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Sorry. Double post.

Hi Richie, First of all I have to say I agree that the clean lines on the front of our S197's just looks racier (Shelby-esque) and much classier without the big fog light rally car look. I have the Shelby grills and they are good quality aluminum and give the car a mystique especially with the...

Thanks Flusher, you probably explained my experience better than me. Mines a 4.6 though but seems to do the same sort of thing. Ok well thanks everyone for you comments, thoughts and suggestions. I have a learnt that the car doesn't like low rpm and does have a tendency to lug. Coupled with...

No joke tjm73 in which case I sense you have some comment hopefully helpful to make? So far I've learnt that the O/D will kick down if I mash the throttle which is something I was unaware of it since it hasnt done so in recent passing maneuvers! More gas seem to be the message. Note: my daily...

Wow, and I thought I had a semiautomatic fetish!! Good stuff 07 Boss, but this shifting down out of O/D without dropping to 3rd, seems a bit fraught. A delicate balance between enough power to activate the shift (what Laga said in his post above) but not so aggressive as to chop down 2 gears...

Well I don't disagree with you and that of course was the point of my post, that the O/D has me flummoxed. But I guess what you are unlocking for me here is the function of the O/D switch. I thought it simply unhid the O/D capability and once gearbox/engine parameters allowed the gearbox to...

Hi esteemed Forum members. Manual overdrive (O/D) in my 07 has had me flummoxed ever since I bought the car over a year ago. Now I understand it is probably a locked converter situation or 1:1 ratio at which point the engine will begin to struggle when power is applied. Maybe my daily driver...

There are over 46,000 S197's out there and I'm sure if electric fans were the problem it wouldn't just be Mustangs that would be going back to mechanical fans, so would every car maker! And since that's not happening, my bet is that this is isolated to this car or any make or model of car that...

Thanks guys. The car is only taken out on sunny days and spends the rest of its life in a closed garage. Apart from when it is washed, there is no opportunity for water to get in and the carpets are certainly dry. I do understand however, that water ingress has been an issue for some and...

Hi Guys, My right hand turn signal has started flashing quickly. To be clear it flashes quickly most of the time but occasionally will revert back to normal. But mostly it flashes quickly with small intermittent normal flashes, enough to think it might be fixed...until it starts again. I have...

Well thanks for the responses guys. Perhaps you can tell from my earlier posts that I was narrowing my problem down to a bad fuel filler neck. In fact, I might have mentioned in my original post that another forum had identifed a new filler neck for the 08/09 which incorprated a fuel tank to...

Thanks guys, some interesting comments and innovative approaches. Yeah I had problems understanding the audio in the German video but as Red GT said, you get the idea. I'm not sure I understand why he did that though. I mean I know he was experiencing the slow refueling issue, but how does...

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Ahhh...I see what you mean now. Yes I know the pipe you mean. It is effectively an overflow to outside atmosphere if you like. Pretty sure I checked it but now you have brought it up I will check it again just to be sure since it would be a likely place for wasp or mason bee nests. As to the...

I think that's the one going north to the engine bay. Otherwise it was the one to the fuel tank and that was definitely checked too. Of course I was upside down and back to front during all this so 'over the axle' sort of looks 'under the axle' if you know what I mean! In any case, is your...