| 1996 Ford Taurus GL from North America | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:46:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | What things have gone wrong with the car? Tune Up and Cam Sensor at 100,000 O2 Sensor 145,000 Fuel Pump 150,000 Other than that normal wear and tear items, serpetine belt, tires and oil changes and transmissions services. General comments? My Taurus has been very good to me. I bought it used it was a prior rental and had about 20,000 miles on. I have changed the oil regularly between 3,000 and 5,000 miles. I serviced the transmissions at 50,000 miles and 100,000 miles and it probably needs it again. At 100,000 miles I tuned it up. At that time the cam sensor needed replaced. I am still driving it today and it runs like a top and if I had to I would drive it across the country. The fuel pump went out recently and I went to the dealer and bought a replacement approximately $400.00 but I heard that the dealer fuel pump is much better than after market ones and thus, I spent the money on it.... | |
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| | | Bar patron shot by assailant | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:46:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | After a night of partying at a local bar, a Fort Wayne man was shot in the arm after what he told police was an attempted robbery Tuesday night. According to a Fort Wayne police report, the man told officers he had been drinking and smoking marijuana at a bar on Broadway before leaving the bar shortly before 11:30 p.m. The man said he was walking east on Creighton Avenue toward his uncle's home when some friends of his pulled up in a car, police said. While they were talking, a Ford Taurus pulled up and a man got out of the car, police said. The victim told police he took off running and that the man who got out of the Taurus ran after him, yelling. The man told police he heard gunshots and kept running until he saw another man standing on a porch on DeWald Street.... | |
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| | | Last Ford Taurus to roll off the line next week | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:46:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | In less than a week, the last Ford Taurus will roll off the line at a Ford assembly plant near Atlanta - the end of the road for a car that was once the best selling in the country and that for a time helped revitalize the struggling automaker. The mid-sized sedan quickly became a sensation after it was introduced in 1985 as Americans embraced its design, safety features and fuel-efficiency. .... | |
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| | | 1995 Ford Taurus GL from North America | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:45:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | I am 17 and a 1995 Taurus gl is my first car. The tranny has been rebuilt twice before I purchaced it a few months ago. Since, I have had the tranny rebuilt with new lines and the whole deal. Soon it will need it again. It almost burns rubber on a slow normal and it sometimes slips or maxes out at between 30 and 50mph. The spedometer bounces back and forth like no other over 40mph. I have had 2 speeding tickets in my first 6 months of driving due to this. Also, the dashboard shakes like no other over 60mph. Don't get me started on overheating. I have had just about every problem there is with my first self purchased car. I cannot aford repair after repair just to self destruct! I have friends upon friends who have similar tranny problems with any year taurus/sable. My begining driving experience has been horrible.... | |
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| | | Homicide witness recants | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:45:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | The driver of the stolen car in which a 14-year-old girl was fatally shot testified yesterday, under a guarantee of immunity, that his earlier statements about having seen who fired the shots were false. LeVaughn Brown, who was 14 when the incident occurred on Memorial Day 2004, had pleaded the Fifth Amendment at least 25 times Monday, refusing to repeat his claim that he saw defendant Brandon Robinson of Penn Hills shoot at the car as he and three teenage passengers drove through Lincoln-Lemington. Karis Adams, who was in the backseat of the green 1995 Buick Regal, died of a single gunshot to the left temple. Mr. Robinson is on trial for homicide in the girl's death. Another suspect in the shooting, Eugene Cooper, whom Mr. Brown also had previously identified, has been granted a separate trial.... | |
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| | | ARLINGTON AREA BRIEFS | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:46:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | 1 killed, 1 hurt when car hits their pickup GRAND PRAIRIE -- A Dallas man was killed and his girlfriend severely injured early Sunday when a car struck their Nissan pickup, which was stopped on Interstate 20. Police are investigating the 3:45 a.m. crash, which occurred in the 1500 block of eastbound I-20. The 27-year-old driver of the Nissan was pronounced dead about 5 a.m. Sunday at Medical Center of Arlington. His passenger, a 28-year-old Grand Prairie woman, was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Grand Prairie police said the driver of the car, a 2004 white Ford Taurus, was eastbound in the right lane and didn't see the parked Nissan, which didn't have its lights on. -- Ben Tinsley Two charged with murder in shooting ARLINGTON -- Two men have been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of an Arlington man late Saturday, police said.... | |
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| | | Ford cutbacks worry workers | | Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:45:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | After a year of fear and uncertainty in Iraq, Michael Clem was happy to get back to Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant. But just months after being reunited with his wife, Kristy, and his 2-year-old daughter, Natalie, Clem has new worries. His job could be in danger for the first time since he started working for Ford in 1999. .... | |
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| | | Ford cruise control recall widens | | Posted Sunday, August 06, 2006 6:46:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- Ford Motor Co., expanding one of the largest safety recalls in automotive history, said Thursday it would recall an additional 1.2 million vehicles nationwide that are prone to engine fires. The Dearborn automaker has recalled 6.7 million vehicles worldwide since January 2005 that are equipped with a Texas Instruments speed control deactivation switch that has been linked to dozens of engine fires and has sparked numerous lawsuits. The recall is an expensive problem for Ford that comes at an especially rocky period for the company. Ford announced Wednesday that its second-quarter loss was twice as large as it initially reported. And in July, the company was outsold in the United States by Toyota Motor Corp. for the first time. Vehicles included in the expanded recall are 1994 to 2002 models of the Ford F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty pickups; 2000 to 2002 models of the Excursion; 1994 to 1996 Econoline vans; 1996 to 2002 E-450 vans; and 1998 Explorers and Mercury Mountaineers.... | |
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| | | Show would be racing's version of 'Survivor' | | Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 4:46:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | This is why he shares a 2,200-square foot garage in Mooresville with his 96 car, a red Ford Taurus he races in the ARCA series, and the silver bones of another car that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator" after his flesh melts and he is exposed as a robot. Next to the 96 car is a big radio and CD player. The music has a theme; it moves. When you're a one-man crew and you have an engine to install you can't let the enormity of the task, or a ballad, slow you down. On the 96 car is a slogan: vote for Brandon Knupp racinforalivin.com. Racinforalivin is a Web site developed by former World of Outlaws driver Jerry VenDenHul. VenDenHul expects to parlay the site into a racing reality TV show. The concept is part fast cars, part American Idol. VenDenHul, who lives in Arkansas City, Kansas, says the winner will receive a 2007 seven-race Busch Series gig that likely will begin in May.... | |
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| | | Events | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 6:46:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | "All Childish Things," a comedy about an improbable heist, 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 6 p.m. Sun. Through July 29. Planet Ant Theatre, 2357 Caniff, Hamtramck. 313-365-4948. $10-$15. Detroit Puppet Theatre: "Banana for Turtle," a new marionette production, 2 p.m. Sat. 25 E. Grand River, Detroit. 313-961-7777. $7, $5 younger than age 12. "Honus and Me" ***, a family comedy about a little league player who finds the most valuable baseball card in the world, 3 & 8 p.m. Wed., 8 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 3 & 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Through Sept. 2. Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park, Chelsea. 734-433-7673. $20-$35. "Menopause the Musical" ***, a lighthearted musical look at women and the change, 7:30 p.m. Wed., 1:30 & 7:30 p.m. Thu., 7:30 p.m. Fri., 3:30 & 7:30 p.m. Sat., 1 & 4:30 p.m.... | |
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