I dont have an expedition but i still have his little brother the Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer. If sa body almost identical silang dlawa but shorter ang explorer. In terms of cosnumption, I get 4-5km / liter pure city but that's only because I fitted it with 4 265/70 tires,just sligtly bigger than the standard issues in Monteros and Forts.

I Kinda like my explorer becuase even if it's more than 10 years now, it still commands respect sa hotel and mall driveaways as well as sa roads. I dont get flagged down sa mga minor traffic errors like sumobra ka sa stop light or na beat ang yellow light or nag-u-turn sa non u-turn zone. Even sa coding say mga 530 pm the enforcer would try to ignore my car.


I preserved my explorer to its original state, looks always detailed and the 265 tires view gave it a commanding lift. The front antenna also makes people believe that I have a built - in cb radio system

I got this car for free, hand me down. Some 3 years ago. i wanted to sell it to get another diesel SuV, buti na lang di ko binenta, it's just 39k on the odo. Now, that gasoline is cheaper, i use it more often. It has sunroof too.

someday, i,m going to repaint it black like the Chevy Tahoe black cars that the FBI uses with chrome grills, Side mouldings and chrome rims, i will just use the exisitng rims and grills and mouldings for chroming, and viola I have a respectsble car in the future,

My maint is so cheap, I have it service annually sa gasoline ststion, at 2.5k cost per year. Motorcraft oil + filter is just 2350 + 150 sa suki kong gas ststion for change oil.

The fluids of Ford are meant to be replaced every 100000 miles per manual, so 10 years na sya di pa din replace, fords are indeed built tough contrary to popular belief here that they are lemons, it survivied Ondoy with half-submerged at it has a water proof ecu unit.


Hindi ko na ibebenta as it will always be a commanding car even as it ages. The boxy amsrican big SUV will always be respectsble no matter when. It's timeless.

Kaya i tend not to get into the hype of other cars like when the Montero, MuX were brand new kssi mas commanding oa din ito car na ito in the long run, even as the new everest is coming, my explorer will still be at par with it as it ages.

Yun kang naman, ang purpose ng commanding car, pag na-invite ka sa hotel event like weddings etc. your car will still be hesd turner sa guests

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Malaki na din natipid ko sa car purchases because of this, kasi ilan na na by pass ko urge to get like these hot 2M suvs that we are getting now.

The explorer resale value is only P350k, but if you keep it and drive it clean, it still looks expensive , it still belongs to the 2.2M category cars,


Sa natipid ko, i tend to travel a lot, ive been everywhere around the world, West and east Europe, Russia, ala Anthony Bourdain. For me that's life, not collecting new cars tapos igagarahe mo lang sa bahay most of the time or ilalaban sa ever worsening trsffic situation.

Plusm when you go to malls, wala naman makakakita na cae mo yun coz parking is laways at a basement tapos mag-scrimp ka sa food trip because ang laki ng hulog mo sa always brand new car