" phones, that's a nice position to be in. Of course, that assumes you have a nice six figure savings account...

My mistake, I thought you originally were talking about going from manual/non-motorized to motorized.

As someone who has been part of or led many a design rodeos, it's not actually cheaper to design something with added complexity, motor(s), gear(s) or cable(s) train, control electronics, switches, interconnects (so the door does not open while in gear or the vehicle locked), etc, not to mention...

I sat in the prototype at the Dallas Auto Show in February, I too was not impressed, the driver's seat felt like a school bus bench seat. I gave it the benefit of doubt since it was a prototype, but... For those that have sat in the production models, is the driver's seat plusher, or does it...

It's standard in six homes I've owned in California and Texas.

Most people only measure to the point at which the door hangs into the door opening, this is not the limiting factor, it is the height of the garage door frame itself. I've presented several solutions to work within your constraints that allow the garage door to be raised up to clear the garage...

For those looking for actual understanding, most garage doors hang into the garage door opening 3 - 6". A side mount garage door opener will allow this overlap to about 2 - 4" as you can adjust the door open upwards an additional 1 - 2", more than a center mount garage door opener. Using a set...

Great chart, too bad the Land Cruiser misses out on AVS, while the new 4Runner gets AVS, go figure. Here is the 4Runner reveal video, where they list the Limited and Platinum trims getting the "Adaptive Variable Suspension (AVS)", at the 2:15 time mark.

I have one, you may get an inch from them, not as much as extended radius tracks.

Simple, get a garage door stretcher... They are called high lift or extended radias tracks. https://artisandoorworks.com/blog/guide-to-understanding-your-garage-door-track-options/

Is once per week enough, or will that lead to early degradation?

Here is teaser 1 and teaser 2 stitched together.

Pricing 101 (the capitalist model) 1) Cost 2) Profit Margin 3) Price Without all three, there would be no product produced, or, you would get a Lada.

Note to Ford buyers, don't worry about the spare tire, hinges or taillight crushing you, it's the little horsie that's out to get you... EU :rolleyes: