📁 Garage

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.

08/09/26	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'...
08/08/26	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 sta...
08/07/26	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 arch...