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Back in May, a reader sent Jalopnik a tip about Chevrolet Colorado airbags deploying off-road. “As a ZR2 owner myself, I am very concerned about taking my truck off pavement now,” he told us after reading various complaints on owner forums. I started looking into it.

The steering issue only occurs at low speed. Like parking lot crawling speed and it only drops steering assist for less than 1 second. I would take that over having my Ford’s brakes fail unexpectedly or start on fire because of the seat belt mechanism. Why hasn’t Ford fixed their deadly brake failures yet? They KNOW the parts that they were forced to replace on 2011-14 F-150′s were unsafe, they know the same parts are in 2015-18 F-150′s, yet they do NOTHING.

Our family’s old MPV Allsport used to chatter it’s way down hill in a most disconcerting fashion before we put snow tires on it. That was a case where having ABS disabled may in fact have helped snow accumulate in front of the skidding tire and slow the car eventually. But the correct lesson to take away was that a heavy 4WD vehicle needed snow tires to stop effectively in addition to being able to start and go.

Regarding airbags, I wish that rather than mandating airbags, the gov’t had mandated protection standards and let the engineers figure out how to meet those. I might rather have more protective seat belt systems than airbags.

Very few people have gifts of driving excellence. I certainly did not. I was in three collisions from the age of 16-20, all my fault. Those accidents made me realize that I was a poor driver who needed to improve. I took the next 1.5 decades to train myself in defensive driving and disciplined myself into good driving habits. I did not expect anyone or anything to do the work for me.

One that comes to mind is how Ford was forced to fix most (but not all) of the 2011-14 F-150′s for brake failures but only after the feds raided the joint and twisted their arm. Ford kept on using the same defective components on the 2015 and newer F-150′s and the problem continues to happen. I guess they’re waiting for the feds to force them to fix it like last time?

According to trucks.com, the problem came up from an electrical software issue where warning signs would include an alert in the Driver Information Center and temporary disabling of the radio, stabilitrack, DIC, chimes, door-lock cycling, air-conditioning or cruise control.

The two prototypes undergoing tests on the MTU test stand in Friedrichshafen feature an innovative new system. MTU has acquired the rights to this new technology from the G+L innotec company, and the partners will now be jointly developing the product. Market debut for the first engines with electrically assisted turbocharging is scheduled for 2021. “Electrically assisted turbocharging is a significant milestone on the road to hybridisation,” explained Dr Johannes Kech, director, Turbocharging and Fluid Systems at MTU. “This technology will allow us to develop engines that deliver increased agility and lower consumption at the same time as enhancing ecological performance,” he added. All this is made possible by using an electric motor to smooth out weaknesses in turbocharging systems.Linked to a conventional turbocharger, the electric motor ensures that boost is available when the engine needs it. This will eliminate delays in performance ramp-up according to MTU. In addition, MTU says that the system will help address another issue, as turbochargers are expected to achieve reductions in emissions by helping to prevent the generation of diesel particulates and nitrogen oxides during the combustion process. “With electrically assisted turbocharging we marry a conventional MTU turbocharger with an electric drive motor,” explained Joachim Thiesemann, who is responsible at MTU for integrating the new system in the standard turbocharger landscape. Special units mounted in front of the compressor wheel house permanent magnets, the rotor of the electrical unit, and the electrical winding that is integrated in the compressor casing. “The electric motor makes it possible to virtually decouple the operating point of the turbocharger from the speed of the diesel engine,” explained Rudi Rappsilber, who is in charge of testing the new system at MTU. The firm says that delays in performance ramp-up can be addressed, allowing optimum turbocharging to be achieved in almost every operating state. The technology can be implemented with existing turbochargers without excessive complications, while the additional installation space required is limited according to MTU.

I ended up dropping $2,000 on the vehicle at a buy here-pay here used car dealership in Indianapolis. And while that’s a lot to spend on a salvage title XJ, I just received something in the mail that made me abandon any thoughts that I got ripped off: full service records.

The proportion of common parts is approximately 65 per cent which reduces servicing complexity and optimises inventory holdings. In future, the 620 kW TCD 18.0 six-cylinder in-line engine, which generates 3,600 Nm of torque, is set to occupy the upper end of the Deutz power range. Series production of all four engines will be launched in 2019 in time for EU Stage V.

DEIF’s upcoming CODESYS addon for the PPU 330 – which will allow users to create their own power-management systems without the need for extra programmable logic controllers – is also fully supported by the update.

If you are running a late-model engine like an LS with production EFI, there is no factory provision for a TV cable because these engines were equipped with the later electronic 4L60E version transmission. It is possible to adapt a TV cable to an LS2 for example, and it has been done successfully. But, it is yet another reason why the 700R4 is more of a challenge to tune properly.