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The other kind of engineering: a 2010 Lincoln MKT EcoBoost that runs a lot harder than it looks, Ford module programming, Tesla retrofits and gateway-config spelunking, and whatever else is up on jack stands.

08/16/26	Three wires and a config flag Matrix headlights on a Palladium Model S or X: what the light actually needs from the car, why the connector changed, why the Model 3 gets this without an ad...
08/09/26	Running down the clock on HW3 FSD v14 Lite is cooking HW3 computers, and nobody who has watched the platform is surprised. The three computers in a Tesla, the wattage and packaging math b...
07/12/26	The factory tow hitch Tesla says doesn't exist A three-year-ish quest through Tesla's parts catalog: TW01 harnesses, unicorn cars, a relabeled part after a six-month wait, and the hybrid jumper harness I'...
06/28/26	The accidental parts supplier How making one adapter harness for my own headlight retrofit turned into a tiny parts operation, and what running it taught me about QA, group buys, and stan...
05/31/26	Sixteen years of asking cars to do things they weren't ordered with From an F250 nav unit in a 2010 Escape, to a factory tow package on a Lincoln MKT, to Tesla gateway configs: one instinct, three generations of vehicle archi...
12/14/22	Carlinkit T2C - Review My review of the Carlinkit T2C CarPlay adapter for Tesla: what works, what doesn't, and the data-privacy wrinkle nobody talks about.