David Felderstein - Pinning Report

New 5/1/07

Hi Buford:

I'm David Felderstein, original owner of 1FALP54N6TA263013, a 1996 TR SHO, which I bought as a new car at Downtown Ford in Sacramento in May, 1997. The SHO has 135,500 miles on it now.

You may remember I had the cams pinned by SHOshop in February, 2003, when the car had 82,500 miles on it.

These are the things that have been re-done:

1) New transmission at 130,000 miles installed by Downtown Ford in Sacramento. Works great, and has a 75,000 miles warranty.

2) New motor mounts and tranny mount at 130,000 miles.

3) New half shafts at 130,000 miles, with the driver's side replaced for the second time as the first replacement half shaft developed a torn CV boot.

4) Had radiator removed and fins cleaned out and reinstalled at 125,000 miles.

5) Replaced valve cover gaskets and installed four new COP units on the rear bank at 125,000 miles.

6) New O2 sensors and air dam door unit on secondary air injection system (per it throwing a code) at 125,000 miles.

7) New SARC struts all around at 85,000 miles.

8) New CPS at 80,000 miles under extended warranty (the only thing that I got to use that warranty to replace, except one COP unit that failed).

9) New passenger's door "sail" tweeter JBL speaker because the old one blew last month. Got a NOS replacement from a dealer in Illinois located by my Ford dealer's parts dept for $60.

The car has been fabulous and still runs as well today as it did new -- maybe better. When Downtown Ford did the tranny replacement, they told me one of the eight bolts for the front subframe was stripped and not doing anything, so they repaired it. That repair quieted down the front end and stopped a persistent shimmy at 70 mph the car had shown since it was new.

I'm now running Pirelli P Nero Zero tires, and they're the best riding and performing of all the various tires I've tried on that car.

All in all, this SHO has been a love affair for me since day one. I've never kept any other car I've owned half as long, including the 1987 Mustang GT convertible I bought new. The SHO is still my daily driver and the car I choose to take when we go on a family vacation.

When Ford brings out the re-badged 500 as a Taurus next year, I hope they decide to create a new RWD Taurus SHO with the 4.6 Mod V8. If they, did I'd buy it.

Keep up the good work on V8SHO. Thank you for being there.

David Felderstein,
Sacramento

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