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Found my OEM dealer option Marauder trunk organizer bagged in the garage attic storage; fair condition. Has some minor blemishes and I'll photograph it this weekend and post a link to the album. Will give preference (both price and priority) to someone that can pick it up in Gilroy, CA...I...

Gilroy, CA. $4900 Selling my 2003 Mercury Marauder. Thought I'd posted it here, but I don't see it anymore...so here it is again. 2003 Mercury Marauder. Car was purchased from original owner with 1500mi on it. It now has 253K and has been a wonderful car for me for quite some time. The...

2003 Black Mercury Marauder Located in Gilroy, CA, $5500 Photos here: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/4Kszs7qFSWOTGW1b0LWt7A.G18-OCgBcUOdbOU2vCu7lk 2nd owner, I purchased it at 1500 miles. It is unmodified except for built transmission and transgo shift kit done by Dales Transmission in...

A personal friend of mine that has run a hot rod and custom shop for the past 30 years and has a wife and 4 kids; two in college and is the sole breadwinner of the household (wife is a US born homemaker). A few months ago, he was collected up by ICE and taken across the border. Shop gone, all...

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I use these to cover my interior and exterior blemishes. They are easy to apply, and cover the blemish completely. https://tinyurl.com/blemishfixer

Non-issue for any body shop that knows what they're doing. Urethane bumpers can even be welded/patched to as good as new. The only kind of repairs that are a mess are those that are missing large chunks or have a lot of stretch and distortion to the base material over a large area. Yours...

Yeah, that car has it all. All of it. The entire bucket.

Watch out. Had the impeller on two of those separate from the shaft. Beware. Keep your eye on the temp gauge; it's a rather digital event. In fact, I would put a factory pump back on there stat if it was my car.

This "drilling more holes so water drains" thing needs to happen in the cowl box where the wiper motor is too. The flapper door gets clogged with debris and the wiper motor suffers the same fate. Remove the flapper door to solve the problem. No ill effects whatsoever.

I recommend you check your gauge against a known source like a tire pressure gauge or the gauge on your air compressor. I've seen more than a few oil pressure gauges that weren't even close; especially service gauges.

240K miles here. I've had to clean my throttle body about oh...10 times. I use diesel fuel and a nylon gun brush followed by rags. I really doubt it's the bushing, but there's a first for everything.

I find it amazing that Ford would come up with a recall with this much hackery instead of just desoldering/soldering on new relays. Is that really that much harder? Why do they think a talented auto tech can't desolder/solder parts on a PCA but *can* pull off this wiring mess?

I've seen several 150k+ California marauders free of body/paint damage with flawless interiors sell for $5K or less. If you're engine swapping, I would look harder. As far as resale value of the pulled engine goes; the difference between a 25,000mi pull-out engine and a 150,000mi pull-out...