Bought an older 2007 Lincoln Town Car as an around town car instead of driving my large cargo van. Turns out, the car is in pretty nice shape and its inspired me to get back in to caring about cars. Back in the day, Dad drove the wheels off a nice TC, a car I loved to borrow it when I could. He finally sold it a few years back with ~330k miles on original everything. So far as I know the person who bought it is still driving it.
Getting on the forums for ideas and help as I move forward on the car. Here are some of my "immediate" issues that I'll be looking to complete:
Radio diagrams? My six disc SoundMark does not function, also has the Sat button and presumably a sat radio unit somewhere. I'd like to know which stereo signal wires run from the sat box to the radio. I'll intercept them with a standard 1/8" stereo interrupt plug and bring that into the ashtray area as an auxiliary in. I did the same on an old suburban with some incredible info from a dude who was nothing short of some mad-electrical-scientist DIY genius on the Suburban forums.
Air ride: rear appears to have no leaks at all, it stays pretty high, and I never hear a pump run. However, its taller than the front by an easy 1.5" or so, I suspect there is a leveling sensor that is giving the rear wrong info and its defaulted to max position.
Trunk latch actuator: car had a minor fender bender that I suspect took out the actuator. Previous owner just bypassed into a manual mechanism. It's not critical to me, but I would like to restore.
Maybe an upgrade to the speaker system though frankly I haven't had this high a fidelity system in a car for decades. Been spending that time on home theater stuff, but who knows, that might be a good way to spend some time and money on a car system instead, though both rare commodities these days.
If you want to chip in any info on the above, great. If not, I haven't even begun to dig into things yet; only had it 6 days so far and my research will begin soon.
Getting on the forums for ideas and help as I move forward on the car. Here are some of my "immediate" issues that I'll be looking to complete:
Radio diagrams? My six disc SoundMark does not function, also has the Sat button and presumably a sat radio unit somewhere. I'd like to know which stereo signal wires run from the sat box to the radio. I'll intercept them with a standard 1/8" stereo interrupt plug and bring that into the ashtray area as an auxiliary in. I did the same on an old suburban with some incredible info from a dude who was nothing short of some mad-electrical-scientist DIY genius on the Suburban forums.
Air ride: rear appears to have no leaks at all, it stays pretty high, and I never hear a pump run. However, its taller than the front by an easy 1.5" or so, I suspect there is a leveling sensor that is giving the rear wrong info and its defaulted to max position.
Trunk latch actuator: car had a minor fender bender that I suspect took out the actuator. Previous owner just bypassed into a manual mechanism. It's not critical to me, but I would like to restore.
Maybe an upgrade to the speaker system though frankly I haven't had this high a fidelity system in a car for decades. Been spending that time on home theater stuff, but who knows, that might be a good way to spend some time and money on a car system instead, though both rare commodities these days.
If you want to chip in any info on the above, great. If not, I haven't even begun to dig into things yet; only had it 6 days so far and my research will begin soon.